Nothing really premiering tonight. Next week is when the official kickoff starts so there is a little lull with the premieres until Monday.
9/8c – TV One – The Rickey Smiley Show – Series Premiere. The show is loosely based on the life of Rickey Smiley when he was a popular, local DJ based in Atlanta, and the single father to three children. The show’s stories derive from Rickey’s attempt to raise his children by himself and still have a personal life, as well as from situations that arise at the radio station. The show stars Rickey Smiley, Ray-J, J. Anthony Brown and Lil JJ. This show just screams Tyler Perry’s Meet The Browns to me, which means its gonna terrible. I would say that I’ll give the show a chance but – I’ll be honest – I probably won’t.
That’s what they want us to believe in the new trailer for Alex Cross, the James Patterson adaptation in which Tyler Perry will pick up the role that Morgan Freeman portrayed in Kiss The Girls and Along Came The Spider. This latest adaptation also stars Matthew Fox, John C McGinley, Edward Burns and Rachel Nichols. The film is a reboot and goes back to the younger days of Alex Cross and involves a case where a family member is murdered by a sadist killer (Fox) who likes to torture his victims.
Yeah I don’t believe him as an action man. This looks like your standard cop action movie which means very generic with nothing new to show you and extremely predictable. I’m glad this isn’t a written/directed/starring Perry movie and just one that he stars in because then it would really have been terrible. I watched Freeman’s Kiss The Girls and Along Came A Spider and I thought Kiss The Girls was a pretty standard movie but was made better by the great acting from Morgan Freeman (Along Came A Spider was pretty ehh). Freeman’s movies were a lot slower and so there was time for good dialogue and a chance to see killer and detective trade barbs and try to one up each other versus this new version that just looks like they put in a bunch of stunts to hide the fact that their star is a bad actor.
This new adaptation originally was given to Idris Elba until the film changed writers and directors and so they decided that what the project was missing was Tyler Perry. Lol. Can you imagine what it could have been with the first writer and Elba on board? Probably not what it looks like now but I will still give this movie a chance because I like all the supporting cast and they are actually pretty good at their jobs. Alex Cross opens everywhere October 19, 2012.
For Better Or Worse is a new show from Tyler Perry based on two characters, Angela and Marcus, from the movie Why Did I Get Married? The show is about Angela and Marcus, a married couple played by Tasha Smith and Michael Jai White, and all the things that come with their drama filled relationship which include dealing with Marcus’ baby’s mother, Keisha (Kiki Haynes) and her dating Marcus’ friend and business partner, Richard (Kent Faulcon). The cast is rounded out by their friends Leslie and Jason, played by Crystal Stewart (Miss USA 2008) and Jason Olive (The Game). I liked Why Did I Get Married? I thought it was one of the better thought out and acted Perry films. So when I saw that this I optimistically thought that maybe Perry would get it right with this show. I don’t know why I thought this since all of his other shows are pretty much the worst. This show has calmed down Angela and Marcus’ over dramatic nature from the movie but not by much. Angela is still over the top and loud but not towards Marcus, just everyone else. Leslie is pretty much a kept woman who lives with her boyfriend of 3 yrs, Jason who wants nothing to do with marriage. It’s your basic structure of married, just started dating and living together couples that they have on these relationship sitcoms. I could deal with the poorly written out characters if the dialogue was at least semi funny. It’s not in the least bit funny. This show is kind of like The Game in that they are going for a more adult audience and dealing with all those relationship situations. The difference between those two shows is that even as bad as The Game has become, it’s still better than this mess. Over the top acting and bad writing. Can I please get the 45 mins of my life I spent watching this back? If you like Tyler Perry’s stuff then more than likely you’ll like this.
For Better or Worse airs on TBS Friday nights at 10/9c.
So Tyler Perry might have just found a way to make me not watch another one of his movies. He has just cast Kim Kardashian in next film The Marriage Counselor. The movie is based on one of Perry’s stage plays about a marriage counselor whose marriage begins to fall apart when her in-laws move in. She then begins to cheat on her husband (because that is going to save that marriage), and her co-worker takes her to the big city to get a makeover. The marriage counselor will be played by Jurnee Smollett and the co-worker will be Kardashian’s character. First of all the plot for this movie sounds awful. Seriously Tyler Perry? WTF. So she’s a marriage counselor who cheats on her husband and then her co-worker gets her a makeover? Ridiculous. Second of all this role sounds like it’s a pretty big one in the movie. I’m not even gonna fake and say I don’t watch The Kardashians, I do. I watch all of them, even all the spin-offs. I’m fascinated by Kris Jenner’s pimp game because the way she hustles for her kids is AMAZING. That being said, I don’t want to watch them in a movie. They are reality tv stars and I think they need to just stay where they are. Maybe do some bit parts here and there or cameos but serious acting? No. This movie just sounds awful from beginning to end and I’m really sad that Jurnee Smollett is in this because she is definitely better than this mess. That being said I’ll be seeing this movie at a free screening, then again maybe not because Perry tends to not pre-screen his movies for critics. If that’s the case, then someone will have to let me know how it is.
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