Four discovery channels and two of them always have something which is essentially guys fixing cars, and I don’t care if they are restoring classics or pimping out a ride or talking about the cars of the future, watching a bunch of dudes yell at each other while they fix cars is as boring as watching people paint a room.
I’m not crazy about all the junkyard scavenging and storage room auction shows, either, because when you think of it, most of this stuff isn’t that important or interesting, it’s just old, and half the time they wind up talking about some old car or motorcycle, because see above.
And they have to keep up the banter. I’m sure real loggers and crab fisherman and ice road drivers don’t spend all their time talking shit in front of a camera.
The camera is the thing. When I watch Bear Grylz, or some actor taking a motorcycle trip through Africa, I can’t get it out of my mind that somewhere nearby there is a camera crew, and a truck, with sandwiches.
So, I just watched a cheesy Australian cop show and now I’m watching an absolute festival of bad acting, some film with a two headed shark, double the terror, and OMG those two dudes just got eated and the water is filled with blood and the blonde girl with the large mammalian flotation devices is down there and oh. no, oh, she’s O.K., but wait, the boat went off and abandoned her, what a dick!. but she’s climbing out of the surf now, alive, and the thing is actually making the whole island, which looks a lot like Gilligan’s Island, shake, and now the dude who abandoned her is on the boat alone and the shark is taking down the boat!
What a great movie!
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