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ElroyJetson 586 desperate attention whore postings
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06-15-04, 08:06 AM (EST)
 
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5. "RE: First HDTV reality show" |
What did you think of the show?I enjoyed the show. I like their idea of transforming it into an old-school casino. That theme is no different that doing New York New York or the Luxor. Good luck to 'em. Is it me or did some of the scenes feel a little forced? Next week's characters seem similar to this week. We have the hard core gambler (similar to the tall guy), we have the sex freaks (similar to the Frat Pack), and we'll probably have an employee issue similar to Jon Stevens. I'll watch! 
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06-15-04, 12:02 PM (EST)
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LAST EDITED ON 06-15-04 AT 12:05 PM (EST)>I noticed that the quality seemed sort of flat
>or something. I just chalked it up to the lighting
>in the place. The lighting was bad in most of the scenes, I'm not sure what the deal was with that, maybe there some gaming laws or something against the use of camera spotlights. It did look very flat and "washed out" much of the time >What did you think of the show? To be honest, I'm thinking The Casino isn't going to be my thing. Compared to The Restaurant, give me The Restaurant any day (and I'm not even a huge Restaurant fan.) The Frat Pack storyline held no interest for me, nor did the obnoxious fiance -- I mean gambler (even the "she's a man" payoff was weak.) The most interesting thing was the staged drama with young punk Matt Dusk (who reminds me of Corey Feldman) I just hope it gets better from here, because HDTV or not, I found myself switching to NBC's For Love Or Money about 20 minutes into Casino and recorded the rest of Casino to watch later... and that's never happened with me and a Burnett show before. But of course that just means that there's generally lots of fodder for the summary bonfire!  -SB
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06-15-04, 07:00 AM (EST)
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4. "RE: Casino Premier:" |
I liked the show. The only story I did not find that great was the Frat Party. I loved the Chuck story! Will they be following the same people every week or highlighting different employees and guests each week?
One more of J Slice's Awesome Creations!
I always thought casinos were very strict about having cameras on the floor.
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06-15-04, 08:38 AM (EST)
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i could've lived without that pornamagraphy or whatever that crap was. basically, all that private dance crap going on in that room. i wanna see the casino, not ppl getting nasty.whatever happened to the sanctity of "whatever happens in vegas, stays in vegas" the card counter who ended up with the dude was HILARIOUS, though ~ cq goddess on a mountain top
burning like a silver flame
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06-15-04, 10:06 AM (EST)
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12. "RE: Casino Premier:" |
I noticed the same 3 women too. And the fact they were filming the high roller at the airport and arriving at the hotel seemed kind of set up to me. These reality shows are getting more and more scripted.
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06-15-04, 10:19 AM (EST)
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13. "?Las Vegas or Casino?" |
I thought I was watching Las Vegas not The Casino. I have seen this stuff before. I might watch the last show just to see wht happens at the very end, otherwise why bother.
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06-15-04, 03:57 PM (EST)
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23. "RE: Casino Premier:" |
LAST EDITED ON 06-15-04 AT 03:58 PM (EST)>Is this really a REALITY show? I mean why were
>the cameras waiting for the card counter at the airport?
> The show seems totally staged and I didn't really
>enjoy it. The show is definitely quasi-reality -- it looks like every one of these "Big Roller" or "Frat Pack" subplots are going to be folks who simply left where ever they came from knowing they'd be getting filmed for a reality show when they arrived in Vegas. What Burnett did with The Casino is similar to what he did with The Restaurant -- run ads and casting calls looking for people who were "going to Vegas" (of course, Burnett was paying the airfare, so who's to say any of these folks were "going" to Vegas otherwise) during the filming period and felt they might make interesting TV (The Restaurant did a similar thing, looking for people who were interested in proposing, celebrating a big promotion, etc., but then the behind-the-scenes stories proved more interesting than these dumb patron stories so its focus changed.) Here's a January casting call: http://www.realitytvworld.com/index/articles/story.php?s=2203 The frat pack was a fairly obvious example of this -- none of these guys would have been in Vegas otherwise, one of them musta just seen the ad and figured he could talk his virgin friend into letting them exploit him for a free trip to Vegas. Heck, if the guy didn't act so damn ackward, I might even wonder if he was really a virgin or if even that fake was just a ruse to get a free trip -SB
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06-15-04, 03:46 PM (EST)
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22. "RE: Casino Premier:" |
To me, it doesn't seem "real" enough for me. I'm betting Big Chuck was invited by ol Mark Burnett to come to the Nugget. Why else would he let cameras follow him around to the suite?The frat story was stupid, IMO. I could care less about this frat boys from who-knows-where. Shows how much of a plotline MB has going so far, if they're going to spend a third of the episode on people we're never going to see again. Of course, they might just be "Vegas flavor" for the show. Establish a sleazy atmosphere, right? I could be watching BETTER sleaziness on MTV. Rating: 5
A painfully average show. 
The opening credits seemed to drag on and on and on...
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06-15-04, 04:46 PM (EST)
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24. "RE: Casino Premier:" |
LAST EDITED ON 06-15-04 AT 04:48 PM (EST)First, I have a gambling problem. Second, I to have almost slept with a transsexual--a surprise like that will easily liberate you from binge drinking (picking up women these days you don’t need your wits impaired--look they can remove Adam-apples). And three, I was a croupier for three years. So, I believe I can give a professionally review of this show. This show was the most stage piece of craps (like the table. Ha!) I have ever seen. This is not reality; this is a restaged event with time-laps and continuity problems. I won’t comment on the casting of the frat pack or the one note plot of the singer. I will comment on the rich, high profile animated card-counter. Here’s my educated deliberation. A guy can’t sit down at ##### table and get a count going even if the deck is looking at +13, your going to need someone spotting the deck to tip you and I didn’t see anybody in security looking for that. Card counter these days is commonplace it‘s almost badge of honour for a Casino to caught you counting, and we are talking about math teachers and M.I.T. students here, but drama the owners where almost busting a nut over this one sexually frustrated “professionally” gambler. Don’t they have pit bosses? Who in the hell would have a camera crew follow them around if they where trying to do some serious gambling? And don’t even get me started on splitting nines. Was it entertaining? It could have been. Take a camera follow some high-class call girl around for a day. Hold auditions for a new adult sex show. Film someone losing a ##### load of money. Show some old security taps of card cheating. And this show never had enough sluty Las Vegas women, more sluty Vegas women corrupting young men who knew that he should have stay away from the Caribbean Stud and never have trusted that beautiful women with the big hairy hands who bought me I mean him a drink...
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06-15-04, 05:36 PM (EST)
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26. "RE: Casino Premier:" |
I gave it a shot, hoping again and again that it was going to get better. What a bad show. The new owners are not good-looking or entertaining, the lounge act is a joke and the story lines were so completely staged that I began to laugh out loud while looking for an Alan Funt look-alike to jump out from the pit at any time.
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06-19-04, 08:19 AM (EST)
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32. "RE: Casino Premier" |
At first I thought I was watching a regular scipted TV show. This show was so fake feeling and boring I couldn't watch it for the whole hour.
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06-21-04, 03:57 PM (EST)
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33. "RE: Casino Premier:" |
I didn't see much of this show because I thought it was pretty boring. But regarding the frat party and the winner of whatever contest they were having: The woman who was the "prize" was also on a show called "Single in Las Vegas" (on the WE channel). Coincidence? Or proof that this show is staged? I choose the latter.
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06-22-04, 02:14 PM (EST)
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34. "RE: Casino Premier:" |
This show is rather boring. Who knew Vegas could be so boring?
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