Oh is it ugly. Sunday night, as I stayed awake until 3 AM trying to get through all the personal things I have no longer been able to find time for, I decided to get something off my DiVo. Now, things don’t leave my DiVo without checking with me first, but why I even had still saved Behind the Camera: The Unauthorize Story of “Charlie’s Angels” is actually beyond me.
This movie was one of the most embarrassing excuses for “entertainment” I’ve ever seen. It actually makes me a little sick that with so many good writers struggle out there while people with actual talent (even if it’s not great) continue to go hungry and undiscovered. No wonder ABC (the original home of Charlie’s Angels) didn’t care about airing this piece of dreck. The only impressive element of the movie is that each of the Angels look remarkably like the real actresses.
The movie includes stupid “inside” jokes, but whoever wrote them should have his/her laptop and all writing implements confiscated. One such joke involves a young Tori (as in Spelling, the daughter) asking her father if she can be on one of his shows when she grows up, only to hear Daddy Aaron tell her he’ll build a whole show around her. Oh … ha ha. That’s good. Yeah, 90210 we got it. How clever. I wonder if that really happened?
Another running (really horrendous) joke that may or may not be grounded in any semblance of the truth, repeatedly depicts two ABC executives following around ABC production head Fred Silverman pitching new show ideas at him. Oh look, that sounds like “America’s Funniest Home Videos.” That one sounds like “American Idol.” And of course, Silverman is shooting them down left and right, explaining that he thinks all these reality ideas will never find an audience. Har har.
I actually watched the whole damn movie. No clue why, and actually “watched” might be a bit strong for what I actually did since I spent as much time staring at the work on my computer screen as paying attention to the poor excuse for bad television playing on my set. I thought it might be fun, and there might be a bit of kitsch factor. It’s not hard to see that the producers intended that to be the case, but as with everything else in this movie, they failed miserably. I’ll bet there’s a good story behind the scenes of Charlie’s Angels, and bits and pieces of it appear in the show. But it’s so cheaply done that anyone involved should be ashamed of him or herself for contributing to a complete waste of space in the television landscape.
Please do me a favor (and this includes you Cinecultist with your freaky goals of watching a made-for every night for a week), and if somehow NBC decides to rerun this movie, do me a favor and hit yourself over the head with a pan before staring at the wall for two hours. I guarantee you, that will be more fun.
Out of Focus 
interesting how bloggers like to throw stones while in glass houses of their own digital recorder making… who set the DiVo to record this movie, huh? and then watched it? and then felt compelled to write about it? hmm. someone out there feels my pain, and his name might rhymn with mine i think.
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OW! Karen, I didn’t know you had such a good arm! You could have used something more like a pebble, you know.
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