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tuffnavyrn Inner circle San Diego, CA 1238 Posts |
Read a bit on MSN.com under the entertainment section that Penn & Teller have filmed a Underwater Magic Show in the Bahamas and is slated to be shown this Sunday. Check it out here:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9970413/
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boomassacre New user 38 Posts |
Looks to be somewhat interesting. don't know about the reveals though... still gonna watch it!
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Marshall Thornside Inner circle chicago 2016 Posts |
Watched. wrote a review about.
didn't care for it.
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27297 Posts |
The last shot was funny. I was hoping for something with Godzilla or one of the creatures from "Surface".
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Amir Loyal user New York. 296 Posts |
It's nice to see a couple magicians actually having fun on TV, as opposed to all this Criss Angel bull.
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jodi6302x New user 44 Posts |
It was funny how they made the submarine disappear. It was the opposite of clever lol.
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Pete Biro 1933 - 2018 18558 Posts |
The last shot was real folks... belived it.
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Timothy Regular user Alabama, USA 174 Posts |
I would not say the helicopters were out of the realm of possibility.
The bubbles most likely still went all the way to the top. (They seemed to show only the bottom the most.) It was good to see them doing a "special" again. |
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entity Inner circle Canada 5060 Posts |
I am a fan of Penn and Teller's live performances. Their show at the Rio is brilliant, apart from one or two lapses into pointless sight gags such as the rabbit-in-wood-chipper thing. On the whole, though, their show is intelligent, beautifully artistic and wonderfully magical. Among the best I've seen, and I'm a pretty harsh critic.
Their television work, however, (apart from the PBS version of their first Off-Broadway show) always leaves me cold. They continue to use the hook of being "the bad boys of Magic" to get the air time, even though this has grown tired and ineffective, as witnessed with the underwater special. I wonder if P&T just can't sell a television special to the networks that contains their really good stuff. Perhaps they've become victims of their own "Bullsh*t" (pun intended), and the networks just see them as jokesters and exposers. Whether other Magicians will lose income because of their exposures isn't really the question, just as it wasn't with other instances of televised exposure. It's more a question of respect, as Pete Biro points out. Respect for the audience, first of all. Exposure takes something away, rather than giving something to an audience. Respect for the creators of the principles upon which these illusions are based. Such creators were essential to the principles behind the really great Magic in Penn and Teller's stage performances of The Miser's Dream, The Hindu Needles, floating napkin, etc. etc... While Penn and Teller certainly have a right to expose any principles of their own creation, it is morally and ethically wrong to expose principles created and used by others to honestly entertain the public. Penn and Teller do not have the right, in my opinion, to decide which methods you or I use to honestly create Magic. By exposing magical principles in such a manner, that is what they are doing... deciding for all of us which principles and methods are disposable and which are not. I hope that someone posts to show how the ratings changed over the course of the show. I suspect that people checked out en-masse after the first half hour. If so, I hope the television networks take a look at why it happened, and realize that what they gave us is not what most viewers really want. - entity
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Caveat Lector Elite user 493 Posts |
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On 2005-11-14 18:47, Pete Biro wrote: Not to be disrespectful, but the shot with the helicoptors was a CGI effect.
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tuffnavyrn Inner circle San Diego, CA 1238 Posts |
Interesting to hear everyone's thoughts on the show as I've yet to see it. I currently live in the US Territory of Guam and all stateside TV shows are a week delayed here. Seems as though I'm not missing much if I don't watch it. Am I wrong here?
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Vandy Grift Inner circle Milwaukee 3504 Posts |
You'll have to make up your own mind. Opinions have been pretty varied around here. I like P&T. I was looking foward to this, and I really wanted to like the show, but I didn't.
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revlovejoy Special user Pennsylvania 765 Posts |
I lost all respect for them at 38minutes in, when they said after the break, Aaron Carter would be "performing."
Yeah, Disney made pop music for 12 year olds and P&T go together like peanut butter and eels. |
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tuffnavyrn Inner circle San Diego, CA 1238 Posts |
LMAO revolvejoy! I'll still tune in to see what the show as all about for myself.
Brian-
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Timothy Regular user Alabama, USA 174 Posts |
I agree. I was rolling my eyes about the Aaron Carter business. But hey,
P&T probably said no to getting in chimp suits or something at the request of the network, so I guess I would have to go to Vegas to see them in their own element. It was still a moderately entertaining performance, and I made a rule along time ago that I would try to see as many related performances to the art as I could. So that's what I did here. To sum up, it was nice to see something other than Angel on the tube. |
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Joey Stalin Inner circle Canada 1072 Posts |
I only caught the last hour of the show. I liked it.
And I love their show on showtime ********. It has become my favorite. I have even bought them on DVD. And don't go ranting off on their exposure of magic. They don't expose anything. It isn't even half as bad as what wikipedia has going on with magic exposure. Oh no, P&T exposed a cross cut force... if the only force you can do is a corss cut force then rethink your use of magic. Oh no, they talked about palming and transfers ect... I don't know anyone that doesn't know about palming. But they exposed the cups and balls! If you know anyone that can do the cups and balls after watching their routine with clear plasic cups I would pay them 100 dollars.
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Caveat Lector Elite user 493 Posts |
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On 2005-11-18 00:03, revlovejoy wrote: I totally agree with you about the Aaron Carter cameo, but as I have done a lot of work with TV and major networks I can say that P&T may not have had a choice when it came to that decision. You have to look at who the executive producers are and the people who layed out the money, it is their call about that kind of stuff.
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Eman Regular user Bloomington, Indiana 141 Posts |
I liked the special, except for the whole Penn and Teller song from Aaron Carter and maybe the fact that they were revealing some of their stuff. The card revelations were pretty cool and the three sardine monte was also really clever.
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Joe Russell Veteran user Buffalo NY 397 Posts |
Think about this, every trick they exposed was something that had to be done under water or rediculously over the top and imptractical ( hideing 52 cards on a beach). No ones going to ever take what they learned from that show and put it to practical use!!!! Penn and Teller are genuses and if you think about it they only revealed magic that only a person with there money and resources could do. Example: Vanishing a sub- no ones going to do it, Ring and Dolphin- unless you work at sea world, but no, All the cheesy under water illusions- who has a pool that people can see into from the side? DO YOU GET MY POINT? no layman who watches it going to get any useful information!!!
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Doug Higley 1942 - 2022 7152 Posts |
Wanted to like it...for the most part didn't. Did like the final CGI Copters though! Very funny.
Doing that stuff underwater seemed, pardon the pun, 'forced' and rather pointless. What's next? Sawing a Woman In Half inside a Chocolate Cake... Nice try though I reckon...P&T work the game.
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