Artivels Undescribable Perfection

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Raymond Sierra The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

grantss Thomas Magnum, a former Naval Intelligence officer, is a private investigator. He live in Hawaii, on the estate of multi-millionaire author Robin Masters. Masters is never around, so the estate is run by Higgins, a stuffy Englishman, and former Army Sergeant Major. Higgins has a dim view of Magnum, a view he projects through ensuring that the guard dobermans, Zeus and Apollo, make life difficult for Magnum. Meanwhile Magnum is out solving cases in Masters' Ferrari, cases often involving murder and intrigue. In these endeavors he is aided by his closest friends, TC, a chopper pilot, and Rick.Wonderfully entertaining. Every episode is a thrill-a-minute, a roller-coaster ride of intrigue and action, with some decent humour thrown in for good measure.Add in the sheer coolness and holiday-feel of the Hawaiian setting and Magnum's Ferrari and you have the makings of a great series.

Jakemcclake When I was single, I used to watch this show religiously saying: "What does Tom Selleck or Magnum Got, that I don't?" "I know what you're thinking", but we were about the same height (I am 6' foot 5" and he's 6' foot 4") and I grew a mustache and styled my hair to try to look like him. So what do so many women like about him? Over the years, I got interesting answers:THE CAR! It's got to be the car! A fire engine red fast Ferrari, which was not his, but he got full use of it. When in need of speed, the car moved fast. A lot of women liked that car, but that was not the entire answer. THE BASEBALL CAP! I thought, guys should wear baseball caps all the time to look like Magnum. Actually, I do not think the cap did much for him. Some women commented that the cap made him look like he was about to pull out baseball cards and start trading or maybe chewing bubble gum or blowing bubbles. THOSE HAWAIIN SHIRTS! They must like the Hawaiian shirts he wore. I once bought about 20 shirts like that. Those shirts, were colorful (Too colorful? Ya know what I mean?) and in some women's eyes those shirts made a statement about me did that I probably did not want to hear. I really do not think that is it. THOSE SHORTS! They must like the shorts and the amount of leg he showed. I never wore shorts when I was younger. Later I began to wear shorts. Wearing shorts might make a few women look, but not much. You look comfortable in shorts, so on a hot day, its alright. On a cold day, you look foolish and your legs won't look good either. THE GRIN AND EYEBROW RAISE! That move he used at the end of the opening. I copied that, but it never helped me! Instead women gave me some really dirty looks when I did it. Well...what was it? It could be that so many guys looked like him, or like me, tried to...You wouldn't think so but nowadays, 252,000 oages of websites have the quoted phrase "He looks like Tom Selleck". However, that is not quite as many pages of websites that have the phrase "She looks like Jennifer Connelly", 567,000 (Jennifer is very beautiful, so, I'd like to see these women and judge for myself). According to one woman "every man in Sweden looks like Tom Selleck". I know that I tried to look like Tom, and probably a lot of other guys tried to look like Tom, unsuccessfully, as well.I don't know what he had, however, my guess: Magnum usually narrated the show, so we got to hear Magnum's inner thoughts. He was not just a big tough guy, we got inside his mind, and felt what he felt, his sensitivity, his values his self confidence, and in the end, he turned to be a regular guy. We listened to him, cause his voice although not perfect and not macho, deep or booming, was pretty much a regular guys voice. Later after Miame Vice hit the airwaves, (by the way I copied that Miame Vice style of clothing and shaving, too) Magnum used more music. We heard Phil Collins and others and I even taped some of them to workout to. (I worked out hard to be musclular and wanted a big, muscular and tightened rear end.) Keep in mind that some women were not in the least bit attracted to Tom Selleck. I recall seeing the final episode of the show in a bar and it was empty, except for two women who worked there. One woman commented that she "never watched that show" and walked away. Too bad too, she missed a quality show. The other woman started talking to me. She was bored and she never glanced at the TV screen...until Tim Rossovitch, who also was in the last episode of Magnum, was on the screen. Then she got real excited and she gushed about the 6 foot 4 inch more muscular former NFL player who was known as kinda of crazy. I could not get her to stop gushing about Tim Rossovitch, even as I tried to tell her about his crazy stunts when he played in the NFL. She started telling me about his little stunts and each stunt she talked about made her more excited! I'd say she was not into Tom Selleck. There were other interesting characters on the show, like Higgens, (who I probably looked more like, except height). Higgens was very educated/refined and a tiny bit uptight. He was at odds with laid back Magnum on most issues. TC and Rick, Mac (without the mustache), and the other Mac (with the mustache and who were both played by the same actor) made the show work better than normal dramas. Magnum got along with these people, somehow, despite some obvious differences. Also let's not forget the great Magnum PI theme music by Mike Post, that played at the start and the end of the show. It can "rev you up". Yeah, you might be thinking about it or trying to hum it, right now...or maybe not (check Youtube if you want to hear it). In the end Magnum was just a regular guy, and in the end I found out I was sort of a copy of a regular guy, which is not good. So I began to believe in myself, instead of copying others, and like Magnum is not on the air anymore, I am not on the market anymore.

saculnamron *may contain spoilers* I vaguely remember watching Magnum as a child and liking it then.Recently I bought all four available season sets and fell in love with it all over again. What is there not to like? The cast gel together so well Larry Manneti (Orville "rick" wright) is brilliant. Roger E Mosley is TC and John Hillerman is Higgins. Higgins always pretends to be irritated to death by Our Thomas but he does care (honestly) The stories are engaging and I just love tom Sellecks narration. I like the dark overtones of the fact that these Vietnam Vets are still coming to terms with their experiences.Favourite episode? the season 4 opener "Home from the sea " Magnum is thrown off his surf ski in an accident and forced to endure hours in the water. Cue heartbreaking childhood flashbacks. Will Higgins, TC and Rick get to him in time?. speaking of which all three are getting a funny feeling that something has happened to Magnum.How long can a person tread water for? "I've got to do this for Dad"This show had action, Tragedy, Romance, one hunky guy, beautiful scenery,a great cast , humour and a lot of touching moments. One of my favourite shows ever.

stormy_daze I admit it: I didn't watch this show when it first aired. I was an 80's kid, so I was far more concerned with shows like Ducktails and Tailspin than any dumb show about a P.I.But, luckily, reruns have managed to re-introduce me to the world of the 80's shows. I've since become rather obsessed with my "three 80's M's" -- Matlock, M*A*S*H and Magnum.All I can say is, this ain't no Macguyver. Tom Magnum is NOT a PC guy left-wing activist who makes speeches at the end of the episode on the environment, or who can build a nuclear reactor from a piece of gum and a shoestring. Magnum is, as his name suggests, the kind of guy who shoots first and asks questions later. He always manages to get himself in trouble, and sort of mooches off his friends. He doesn't always know who is the bad guy, and he has been known to kill a few people in cold blood. He doesn't always say or do the right thing. He has some serious baggage, from his wife and daughter being killed (or were they??) and Vietnam. Some times-- well, quite often, he screwed up. His closest friends are usually in danger-- or killed-- because of him.This makes it sound bad, I know, but you know, these are the things I love about Magnum. He's got baggage, he's not all together, he's a bit messed up. Not seriously psychotic, you understand, but not all together. I love Magnum: the play between him and Higgins is just delightful, and his poor mooched off friends just can't say no to him, hard as they try. And, you know he's like that, but you love him anyway. Silly loud Hawaiian shirts and all. You can almost always count on at least one bar fight or car chase, He's sort of a gun-slinger of the 1980's America.Magnum is first and foremost, Fun. Tom Selleck and cast are utterly delightful, and I think this show is quite underrated, because when you take away the car chases there are still first and foremost good story lines and good writing.They have serious episodes, and they have silly ones. I tended not to like the sillier episodes: those episodes usually ranked as the best in the series stand up very well. They had good episodes and better episodes, I can only think of one or two eps in the entire series I just didn't like, but they aren't horrible, just not my taste. If you get a chance to see Did You See the SunRise parts 1 and 2, Infinity and Jelly Doughnuts (I don't know if that's the real title) or any of them, really, you watch about 3 of them and you'll be hooked. Especially Infinity and Jelly Doughnuts, I think it's one of the best episodes ever. And the series finale was brilliant, really most of them were just fun but they had some utterly brilliant episodes. You really feel like you know Magnum, and I think it's because he's just a little messed up that makes him feel real to you. That and he talks to you: often he says things like, "I know what you're thinking, and you're right, I shouldn't have..." or "I know what you're thinking, but this time, you're wrong. Higgins is the one who..." I really wish I'd gotten into this series when it was on, and that I appreciated it for what it was, but alas, I did not. I'm just glad I had a second chance to appreciate what a brilliant and fun show this was. I hope someone else out there has the chance to watch this show and enjoy it-- or re-enjoy it, for the great show it was.