Blue Maverick
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It has been universally praised, supposed to really tug at the heart strings
Last Film You Saw
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TCIB
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jimharri
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Trading Places coming up in 10 minutes on Sky Movies. Absolutely cracking film.
"Mortimer, your brother is not well. We better call an ambulance."
"Fuck him".
And Jamie Lee getting her thrupennies out as well. Winner winner, chicken dinner!
Seeing what transpired down in the Potteries, MOTD will be getting swerved around tonight.
"Mortimer, your brother is not well. We better call an ambulance."
"Fuck him".
And Jamie Lee getting her thrupennies out as well. Winner winner, chicken dinner!
Seeing what transpired down in the Potteries, MOTD will be getting swerved around tonight.
Mr Ed (The Stables)
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Thanks for the up, I'll watch that as well great film. MOTD will not be watched, in fact our house is a football free zone for at least the next 72 hours.
Le Havre Oswald
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Ant-man. Good film 7.5
Wretched Vengeance
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Watched 'Jaws' last night. Been about twenty years since I had last watched this classic.
"we're gonna need a bigger boat!"
Brilliant.
"we're gonna need a bigger boat!"
Brilliant.
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Tried Avengers 2 again last night. Jeez, it's quite a lot worse than I remembered. From the word go it just doesn't work. The action is wrong, nothing feels like it has any weight, just plastic CGI. The attempt at bantz was lame. One or two lines apart, the talkie bits are so flat and amateurish I couldn't believe it. Bad, bad direction, loads of bad dialogue, terrible acting, no atmosphere, shit locations, shit photography. Fake as a four quid note.
Spectre. A few decent bits but another one that just has that inescapable air of being a turkey, a duff, embarrassing. The car chase scene could not have been any less exciting. No action and reaction, no skill, no threat, no sense of speed. The fight on the train wasn't much better. Pretty much just people punching each other. One guy gets a few punches off. Then the other comes back a bit... repeat. No wow factor or flair or imagination. Script was generally lame, so many shit lines. The plane sequence utterly destroyed any hope of it working as a slower, more considered film. Characters just come and go for no reason. Things happen then sort of unhappen. Biggest problem - Waltz's character was terrible, dull and without any flair. No, wait... the bigger problem was the way it fudged Craig's bond, made him fit the idea they had, wihch was to reverse all his clichés. That would have required a fantastic script, pared to the bone, full of light and dark... instead it just ended up as a grey smudgy type affair.
Inside Out was very good. The emotions didn't really hold up as characters and neither did the characters, but it's very clever, quite touching and very funny 90 minutes.
The Fall (2008) is stunning. Any film fan should see it. Nothing more to be said.
Mr Holmes was so so. MacKellen is fantastic but there were a few too many Gandalf mannerisms. Story took too long to get going, then the film sort of missed the point repeatedly, tried to make the unimportant and unbelievable parts of the plot the focus, whilst doing nothing with all the interesting paradoxes and ironies that were thrown up, presumably being key to the book. Again, some really poor support performances and a few scenes that just died on screen. I think I'm sensitive to this ATM. Sometimes you believe everything in a scene... just because of a few details that you could never put your finger on. What is that magic? Despite all that it was an interesting story and pretty emotional.
Next up- American History X.
Spectre. A few decent bits but another one that just has that inescapable air of being a turkey, a duff, embarrassing. The car chase scene could not have been any less exciting. No action and reaction, no skill, no threat, no sense of speed. The fight on the train wasn't much better. Pretty much just people punching each other. One guy gets a few punches off. Then the other comes back a bit... repeat. No wow factor or flair or imagination. Script was generally lame, so many shit lines. The plane sequence utterly destroyed any hope of it working as a slower, more considered film. Characters just come and go for no reason. Things happen then sort of unhappen. Biggest problem - Waltz's character was terrible, dull and without any flair. No, wait... the bigger problem was the way it fudged Craig's bond, made him fit the idea they had, wihch was to reverse all his clichés. That would have required a fantastic script, pared to the bone, full of light and dark... instead it just ended up as a grey smudgy type affair.
Inside Out was very good. The emotions didn't really hold up as characters and neither did the characters, but it's very clever, quite touching and very funny 90 minutes.
The Fall (2008) is stunning. Any film fan should see it. Nothing more to be said.
Mr Holmes was so so. MacKellen is fantastic but there were a few too many Gandalf mannerisms. Story took too long to get going, then the film sort of missed the point repeatedly, tried to make the unimportant and unbelievable parts of the plot the focus, whilst doing nothing with all the interesting paradoxes and ironies that were thrown up, presumably being key to the book. Again, some really poor support performances and a few scenes that just died on screen. I think I'm sensitive to this ATM. Sometimes you believe everything in a scene... just because of a few details that you could never put your finger on. What is that magic? Despite all that it was an interesting story and pretty emotional.
Next up- American History X.