One of the worst movies I have ever seen. The minute Mike Vogel appears on the screen the story is a total give-away. His phony specks and hairdo lokk more like Actions Man, and it fact the whole movie could have been made with Barbie and Ken dolls. Brenda Song deserves an Oscar for limping in so many different ways throughout this tedious film. But on top of all it's predictability we never get to know who the bearded stranger was and what happened to him despite the ominous music. I only hope that the crew managed to enjoy this absurdity with as much amusement as I did. Only to be watched in utter desperation and well under the influence.
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Years and Years
(2019)
So absorbing it is difficult to get back
18 June 2019
This series is so absorbing that watching the news after the final show you find yourself still in there, and there are many ways in which you still are. Breathtaking, frightening, believable to the extreme. You wonder if Vivienne Wood is one of the contesters for the next prime minister. This series will go down in history as one of BBC's greatest moments.
The Shape of Water
(2017)
A Film that will never go away. from you.
21 May 2018
Warning: Spoilers
This film takes its rightful place as on of the the Games-changers of Cinema. You are totally absorbed my this fantasy which sucks you into a fantasy world of marvel comics and sixties America. The colours were more like a faded technicolor film. The faces seemed to have the structure and exaggerations of Cinema posters. The cinematography seemed to put you in a flying saucer in the set. The characters were portrayed with such detail that when the film is over you immediately want to explore more details. This film sits there at the top with Amelie, 2001, Barbarella, Logan's Run, E.T., Doctor Strangelove. Films which just never let you go, And you know they will be coming back again and again.
Dunkirk
(2017)
The Unknown Soldiers
28 July 2017
Warning: Spoilers
This film left me speechless and I found myself left alone with the titles and Zimmermann as all the other members of the audience had left the cinema. Contrary to what others have said the music was the star of the show. It sometimes intruded as far as it actually told the narrative, but Zimmer's score underlined and reinforced the emotions to an even higher level. Despite desperate scenes of terror, most of the most white knuckle moments were more individual and close camera, like being trapped in a box. The fact that many of the characters were not given names meant that they came to represent thousands of others who shared the same fate, a sort of mass Unknown Soldier. The theme of the movies is Getting Home and how and if that would happen and what sort of a welcome awaits you. The high point of the movie when this possibility moves from hopeless to possible, is underscored by a remarkable synthesis of music and environmental sounds as Elgar's Nimrod gradually appears through the mists and for a brief instance the White Cliffs loom in the memory on the horizon. This wonderful music ebbs and flows like the tides of hope. Nolan's use of real planes and boats wherever possible gives this movie intimate credibility, and his general avoidance of CGI extravaganza makes it both more believable and more personal.
An unexpected gem
2 December 2016
I watched this film expecting humour. In fact there is almost no humour at all, except of the drollest type. The way the low-key almost matter-of-fact radio and television announcers give us snippets of information about Armageddon spiced with little gems of mundanes like "don't forget to change the clocks" hours before the end of the world really call the tone of this wonderful film. Carell and Knightly excel as never before, and Carell proves once again that being a superb comedy actor means being a superb actor. Anyone who has faced serious danger or illness knows how the whole of your past rears its ugliness and its wonder and in an instant life becomes precious and every second suddenly has meaning. All the trash falls away and at last you can see what really matters and who you really love. The vinyl sixties music is cleverly introduced with its hippy like simplicity and the beach scene takes us all there to where everything in live seemed to be so simple. This is a serious film for serous people. It is one of those monumental films which will stay with you and snippets of scenes and soundbites of songs will keep popping into your mind as you weave your way through your world filled with Trumps and Isis. It leaves you with the joy of pain, the sour truth of life.
A great film with a lot of our lovely country
3 January 2014
A lovely film in which our beautiful country (Iceland) a manages to play itself, the Himalayas, Greenland and Afganinstan! Some wonderful characters and for once mostly laid back acting from Stiller. The last scenes gave him a warmth of character which was a pleasing advance on many of his previous performances. Apart from the crazy imagined scenes there was an easy-going pace to this film. And this was a great plug for our lovely (and adaptable) country. There was some confusion over the icebergs in what was so obviously an Icelandic village. Our Icelandic actors managed pretty convincing eccentrics, although one gets a bit tired of the inevitable drunken sailors!
Casanova
(2005)
Just a fun operetta
23 February 2006
Who cares if the plot adheres to the facts, this is a lighthearted movie not intended to be take seriously! It is a romp around the most beautiful city in the world. The wonderful music carefully selected and very well performed is just a joy, and the actors all camp it up with a wealth of nuance, subtlety and verve. It conveys all the joy of life of this city and this period when noblemen and lesser mortals dressed up and paraded the canal-sides and passages and bridges, masked to preserve identity and equality.
Almost a Moulin Rouge backdrop at times with almost circus-like pranks. Not intended to be taken seriously-get it? A romp, a party, an opera, and wonderful fun.
Almost a Moulin Rouge backdrop at times with almost circus-like pranks. Not intended to be taken seriously-get it? A romp, a party, an opera, and wonderful fun.
If Only
(2004)
Badly researched movie
24 March 2005
As a musician I am disgusted that a plot like this should get through and make it to the screen! A music student graduating from a London conservatory would have to give a solo recital on the violin, not just sit in with the seconds in an orchestra! But when her boyfriend bursts in with 75 copies of a song (terrible in fact) that she has written and hands it out to the orchestra! (This was a Photostat of the melody only) What on earth do they think orchestras play! All the same notes?s It would take a professional arranger probably about seven day to arrange a song like this for full orchestra and chorus! And suddenly there is a drum kit in the orchestra! And the choir standing up with copies they are reading from in harmony! And the song is still atrocious!
These days we have seen many remarkable films about musicians and in many cases the actors themselves have made a pretty good attempt at playing the instrument, most notable Holly Hunter in "The Piano". The worst moment was the violin lesson when a pupil who played disastrously is in real Hollywood tradition given a pep talk and once more we are made to believe that all it takes is "believing in yourself"-In fact it takes a great deal of talent-dedication-and hard work! Which is precisely what is missing from whoever made the mistake of directing this movie.
These days we have seen many remarkable films about musicians and in many cases the actors themselves have made a pretty good attempt at playing the instrument, most notable Holly Hunter in "The Piano". The worst moment was the violin lesson when a pupil who played disastrously is in real Hollywood tradition given a pep talk and once more we are made to believe that all it takes is "believing in yourself"-In fact it takes a great deal of talent-dedication-and hard work! Which is precisely what is missing from whoever made the mistake of directing this movie.
My Fair Lady
(1964)
A few text slipups slightly mar an otherwise excellent libretto
9 April 2004
The actual song texts are unbelievable and incredibly inventive. And how amazingly Shaw- like they sound-one almost starts to believe that they were composed by him! The intricacy of rhyme is only betrayed now and then by the fact that the librettist is an American english speaker-notably in "On the Street Where You Live" we are made to believe that an englishman would rhyme "they don't bother me" with "I would rather be". "Bother" and "rather" do not rhyme! Also in another song a reference to "June and Fall". Fall is I think a totally American expression for Autumn. Stanley Holloway does not manage a faultless cockney accent either as his rolling "r" is completely wrong. A cockney r is more like a vowel. This is though still the best musical film ever followed closely by Oliver and West Side Story! Superb!
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