Film

[open face surgery]

Watched Wind River. About a murder on an Indian reservation. Good story told well with good acting and fantastic scenery. Well worth a watch.

Enjoyed it but remember finding it a bit predictable. Same fella did Sicario and Hell or High Water. Both class movies.

[Ollkiller]

Watched Wind River. About a murder on an Indian reservation. Good story told well with good acting and fantastic scenery. Well worth a watch.

Enjoyed it but remember finding it a bit predictable. Same fella did Sicario and Hell or High Water. Both class movies.

Ya I have Hell or High Water lined up to watch next.

[astfgyl]

Watched The Northman last night. Thought it was a heap of shit for the most part

[Eoin McLove]

I watched an interesting little oddity from the 90s today called Notting Hill. It's about a slightly mentally unsound American actress who comes to London to make a film and starts toying with a dim-witted, if well meaning, bookshop owner whose life appears to have stagnated. Hugh Grant plays the bookshop owner and it's interesting, beneath the foppish middle class exterior you can sense a real darkness and despair. Julia Roberts brings her signature rage to the piece.  It only boils over here and there but otherwise her performance is subdued, but you can really feel that undercurrent of tension throughout. The score is magnificent too. That earthiness of Ronan Keating and Elvis Costello's honest performances really elevate the mood throughout.

Recommended for connoisseurs or those looking for something a little off the beaten track.

[ldj]

I watched an interesting little oddity from the 90s today called Notting Hill. It's about a slightly mentally unsound American actress who comes to London to make a film and starts toying with a dim-witted, if well meaning, bookshop owner whose life appears to have stagnated. Hugh Grant plays the bookshop owner and it's interesting, beneath the foppish middle class exterior you can sense a real darkness and despair. Julia Roberts brings her signature rage to the piece.  It only boils over here and there but otherwise her performance is subdued, but you can really feel that undercurrent of tension throughout. The score is magnificent too. That earthiness of Ronan Keating and Elvis Costello's honest performances really elevate the mood throughout.

Recommended for connoisseurs or those looking for something a little off the beaten track.

Grant's early work was a little too romcom for my tastes, but when About a Boy came out in '03, I think he really came into his own, commercially and artistically. The whole film has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the performances a boost. He's been compared to Colin Firth, but I think Hugh has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humour.

[ldj]

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[astfgyl]

I watched an interesting little oddity from the 90s today called Notting Hill. It's about a slightly mentally unsound American actress who comes to London to make a film and starts toying with a dim-witted, if well meaning, bookshop owner whose life appears to have stagnated. Hugh Grant plays the bookshop owner and it's interesting, beneath the foppish middle class exterior you can sense a real darkness and despair. Julia Roberts brings her signature rage to the piece.  It only boils over here and there but otherwise her performance is subdued, but you can really feel that undercurrent of tension throughout. The score is magnificent too. That earthiness of Ronan Keating and Elvis Costello's honest performances really elevate the mood throughout.

Recommended for connoisseurs or those looking for something a little off the beaten track.

Grant's early work was a little too romcom for my tastes, but when About a Boy came out in '03, I think he really came into his own, commercially and artistically. The whole film has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the performances a boost. He's been compared to Colin Firth, but I think Hugh has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humour.

Great review Patrick!

[Eoin McLove]

Firth, while having his moments, has ever been a poor man's Grant. A harsh critique, perhaps, but a fair one.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I watched an interesting little oddity from the 90s today called Notting Hill. It's about a slightly mentally unsound American actress who comes to London to make a film and starts toying with a dim-witted, if well meaning, bookshop owner whose life appears to have stagnated. Hugh Grant plays the bookshop owner and it's interesting, beneath the foppish middle class exterior you can sense a real darkness and despair. Julia Roberts brings her signature rage to the piece.  It only boils over here and there but otherwise her performance is subdued, but you can really feel that undercurrent of tension throughout. The score is magnificent too. That earthiness of Ronan Keating and Elvis Costello's honest performances really elevate the mood throughout.

Recommended for connoisseurs or those looking for something a little off the beaten track.

Ha! I actually watched this quite recently with herself. She'd had a bad day, so I rolled a joint for us and we sat back to this. If nothing else, it is very, very easy to laugh at. Awful. Richard Curtis should have been put out of our collective mercy, preferably just before he'd had time to write Four Weddings.

[Caomhaoin]

Remind yourself every time you watch one of the 18 'tantamount to genius' episodes of Blackadder, that both Richard Curtis and Ben Elton were central to that genius.

Sad, strange decline into mush.

[Black Shepherd Carnage]

I loved Blackadder when first watching it on tv, but have appreciated it less and less any time I've watched it again. Performances are all excellent, like top, top notch, but the writing lets it down a lot. If you took the same jokes and had Hugh Grant and Colin Firth perform them, guess what you'd get? Mush.

[open face surgery]

Can't agree with that. Blackadder is exceptional.

[Caomhaoin]

I loved Blackadder when first watching it on tv, but have appreciated it less and less any time I've watched it again. Performances are all excellent, like top, top notch, but the writing lets it down a lot. If you took the same jokes and had Hugh Grant and Colin Firth perform them, guess what you'd get? Mush.

You could make a case for the first season being, well, shite, and the magic was dissipating in season 4 but the second, and in particular, the third are phenomenal.

[astfgyl]

Imagining Blackadder with Grant and Firth...

[astfgyl]

Panama starting Mel Gibson. Could have been hilariously bad but it's just flat out terrible. The scene where a lad actually brings out the boombox and plays air guitar on his gun needs to be seen to be believed