Yeah, and as both leading actors are amongst my favourites I'm still trying to work out how it's taken me so long to see it.
You're obviously spending too much time on here reading The Mighty Quill's in-depth analyses of, well, anything and everything. How about Zorba the Greek? All the rage, at the time.
Finally getting around to watching the Revenant months after saying I was going to, enjoying it so far despite my Xbox not picking up the subtitles at certain points and me having to rely on my knowledge of French and Native American lingo...
At a family pre-graduation do, my daughter graduates On Tuesday so we're all of for nosh tonight, she got A first in psychology, takes after her mum, I have a Problem with words that have more than four letters. So I'm watched my daily film..... Day 191, film 191,"demolition", with jake gyllenhaal... Very good film, I really enjoyed it, but there will be those That don't ... Each to their own....
Errrr, yeah, if it helps. I'm pretty sure that everyone on here, kiddies, grown-ups and elderly, is totally obsessed with you. Obviously. You're knowledgeable about ... well, everything, with an actual degree and an actual embryonic career in journalism. Do they still have paper-rounds over there?
Nah, only a couple of sad old ****s on here with no life who really need to get their priorities straight are obsessed with me.
No iPad so **** it film on 5 star tonight for me.. Day 192, film 192,"Elysium", seen it before but I quite liked it....
Been at darts and forgot to post my film from earlier today... Day 193, film 193," the equaliser" Denzil, great film
By Nicholas Barber Sorry if the above movie bit does not appear. It DID on my iPad, before I first posted it. Please read the following 'professional' review on this fillum, please, then go to the end of the page. Ta. 30 June 2016 It’s fortunate that Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie has those last two words in its title, because otherwise viewers might not realise that it was supposed to be a film, as opposed to a television special that had been knocked off in a hurry to fill a hole in the Christmas schedules.R To be fair, it fulfils most of the key criteria of a big-screen British sitcom spin-off, in that it reunites a beloved cast, packs them off to a sunny foreign location, and surrounds them with cameoing celebrities for about 90 minutes. But shouldn’t a film comedy have more going for it than that? Shouldn’t it deepen the characters or develop the themes, perhaps, or construct a plot that couldn’t have been wrapped up in a standard sitcom episode? Shouldn’t it at least have one or two elaborate comic set-pieces that keep building and getting funnier? Anybody who wanders into the cinema without being a fan will be absolutely baffled Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie doesn’t bother with any of that nonsense. Relying on the fondness its viewers may already have for the characters, and labouring under the misapprehension that a glimpse of Jean-Paul Gaultier or Stella McCartney is inherently hilarious, the film seemed perplexingly threadbare and rushed to me, a long-time admirer of the series. Anybody who wanders into the cinema without being a fan will be absolutely baffled. In case you aren’t one of the converted, the raucously satirical BBC sitcom revolved around Eddie (Jennifer Saunders, also the writer), a West London PR executive, and her best friend Patsy (Joanna Lumley), a fashion magazine editor. Patsy got through marginally more alcohol, tobacco and cocaine than Eddie, but they were both over-privileged, immature monsters obsessed by famous people, designer labels, trendy restaurants, extortionate beauty treatments and new-age fads. In other words, even though it debuted in 1992, Ab Fab could hardly be more topical today. Maybe that’s why the film seems like such a criminally wasted opportunity. Rather than skewer the ever-more ludicrous self-indulgences of the one per-centers, it is content to lurch from one familiar character to the next, with lots of jaunty music to assure us what a lark it all is. Cheap tricks As well as Patsy and Edina, the roll call includes Edina’s dippy assistant, Bubble (Jane Horrocks), her contemptuous mother (June Whitfield, aged 90, but looking much the same as she did in Carry On Nurse in 1959), and her dowdy daughter Saffy (Julia Sawalha), now a divorcee with a 13-year-old daughter, Lola (Indeyarna Donaldson-Holness). Could Saffy and Lola’s relationship comment on the relationship between Eddie and the teenage Saffy in the sitcom? It could, but it doesn’t. With no clients on her books except Lulu and Emma ‘Baby Spice’ Bunton, Eddie finds that her Bollinger fridge is empty, her credit cards aren’t working, and she doesn’t even have any “hand money”, as Patsy calls cash. (Fans of the sitcom may recall how funny this scenario was back in series two, episode five). But when Patsy overhears that Kate Moss has just sacked her publicist, Eddie spots a lifeline. She corners Moss (playing herself, unconvincingly) at a warehouse party on the banks of the Thames, but accidentally knocks her off a balcony and into the river: a pivotal moment which is shot so cheaply that it looks as if someone has dropped a bar of soap in the bath. This buzzes around without going anywhere, like a fly trapped in a jam jar The director, Mandie Fletcher, has been responsible some superb sitcom episodes, most notably in the third Blackadder series, but Ab Fab demonstrates that a definite skill set is needed for a film. For instance, when Eddie is blamed for Moss’s apparent death, there is a good joke about a brick being thrown through her window - except that we don’t see the brick coming through the window, and there is no window nearby through which it could have come. What we get instead is a glass-breaking sound, and then somebody walks into shot holding a brick. That would be an acceptable bit of sleight-of-hand in a sitcom, but in a film it feels slightly pathetic. With no money or reputation left, Eddie and Patsy escape to the South of France to track down a wealthy old flame of Patsy’s. Presumably, viewers are meant to imagine that they are watching a Riviera crime caper from the 1950s or ‘60s, but those tended to have high-stakes plots, whereas this buzzes around without going anywhere, like a fly trapped in a jam jar. Ab Fab the sitcom was originally inspired by a sketch on the TV programme French and Saunders, but it was never as sketchy as the film. Numerous major characters - including a rival publicist (Celia Imrie) and Saffy’s boyfriend (Robert Webb) - are given little more to do than the predictable crowd of fashionistas who can’t stop making self-congratulatory appearances. As shoddy as it is, though, Ab Fab isn’t a dead loss. Rebel Wilson is typically scene-stealing as an unhelpful air stewardess (it also sounds as if she improvised her dialogue). Eddie’s malapropisms are still ingenious (“trollied” for “trolled”, “mindlessness” for “mindfulness”). And the two central performances are as ferocious and fearless as ever. Lumley, in particular, is a delight. Patsy, with her tipsy hauteur and teeth-bearing hostility, deserves a barstool next to Richard E Grant’s Withnail in the club reserved for great British comedy lushes. But didn’t we all know that back in the 1990s when Absolutely Fabulous was first on TV? Watch it with enough champagne in your system, and the film should pass the time painlessly, but the only person who will really love it is Ben Stiller. Thanks to Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie, Zoolander 2 is no longer 2016’s most disappointing fashion-industry comedy comeback. ****************** End of the pro bit, now back to the amateurs, like me, BT. Can we please have an opinion, from our resident pro experts, on the quality of this review about a movie based on one of the funniest English sit-coms in recent history? Thank you.
Watched Spectre last night, I thought it was okay without being anything special, probably the weakest of Craig's Bond outings.
Your opinion is of no value if you have invested nothing. If you snuck in to watch City for free I would feel the same.
Snap. I was about to post that I'm not a great fan of the Bond movies but I watched Spectre last night, it never held my attention like I feel a Bond film should, I found it to be ok but slightly disappointing.
Was that another British film you didn't pay for? Such a burgeoning film industry we have in this country. At least you invested time and effort, I'm sure they'd thank you for that.
Then I'd suggest that you refrain from viewing the thread, otherwise you'll continue to see my opinions relating to films that I've viewed. Wouldn't want to upset such a delicate soul. Ta.
I love film, which is why I opened the thread. I was very interested in your opinion until I saw you bragging about being a theif, which is what you are. Piracy is theft, why does no-one get that?
