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Tonight I watched the first of Roger's outings as Bond Live and let die perhaps my favourite Bond.
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A Smell of Honey, A Swallow of Brine - Words cannot describe how badly I want to punch Sharon in the face. COSDS Review |
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - 2012 NZ/US DL Peter Jackson Whilst not a total disaster of a film, it is a mess. It is not a good film. Pacing is all over the place, it is the clumsiest collection of shoddy set pieces strung together by anger-inducingly dull scenes of people walking through "beautiful scenery", the wrong scenes go on far too long, Jackson seems desperate to tie everything back to the LOTR flicks (like we don't realise it's all part of the same thing) and - once again - Tolkien's considerable flaws as a writer are hugely amplified once up on the screen. As a cinema experience: well the spectacle scenes you have seen before and the 3D is pointless. A film you can either happily ignore or wait till it shows up on disk. |
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Berberian Sound Studio - 2012 UK d: Peter Strickland Extremely witty absurdist comedy piece that gets darker as it goes along. Evocative of Beckett, Poe and Polanski, it is an expertly made and very measured bit of silliness. It rather runs out of steam right at the end, but the journey has been so wonderful one is inclined to forgive this. Pleasingly fetishistic with regards to (now) vintage audio technology, the unassuming camerawork acts as a counterpoint to the - frankly exceptional, as one might expect - sound. Superb performances all around and some healthy cynicism adds contempt for a world of film we revere, perhaps, too highly. Magnificent film-making and tremendously amusing whilst never "laugh out aloud" funny more than a couple of times. Wit. Genuine wit. |
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