Henry you and your endless 10s! You and me need to talk!! So is it a 10 better than mad max or a 10 not as good as raiders?!! A Better 10 than the first jurassic park or not as good a 10??!
Henry you and your endless 10s! You and me need to talk!! So is it a 10 better than mad max or a 10 not as good as raiders?!! A Better 10 than the first jurassic park or not as good a 10??!
Definitely a better-than-good, albeit predictable film. It's obvious there wasn't a big budget involved, but I liked more than a little of the acting and I must admit as a true story this can be especially terrifying imo.
Anon - 5/10 If this had been a 60 minute episode of Black Mirror it could have got away with it. As it was, Clive Owen and Amanda Seyfried could have been replaced by Bill Owen and Amanda Barrie and it wouldn’t have missed much. Tidy idea but in turn incomprehensible and predictable. The script probably looked ok on paper but all the characters said variations on “fuck” as if they’d only just learnt the word and weren’t sure how to use it.
Uccellacci e Uccellini - 8/10 Totò and Ninetto Davoli walk their way into and through allegorical scenes and tableaux depicting hardship and survival in sixties Italy, with Pasolini’s script lampooning religion, politics and sex along the way, accompanied by a left wing intellectual talking crow. It’s either your cup of tea or it isn’t, but I will say that I enjoyed and understood it much more now than when I first saw it maybe 30 years ago. Excellent Morricone score and if anyone doesn’t know yet about the groundbreaking main title credits then YouTube is your friend.
Just got back from it and loved it! —————————————————————————————————————————— Henry you and your endless 10s! You and me need to talk!! smile So is it a 10 better than mad max or a 10 not as good as raiders?!! A Better 10 than the first jurassic park or not as good a 10??! —————————————————————————————————————————— I know I have a problem
—————————————————————————————————————————— Just a thought but try some 9.8s and 9.7s. It helps grade them for us.
In Harm’s Way - 7.5/10 Near three-hour soap opera set in the aftermath of Pearl Harbour, with a great cast and decent direction from Otto Preminger. Always like to see Burgess Meredith in anything. Shot in black and white, perhaps better to integrate original newsreel, it had a distinct feel of the 50s about it. Surprising to think it was released in the same year as Thunderball - and that it was only a year later when Egan Powell donned the pointy one, umbrella and top hat. I’ve known the Goldsmith score for many years (and recall talking to the excellent Dana Wilcox esq. about it maybe ten years ago) and I was happy to see it in situ. I don’t recall the musoc where the Dakotas are warming up, nor the tense rhythm whilst Torrey is at sea. The music encourages the soapy feeling to it, being a little too light-hearted in the domestic parts. Overall I enjoyed it quite a lot, for all its predictability (you just knew who was going to live and going to die) and late 50s sensibilities.
I'd have given In Harm's Way the extra half a point, it does have a bit of soap opera about it, but not much in a long film, & I don't want to give too much away, but not many characters make it to the end unscathed. I like that Wayne's romance is with Patricia Neal & not some nurse half his age, & the fact that it's Miss Neal that pushes it into a physical romance, the character working as a nurse in wartime no doubt thinking that life is too short to waste time. I think I'll give my DVD a re-watch, no Blu-ray yet.
Watched Sisters again last night. I have so much admiration for the score, and a bit less so for the movie (which to me came across as borderline incoherently awkward on a few occassions.
So I'll be aggravating and give it an 8.25 out of 10
