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This passed me by when released and I never got around to watching it, until BBC showed it the other night.
I was aware of the bear scene, so wasn't that shocked but it was certainly well done. If anything the scene near the start where the natives attack the trappers and drive them into the lake was better, that looked fantastic with lots of long shots spinning from person to person.
The whole thing looked great, but I spent most of it thinking "well he got better quickly....hold on, surely his leg was broken now he's running and leaping onto the back of a horse" so that kept pulling me out of the movie.
I'm sure it would have benefited from a big screen viewing but I was actually a bit let down by it as it got a lot of praise (and awards) and apart from looking good (if you like snowy hills) it didn't grab me.
Brilliant. (I think).
Now, controversially I saw Bumblebee the other day... and... it wasn't shit. There, I said it. A transformers movie isn't shit. Supposedly a prequel but also clearly a retcon of the series as a whole host of things happen differently to the beginning of the first movie... so hopefully one of the studio execs will say "huh, turns out there's a huge market for films that aren't shit... someone lock Bay in a dark dungeon and lets make some decent transformers films and a boat load of cash"... or more likely the execs will say "oh, look, kids like transformers films after all, get Bay on the phone so he can make another dozen fuck-awful shit-flicks"
Ghost Stories - 4/10. Actually pretty rubbish IMO. Started out OK, then seemed to delve into some complete nonsense.
For me...
What We Did On Our Holiday
Billy Connolly, David Tennant and Rosamund Pike in a decent fairly lightweight family comedy - a dysfunctional family meet for grandad's birthday... quite a lot of dry observational humour and a couple of laugh-out-loud moments. Not a great film, but a good one if you like that sort of thing. Connolly in particular is excellent.
7.5/10
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The Beguiled (2017 and 1971)
A couple of weeks ago I watched Sofia Coppola's new adaptation and it made me curious to go back and watch the 1971 Don Siegel version with Clint Eastwood, which I hadn't seen for decades.
There's not a huge amount of difference in the plot so I'd imagine they're both fairly faithful to the book. Both are quite good, I wouldn't say one's better than the other. The new version is certainly more arty and beautiful to look at but the '70s film feels more gritty and sexy, I think it tells the story more effectively.
Violent French gang/ crime thriller on Netflix. Not a lot of dialogue so the subtitles won't bother you if it sounds like your kind of thing.
I was expecting it to be a bit Buffy, but it was quite A Monster Calls.
A bit sugary sweet but good movie. Viggo put on a little weight for certain