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One ridiculous set piece after the next. Dinosaurs who are even less accurate than Bond Villains' henchmen!
Utter crap trying to stir nostalgia but ultimately shitting on the original movie.
Matt Damon as Carroll Shelby and Christian Bale as Ken Miles in the development of the GT40 to take on Ferrari's dominance in the Le Mans 24 hours. I like cars and bikes so a bit of an obvious watch for me but I still think it was a great film if you're not. Some great racing sequences. Forget the Cobra and Stingray, the GT40 was and still is the only real thoroughbred racing car the US has ever produced.
9/10
Ian
Lowering my expectations has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.
They neglected to cover the Slough teams work though...
Ian
Lowering my expectations has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.
Nic Cage plays Matt (aka Jim), an old geezer who's living quietly in the Cayman Islands until his estranged daughter and granddaughter turn up, in possession of a top-secret hard drive and pursued by criminal gangs and the CIA... fortunately, Matt is a man with "special skills"...
This has a bit of an Elmore Leonard feel, a comedy thriller with an exotic location and lots of violence and swearing. It's got a pretty good cast too, lots of familiar faces (Ron Perlman, Ernie Hudson, Jackie Earle Haley), but everything's just a little bit off... the action sequences are clumsy, the performances are cartoonish and all the bluff and double-bluff involving the hard drive is supposed to be clever, but it's really just flabby and tiresome.
Not bad, but don't go in with high expectations.
Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater
The critics seemed to like it, especially Glenn Close's performance, but I found her irritating. I also found the story irritating and a miscast Christian Bale irritating.
Her hubbie (Pryce) has an affair with her when he's a young professor and she's a student. He gets the push, but they stay together. He starts to write books but isn't very good, so Glenn Close writes them instead. Turns out she's super-talented and 30 years later he wins the Nobel prize (but really it's she who wins it).
She has a perma wry smile on her face throughout the film. Jealous and quietly seething under the surface, especially as her hubbie has had three affairs in their time together.
My issues with the plot:
1. A publisher would have sniffed a rat. He (Pryce) didn't know enough about the characters or to discuss their development, it was all in her head not his.
2. She would have told the truth much earlier, if not at the first affair, then definitely the second-chance second time.
Nothing fits - the wannabe author son, Bale as a reporter who nearly beds her (really?), and overall for a very strong woman portrayed she was actually very weak.
And why not just write the book under two names?
Meh. 5/10
Three friends stumble on a time portal in the pub toilet and then the trouble starts.
Recommended.
“Oh what’s that place over there? The one with all the lights Alan?”
”Thats Llandudno Jenny”
“Oh it looks so romantic darling! I would love to visit there one day”.
Oh dear ...
Based on a true story of some wannabe comedian working in a bar. Some scottish woman comes in claiming to be a lawyer but can't pay for a drink. He takes pity on her and makes her a tea (she's teetotal). She's also a mental head case stalker with history. I can sort of relate to it because I once had a woman who wouldn't leave me alone and popped up all over the place. I think she had lookouts. Every time I went to the pub she'd turn up 5 mins later without fail. Not as mad as this one though.
7/10
Ian
Lowering my expectations has succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.
Denver, Colorado, 1978... five teenage boys have been abducted by a mysterious figure known as The Grabber. Finn Blake becomes the sixth victim, finding himself locked in a concrete basement, with no way out. And then the seemingly dead phone on the wall starts ringing... Finn is about to get some help.
Based on a story by Joe Hill, son of Stephen King, this feels very... Stephen King. A kid with psychic abilities, benevolent voices from beyond the grave, some snappy dialogue, it's all good stuff. If does drag a bit in the middle - it's just a kid in a basement - but the 1970s look and feel is really well done and the two young kids at the centre of the story are excellent.
Mrs O picked this last night and I prepared to settle down, pretend to watch it, and quietly read tFB on my phone. Why? It's a LIam Neeson thriller, and we all know the way those go these days.
But wait. It also features Ciaran Hinds, Niamh Cusack, Kerry Condon and Colm Meaney. The plot is pretty simple and follows a tried and tested formula - Neeson is a former contract hit-man (in this instance, during The Troubles) who is trying to put his past behind him and lead a simple, quiet life. Of course that doesn't last long, and he gets tangled up with an IRA cell who are lying low after carrying out a bombing. He meets Kevin, a young would-be hitman played by Jack Gleeson who looked for all the world like a young Feargal Sharkey, which I found something of a distraction.
Against all expectation I really enjoyed this. There were no real surprises, no cartoon action and no unbelievable heroics. It is, however, well-acted, beautifully shot - the locations are absolutely stunning - and slightly understated. It kept us watching through to the (slightly predictable) end. Not a bad way to spend 1:40.
6/10.
* EDIT - Be aware that the 'c' word is used fairly liberally.
2015 heist comedy based on the 1997 Loomis Fargo bank robbery when $17.3M was stolen in an inside job.
There is no 'H' in Aych, you know that don't you? ~ Wife
Turns out there is an H in Haych! ~ Sporky
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