So I guess Ray Winstones interpretation of Lord Bayford comes from the East (London) part of the North?
And Angela Bassets Lady must come from the very, very, very eastern part. Across the Atlantic part North.
And because representation is important I guess the Dragon immigrated to the kingdom of Aurea for the job opportunities as she obviously struggles with English as her first language.
As the first half of the movie was Millie running through badly lit caves I'll have to say I liked the second half better... which is Millie running through slightly better lit caves.
A true story
It would have been more tasteful to call it based on a true story as they have been pretty heavy handed with regards to what actually happened but I guess that's Hollywood for you.
Excellent acting throughout even by the kids but it felt like the pacing was all over the place which all in all made it a pretty slow burn.
Casting-wise it is pretty much flawless and every single one delivers stellar performances and Nolans script derived from American Prometheus is spectacular.
However the cinematography is absolutely appalling and I have a hard time believing that an non stroke impaired Van Hoytema followed up Interstellar and Tenet with this absolute mess.
It is constantly switching between different aspect ratios and black and white vs colour all within the same timeframe.
It illustrates nothing. It accomplishes nothing. Just... why?
The sound levels switches seamlessly between barely audible dialogue to EARSPLITTING BOMBASTIC MUSIC enough to actually simulate an atom bomb going of in your eardrums every fifteen minutes worthy of a horror B-movie aiming for a jump scare.
As much as it pains me as a fellow Swede composer Ludwig Göransson completely missed the ball on this with a musical score so out of place it's like he wrote it for a completely different movie than the one I just watched.
As these factors where so extremely palpable throughout the entire film it turns what could have been a great film into a good one simply because Nolan's at his lowest is still ridiculously high.
It's seems they didn't just settle for hiring a Bollywood actor, they ran the whole script through the Bollywoodomizer as well and what we're left with is this cheesy mess.
Also, I need to get me one of them KTM:s that does 400 miles (640kms) to a 3.8gal (14.5L) tank going full tilt through the desert.
Absolutely terrible in every single way.
These movies are so completely over the top now that it's like a live action cartoon.
They really should go for a PG rating next time as adults will struggle with a plot so juvenile it would not have been out of place in a 60s Batman episode.
It's like a Finnish mix of Rambo and Mad Max with an aftertaste of spaghetti westerns and Quentin Tarantino sprinkled liberally with graphic splatter killings of nazis.
I loved every minute of it.
It's kinda silly, a bit predictable but also visually stunning, well acted and funny. I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Pretty decent but Crowe carries the whole cast.
I especially liked how Amorth puttered the 2000kms (1200 miles) from Rome to Castille, Spain on his moped wearing a trench coat, sunglasses and a hat.
This starts out as a standard Lifetime RomCom with some of the absolute worst music I've heard in a long time.
The big names deliver performances way below capacity, the leads have pretty much 0 chemistry and the movie really only ever picks up into "okay" territory.
A solid Meh from me.
The only horror aspect of this is that it's horrendously bad.
It has continuity errors like a 1970s B-movie.
Fiennes (who I otherwise adore) drifts seamlessly between a British and American accent and Anya Taylor-Joy goes from a face covered with blood to fresh out of make-up back to a face covered in blood several times in the second half.
A really shallow made-for-streaming production that is instantly forgettable.
Future people eating plastic as a societal critique is one thing but the whole thing is just a big mess of quasi philosophical nonsense completely lost by the chock value of the plentiful shots of self mutilation.
None of the leads delivers a performance at their usual level but Kristen Stewarts is absolutely farcical.
It's like she's playing Anna Kendrick parodying Kristen Stewart.
And apparently $27 million gets you props that barely would have been up to par in the 80s.
The whole thing is just spectacularly bad.
It's a slow burn but the as the story progresses it reels you in until you can't let go.
I'll have to admit I haven't seen Garfield in much before this but his performance blew me away.
One of the things I liked the most is that in the entirety of the series there is not one single filler shot where it's like a five minute music video without progressing the story at all which is like a plague in almost all other major productions these days.
This just tells the story and what a doozy of a story it is.
This went from Wow, that first episode was great to Welp, the second was definitely not as good as the first all the way to Well, that third episode was complete dog shit.
Take one part Yellowstone, one part Stranger Things, one part Dark and pour liberally from all the weirdness in Twin Peaks and you pretty much get this.
Even though it got a bit too weird for me I don't think I can stay away from season 2.
I will never forgive Alfredson for taking one of my favourite books and turning it into a complete disaster.
With this cast and Alfredson directing it had all the makings of a classic thriller.
Alfredsons excuse:
Our shoot time in Norway was way too short. We didn’t get the whole story with us and when we started cutting we discovered that a lot was missing. It’s like when you’re making a big jigsaw puzzle and a few pieces are missing so you don’t see the whole picture.
So a lot of the story didn't even get filmed. They tried to save it in editing. They failed.
I get why some people would appreciate this for what it is but it definitely wasn't for me.
What I disliked passionately about this is the absolutely horrendous score.
It was like torture throughout the whole thing culminating with the 'hides' scene where the composer obviously couldn't make it any worse himself so he just decided to record a rabid rat running across the keys of a piano.
As they surprisingly couldn't cast Olivia Colman even though she's in absolutely everything else even remotely British they seem to have cast Gemma Arterton to play Olivia Colman playing Polly Wilkins.
This derives heavily from the shows Vikings and Game of thrones but I found it very enjoyable.
But I'm not chiming in the quire praising the show for the Romans speaking Latin as I think that's a novelty at best and the show wouldn't have been any worse had everyone simply spoken German (not a German speaker myself).
After all no one seems to have a problem with people speaking unaccented German at least half a millennia before the language even started to take its current form.
I didn't like it at all but what makes me really passionately dislike it is that there is not a single second of it where there isn't some cheesy background music.
It makes it so much worse than it needs to be.
The musical director for this production needs to be slapped in the face with a cold, large halibut.
They're honestly not trying any more.
This is like they had a fourteen year old write the script for a cartoon.
Or as Dom would have put it: It's family the family of the family and I family hope they family making any family.
Never once veers from 100% predictability.
The script is so juvenile not even actors way above class for this kind of movie can deliver lines convincingly and the jokes mostly just fall completely flat.
Everybody in Hollywood steals and borrows but in this you can point out the exact feature the scenes are from, it's like they just used cut and paste of the exact same storyboard.
It's not influenced by or an homage to, it's just plagiarism to the point of it being completely ridiculous.
If you intend to watch this, set your expectations really, really low.
Stellar performance by Winslet who probably does the best role of her entire career and that's really saying something.
Pulls you in from the very first episode and ends every single one in a cliffhanger that never unravels entirely as you would expect.
This will leave you beaten, bruised and heartbroken.
One not to miss.
An intriguing story suffering from a weak script and apart from Lady Dench very underwhelming performances.
I love Izzard so I really wanted to like this but I can't oversee that it is riddled with clichés and sub-par acting.
A well told heart-warming story.
Well performed slow burn set to such beautiful scenery you'll loose yourself in it.
A nice western for a rainy day.
Oi govnor! 'Ow the 'ell Stamp could deliver 'is lines with a straight face is a bloody mystery innit?
I get it, the completely ridiculous, way over the top slang is supposed to illustrate how he's spent most of his life in prison but I don't think I've ever ever seen a point driven home so blatantly and repeatedly ever and that's saying something as Hollywood rarely leaves anything to chance these days.
The plot is so weak it's laughable, the music in-between actual songs is a mix between daytime drama and 70s porn and the editing, especially in the beginning, is like someone trying to illustrate how it is having epileptic seizures combined with short time memory loss.
I think you either love or hate this and I definably fell into the latter category.
A very interesting story prolonged way beyond what the actual events required and disturbingly focused on Holmes' looks.
Like a quarter of the playtime of the entire thing is closeups of her face.
They took a very difficult subject and made it fucking fabulous.
I was a grown man when I lost my mother to cancer yet this took a firm grip on my heart.
I can't remember the last time I cried this much at all, let alone watching a movie.
And those weren't manly tears, I mean old guy full on blubbering mess kind of crying.
This is one of those rare films I probably will never bring myself to watch again yet I would wholeheartedly recommend to anyone.
Spectacularly good. Timberlake is just shining in this and Ryder Allen's performance is nothing short of amazing, one to look out for in the future for sure.
The script is outstanding, the cast is spectacular, the atmosphere is captivating and the scenery is breathtaking.
This is perfection and I can only feel sadness as there will never be anything better.
