Arthur seaton
Joined Feb 2002
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This film is jarringly bad - there's the odd decent tune on the soundtrack, but how did this garbage ever get made. We live in harsh, recession hit times, yet people still had money to waste on making this!!!!! Sometimes, the world just doesn't make sense.
Where to start... Acting - uniformly bad; the accents - terrible; the screenplay: Sampson cannot blame anyone else for this mess - he adapted his own novel (have not read the book but would anyone be encouraged to after seeing the film?) He clearly doesn't understand the period that well, though - scousers did not talk like this in the late seventies. In sociolinguistic terms, the dialogue is miles off! I didn't get beyond the 12-minute mark; without a doubt, a contender for the worst film ever made.
Where to start... Acting - uniformly bad; the accents - terrible; the screenplay: Sampson cannot blame anyone else for this mess - he adapted his own novel (have not read the book but would anyone be encouraged to after seeing the film?) He clearly doesn't understand the period that well, though - scousers did not talk like this in the late seventies. In sociolinguistic terms, the dialogue is miles off! I didn't get beyond the 12-minute mark; without a doubt, a contender for the worst film ever made.
They really don't make them like this anymore - 'old fashioned' documentary techniques used to startling effect - no dramatic reconstructions, no emotionally over-wrought music - just people speaking for themselves, talking about their experiences, giving their views.
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Apart from the visuals, there is nothing about this film that lifts into the realms of the fantastic. It's good entertainment - nothing more, which is fine of course. To champion this film as some kind of cinematic masterpiece however, is ludicrous. Although Oscar nominations/awards are not a sign that a film is any good (hello Good Will Hunting, A Beautiful Mind, and so on and so on)suggesting Lord of the Rings is one of the five or six best films made in 2001 is crazy. I like dumb action movies, but why wasn't something like Die Hard showered with Oscar nominations when it is actually a much better film?