ApplePiePerson
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I throughly enjoyed this film when i saw it at Frightfest in London last May. I think it is the best of the Amicus portmanteaus by far and it is a shame that more people cannot see it.
The stories are all strong and feature an excellent cast (David Warner, Ian Ogilvie and Peter Cushing with a northern accent). The Ian Carmichael one is very comic thanks to magnificent Madame Orloff - it is is like "Jerry and Margot from the Good Life meet a nasty spirit" or something. The others are genuinely chilling and there is an especially nice twist in the story featuring Ian Bannen and the scary scary Angela Pleasance.
Recommended to anyone with a love of classic horror.
The stories are all strong and feature an excellent cast (David Warner, Ian Ogilvie and Peter Cushing with a northern accent). The Ian Carmichael one is very comic thanks to magnificent Madame Orloff - it is is like "Jerry and Margot from the Good Life meet a nasty spirit" or something. The others are genuinely chilling and there is an especially nice twist in the story featuring Ian Bannen and the scary scary Angela Pleasance.
Recommended to anyone with a love of classic horror.
I was looking forward to this film and found it to be nothing more than self-important guff. And very very dull indeed. So disappointed.
Plot was non-existent. Characters were not only unsympathetic - they had little or no personality whatsover. Direction was ponderous and slow in a way that was obviously supposed to be 'a bit like a French art house movie like what Kieslowski used to do' yet without the good bits of Kieslowski like engaging characters and whimsy. The sets all had this Elle Homes and gardens look of stale and mediocre tastefulness. And the music was either forgettable or Damien Rice moaning like a wet ex-boyfriend from hell drunkenly singing and sobbing at 4am "why did my girlfwiend leeeeve meeeeee".
And the dialogue - not profound but w*nky. W*nky middle-class navel gazing maxims mostly: "Telling the truth is what separates us from the animals." Yeah, those animals are always making fibs up, aren't they? I seem to recall it was a mongoose who wrote The Aeneid. Utter tosh!!!
Julia Roberts was the most dull boring self-absorbed woman in the world and we were supposed to believe she attracted these men into falling deliriously in love with her. She looked constipated all the time too. Natalie Portman was equally one dimensional and shallow - she was 'wacky' though cos she had dyed red hair and wore a skanky Boho Sienna miller coat. She had more potential but even so was given nothing to work with. But she cried once or twice and stripped so therefore she is a 'character'. I see.
Jude Law was even more dull and drippy than usual. Clive Owen was the only one who came across as being an actual person but even so, was forced to say the most trite lines, it nearly made me do a little bit of sick. Without him, the film would have been utter torture.
One funny scene about chatroom sex and Portman and Owen had some potential but other than that, i was just bored and indifferent to the 'relationship issues'. All deadly serious too. The language and 'smut' content was not shocking or compelling to me at all. So it didn't bother me that all the characters spoke in graphic ways. I object more to the sheer dullness and pretentiousness of the entire thing.
Pish!!! Avoid!!!!
Plot was non-existent. Characters were not only unsympathetic - they had little or no personality whatsover. Direction was ponderous and slow in a way that was obviously supposed to be 'a bit like a French art house movie like what Kieslowski used to do' yet without the good bits of Kieslowski like engaging characters and whimsy. The sets all had this Elle Homes and gardens look of stale and mediocre tastefulness. And the music was either forgettable or Damien Rice moaning like a wet ex-boyfriend from hell drunkenly singing and sobbing at 4am "why did my girlfwiend leeeeve meeeeee".
And the dialogue - not profound but w*nky. W*nky middle-class navel gazing maxims mostly: "Telling the truth is what separates us from the animals." Yeah, those animals are always making fibs up, aren't they? I seem to recall it was a mongoose who wrote The Aeneid. Utter tosh!!!
Julia Roberts was the most dull boring self-absorbed woman in the world and we were supposed to believe she attracted these men into falling deliriously in love with her. She looked constipated all the time too. Natalie Portman was equally one dimensional and shallow - she was 'wacky' though cos she had dyed red hair and wore a skanky Boho Sienna miller coat. She had more potential but even so was given nothing to work with. But she cried once or twice and stripped so therefore she is a 'character'. I see.
Jude Law was even more dull and drippy than usual. Clive Owen was the only one who came across as being an actual person but even so, was forced to say the most trite lines, it nearly made me do a little bit of sick. Without him, the film would have been utter torture.
One funny scene about chatroom sex and Portman and Owen had some potential but other than that, i was just bored and indifferent to the 'relationship issues'. All deadly serious too. The language and 'smut' content was not shocking or compelling to me at all. So it didn't bother me that all the characters spoke in graphic ways. I object more to the sheer dullness and pretentiousness of the entire thing.
Pish!!! Avoid!!!!
I saw Catterick when it was first on BBC3 and was indifferent to it. But i saw it again and it's a real grower. More in the style of BANG BANG Its Reeves & Mortimer and the 1-off bizarre show, The Weekenders - Catterick is original and funny and well worth a second look. And this is in total opposition to the woefully bad All Star Comedy Show. Vic & Bob are back on form. Ture that Bob is not allowed to be funny enough and should be less of the straight man. Even so - that's minor. The show is an acquired taste granted but even so, the BBC are utter @rses for not showing this on terrestrial TV yet. WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR YOU LOONS!!! SHOW THIS NOW!!!! They might as well have buried it in the Blue Peter Garden.
The show also boasts fantastic performances from Matt Lucas, Morwenna Banks, Mark Benton, Reece Shearsmith and the wonderful Tim Healy ("nah, no need man, no need it's just a matter of keeping her waaarmm"). As well as great cameos from Julie T Wallace, Charlie Higson and Mark Gattiss. And i really love the Dennis Potter-style use of music from Chris Rea to the Smiths to Crystal Gayle.
This show has keep me in quotes for a while now - stuff like "your tickling my turnips intcha?", Tess's icy box, dogs that sh*t fruitcake and Bilberry Polar crush all make me laugh. Pity more people can't see it. I cannot look at a George Clooney poster now without smirking.
The show also boasts fantastic performances from Matt Lucas, Morwenna Banks, Mark Benton, Reece Shearsmith and the wonderful Tim Healy ("nah, no need man, no need it's just a matter of keeping her waaarmm"). As well as great cameos from Julie T Wallace, Charlie Higson and Mark Gattiss. And i really love the Dennis Potter-style use of music from Chris Rea to the Smiths to Crystal Gayle.
This show has keep me in quotes for a while now - stuff like "your tickling my turnips intcha?", Tess's icy box, dogs that sh*t fruitcake and Bilberry Polar crush all make me laugh. Pity more people can't see it. I cannot look at a George Clooney poster now without smirking.