lukeh23
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My first time penning a review on this for many years. This movie compelled me to change that and log into to state a true 10/10 for me.
Everything's just wonderful with Matilda the Musical. The acting, the cinematography, the music! The music, thanks to the genius of Tim Minchin and the dance scenes and choreography is just brilliant.
I won't go into the story much, beyond to say it sticks quite close to Dahl's original text. Suffice to say I had every emotion, including plenty of laughs and a few tears.
Pure cinema at its finest. I can see this becoming a Christmas classic for many years to come and it's so good to finally have a classic of the calibre that older times once brought us.
Please, more of this!!
Everything's just wonderful with Matilda the Musical. The acting, the cinematography, the music! The music, thanks to the genius of Tim Minchin and the dance scenes and choreography is just brilliant.
I won't go into the story much, beyond to say it sticks quite close to Dahl's original text. Suffice to say I had every emotion, including plenty of laughs and a few tears.
Pure cinema at its finest. I can see this becoming a Christmas classic for many years to come and it's so good to finally have a classic of the calibre that older times once brought us.
Please, more of this!!
Well I won't be getting this evening back.
After reading the reviews I expected this movie to be either disturbing , shocking or somehow something out of the ordinary, perhaps twists and turns or clever spin maybe. What I got instead, was a slow moving film with an obvious plot, that played out to its obvious ending.
It's one of those films, where you press the pause button to check how far you're in, to then see its a third of the way through and so say to yourself "oh c'mon do something, anything", yet it still continues to roll on with the same single tiered plot.
After reading the reviews I expected this movie to be either disturbing , shocking or somehow something out of the ordinary, perhaps twists and turns or clever spin maybe. What I got instead, was a slow moving film with an obvious plot, that played out to its obvious ending.
It's one of those films, where you press the pause button to check how far you're in, to then see its a third of the way through and so say to yourself "oh c'mon do something, anything", yet it still continues to roll on with the same single tiered plot.
Looking at the cover, you may well have high expectations for this film..you see review snippets of .. "Masterful!", "Will shake you for days", "Mad Max, in the countryside". Seeing that Post Apocalyptic films are my favourite genre, I thought I might be about to watch something special.
It starts off very slow, but that's OK. You figure they are bringing you gently into the Brutal reality of the world in a curious unsuspecting way, but no. It just stays at a slow pace from there. We are introduced to the protagonists enemies on very rare occasion, which helped break the monotony a bit, but its fleeting, and do not expect anything like the visceral eye feast of Mad Max.
A disappointment really, and certainly a bad comparison to make it to Mad Max. I had high hopes of something akin to the UK feel of 28 days later, but this was quite a lack lustre of a film.
Have to say as well, there is some sort of weird erotic element to the film. The main actor is well endowed, as they say, and so the director seems to like showing this off in a few random scenes. So out of the blue, we see him walking around naked in his dreams or having a random masturbation session.
It starts off very slow, but that's OK. You figure they are bringing you gently into the Brutal reality of the world in a curious unsuspecting way, but no. It just stays at a slow pace from there. We are introduced to the protagonists enemies on very rare occasion, which helped break the monotony a bit, but its fleeting, and do not expect anything like the visceral eye feast of Mad Max.
A disappointment really, and certainly a bad comparison to make it to Mad Max. I had high hopes of something akin to the UK feel of 28 days later, but this was quite a lack lustre of a film.
Have to say as well, there is some sort of weird erotic element to the film. The main actor is well endowed, as they say, and so the director seems to like showing this off in a few random scenes. So out of the blue, we see him walking around naked in his dreams or having a random masturbation session.