Just seen Salmon Fishing in Yemen

[Globalti]

It was nice. Inoffensive, obviously filmed with export markets in mind and had a good love interest. Worth going to the cinema as we did? Hmm..... maybe on a very wet Sunday when there's nothing else to do but otherwise I would wait and get it on DVD.

I'd love to know where the Scottish scenes were shot though; we know a Scotswoman who actually works for a Sheikh Mohamed who owns a big Scottish estate.

 

[compo]

Blimey, you got home quick.

 

[BigonaBianchi]

It's on in B'ton at the duke of yorks cinema this week...got an invite to go along

 

[Archie_tect]

A gentle, unassuming film that won't set the world alight.

 

[Doseone]

The guy who wrote Salmon Fishing (Paul Torday) also wrote one of the best books I've read in the last year or so called The Girl On The Landing. Really great book.

 

[Yellow Fang]

It looks 5h1t.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

The poster advertising this film tells me it looks well worth avoiding. Yellow Fang's assessment looks spot on assuming that 5h1t translates as shoot.

 

[Dave Davenport]

It was nice. Inoffensive, obviously filmed with export markets in mind and had a good love interest. Worth going to the cinema as we did? Hmm..... maybe on a very wet Sunday when there's nothing else to do but otherwise I would wait and get it on DVD.

I'd love to know where the Scottish scenes were shot though; we know a Scotswoman who actually works for a Sheikh Mohamed who owns a big Scottish estate.

That's about what I thought, except I wouldn't bother with the DVD. Had a chuckle at the advert for the Yemen as a tourist destination, can't see there being a rush.

 

[biggs682]

[QUOTE 1828856, member: 45"]It's got Ewan McGregor in?

No thanks.[/quote]
and thats why the other half wants to see it

 

[Fnaar]

The book's a good read. Not seen the fillum though

 

[Maz]

It looks 5h1t.

Definitely below parr.

[i will get my coat...]

 

[ASC1951]

The poster advertising this film tells me it looks well worth avoiding.

It gets 7.0 on IMDb. That's slightly less that I will turn out for, unless I have nothing else to do. This time, I did.

Ewan MacGregor hasn't been given a decent role since Trainspotting and Shallow Grave.

 

[PBancroft]

It gets 7.0 on IMDb. That's slightly less that I will turn out for, unless I have nothing else to do. This time, I did.

Ewan MacGregor hasn't been given a decent role since Trainspotting and Shallow Grave.

Agreed (although I enjoyed Moulin Rouge! and I have heard good things about The Men Who Stare at Goats. I think he is a very underrated actor, and Danny Boyle brought out the best in him... its a great shame that they had their falling out.

When I was a student, and had much more time than I do now, I used to go see a film at least once a week... any film. I saw some corkers that way, and some less than great films but they all were worth watching in their own way as long as they had something to say. I only ever walked out of one film... Entrapment. That was truly dire... even with the bottom scene, I have no idea how people find something worthwhile in that trash.

 

[ASC1951]

.. I have heard good things about The Men Who Stare at Goats...

Even with George Clooney, it's mediocre - one mildly amusing idea doesn't sustain a two hour film.

 

[PBancroft]

Even with George Clooney, it's mediocre - one mildly amusing idea doesn't sustain a two hour film.

Shame. I quite liked the idea, and tend to quite like Jon Ronson's books (although I've not read that one).