Agreed. It's ok as light entertainment, but is so rammed full of historical inaccuracies that it becomes annoying to anyone with even a slight knowledge of the band, its songs and chronology.
Flash Gordon.
Much derided at the time, bit the critics missed the point - it was supposed to be a chintzy, twee, art deco delight to mirror the time in which the character and stories were created. Brian Blessed, Timith Dalton, Topol, Max Von Sydow, even Peter Duncan gets a brief look in before dying a grisly death, just like his screen career did.
Sit back and enjoy it for what it is - a proper comic book romp before Marvel ruined the genre.
8/10.
Went to see 1917 last night at the local picture house.
Wow..a stunningly shot movie. This is a film that needs to be seen on the big screen. It will be totally wasted watching it on a TV.
Great filming, great story and great acting.
We've just seen in this evening at the pictures. Very Very good. For the first hour somehow it appeared to be one single continuous shot. How on earth they achieved that I don't know. I could quibble with a couple of points but it steps back from mawkishness or false drama and overall is an outstanding movie. The underlying story is pretty plausible - jerry has unexpectedly pulled back several miles to the Hindenburg line, giving up the territory the allies have failed to capture in 3 years of bloodshed, and two soldiers are sent on a desperate mission across no-man's land to get a message to cancel a futile attack; the phone lines having been cut by enemy bombardment. Thus it's a two hander for a lot of the film. Good points are showing the confusion of war; the trenches are amazing, as is the contrast between the allies' relatively scrappy trenches and the Germans' deep dug outs, abandoned i the story.
It would be a travesty if it doesn't pick up at least a couple of Oscars
"Victoria" was a German one-shot film a few years ago. Over two hours long, it was mesmerising to watch it. As Wiki says:
'The film was shot in a single long take by Sturla Brandth Grøvlen [de] from about 4:30 AM to 7:00 AM on 27 April 2014 in the Kreuzberg and Mitte neighborhoods.[2][3] The script consisted of twelve pages, with most of the dialogue being improvised.[4]
To get financers onboard, director Sebastian Schipper promised to deliver a version using traditional shot cutting as “plan B” if he couldn’t achieve the final product in a true single take. The cut version was filmed first, over ten days, as a series of ten-minute takes, so that Schipper would have a completed film in the bag even if the one-take version failed. Schipper has characterized the cut version as “not good”.[5] The budget permitted only three attempts at the one-take version. According to Schipper, the first attempt was dull because the actors were too cautious, being afraid to make mistakes; the second attempt was the opposite, as the actors went “crazy”. Schipper says he became “angry” and “terrified” after seeing the second take and realizing he had only one chance left; in a subsequent meeting, he gave the cast a “hairdryer speech ... [it] was not a meeting that ended in hugs and 'good talk.' It was crazy. But the tension was built on knowing we wanted the same thing”. Schipper believes the final attempt was successful because there was an element of “aggression” missing from the other versions.'
American sniper.