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Hogfather (2006)
They did it right!!!
Thank 'insert relevant deity here' they've done it right!
From the moment I heard about this I was both excited and slightly apprehensive. Having any written work you love brought to screen can make you fearful of it being done badly and shattering your hopes, but from the moment it started I was grinning from ear to ear to see this world brought to life in such a perfect way.
It was well cast, written, acted and visually just beautiful to watch. They hadn't tried to dilute it or mess around with the great stuff Pratchett had written. Susan is one of my favourite characters and Michelle Dockery did a great job. As for the Nicholas Tennant as Nobby when you first see him you think he doesn't look quite the 'creature' Nobby should be but from the moment he sits on the Hogfather's lap and gives that meek little "..'s" He just IS Nobby. I was very impressed! Oh, and David Jason as Albert! Genius!!*
I watched it first time around with one group of friends, and have since watched it with more. Each of them has given the same response saying how great a job they've done creating it.
Please may they do more (although not too many to distract our favourite and most shop-lifted author from writing the books we all know and love :D Thief of Time would probably make for a good follow on it would continue the Death / Susan / Auditors story and be a great Easter Holiday show.
Either way if you haven't seen this bloody watch it, it's brilliant!!!!!!!!**
Oh, and HAPPY HOGSWATCH
*(As a person who seldom uses the exclamation mark you can tell the effect seeing this had on me seven so far, obviously a sign of madness ;)
**(that's 15 definite insanity...)
Ultraviolet (2006)
It has been weeks since the terror took me...
My mind, a fragile thing at best was shattered by the sights I witnessed, the sounds I heard. It is time now though. My constitution has recovered enough for me to pass this warning. Even now my hands shake with recollection of the torment but this message must be passed if others are to escape the same fate as I.
If could build a time machine I would travel back to that fateful day in a video store not long ago and not all that far, far away. I would take hold of my more innocent, unsullied mind and in the words of a far greater film cry "Spare me the madness!!" Words cannot express how much horror my delicate mind was forced to endure in those two odd hours of my life, beasts and blood do not wake me in cold sweats in the middle of the night, but now my night terrors drag me screaming from my slumber with thoughts of that acting/script/casting/directing/production/special effects/CGI/sound track/dialogue/concepts/action/plot (and I use the term as our language lacks a more suitable description of that 'thing')/etc/etc/etc ad infinitum... No foul beast ever called forth from the Necronomicon has possessed such evil as this abomination.
I have seen the true nature of evil and I know for my many sins a fiery and select circle of hell is reserved for me. Below even that final layer of betrayers witnessed by Dante I now know what waits for me. A cinema screen larger than imagination, with a seat from which no soul can ever escape. On that screen which dwarfs all the mountains of Earth one reel is projected, lit by the fires of hell and turned by Beelzebub himself, with audio so loud it downs the cries of all the damned souls
I am trapped there, forced until the end of time to endure that which is...
...'Ultraviolet'.
That will be my punishment and the punishment of all souls who's sins are too great. Be warned my companions of this Earth, avoid this hell, save your minds, save your souls, DO NOT WATCH THIS EVIL!!!
Little Voice (1998)
A film to make you feel
Summary:
This is the story of a painfully shy girl who takes comfort escaping the harsh world of her overbearing mother by enclosing herself in a world of music. The peace she finds while playing her late father's records is the only world she's at home in. She sings the songs to her father's memory with an unbelievable ability to capture not just the voices of artists such as Judy Garland, Shirley Bassey, and Marilyn Monroe but also the tone, the passion and the quality that made them legends. This ability is overheard by a talent agent who sees fortune in her voice. He tries to rip her out of her private world and force her into the terrifying spot light.
My Opinion:
I watched this film and was amazed. The characters of LV (Jane Horrocks) and Billy (Ewan McGregor) are just so adorable that you love them from the moment they are on screen. The performances of all the supporting players are good but the performance of Jane Horrocks is amazing. It's the kind of performance awards were created to celebrate, but got no where near the kind of recognition it deserved. Hardly saying anything throughout the first part of the film she communicates so much through her eyes and expressions. Then when she sings she does not just 'mimic' the voices of legends but proves she is a legend in her own right.