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Distant Trumpet (1952)
The original Hyacinth Bucket!
Thought I'd take a few minutes to give a positive review in contrast with the two previous reviews which are truly dismal.
The first thing that struck me was what happened in the waiting room. A male patient had just left and we are left with three middle+aged ladies. One comments disparagingly, 'It's the National Health Service'. In other words, Look at the riff+raff we're having to mix with now that health care is free (since 1948). I hadn't even noticed the man's clothes, and in those days there were class distinctions, and you could tell which class someone was from just by their clothes. Funny, eh? It was only then that I really noticed that the female trio were done up like a dog's dinner, with huge hats and fur coats; one actually looked like Patricia Routledge's character though at least she never thought it cool to wear a dead dog draped over her shoulders ++ I'm referring of course to fox stoles, complete with head, legs and tails. Another world. These rich women paid well to employ the doctor as a sympathetic ear as they complained about their imaginary illnesses.
When the doctors, brothers, swapped places the poorly one used to dealing with real illnesses in Africa, was irritatedly twiddling a pencil listening to some woman blathering about nothing, could take no more and suddenly then snapped as did the pencil. He eventually resolved to give them some real medicine: the truth; interestingly, they didn't all react according to type. To find out more you'll have to watch it next time it comes on, and to find out that you'll have to sign up to Talking PicturesTV (free!) to get the monthly schedule.
Lots more good stuff in the picture and on TPTV!
The Huggetts Abroad (1949)
Great family entertainment
Cracking,lightning right cross from 'Dixon of Dock Green' Jack Warner. See, violence! Oooh. The things you miss when you're far from Blighty! Jack's character missed his local. I sympathise + I miss pub Sunday roast lunches. Sufficient tension. A bit of innocent romance. Bit of sculduggery. Some répugnant people to hiss at. And you're sure it's going to end happily ever after. But is it? Well, you'll just have to watch, won't you!
OMG, review rejected for being too short! They want a bloody 600 word (well, character) essay. Yeah, if i'm being paid, but this is done out of the kindness of my heart in support of Talking Pictures TV, as I watch the followup Jack Warner/ Jimmy Hanley duo 1949 fillum,'The Blue Lamp', for which I will NOT bother to review because I'd like to watch it, thank you very much.
There you have it, my last review. Not that it will be published.
Le dîner de cons (1998)
Con-sequential
Surprisingly good. Ten years of seeing French tv, I'm not enamoured of their comedies. But this is class from the get-go. Some of the word-play, especially about people's names is très amusant though I have no idea how it is handled in the English version -- I'll watch it I have a chance. I was ready for groans and to switch channels, even switch to English satellite quickly but this was fast and funny. Brilliant.
Angel Has Fallen (2019)
Lies from Hollywood
Lies from Hollywood...what do you expect?
In the White House big boys' room.
"The problem is, the Russians will deny this to the end, if we take action. But it we don't , they'll remain ambiguous as to their involvement, so we look weak."
P. S. Okay didn't intend to leave any star rating here and I can't remove the one star. Hope the guys can remove it. Will write another
brief review with rating.
That's okay. But here comes the Democrat lie that they spewed out and that the feeble-brained / corrupt MSM peddled since Trump won in 2016, and which has subsequently been proved to be the second biggest lie in your country's presidential election history -- the biggest lie of course being The Steal. Here it is, strait from the Clinton-Obama big fat gob:
"Just like with their election tampering."
Judgement will come.
Heat (1995)
NOT professionals!
Policeman Pacino says of the gang with admiration "They were professionals."
Um. No. I'm not even an amateur, but if it were me:
1. I would have put the guards on the floor, removed their arms, and strapped their hands and feet, and bagged their heads. No shooting would have occurred.
2. When gangster de Niro is about to shoot the newbie nut job to the gang who fouled up the heist by shooting a traumatised guard he had him on the ground but had to put on pause while a police car went by. Then he looks down to resume the job he's surprised that the idiot has disappeared. Quel surprise! A nut job but not an idiot. So all he had to do while waiting for the patrol car to go by -- a matter of seconds -- was to put his foot on him.
Okay so the writer's imagination couldn't come up with a better foul-up, but my complaint is please don't call them professionals.
This critique has nothing to do with the disgusting political comments of de Niro vid à vis one of your best presidents, Orange Man.
I was going to give 10 but this infuriated me just minutes in and I want to get back to the film, so I'll stop and give 8.
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Not only not a masterpiece, not even average
I watched for half an hour. It's supposed to be a masterpiece so though I'm not at all impressed, I have to keep watching. An hour. An hour and a half. When is it going to get interesting? Two hours. ...the end. Pfffh. Nothing to do with the fact that de Niro at an Oscar ceremony, to the squealing delight of the lovelies viciously insulted your best president of modern times and preferred your current cretin, this was not even a good film. Two hours wasted. Thank me for saving you two hours. Crapola.
La fille coupée en deux (2007)
Started we!l, but..
Crap. De la merde. Rubbish. Disappointing in the extreme. What on earth were there thinking!!?? It was an interesting film for the first half but after the trial it collapsed into insanity. Either that or I'm not sophisticated or inte!ligent enough to understand such high art.
The Lady Vanishes (2013)
Not a comedy
I have to chip in my tuppence worth because of all the critical reviews. I found this much better than the 1980s Donald Sutherland rather tongue-in-cheek version which I did enjoy but which was not really suspenseful or frightening. This version was full of tension. Having said that, I agree with the critic who said the ending was hasty; agreed, but that was its only failing. I gave it an exaggerated score of 10 score to counter the exaggerated scores of below 6.
It's Hard to Be Good (1948)
Cheerful and witty
You can tell shortly into a film, I think, if it's going to be any good. I was taken by this one almost immediately. I found it clever. Surprisingly so. Thought I'd better make sure so gave it another 5-10 minutes. I like to check up on the film -- cast, etc., after I've come to my own assessment of it. I thought it was fabulous but when I came here I was shocked to say the least to see all awful reviews. So instead of the 8 I was going to give, I boosted it to 10. I'd actually watch it again soon, no hesitation.
Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
English king beheads Christ
Splendid, gorgeous film explaining how the diabolical murderer Henry VIII cuts off my country from the Church of Christ. If his words in the film are true, he himself predicted he was bound for Hell. Of course, God can work through anyone, heretic or not. Conversely, anyone who has the appearance of orthodoxy ain't necessarily so -- viz. the current satanic pope Francis and the majority of the so-called princes of the Church, cardinals, etc. who are in league with the leaders of the new world order: Soros, WHO, Emperor Xi, President Obama, Faux President Biden, Prince Charles of England the Prince of Wales and heir to the throne. God help us.
History ain't a thing of the past. We're living in it, people. And it is being played out now, and you are in it, for good or evil.
Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
Twist again!
More twists in the plot than a barley stick candelabra in this Edwardian thriller, right to the end...
Fences (2016)
BLM target
Oh, dear. The paternalistic way the father (DW) was building (however imperfectly) his son's character was a great example of the traditional father, the normal family; you know, the people, that BLM want to destroy. This black 1950's family was rich compared to us; he worried about the cost of repairing the roof -- ergo they OWNED the house. I was jealous of him having such a problem: we white Irish had no such luck -- it was rented rooms all our childhood. I'm just looking at the film through the eyes of my own experience. Two booooring hours in. There's a Jesus plate on the kitchen seal; she's in Church. Lack Lives Marxists are going to hate that. Can I take another 45 minutes?? No, stopped with 35 mins to go.
Behind Enemy Lines (2001)
Action!
Yeah, good film. Ignore all the Yank-bashers -- Yank demoncrats who hate their country, no doubt. Wish I was American so I could vote for Trump.
Gone Girl (2014)
Yet another modern film with an unending.
I struggled through the first 30 minutes. Then it got good for a few (it seemed) hours. Then it didn't actually end. Crap. Another waste of time, apart from the middle.