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Desperate Romantics (2009)
Desperately Unromantic
Just too pretentious for its own good.
I didn't feel the characters rang true and it had too many cliches thrown in just to try and appeal to everyone. The music didn't fit the feel and pace and the acting was a little smug.
The camera work was annoying too with the shots being either too close or too unsteady. I couldn't finish the second episode because at that point I really didn't care for any of it.
To sum up, it was just too shallow and lightweight with bad acting, script and direction.
If you want to immerse yourself in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood world don't watch this.
Sing Street (2016)
Feel good movie that will make you cry, laugh and smile.
Brilliant acting with a tight script along with great music. Not one boring moment throughout and just enough of every emotion you can name without being over the top. The balance of the film is superb never leaving the course of being a class film. Quite simply genius....... Just go and watch and you will relate to this movie in many ways and come away wanting more of this type of film. It shows what you can do without a big budget, major stars or special effects and without resorting to cheap clichés and hackneyed scenes that movies tend to put in to get good ratings. This one is from the heart without any padding and is better for it.
Spectre (2015)
Did not make me feel like I wanted to be Bond!
It seems as though they have tried to put everything that is Bond into this film trying to please everyone and ending up with a total mess.
The main problem for me was that it was not consistent. One minute you had a realistic fight scene then a comic book one then a pretentious one! Just too much to take in one film!
A lot of the acting was too staged and clichéd and not done very well. Miss Moneypenny was awful and annoying, come to think of it, where have all the classic Bond girls gone? There just hasn't been any for quite some time. Also I know its a Bond film but it was just not at all credible......... the bit with the plane for instance..... There really is too much wrong with this film to list so I wont even try. The only good bit is the very beginning.....seriously!(Before the helicopter bit)
After the opening sequence I think the real Bond took off on a holiday and left the rest of the film to a mere shadow of what we could call Bond. There was a lot of "lets put this bit in the film because that's what Bond would do and people will like it".....yes if you know what you are doing that is! Just putting in a line or a action without any real thought into the bigger picture just to get a reaction is very unprofessional and prone to failure.
It feels like it was made by someone who got up one morning and thought it would be a good idea to make a Bond film and proceeded to do so without any serious thought.
Very disappointed and annoyed that I will have to wait another 2 years for the next Bond film to hopefully eradicate this one out of my memory!