There are Jet Li and Jason Statham, which for me is a good thing .-D I would have liked this film more with a different finale, I didn't like it very much. Anyway it's not bad. A bit of plot? Two FBI agents are in trouble, and Tom saves his partner John's life. In the following days the two families were supposed to meet, but before John gets there a misterious assassin has already burned the house after having killed Tom's wife and little daughter in front of his eyes. John arrives to find the three bodies and is convinced that is all Rogue's fault, and become obsessed with him and his want of revenge.
Three years later arrives Jet Li, slaying yakuza men in a club. The rest of the plot including the finale? Coming right up. :-) We find out that he's double crossing them in order to set up a war between the chinese Triad and the Japanese Yakuza. Both Yanagawa and Chang think he's working for them, but actually he wants them all dead, and he gets his wish. They start doing a pretty good job themself killing each other, then he kills those that are still alive. First Chang and his clan, but leaves his wife and little daughter alive, and instead helps them get away safely. Then it's Yanagawa's turn. Again, he kills everyone but Yanagawa's daughter. Before killing old boss Yanagawa, Rogue reveals his true identity: he's Tom, and three years ago he killed Rogue and took his identity to seek revenge, and then he's told that he was betrayed by his friend John who was working for him. Rogue calls John setting up a meeting, and John brings a sniper along. Everything is revealed, John says he was lied to, that he was told they wanted Tom's address to beat him up, not to kill, and that then he became obsessed with killing Rogue to set things right. Well, not exactly right, but he was full of remorse and pain for the loss of his friend's life. Tom cannot forgive him, but John still saves Tom from the sniper's shot, and dies.
A cool thing is that Rogue had sent Chang's widow one antique gold horse and the message "Make a new life", and we understand she will for her daughter's sake; then he sends the same message to Yanagawa's daughter, who up to now had followed on her father's steps, but inside the cage there isn't the other horse, instead she sees her father's head.
Now that it's all over, and all the people that caused his family's death have died, Rogue just goes away, driving out of town, maybe to make a new life for himself as well. All nice and good fun, but the bit I didn't like was that it wasn't clear if he was going to live as Tom or as Rogue. I mean, he couldn't forgive John, he still wanted him dead, so that makes you think there's too much of Rogue in him now, but so what, he's going to keep killing people for money or not?? Just a little detail, otherwise I liked the film, mainly I admit because I like Jet Li a lot :-D
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Would I lie to you? season 7 of the panel show with David Mitchell
As before, David Mitchell and Lee Mack are the team captains, and Rob Brydon is the host. This series we saw Lee unbuttoning Rhod Gilbert's shirt to show his potato tattoo, Dara O'Briain that keeps making that 'Errr' noise so people realise he just made a joke, Rob and his small man in a box :-) , Josh Widdicombe giving his old underpants to Mel Giedroyc and Lee's old joke about snakes being legless.
The stories I liked best were: David's code he lives his life by which is that his appearance should be in no way noteworthy but then again not so unnoteworthy as to be in itself noteworthy (:lol: well that worked up to now. It's just me or since Victoria came into his life he changed his look? Not only the beard, but also more colourful shirts with a couple of buttons open... ), Rhod digging up and washing his dead hamster, when Lee as a teenager cut and burnt his womble toy to prove his manhood, when Mel snogged Dermot O'Leary, when Dermot asked a girl out 156 times, when Jon Richardson explained how he takes a waterfree bath when stressed, when Henning Wehn was listed for three weeks as a missing person by Interpol (:lol: that story was something :lol and he was very funny), when the usual lie about animals being called after favourite newsreaders or something is finally come true after 7 series, with Kirsty Young's chickens :-) , when younger Lee having run out of jokes decided to hide in a cupboard and when 9 years old Jon was told to stop stalking a clown.
Other things that stuck to my mind: the fact that Jon got it right at the 'this is my' game, but having been wrong the round before maybe he didn't have the confidence to believe in it; when Jon said he 'doesn't like things that will scratch his face' like cats, and when he asked "Am I the weirdo here?" and everybody agreed, David said "That's so lovely to hear 'cause usually it's me!" :lol: ; when Lee showed a recording he made at home, with a beard and glasses, and his little baby daughter crying because of a certain song (what a pretty baby girl :-) ) and Rob's bouncident.
There was also a Christmas episode, where David showed the cape he had as a child, that he used to wear pretending he was Dr. Who :-D
Gok Wan, Charles Dance, Steven Mangan, Jason Manford, Warwick Davis, David O'Doherty, Sarah Millican, Jimmy Carr, Miles Jupp and Miranda Hart were also among this series guests.
The stories I liked best were: David's code he lives his life by which is that his appearance should be in no way noteworthy but then again not so unnoteworthy as to be in itself noteworthy (:lol: well that worked up to now. It's just me or since Victoria came into his life he changed his look? Not only the beard, but also more colourful shirts with a couple of buttons open... ), Rhod digging up and washing his dead hamster, when Lee as a teenager cut and burnt his womble toy to prove his manhood, when Mel snogged Dermot O'Leary, when Dermot asked a girl out 156 times, when Jon Richardson explained how he takes a waterfree bath when stressed, when Henning Wehn was listed for three weeks as a missing person by Interpol (:lol: that story was something :lol and he was very funny), when the usual lie about animals being called after favourite newsreaders or something is finally come true after 7 series, with Kirsty Young's chickens :-) , when younger Lee having run out of jokes decided to hide in a cupboard and when 9 years old Jon was told to stop stalking a clown.
Other things that stuck to my mind: the fact that Jon got it right at the 'this is my' game, but having been wrong the round before maybe he didn't have the confidence to believe in it; when Jon said he 'doesn't like things that will scratch his face' like cats, and when he asked "Am I the weirdo here?" and everybody agreed, David said "That's so lovely to hear 'cause usually it's me!" :lol: ; when Lee showed a recording he made at home, with a beard and glasses, and his little baby daughter crying because of a certain song (what a pretty baby girl :-) ) and Rob's bouncident.
There was also a Christmas episode, where David showed the cape he had as a child, that he used to wear pretending he was Dr. Who :-D
Gok Wan, Charles Dance, Steven Mangan, Jason Manford, Warwick Davis, David O'Doherty, Sarah Millican, Jimmy Carr, Miles Jupp and Miranda Hart were also among this series guests.
Would I lie to you? season 6 of the panel show with David Mitchell
This is my favourite season so far :-) As before, David Mitchell and Lee Mack are team captains, and Rob Brydon is the host. Good. David showed a new look, with the beard!! It took me some time to get used to it..
I laughed so much at Alex Jones' story of when she lost Julian Lloyd Webber's cello, it was hilarious, David was so funny, also when he overruled his teammates, it was really funny. I guess being in a relationship does him good, he was even funnier than usual, and also more confident, or maybe it's just me imagining things.
Special guest Sid, that very pretty lady, looked like a friend of Mel Giedroyc :-) Lee's story about ex-girlfriends' names spelling Bermuda was so absurd and so obviously a lie there was really no need for questions, just like Alex's story that she could say if you're a good dancer by looking at your teeth: absurd again. Miles Jupp explained his true system for drying himself, but although it may yes be a bit odd, I think their reaction was too much, they used the words disturbing and horrible and frightening... that's an exageration, why disturbing, come on! Everyone can do what they want in their home, I don't think it's that big a deal!
Richard Madeley's true story of how he woke up naked after spraying his home with fake snow while drunk was really funny :-) David's three poing pen policy was funny, but I sooo didn't like it when Lee broke it. I love pens too, and I hate wastes in general, so I kind of hated it. Sarah Millican esplanations of how she takes pictures of herself when she's tired to see how tired she really is was hilarious. The 'sleeping with a potato' lie was also lots of fun :lol: When a girl dumped that guy Richard at McDonald was some story as well :lol: although as always I hate lines like 'guess why she dumped you', or 'no wonder you're single', they never sound funny to me. They always sound nasty, even when said as a joke, if that's ever the case, they always sound nasty. The game with the special guests Robert and Will was most funny when they all walked over there to look at their hands. Lee then showed the dibber he donated to the British Lawnmower Museum. Miranda mentioned farts again, I guess she finds them really amusing. Rhod Gilbert and David were quarrelling again, and Tess Daly thought he was telling the truth "because Rhod is leaning back" mistaking that for a sign of relaxation due to have told the truth, while actually Rhod always sits like that, don't know why, as if he's keeping as distant as possible from the others, he always leans back in the chair. He would actually look better if he didn't, just sitting normally, but maybe he's more comfortable that way. The game with the special guest Tony was a funny one, with David pretending he told him bedstories about the war and Rhod's true story that they were badmington partners. I'd have never guessed that!
When Lee read his card about his portrait being made by a monkey he actually looked so pissed off that he always gets this weird stories. When David told about the misterious red switch in his flat, I had exactly the same thought as Tess Daly: she also remembered the 'bedroom door without doorhandle' story and thought, he wasn't bothered by that, he probably is not bothered by this switch either. Andy Hamilton's story about the imaginary classmates was crazy and hilarious, one of the best. When special guest Kevin was on the show, I wouldn't have guessed in a million years that he was really Lee's bum double!!! Other stories that left me totally incredulous were Christian Jessen buying that stuffed monkey or that badger story but I don't remember the name of that guy. Also the ability to break an apple in half, or the woman who was really Greg Davies' mother! Armando Iannucci's 'babboon in the car' story was fun, and very well told I'd say. I so believed it to be true!
The fact that Lee shaved his beard when David was coming over for dinner can be seen in two ways: he's either considerate for David's feelings, or it could be that he thought 'he's so selfcentred he'll certainly think I did it to copy him when it's not true at all!' ... anyway, what a picture, Lee David and Rob all together at Lee's house for dinner...
Josie Lawrence, Miranda Hart, Gabby Logan, Patsi Kensit, Jim Carter were also among this season guests.
I laughed so much at Alex Jones' story of when she lost Julian Lloyd Webber's cello, it was hilarious, David was so funny, also when he overruled his teammates, it was really funny. I guess being in a relationship does him good, he was even funnier than usual, and also more confident, or maybe it's just me imagining things.
Special guest Sid, that very pretty lady, looked like a friend of Mel Giedroyc :-) Lee's story about ex-girlfriends' names spelling Bermuda was so absurd and so obviously a lie there was really no need for questions, just like Alex's story that she could say if you're a good dancer by looking at your teeth: absurd again. Miles Jupp explained his true system for drying himself, but although it may yes be a bit odd, I think their reaction was too much, they used the words disturbing and horrible and frightening... that's an exageration, why disturbing, come on! Everyone can do what they want in their home, I don't think it's that big a deal!
Richard Madeley's true story of how he woke up naked after spraying his home with fake snow while drunk was really funny :-) David's three poing pen policy was funny, but I sooo didn't like it when Lee broke it. I love pens too, and I hate wastes in general, so I kind of hated it. Sarah Millican esplanations of how she takes pictures of herself when she's tired to see how tired she really is was hilarious. The 'sleeping with a potato' lie was also lots of fun :lol: When a girl dumped that guy Richard at McDonald was some story as well :lol: although as always I hate lines like 'guess why she dumped you', or 'no wonder you're single', they never sound funny to me. They always sound nasty, even when said as a joke, if that's ever the case, they always sound nasty. The game with the special guests Robert and Will was most funny when they all walked over there to look at their hands. Lee then showed the dibber he donated to the British Lawnmower Museum. Miranda mentioned farts again, I guess she finds them really amusing. Rhod Gilbert and David were quarrelling again, and Tess Daly thought he was telling the truth "because Rhod is leaning back" mistaking that for a sign of relaxation due to have told the truth, while actually Rhod always sits like that, don't know why, as if he's keeping as distant as possible from the others, he always leans back in the chair. He would actually look better if he didn't, just sitting normally, but maybe he's more comfortable that way. The game with the special guest Tony was a funny one, with David pretending he told him bedstories about the war and Rhod's true story that they were badmington partners. I'd have never guessed that!
When Lee read his card about his portrait being made by a monkey he actually looked so pissed off that he always gets this weird stories. When David told about the misterious red switch in his flat, I had exactly the same thought as Tess Daly: she also remembered the 'bedroom door without doorhandle' story and thought, he wasn't bothered by that, he probably is not bothered by this switch either. Andy Hamilton's story about the imaginary classmates was crazy and hilarious, one of the best. When special guest Kevin was on the show, I wouldn't have guessed in a million years that he was really Lee's bum double!!! Other stories that left me totally incredulous were Christian Jessen buying that stuffed monkey or that badger story but I don't remember the name of that guy. Also the ability to break an apple in half, or the woman who was really Greg Davies' mother! Armando Iannucci's 'babboon in the car' story was fun, and very well told I'd say. I so believed it to be true!
The fact that Lee shaved his beard when David was coming over for dinner can be seen in two ways: he's either considerate for David's feelings, or it could be that he thought 'he's so selfcentred he'll certainly think I did it to copy him when it's not true at all!' ... anyway, what a picture, Lee David and Rob all together at Lee's house for dinner...
Josie Lawrence, Miranda Hart, Gabby Logan, Patsi Kensit, Jim Carter were also among this season guests.
Would I lie to you? season 5 of the panel show with David Mitchell
Loved this season too! As before, David Mitchell and Lee Mack are team captains, and Rob Brydon is the host. My favourite points of this season: Robert Webb's lot of imaginary friends, Rob's knowledge of comic books, David calling Lee an intellectual snob, David explaining that disinterested means impartial and uninterested means bored, Jon Richardson showing the emergency kit he always keeps in his car, Lorraine Kelly telling us of when she went on air completely drunk because she had been celebrating John Hanna's getting the role in Four weddings and a funeral and David looking odd with a kazakistan hat on, plus the following stories: when 12 year old David bought a rowing boat, when Charlie Booker refused to go and pick up his girlfriend at night because he was afraid to step over a spider (!!!!) or gave a girl a bin as a valentine present(!!), when Sarah Millican had a wee in a car and when Lee explains how amusingly he shaves his beard.
On one episode, I was really surprised when during the game "this is my" they believed Nick Hewer's story. I mean, I don't know him, but he was nasty, really, and I don't think he would have been nasty if he really knew the guest! Then the guest in episode 2 :lol: as soon as I saw that Tony guy I immediately thought, this must be a friend of Kevin Bridges, no questions, I could see them as friends very easily, they sort of looked alike :lol and I was right! Also when I saw the guest Kathy, I thought she looked like a friend of Sarah Millican!
I was glad the 'fake laugh' story was a lie, because otherwise it would mean that at home there was someone saying'I saw her exactly two weeks ago and she laughed like that' and that wouldn't be nice, would it?
Rhod Gilbert looked good with Victoria Coren's 'truth glasses' on :-)
Jack Whitehall, Miranda Hart, Louis Spence, David O'Doherty, Marcus Brigstocke, Greg Davies, Frank Skinner were also on this season.
On one episode, I was really surprised when during the game "this is my" they believed Nick Hewer's story. I mean, I don't know him, but he was nasty, really, and I don't think he would have been nasty if he really knew the guest! Then the guest in episode 2 :lol: as soon as I saw that Tony guy I immediately thought, this must be a friend of Kevin Bridges, no questions, I could see them as friends very easily, they sort of looked alike :lol and I was right! Also when I saw the guest Kathy, I thought she looked like a friend of Sarah Millican!
I was glad the 'fake laugh' story was a lie, because otherwise it would mean that at home there was someone saying'I saw her exactly two weeks ago and she laughed like that' and that wouldn't be nice, would it?
Rhod Gilbert looked good with Victoria Coren's 'truth glasses' on :-)
Jack Whitehall, Miranda Hart, Louis Spence, David O'Doherty, Marcus Brigstocke, Greg Davies, Frank Skinner were also on this season.
Would I lie to you? season 4 of the panel show with David Mitchell
I love this show!! As before, David Mitchell and Lee mack are the team captains, and Rob Brydon is the host, but this series he himself introduced the guests, without the voice speaker. I like it better this way! Good.
The stories I remember the most are: when Fern Britton left a job because she couldn't ride their bike, when Richard E. Grant showed us the music video he made as a dance version of the 'to be or not to be' monologue, when Jack Dee talks about his faulty system for remembering names, when Rob stole Catherine Zeta Jones dinner money, when Kevin Bridges accidentally bought a horse, when David told about his bedroom's door having no handle, when Ronnie Corbett was on the show!!, when Sarah Millican spent three hours on a bus for a day out, when the special guest was David's driver, when Rhod Gilbert had a job where he had to answer the phone 'hello beef', when we learn about Lee having one leg shorter than the other, when Patrick Kielty punched Mohammed Ali in the face, when Joanna Page wanted to learn her time tables, when we meet swimming instructor Mark, when we see David's special travel dressing gown, when Martin Clunes explained why he liked to change the order in which he puts on his socks and when Rob pretended to be his own agent using a different voice.
I'm thankful to David for the little explanation of "dispensed of, disposed with", hope I got it right :lol: David's lie about riding a train at a museum was hilarious. Before they showed Richard E. Grant's video, Martin Clunes looked at special guest Ken's hands and immediately said he was a record producer, but then he changed his mind, maybe didn't have the confidence to go with it (??) sounds strange, but anyway he should have, he was right! When Fern said to David "no wonder you're single" I was so annoyed, and then they didn't keep in the show what she was going to say after... It was funny when David could just think of the name of one women magazine and thought he deserved a medal for that. This series Hugh Dennis wasn't as believable as before, when he said he had to touch his nose whenever he says France, he didn't play it well. There's always a first, isn't there? :lol: Well, it wouldn't have been so very strange a thing, I mean I always touch my nose whenever I say something at the same time as someone else!
I could absolutely believe the story about a Andy Murray's rap after Rob sang it. He so sounded like he had heard it before! Rob's story about the biscuits was so wrong, but also so well told I was really confused, and believed it! There was Holly Walsh on one episode, and I didn't like her. She looks so pleased with herself anytime she makes a joke, as if it was something genius! Unless it generally isn't! There was also John Bishop on one episode, and I don't know what to think of him, he speaks in such a strange way, I can't even follow what he says.
When David and Rob started talking about Star Trek was great for me. I love Star Trek! Even more when being asked 'did you two have girlfriends?' Rob very calmly said No (or maybe Why?) and kept talking about it! :lol: Great!! Although I don't understand why there is always this thing that you could have one OR the other, not both. Why couldn't you like Star Trek and have a girlfriend? I would have liked to have someone liking it as I did!!
When Jack Dee told his (fake) story about proposing to his wife with a fez on, and he actually wore the hat to demonstrate how he looked, and then David asked why would he go for the fez, I so wanted him to say: because fezzes are cool! Of course he didn't.
The story of the death of Lee's goldfish and the pond made me laugh, it was so absurd, they were all shouting, and talking about fish :lol:
Peter Serafinowicz, Jason Manford, Ruth Jones, Professor Brian Cox, Stephen Mangan, Julian Clary, Miranda Hart, Mark Watson, Bernard Cribbins, Chris Addison were also on this series.
The stories I remember the most are: when Fern Britton left a job because she couldn't ride their bike, when Richard E. Grant showed us the music video he made as a dance version of the 'to be or not to be' monologue, when Jack Dee talks about his faulty system for remembering names, when Rob stole Catherine Zeta Jones dinner money, when Kevin Bridges accidentally bought a horse, when David told about his bedroom's door having no handle, when Ronnie Corbett was on the show!!, when Sarah Millican spent three hours on a bus for a day out, when the special guest was David's driver, when Rhod Gilbert had a job where he had to answer the phone 'hello beef', when we learn about Lee having one leg shorter than the other, when Patrick Kielty punched Mohammed Ali in the face, when Joanna Page wanted to learn her time tables, when we meet swimming instructor Mark, when we see David's special travel dressing gown, when Martin Clunes explained why he liked to change the order in which he puts on his socks and when Rob pretended to be his own agent using a different voice.
I'm thankful to David for the little explanation of "dispensed of, disposed with", hope I got it right :lol: David's lie about riding a train at a museum was hilarious. Before they showed Richard E. Grant's video, Martin Clunes looked at special guest Ken's hands and immediately said he was a record producer, but then he changed his mind, maybe didn't have the confidence to go with it (??) sounds strange, but anyway he should have, he was right! When Fern said to David "no wonder you're single" I was so annoyed, and then they didn't keep in the show what she was going to say after... It was funny when David could just think of the name of one women magazine and thought he deserved a medal for that. This series Hugh Dennis wasn't as believable as before, when he said he had to touch his nose whenever he says France, he didn't play it well. There's always a first, isn't there? :lol: Well, it wouldn't have been so very strange a thing, I mean I always touch my nose whenever I say something at the same time as someone else!
I could absolutely believe the story about a Andy Murray's rap after Rob sang it. He so sounded like he had heard it before! Rob's story about the biscuits was so wrong, but also so well told I was really confused, and believed it! There was Holly Walsh on one episode, and I didn't like her. She looks so pleased with herself anytime she makes a joke, as if it was something genius! Unless it generally isn't! There was also John Bishop on one episode, and I don't know what to think of him, he speaks in such a strange way, I can't even follow what he says.
When David and Rob started talking about Star Trek was great for me. I love Star Trek! Even more when being asked 'did you two have girlfriends?' Rob very calmly said No (or maybe Why?) and kept talking about it! :lol: Great!! Although I don't understand why there is always this thing that you could have one OR the other, not both. Why couldn't you like Star Trek and have a girlfriend? I would have liked to have someone liking it as I did!!
When Jack Dee told his (fake) story about proposing to his wife with a fez on, and he actually wore the hat to demonstrate how he looked, and then David asked why would he go for the fez, I so wanted him to say: because fezzes are cool! Of course he didn't.
The story of the death of Lee's goldfish and the pond made me laugh, it was so absurd, they were all shouting, and talking about fish :lol:
Peter Serafinowicz, Jason Manford, Ruth Jones, Professor Brian Cox, Stephen Mangan, Julian Clary, Miranda Hart, Mark Watson, Bernard Cribbins, Chris Addison were also on this series.
Would I lie to you? season 3 of the panel show with David Mitchell
I love this show. As was before, David Mitchell and Lee Mack are the team captains, but this time there's a new host: Rob Brydon! I'm very happy about it, he's so much better! Rob is a really good host, expecially for a show like this! He's perfect.
The stories I remember the best are: when Russell Howard used to put underpants on his head, when little Jo Brand dropped a baby in a pond, when Lee scared a hitchhiker so much that he cried, when Rob read from the true cockney version of the Bible, when Steven Mangan was in a band called Aragon, when Lee was not asked to leave Blackpool tower after he threw a sausage roll off the top, when David as a child at his grandparents' house had a little bell he would ring if he wanted anything, when Jamelia took a memento at George Michael's house, when Marcus Brigstocke was a podium dancer while working in an oil rig as in a real life flashdance :lol: , when Terry Christian was mistaken for a jewel thief, when Jack Whitehall was learning to wrestle, when Lee was learning how to juggle to please his 4 years old son, when Janet Street-Porter's friend licked Daniel Craig's plate, when David showed that the screensaver on his mobile phone is a photo of his living-room carpet and when David explained why he has a twitter account.
I liked David's lie about writing a tour guide of British castles, that was so believable :lol: Jo Brand showed a picture of when she was a little girl, and she was so pretty .-) David's lie that he once applied for work at MacDonald :-) I think David is very sweet :-) And this season he's also much thinner! It was lovely when he put Fern's teacozy on his head "feeling quite important" :lol
Reginald D. Hunter's lie that he had "Delicious" as a middle name was hilarious. It was really funny. I like Reginald D. Hunter, also when he said "I'm very suspicious of this story" I thought it was so funny. Must be the way he said it :lol: Fern Britton asked the audience about Ken Livingston breeding frogs: it was the first time they asked the audience. I wonder if anyone will do it again...
This series there was also Jimmy Carr pretending that he was called a funny-looking fellow by Prince Philip, and Frankie Boyle lied about being scared as a child that his life was a book being read by a bear: sadly it was a lie, but it was so nice an idea. Thumbs up to whoever came up with that story! There was Gabby Logan revealing that she always wears red underwear for good luck, which was a bit of a puzzle for me. She actually had to explain it to the others, and they acted like it was an unusual thing. Should I presume that in Britain there is no tradition of wearing red underwear on New Year's Eve either? For good luck of course. It's very traditional here. Around Christmas there's full of red underwear for sale. They even thought it was a lie! Then there was Charlie Booker revealing that he pretended he was partially deaf to his girlfriend for six years. Six years!! I don't know what to think of that! There was Jo Brand pretending that she told her children that every time they lie a puppy dies, and I think it tells something about Jo Brand's image the fact that they believed it! :lol: It would have been cruel, and I was happy to know it was a lie, because when she said it I didn't want to accept the idea, but me too had a doubt that she could do it :lol:
Carol Vorderman, Clive Anderson, Jason Manford, Miranda Hart, Claudia Winkleman, Davina McCall and Ronni Ancona were also among the guests this series.
The stories I remember the best are: when Russell Howard used to put underpants on his head, when little Jo Brand dropped a baby in a pond, when Lee scared a hitchhiker so much that he cried, when Rob read from the true cockney version of the Bible, when Steven Mangan was in a band called Aragon, when Lee was not asked to leave Blackpool tower after he threw a sausage roll off the top, when David as a child at his grandparents' house had a little bell he would ring if he wanted anything, when Jamelia took a memento at George Michael's house, when Marcus Brigstocke was a podium dancer while working in an oil rig as in a real life flashdance :lol: , when Terry Christian was mistaken for a jewel thief, when Jack Whitehall was learning to wrestle, when Lee was learning how to juggle to please his 4 years old son, when Janet Street-Porter's friend licked Daniel Craig's plate, when David showed that the screensaver on his mobile phone is a photo of his living-room carpet and when David explained why he has a twitter account.
I liked David's lie about writing a tour guide of British castles, that was so believable :lol: Jo Brand showed a picture of when she was a little girl, and she was so pretty .-) David's lie that he once applied for work at MacDonald :-) I think David is very sweet :-) And this season he's also much thinner! It was lovely when he put Fern's teacozy on his head "feeling quite important" :lol
Reginald D. Hunter's lie that he had "Delicious" as a middle name was hilarious. It was really funny. I like Reginald D. Hunter, also when he said "I'm very suspicious of this story" I thought it was so funny. Must be the way he said it :lol: Fern Britton asked the audience about Ken Livingston breeding frogs: it was the first time they asked the audience. I wonder if anyone will do it again...
This series there was also Jimmy Carr pretending that he was called a funny-looking fellow by Prince Philip, and Frankie Boyle lied about being scared as a child that his life was a book being read by a bear: sadly it was a lie, but it was so nice an idea. Thumbs up to whoever came up with that story! There was Gabby Logan revealing that she always wears red underwear for good luck, which was a bit of a puzzle for me. She actually had to explain it to the others, and they acted like it was an unusual thing. Should I presume that in Britain there is no tradition of wearing red underwear on New Year's Eve either? For good luck of course. It's very traditional here. Around Christmas there's full of red underwear for sale. They even thought it was a lie! Then there was Charlie Booker revealing that he pretended he was partially deaf to his girlfriend for six years. Six years!! I don't know what to think of that! There was Jo Brand pretending that she told her children that every time they lie a puppy dies, and I think it tells something about Jo Brand's image the fact that they believed it! :lol: It would have been cruel, and I was happy to know it was a lie, because when she said it I didn't want to accept the idea, but me too had a doubt that she could do it :lol:
Carol Vorderman, Clive Anderson, Jason Manford, Miranda Hart, Claudia Winkleman, Davina McCall and Ronni Ancona were also among the guests this series.
Would I lie to you? season 2 of the panel show with David Mitchell
I really like this show! Still with David Mitchell and Lee Mack as team captains. Good! This season my favourite stories were: when Gabby Logan stole Madonna's sweets, when David explained his alarm-clock system, when Lee was attacked by both the snake and the snake charmer in Marocco, when Olivia Colman pretended to be French to impress a guy, and also when David used to dress up as a little kid as a 18° century nobleman.
I liked Rob's story about working at the radio as two different people using different accents, and like they said, I would have liked it to be true, but of course it wasn't because it would have been silly. Nice how Rob Brydon kept complimenting Robert Webb a lot. We listen to David's view of Ann Widdecombe, whoever she might be. I loved to see David and Robert Webb together in this show, they are lovely together, they always make each other laugh.
They showed a bit of a quiz when a guy was supposed to be an expert on Jim Carrey and didn't even recognise the Truman Show, which might just be his most famous film! They also showed a clip from back when Elton John was married to a woman, and of course David did not believe that David Furnish has an Elton-tracker device to know where he is at any time. Personally I didn't see that as a difficult answer, of course not, David F. wouldn't do that!!
I still can't believe that David's first word was hoover. He said it's true, but ... I mean, hoover??
Davina McCall was very pretty with the blonde wig. Jason Manford misread his card and said he was an expert on Columbo instead of Columbia, and got interrogated by David :lol and all his questions were William Shatner's related :-) It was so funny when Lee advised him "if you're not telling the truth let me warn you, you're messing with the wrong man". In one episode there was Hugh Dennis, and I just believed everything he said, he was so convincing! Then there was Olivia Colman, and she looked really pretty!! David's story about having been a tour guide for a hat museum was clearly a lie, he just didn't know what to say. He also didn't know what to say, although for a complete different reason, other than a heartfelf "bloody hell", when he had to pretend he was writing a children book called "the lonely lighthouse" and someone said "Is it autobiographical?" which was very low, poor David, I so don't like the jokes about loneliness, sometimes it's like mocking someone because it's lonely, as if there's anything to laugh about in that! Well F*** you, now David is married and he's gonna live happily ever after because Victoria and him are a great couple! I wish them all the happiness! Then David showed us the only gift ever sent to him by a fan: some socks. He didn't like them very much. I think if I were to give David a gift, I'd choose one of those beautiful MontBlanc pens. Well, if I could afford it, that is :-/
I laughed when David shouted "you idiot!!" to Michael McIntyre for helping the opposing team. I have never heard of this Lauren Laverne before, but she wasn't very nice when she replied very sharply to David calling him "alright Cambridge boy", as if she couldn't accept jokes or criticism. What are you there for then?? Don't like her.
Frankie Boyle, Rich Hall, Dara O'Briain, Russell Howard, Peter Serafinowicz, Danny Baker, Vic Reeves, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson were also on this season, among other people I don't remember. Still not liking Vic Reeves, but he only did one episode.
I liked Rob's story about working at the radio as two different people using different accents, and like they said, I would have liked it to be true, but of course it wasn't because it would have been silly. Nice how Rob Brydon kept complimenting Robert Webb a lot. We listen to David's view of Ann Widdecombe, whoever she might be. I loved to see David and Robert Webb together in this show, they are lovely together, they always make each other laugh.
They showed a bit of a quiz when a guy was supposed to be an expert on Jim Carrey and didn't even recognise the Truman Show, which might just be his most famous film! They also showed a clip from back when Elton John was married to a woman, and of course David did not believe that David Furnish has an Elton-tracker device to know where he is at any time. Personally I didn't see that as a difficult answer, of course not, David F. wouldn't do that!!
I still can't believe that David's first word was hoover. He said it's true, but ... I mean, hoover??
Davina McCall was very pretty with the blonde wig. Jason Manford misread his card and said he was an expert on Columbo instead of Columbia, and got interrogated by David :lol and all his questions were William Shatner's related :-) It was so funny when Lee advised him "if you're not telling the truth let me warn you, you're messing with the wrong man". In one episode there was Hugh Dennis, and I just believed everything he said, he was so convincing! Then there was Olivia Colman, and she looked really pretty!! David's story about having been a tour guide for a hat museum was clearly a lie, he just didn't know what to say. He also didn't know what to say, although for a complete different reason, other than a heartfelf "bloody hell", when he had to pretend he was writing a children book called "the lonely lighthouse" and someone said "Is it autobiographical?" which was very low, poor David, I so don't like the jokes about loneliness, sometimes it's like mocking someone because it's lonely, as if there's anything to laugh about in that! Well F*** you, now David is married and he's gonna live happily ever after because Victoria and him are a great couple! I wish them all the happiness! Then David showed us the only gift ever sent to him by a fan: some socks. He didn't like them very much. I think if I were to give David a gift, I'd choose one of those beautiful MontBlanc pens. Well, if I could afford it, that is :-/
I laughed when David shouted "you idiot!!" to Michael McIntyre for helping the opposing team. I have never heard of this Lauren Laverne before, but she wasn't very nice when she replied very sharply to David calling him "alright Cambridge boy", as if she couldn't accept jokes or criticism. What are you there for then?? Don't like her.
Frankie Boyle, Rich Hall, Dara O'Briain, Russell Howard, Peter Serafinowicz, Danny Baker, Vic Reeves, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson were also on this season, among other people I don't remember. Still not liking Vic Reeves, but he only did one episode.
giovedì 12 giugno 2014
The illusionist - how Romeo & Juliet should have been
I like this film very much! Protagonist is Edward. As a boy he becomes fascinated with magic and starts practising every day. This causes him to be scorn by rich boys, but at the same time fascinates a girl, Sophie. They become friends, but unfortunately she's a duchess, so there's lots of people who won't allow her to choose her friends or her life. They are forced apart. She goes on being a duchess, and he goes away. 15 years later he reappears as a great illusionist, and he meets her again. And this time they are determined to stay together. Unfortunately, she's sort of engaged to the prince.
Edward Norton plays the illusionist, now calling himself Eisenheim. He's great, and really cool. I liked their love scene, when he suddenly kisses her, and then you understand they are loving each other, but you actually see nothing of them. Not really . I liked that. I think that nudity in films is almost always cheap and unnecessary. I say almost because it's unfair to be absolute about anything. There might be a case in which is necessary to the story, but it's so rare that right now no example comes to mind.
I liked also their conversation after that, when he told her of his wandering, and of how his heart could never forget her (aww), and since after 15 years she still wears the necklace he gave her with his picture, it's pretty clear the same applies to her. They want to be together, he asks her to run away with him, but she's afraid, she knows the prince will never let her, and here she says the most important line of the film. She says that 'as long as we are alive, he'll always come after us'. So he starts planning his greatest illusion. Which, to be fair, is never entirely explained to the viewers.
What they want everyone to believe: that they are planning to run away, but when she leaves the prince he is drunk, gets angry and stabs her with his sword. Then Eisenheim is heartbroken, stops performing for a while, but then starts again with a bunch of chinese workers. He puts on a new show, where he can summon the souls of dead people, apparently. First a young man, then a child, then of course, Sophie. All of this to gets the inspector curious about things, he starts believing that the prince really did kill her, and when he thinks he has the proof, he writes to the imperator. The prince then kills himself. Problem solved. Then at the end we have a scene much like in the usual suspect, when the detective understands everything. Here is inspector Uhl who finally understands that it was all a big illusion in order to free her. We see how she drugged the prince before staging her own murder, how then he gave her a potion or antidote so that she comes back to life, very much what should have happened in Romeo and Juliet had it really been about the love story.
So in the end we see them together, who knows where, living in a little wooden house, no more riches and jewels for her, but finally what she actually wanted. Him and happiness.
Hooray! Good! But they don't explain to us how he created the illusion of the ghosts, both on stage or walking down the theatre. People would try to touch them, and the hand would go through it as if it was a hologram. A really perfect illusion, so perfect that it was probably impossible to explain, so they didn't. But this time I'm not at all bothered by this, the important bit is that they showed how Sophie 'died'. After all, he's an illusionist, so it's right and proper that you don't know how they do it, it would take away the magic :-p It's coherent with the story, so it's okay.
Paul Giamatti is inspector Uhl. Jessica Biel is Sophie, and although I'm not a big fan I'll say she was right here. A good Sophie. But the big star is Edward Norton, great.
Edward Norton plays the illusionist, now calling himself Eisenheim. He's great, and really cool. I liked their love scene, when he suddenly kisses her, and then you understand they are loving each other, but you actually see nothing of them. Not really . I liked that. I think that nudity in films is almost always cheap and unnecessary. I say almost because it's unfair to be absolute about anything. There might be a case in which is necessary to the story, but it's so rare that right now no example comes to mind.
I liked also their conversation after that, when he told her of his wandering, and of how his heart could never forget her (aww), and since after 15 years she still wears the necklace he gave her with his picture, it's pretty clear the same applies to her. They want to be together, he asks her to run away with him, but she's afraid, she knows the prince will never let her, and here she says the most important line of the film. She says that 'as long as we are alive, he'll always come after us'. So he starts planning his greatest illusion. Which, to be fair, is never entirely explained to the viewers.
What they want everyone to believe: that they are planning to run away, but when she leaves the prince he is drunk, gets angry and stabs her with his sword. Then Eisenheim is heartbroken, stops performing for a while, but then starts again with a bunch of chinese workers. He puts on a new show, where he can summon the souls of dead people, apparently. First a young man, then a child, then of course, Sophie. All of this to gets the inspector curious about things, he starts believing that the prince really did kill her, and when he thinks he has the proof, he writes to the imperator. The prince then kills himself. Problem solved. Then at the end we have a scene much like in the usual suspect, when the detective understands everything. Here is inspector Uhl who finally understands that it was all a big illusion in order to free her. We see how she drugged the prince before staging her own murder, how then he gave her a potion or antidote so that she comes back to life, very much what should have happened in Romeo and Juliet had it really been about the love story.
So in the end we see them together, who knows where, living in a little wooden house, no more riches and jewels for her, but finally what she actually wanted. Him and happiness.
Hooray! Good! But they don't explain to us how he created the illusion of the ghosts, both on stage or walking down the theatre. People would try to touch them, and the hand would go through it as if it was a hologram. A really perfect illusion, so perfect that it was probably impossible to explain, so they didn't. But this time I'm not at all bothered by this, the important bit is that they showed how Sophie 'died'. After all, he's an illusionist, so it's right and proper that you don't know how they do it, it would take away the magic :-p It's coherent with the story, so it's okay.
Paul Giamatti is inspector Uhl. Jessica Biel is Sophie, and although I'm not a big fan I'll say she was right here. A good Sophie. But the big star is Edward Norton, great.
Madagascar - just for the penguins!
I liked the film, but only because of the penguins. The part with the penguins was really fantastic. As for the rest, the lion was a bit boring and the zebra is unbearable. Gloria the hippo is nice, though.
It would be really hard to watch it till the end if it wasn't for the penguins! Every single scene with them is genius and hilarious. "I want you to look cute and cuddly, private" is absolute genius. Even when others talk about them it's funny! Like when Martin the zebra says to Alex the lion that he wants to go to the wild, leaving the zoo, and that if the penguins are going, why shouldn't he? and Alex replies "the penguins are psychotic", which is the best descriptive line of the film.
There really isn't much more to say; I don't know if I'd watch it again. I mean, the zebra was so boring and annoying, but on the other hand I could cut myself all the scenes with the penguins and rewatch just that!!
It would be really hard to watch it till the end if it wasn't for the penguins! Every single scene with them is genius and hilarious. "I want you to look cute and cuddly, private" is absolute genius. Even when others talk about them it's funny! Like when Martin the zebra says to Alex the lion that he wants to go to the wild, leaving the zoo, and that if the penguins are going, why shouldn't he? and Alex replies "the penguins are psychotic", which is the best descriptive line of the film.
There really isn't much more to say; I don't know if I'd watch it again. I mean, the zebra was so boring and annoying, but on the other hand I could cut myself all the scenes with the penguins and rewatch just that!!
I also don't really like how they all treated Alex like he was a monster: as a lion, he's a carnivore, he needs meat, and he doesn't eat for days, poor thing.
A bit of plot just to be thorough:
Alex and Martin, with Melman the giraffe and Gloria, live in a zoo, happy and well cared for. Alex is the absolute star and he loves it. Martin is bored and dreams of a different life when the penguins tell him they are planning to escape and go to Antarctica, in the wild nature...
His friends are all horrified when he tells them, they think it's the worst idea , then that night Martin leaves and they worry, so they go after him. They all reach the Grand Central Station and reunite. An old lady beat Alex up, big comedy gag...
The police catch them, there's an uproar against zoos and they're shipped away, to send them back to 'where they belong': Africa.
The penguins don't agree with the destination (the two monkeys read it for them) and turn the ship... and the boxes fall off they're at sea until they land on a beach. Alex first, his box opens by itself, then he finds Melman and Gloria and Martin. Melman thinks they're in San Diego's zoo, but instead of people they find a whole lot of lemurs, grateful that Alex scared the fossa away.
Now the group understands they're in 'the wild'.
Alex goes crazy, he's mad at Martin.
Three of them can eat seaweed and stuff, but Alex can't.
Meanwhile, the penguins managed to reach Antarctica, which is just a lot of ice, and they think it sucks.
The lemurs bring the group to enjoy Madagascar, but none of them eat meat, and after two days of not eating , Alex is starting to see them all as steaks. So he leaves.
The others also learn the many dangers of the wild.
The penguins arrive and their first mission is to save Martin who went to talk to Alex.
Instead the group saves Martin from the fossa, then Alex scares the fossa away.
The penguins introduce Alex to fish and 'the cat' loves it, so problem solved (the fish don't matter, it seems).
The group of four board the ship thinking of going back to New York now, but the ship's out of fuel.
The penguins know but haven't told them, they're basking in the sun.
:-)
Witches abroad by Terry Pratchett - Discworld book n. 12
Amazing, fantastic, a must. It's genius!!! This book is so great, I'm always amazed at how incredible Terry Pratchett is at writing!
The story is simple. There's a problem in the distant city of Genua, and it'll be our witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick's duty to sort it out! Want to know more? There were two fairy godmothers, Desiderata and Lilith. Lilith wished for this girl in Genua to have beauty and power and marry a prince, and now she's changing a whole country just to make a story work! And Desiderata can see bits of the future, and knows that she has to send the three witches there.
This whole book is fantastic, so full of amazing lines that I'd like to tell you, but I'm afraid that could turn out to be too long.
made me laugh, and it does Pratchett honor that he didn't forget even a little bit like this, not central to the plot at all, and probably thought that with all those Glods around, we were bound sooner or later to meet a Glod ourselves, so one of the protagonist of the book "soul music" will be a Glod!
They were: never trust a dog with orange eyebrows, always get the young man's name and address, never get between two mirrors, and always wear completely clean underwear every day because you never knew when you were going to be knocked down and killed by a runaway horse and if people found you had unsatisfactory underwear on, you'd die of shame. And then Desiderata grew up to become a witch. And one of the minor benefits of being a witch is that you know exactly when you're going to die and can wear what underwear you like. Which explains a lot about witches.> it actually does, and it's the reason why I love Discworld witches so much!!!
The story is simple. There's a problem in the distant city of Genua, and it'll be our witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick's duty to sort it out! Want to know more? There were two fairy godmothers, Desiderata and Lilith. Lilith wished for this girl in Genua to have beauty and power and marry a prince, and now she's changing a whole country just to make a story work! And Desiderata can see bits of the future, and knows that she has to send the three witches there.
This whole book is fantastic, so full of amazing lines that I'd like to tell you, but I'm afraid that could turn out to be too long.
The last continent - Discworld book n. 22 - this is not a book about Australia, apparently...
As Terry Pratchett himself writes, "Discworld is a world and a mirror of worlds. This is not a book about Australia. No, it's about somewhere entirely different which just happens to be, here and there, a bit ... australian."
:lol: In this book we have Rincewind who will have to save the day, although with all the trouble with time wizards have been doing, I'm not exactly sure if he's saving the world, a continent, the future or the past... anyway, being the professional coward that he is, he'll need a bit of help to do it. And with just the right amount of the local beer and suddenly he can do it all! Mind you, he would also eat Fair Go Dibbler's pies...
The rest of the wizards would like to cure the Librarian who definitely and literally isn't being himself lately, changing as he is from a sofa to a book to whatever.
Of course when the wizards are involved, is often the case that they'll make more trouble than else. It goes like this: the librarian is ill, they want to cure him, the only cure they find requires the Librarian's name, noone of them knows aforesaid name, the Librarian won't reveal it, maybe Rincewind knows it, they need to find Rincewind, ops Rincewind is in EcksEcksEcksEcks, nobody knows where that is, they plan to ask the Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography, he's not found but outside of his bathroom's windows they see a tropical beach and they go there, which is thousands of years back in time, where a sort of insane God of Evolution is experimenting.
Then it gets a bit... I mean, as far as I understood it, they travelled by boat and sort of shipwrecked on an island, or better, the Last Continent, which was still being done, and since they wouldn't let this God do his job, he trapped them in the rocks, sort of, by drawing their shape on a rock. In the present, Rincewind is about to save Fourecks, willingly or not! Water is running out and it never rains, but with the help of the local wizards and some local beer he sorts things out, bringing back to now the wizards we know and ultimately making it rain.
Now, I admit I only got it the second time I read it. Actually it was only 20 pages after, but I had forgotten about it. The Librarian had picked up an oval piece of wood and had kept it, after waving it a bit and thus stopping the rain. Then when they were trapped, the thing was trapped with them, so it rained no more. Now that they're back, it's back too, and by chance Rincewind finds it and makes it raining again.
Another great, interesting book. Rincewind as the absolute protagonist, and lots of wizards all around. Not my favourite book, compared to all the amazing others Pratchett has written, still a good one. Not my favourite because even if I like Rincewind, he can get a bit boring sometimes, and also I don't like gods, they're often boring.
The Luggage of course makes a small apparition, also called Trunkie by the "ladies" that found it. Death is seen too, although Rincewind is never very happy to see him.
:lol: In this book we have Rincewind who will have to save the day, although with all the trouble with time wizards have been doing, I'm not exactly sure if he's saving the world, a continent, the future or the past... anyway, being the professional coward that he is, he'll need a bit of help to do it. And with just the right amount of the local beer and suddenly he can do it all! Mind you, he would also eat Fair Go Dibbler's pies...
The rest of the wizards would like to cure the Librarian who definitely and literally isn't being himself lately, changing as he is from a sofa to a book to whatever.
Of course when the wizards are involved, is often the case that they'll make more trouble than else. It goes like this: the librarian is ill, they want to cure him, the only cure they find requires the Librarian's name, noone of them knows aforesaid name, the Librarian won't reveal it, maybe Rincewind knows it, they need to find Rincewind, ops Rincewind is in EcksEcksEcksEcks, nobody knows where that is, they plan to ask the Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography, he's not found but outside of his bathroom's windows they see a tropical beach and they go there, which is thousands of years back in time, where a sort of insane God of Evolution is experimenting.
Then it gets a bit... I mean, as far as I understood it, they travelled by boat and sort of shipwrecked on an island, or better, the Last Continent, which was still being done, and since they wouldn't let this God do his job, he trapped them in the rocks, sort of, by drawing their shape on a rock. In the present, Rincewind is about to save Fourecks, willingly or not! Water is running out and it never rains, but with the help of the local wizards and some local beer he sorts things out, bringing back to now the wizards we know and ultimately making it rain.
Now, I admit I only got it the second time I read it. Actually it was only 20 pages after, but I had forgotten about it. The Librarian had picked up an oval piece of wood and had kept it, after waving it a bit and thus stopping the rain. Then when they were trapped, the thing was trapped with them, so it rained no more. Now that they're back, it's back too, and by chance Rincewind finds it and makes it raining again.
Another great, interesting book. Rincewind as the absolute protagonist, and lots of wizards all around. Not my favourite book, compared to all the amazing others Pratchett has written, still a good one. Not my favourite because even if I like Rincewind, he can get a bit boring sometimes, and also I don't like gods, they're often boring.
The Luggage of course makes a small apparition, also called Trunkie by the "ladies" that found it. Death is seen too, although Rincewind is never very happy to see him.
Would I lie to you? season 1 of the panel show game with David Mitchell. I love it.
It might even be my favourite show, although I can't say that because there's lots of British shows I've never seen. Anyway, I love this one, not only because there's David Mitchell, although that alone is a good reason, but also because of the rules. 6 people has to read in turn a fact written on a card, and try and convince the opposing team that it's the truth; then they'll have to guess if it is really true or just a lie. It's very funny! Usually those things depends mostly on the guests of the episodes, but having David Mitchell as a team captain each episode makes sure it'll be fun anyway.
In this first series my favourite bits were: the 'saving money by not buying new paper clips' story, which was laughed at but I think is quite sensible actually. Buying new ones would be a waste, when there are already so many. What should they do, throw away all the old ones that comes in with the documents, and buy new ones?? Then there was Lee Mack pretending the guest Mark was paid to operate his ipod, and David was hilarious here :lol: "if it's true than you're not the man I thought you were Lee, and that's the price you'll pay for this petty victory" :lol: of course it was a lie.
David saying to Frankie Boyle "you don't know, you just wanna murder her" was very funny, but I don't remember who were they talking about, maybe because I don't know her, or maybe because I don't care about her. His "I don't know but that's the game" made me laugh too, although I admit that reading it doesn't seem very funny, but when he said it it was. The story about David "writing to BBC at the age of 5 suggesting how to end their union conflict" was both funny and adorable. "I was a formal little thing" awww of course this was true :-) We find out that Frankie Boyle is allergic to coins, that David did not faint while watching Kill Bill ( "I have seen Kill Bill, I just managed to stay conscious throughout it"), but that he did have to talk his way out of a fight when he was 23 (" he was alone and there were three of you" " yes but out of the three, one was a girl and one was me :lol: and the woman Ulrika something that thought she had sorted him all out, and she was completely wrong!); also that Jimmy Carr lost his virginity at the age of 26 because before that he was very religious, and to think that now he never loses a chance to say there is no God... ,
Then I heard David talk about Anne Robinson, and I have no idea who she is, but David had no reserve :lol: he said "that bitch is a recognised arsehole" but I have no idea on the matter, not knowing her.
When John Barrowman shouted " I volunteer" to help Patrick McGuinness demonstrate that he can wrestle was fun ( "how would you like me? :lol: I love John Barrowman) but I think the joke "he was a ear-sniffer, I was a rear-sniffer" wasn't all that fun. He goes out of control sometimes :lol: but it doesn't matter, because he's great and lovely, and I like him (I like him more than I like his characters, in fact. I didn't much like Captain Jack in Torchwood, mostly because I felt that he was treating Ianto unfairly and I wanted to shout at him to send Gwen home to her man and stop playing with my Ianto's feelings!).
I wish they'd make good dvds of these shows, with all the episodes ( I don't like Best of compilations and such like) and also subtitles, because there was a moment when John almost choke while drinking because of a joke, and I don't know what the joke was, can't understand it. I understood everything else very well, but sometimes little things escapes me.
The story of that woman collecting and eating her husband's bellybutton fluff was a bit creepy honestly. Euch. Dara O'Briain was on the show, angry because just because he's Irish people apparently think he must know Bono and every other Irishman on Earth, but I'm not very fond of him, for two reasons. The first is that I can understand about half of what he says, and I don't know why. It's not because he's Irish, I mean Ed Byrne is Irish if I'm not mistaken, but I understands him perfectly. It must be the way he speaks. Second reason is that loud sound "Err" he always makes after he's done a joke, as if giving people time to laugh. I found it so irritating, I wish he'd stop doing that, I'd like him more.
The story about "a builder called Bob came to my house" was not at all strange, it might very well happen, but it's unbelievable that they thought it true after it was added that "the builder turned up for work dressed as Bob the builder for a joke"! Come on, please. Maybe in a pub it would be a joke, at work it'd just be stupid.
David struggling to come up with a 5-point plan to survive in prison was really hard, I mean it was even hard to watch. David used to proofread dictionaries for a living was true (you're saying I look like a man who's gone to the depth of tedium and not come back? Well that's because I am. aww no, don't say that!!), but Vic Reeves present in that episode was annoying. I don't like Vic Reeves, I just don't find him funny. At all.
That guest who was Wendy's hairdresser apparently caused some laughter in the studio, I don't know why. I suppose he only does other people's hair, not his own.
This season there was David's first mention of W.S. "You know, William Shatner can't really fly a starship", and thankfully Lee didn't believe he had a poster of Margareth Thatcher on his wall. Sometimes people on this show believe any strange story concerning David. Come on! I laughed a lot when Lee Mack called Tara Palmer-Tomlinson "you spoiled bitch" because she said her father had the clouds removed from the sky from her 21st birthday, and "all the sky was blue,just to match my dress", and she laughed. That would never be possible here. Later he said "let me rephrase that: what a wonderful idea, well done for being so wealthy" "you want to marry me now!" "you are without irony the most frightening person I've ever met" :lol: She also told the story of when she accidentally ate a diamond, and probably other stories I don't remember. She's from another world, I can't relate to her in any way, but in an odd, frightening way she's sort of funny. Not sure if she plans to be or not, but I laughed a lot in this episode.
I liked when Claudia Winkleman said to David "Genius, I'm sitting next to Quincy", although that time he was actually wrong, and I couldn't understand how they thought it strange that the diamond was in the pudding. It's so strange to them? Never seen a movie when to make a surprise a character secretly asks the restaurant to put a ring into something???
In this first series my favourite bits were: the 'saving money by not buying new paper clips' story, which was laughed at but I think is quite sensible actually. Buying new ones would be a waste, when there are already so many. What should they do, throw away all the old ones that comes in with the documents, and buy new ones?? Then there was Lee Mack pretending the guest Mark was paid to operate his ipod, and David was hilarious here :lol: "if it's true than you're not the man I thought you were Lee, and that's the price you'll pay for this petty victory" :lol: of course it was a lie.
David saying to Frankie Boyle "you don't know, you just wanna murder her" was very funny, but I don't remember who were they talking about, maybe because I don't know her, or maybe because I don't care about her. His "I don't know but that's the game" made me laugh too, although I admit that reading it doesn't seem very funny, but when he said it it was. The story about David "writing to BBC at the age of 5 suggesting how to end their union conflict" was both funny and adorable. "I was a formal little thing" awww of course this was true :-) We find out that Frankie Boyle is allergic to coins, that David did not faint while watching Kill Bill ( "I have seen Kill Bill, I just managed to stay conscious throughout it"), but that he did have to talk his way out of a fight when he was 23 (" he was alone and there were three of you" " yes but out of the three, one was a girl and one was me :lol: and the woman Ulrika something that thought she had sorted him all out, and she was completely wrong!); also that Jimmy Carr lost his virginity at the age of 26 because before that he was very religious, and to think that now he never loses a chance to say there is no God... ,
Then I heard David talk about Anne Robinson, and I have no idea who she is, but David had no reserve :lol: he said "that bitch is a recognised arsehole" but I have no idea on the matter, not knowing her.
When John Barrowman shouted " I volunteer" to help Patrick McGuinness demonstrate that he can wrestle was fun ( "how would you like me? :lol: I love John Barrowman) but I think the joke "he was a ear-sniffer, I was a rear-sniffer" wasn't all that fun. He goes out of control sometimes :lol: but it doesn't matter, because he's great and lovely, and I like him (I like him more than I like his characters, in fact. I didn't much like Captain Jack in Torchwood, mostly because I felt that he was treating Ianto unfairly and I wanted to shout at him to send Gwen home to her man and stop playing with my Ianto's feelings!).
I wish they'd make good dvds of these shows, with all the episodes ( I don't like Best of compilations and such like) and also subtitles, because there was a moment when John almost choke while drinking because of a joke, and I don't know what the joke was, can't understand it. I understood everything else very well, but sometimes little things escapes me.
The story of that woman collecting and eating her husband's bellybutton fluff was a bit creepy honestly. Euch. Dara O'Briain was on the show, angry because just because he's Irish people apparently think he must know Bono and every other Irishman on Earth, but I'm not very fond of him, for two reasons. The first is that I can understand about half of what he says, and I don't know why. It's not because he's Irish, I mean Ed Byrne is Irish if I'm not mistaken, but I understands him perfectly. It must be the way he speaks. Second reason is that loud sound "Err" he always makes after he's done a joke, as if giving people time to laugh. I found it so irritating, I wish he'd stop doing that, I'd like him more.
The story about "a builder called Bob came to my house" was not at all strange, it might very well happen, but it's unbelievable that they thought it true after it was added that "the builder turned up for work dressed as Bob the builder for a joke"! Come on, please. Maybe in a pub it would be a joke, at work it'd just be stupid.
David struggling to come up with a 5-point plan to survive in prison was really hard, I mean it was even hard to watch. David used to proofread dictionaries for a living was true (you're saying I look like a man who's gone to the depth of tedium and not come back? Well that's because I am. aww no, don't say that!!), but Vic Reeves present in that episode was annoying. I don't like Vic Reeves, I just don't find him funny. At all.
That guest who was Wendy's hairdresser apparently caused some laughter in the studio, I don't know why. I suppose he only does other people's hair, not his own.
This season there was David's first mention of W.S. "You know, William Shatner can't really fly a starship", and thankfully Lee didn't believe he had a poster of Margareth Thatcher on his wall. Sometimes people on this show believe any strange story concerning David. Come on! I laughed a lot when Lee Mack called Tara Palmer-Tomlinson "you spoiled bitch" because she said her father had the clouds removed from the sky from her 21st birthday, and "all the sky was blue,just to match my dress", and she laughed. That would never be possible here. Later he said "let me rephrase that: what a wonderful idea, well done for being so wealthy" "you want to marry me now!" "you are without irony the most frightening person I've ever met" :lol: She also told the story of when she accidentally ate a diamond, and probably other stories I don't remember. She's from another world, I can't relate to her in any way, but in an odd, frightening way she's sort of funny. Not sure if she plans to be or not, but I laughed a lot in this episode.
I liked when Claudia Winkleman said to David "Genius, I'm sitting next to Quincy", although that time he was actually wrong, and I couldn't understand how they thought it strange that the diamond was in the pudding. It's so strange to them? Never seen a movie when to make a surprise a character secretly asks the restaurant to put a ring into something???
domenica 8 giugno 2014
Bewitched - the new one with Nicole Kidman
This is not the remake of the Bewitched old series, actually it tells the story of real witch Isabel Bigelow who meets by chance actor Jack Wyatt and gets offered the role of Samantha in their remake of it. So it's Nicole Kidman playing witch Isabel who plays Samantha. Not that great effort in terms of acting, because it's 2005 and she was already all concentrated on being pretty oh so pretty and didn't have time to think of acting too.
I must add though that she was the right choice for the role because she does move the nose the right way, Samantha's characteristic thing, and Kidman does it really well and very prettily. It's not a small thing because it's important to the role and it's not at all as easy as it looks when they do it.
Still, a pleasant film, altogether. Fans of Will Ferrell might like it more than me, since I'm kind of impartial towards him. The long scene when they are happy together, all dancing and whatnot was actually boring to me, not romantic, but she was undoubtedly very pretty.
Isabel's character is kind of nice, but can be annoying if you stop to think that she keeps telling her father that she wants to give up magic for a normal life, to find a love that is true instead of getting everything you want by magic as he does, and yet she keeps using magic for anything. She needs a house:magic. A car?Magic. Money?Magic. It's addictive, we get it.
Jack's character is so egocentric, but that's right, he's an actor. Without knowing still the plot of the film, as soon as I saw him and he said How do I look? I thought, you're an actor, aren't you?
Michael Caine plays Isabel's father, and I have no remarks here because he's his old self as always, perfect and lovely.
Shirley MacLaine plays the part of an actress who plays Endora (Samantha's mother) and in secret is a real witch. I really like Shirley MacLaine, and although this certainly isn't her best role, it's still nice.
The story is all there really. Isabel wants to find a real love, she wants a man that really needs her. When Jack sees her by chance moving her nose like Samantha did, he tells her that he needs her, meaning that without her that might not be a movie at all. She gets the part and the audience likes her a lot. Not so much Jack.. which is a good thing because he was so egocentric he was making it all about himself, while bewitched should be primarily about her. She falls in love, puts a spell on him but then of course she's upset because she doesn't know if what he says is true or not so she reverses it. Of course in the end he falls in love too and the show is a success. She thinks: he loves me, so she tells him her secret, that she's a witch, and he's all freaked out he tries to shoo her away with a broom. She's upset and leaves, but then he's so miserable without her that he goes after her and it's happy ending of course.
Honestly the one between Caine's and MacLaine's characters was the nicest romance, and the funniest too. He's something of a playboy, and goes after every woman, her included, but after that she starts secretly doing magic to avert his attention from other women so that he's all concentrated on her :lol:
It's one of those films that will never be my first choice, but still I could rewatch without too much effort. It's nice, easy, light... and there's no denying of course, she does look really pretty.
I must add though that she was the right choice for the role because she does move the nose the right way, Samantha's characteristic thing, and Kidman does it really well and very prettily. It's not a small thing because it's important to the role and it's not at all as easy as it looks when they do it.
Still, a pleasant film, altogether. Fans of Will Ferrell might like it more than me, since I'm kind of impartial towards him. The long scene when they are happy together, all dancing and whatnot was actually boring to me, not romantic, but she was undoubtedly very pretty.
Isabel's character is kind of nice, but can be annoying if you stop to think that she keeps telling her father that she wants to give up magic for a normal life, to find a love that is true instead of getting everything you want by magic as he does, and yet she keeps using magic for anything. She needs a house:magic. A car?Magic. Money?Magic. It's addictive, we get it.
Jack's character is so egocentric, but that's right, he's an actor. Without knowing still the plot of the film, as soon as I saw him and he said How do I look? I thought, you're an actor, aren't you?
Michael Caine plays Isabel's father, and I have no remarks here because he's his old self as always, perfect and lovely.
Shirley MacLaine plays the part of an actress who plays Endora (Samantha's mother) and in secret is a real witch. I really like Shirley MacLaine, and although this certainly isn't her best role, it's still nice.
The story is all there really. Isabel wants to find a real love, she wants a man that really needs her. When Jack sees her by chance moving her nose like Samantha did, he tells her that he needs her, meaning that without her that might not be a movie at all. She gets the part and the audience likes her a lot. Not so much Jack.. which is a good thing because he was so egocentric he was making it all about himself, while bewitched should be primarily about her. She falls in love, puts a spell on him but then of course she's upset because she doesn't know if what he says is true or not so she reverses it. Of course in the end he falls in love too and the show is a success. She thinks: he loves me, so she tells him her secret, that she's a witch, and he's all freaked out he tries to shoo her away with a broom. She's upset and leaves, but then he's so miserable without her that he goes after her and it's happy ending of course.
Honestly the one between Caine's and MacLaine's characters was the nicest romance, and the funniest too. He's something of a playboy, and goes after every woman, her included, but after that she starts secretly doing magic to avert his attention from other women so that he's all concentrated on her :lol:
It's one of those films that will never be my first choice, but still I could rewatch without too much effort. It's nice, easy, light... and there's no denying of course, she does look really pretty.
Man of steel - the 2013 movie with Henry Cavill
It's not bad, I liked it enough, but not totally. The beginning was cool, with Russell Crowe as Jor-El and the beautiful Ayelet Zurer as his wife. He fights with Zod to give her the time to send away their son Kal-El, being convinced as they are that their planet is doomed, and about to end. Zod and his followers are imprisoned in the Phantom Zone, thus being saved, as it turns out, because short after the planet Krypton explodes and they all die.
A scene I didn't like was when Zod was sentenced to prison, and they ask if he has anything to say and then there is a moment of stillness and silence, then Zod launches himself forward shouting "you won't kill us yourself" - nothing wrong with the theory of the scene, but why that pause? He should have reacted more promptly, I think. Well I don't know, but I would have liked it better.
Kal-El on Earth is raised by Jonathan Kent aka Kevin Costner and his wife Martha, Diane Lane who give him the name of Clark. It's difficult for the child to adapt because of his powers that he doesn't understand, but with the love and help of his mum all goes well. Unfortunately he grows up knowing he's different from anybody else, and obeying his father who keep telling him his powers must remain a secret at all cost. To the point that he will refuse Clark's help and die in a tornado in quite a cool scene, I admit, but nevertheless a bit absurd. Couldn't help thinking that he could save him and go away, keeping the secret. Maybe pretending to everyone else to have died saving his father.He should have gone away a bit sooner maybe,but his dad would be alive. I know what I would have done having his powers! Instead he stays where he is, watching him disappear. Personally I'm not bothered by the fact that he went back to save the dog, poor terrorized thing, how could you let him die without trying? The point is, he should have let Clark do it. But let's move on. Clark is seen many times saving people, but now that he's away from home anytime anyone sees him doing something extraordinary, he vanishes and changes identity in another place. Gosh, the scene when he comes out of the water, he has no shirt, the trousers are all broken, and if only his skin was a little more greeny I was about to shout Hulk!!! He's quite big, isn't he? Doesn't seem so much when he has a tshirt on.
Clark meets Lois Lane aka Amy Adams at the Artic, both there to investigate a misterious ship, actually a Kryptonian ship. She gets immediately in danger and he has to save her, and then disappear again. I must say her first entry wasn't too nice, when she played tough with the colonel, saying something like 'now if we have finished comparing dicks we can move on', something on that tone, and I was rolling my eyes. Is that necessary? Is that the only way a girl can work among men??
Then a spaceship arrives and Zod threatens to annihilate the Earth if they don't give him our superman. On tv, a guy says He steps forward, and goes with them, along with Lois. On the ship, Lois uses Clark's key and the "software"/spirit of dad Jor-El helps her and Clark escape. (How cool was that, my favourite scene). Then of course he rescues Lois, engages a big big battle with all the bad guys, and when it appears he has won he stops among the ruins and kisses her, because obviously that's the better moment! *rolling eyes again* But Zod is still there, and they keep fighting, turning to ruins a lot of buildings, moving a lot further from where they started, and yet when it's over and Clark is sadly forced to kill him, Lois is already there ready to hug him! How did she do that, if the roads were covered in ruins, no cars anywhere, they were flying, and yet she was inside the same building ready to run to hug him... If anyone has a plausible explanation, other that "it was a cool scene, the kind of scene Americans always like, and that's it", please tell me, because to me it's just stupid.
When he learned to fly it was the most boring moment. We already know how special effects can be amazing these days, no need to see him flying for so long!!
Lawrence Fishburne is Perry White, the head of the Daily Planet.
A scene I didn't like was when Zod was sentenced to prison, and they ask if he has anything to say and then there is a moment of stillness and silence, then Zod launches himself forward shouting "you won't kill us yourself" - nothing wrong with the theory of the scene, but why that pause? He should have reacted more promptly, I think. Well I don't know, but I would have liked it better.
Kal-El on Earth is raised by Jonathan Kent aka Kevin Costner and his wife Martha, Diane Lane who give him the name of Clark. It's difficult for the child to adapt because of his powers that he doesn't understand, but with the love and help of his mum all goes well. Unfortunately he grows up knowing he's different from anybody else, and obeying his father who keep telling him his powers must remain a secret at all cost. To the point that he will refuse Clark's help and die in a tornado in quite a cool scene, I admit, but nevertheless a bit absurd. Couldn't help thinking that he could save him and go away, keeping the secret. Maybe pretending to everyone else to have died saving his father.He should have gone away a bit sooner maybe,but his dad would be alive. I know what I would have done having his powers! Instead he stays where he is, watching him disappear. Personally I'm not bothered by the fact that he went back to save the dog, poor terrorized thing, how could you let him die without trying? The point is, he should have let Clark do it. But let's move on. Clark is seen many times saving people, but now that he's away from home anytime anyone sees him doing something extraordinary, he vanishes and changes identity in another place. Gosh, the scene when he comes out of the water, he has no shirt, the trousers are all broken, and if only his skin was a little more greeny I was about to shout Hulk!!! He's quite big, isn't he? Doesn't seem so much when he has a tshirt on.
Clark meets Lois Lane aka Amy Adams at the Artic, both there to investigate a misterious ship, actually a Kryptonian ship. She gets immediately in danger and he has to save her, and then disappear again. I must say her first entry wasn't too nice, when she played tough with the colonel, saying something like 'now if we have finished comparing dicks we can move on', something on that tone, and I was rolling my eyes. Is that necessary? Is that the only way a girl can work among men??
Then a spaceship arrives and Zod threatens to annihilate the Earth if they don't give him our superman. On tv, a guy says He steps forward, and goes with them, along with Lois. On the ship, Lois uses Clark's key and the "software"/spirit of dad Jor-El helps her and Clark escape. (How cool was that, my favourite scene). Then of course he rescues Lois, engages a big big battle with all the bad guys, and when it appears he has won he stops among the ruins and kisses her, because obviously that's the better moment! *rolling eyes again* But Zod is still there, and they keep fighting, turning to ruins a lot of buildings, moving a lot further from where they started, and yet when it's over and Clark is sadly forced to kill him, Lois is already there ready to hug him! How did she do that, if the roads were covered in ruins, no cars anywhere, they were flying, and yet she was inside the same building ready to run to hug him... If anyone has a plausible explanation, other that "it was a cool scene, the kind of scene Americans always like, and that's it", please tell me, because to me it's just stupid.
When he learned to fly it was the most boring moment. We already know how special effects can be amazing these days, no need to see him flying for so long!!
Lawrence Fishburne is Perry White, the head of the Daily Planet.
Freelancers - a b-movie with De Niro
Very recent, 2012, but it seems like late 80s. Three young men become policemen, and soon find out that it's not the world they thought it was. Protagonist Jonas Maldonado or "Malo" is played by Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, and is talked by Captain Joe Sarcone into following his dead father's steps, and willingly enters this world of corrupted cops, violent, drugged, ruthless cops who actually work for mob boss Baez. He seems to be taking a liking to that new life of easy money and power, but then he's told that his father was murdered by Sarcone himself, because Maldonado was giving evidence against him to the District Attorney's office, and only then he starts thinking "gosh that dirty violent corrupted cop doesn't think of me as a son, as he says, he's not a decent fellow who wants to help me! He's a liar!" and he actually seems surprised...
... I know, right?!? So he's really pissed off and decides to "really" follow his father's steps, even in the 'betraying-Sarcone"part. So it starts the game. He steals money from the mob, kills his sort-of-girlfriend's working-with-the-mob brother, and lets Sarcone think that it was done by his right hand man Lureau, played by Forest Whitaker, a violent cop who kills in order to steal, not caring at all if the murdered is innocent. Then he tell mob boss Baez that it was done by Sarcone! They all believe him! So in the end he ends up with Sarcone and Lureau dead, the trust of the mob boss, and the trust of the District attorney, who asks him not to take Sarcone's place working for Baez, but to work for him instead. Jonas doesn't seem happy at the idea of working for the right side of the law, oddly enough what with him still being a policeman, so he's offered to work for the DA as a freelancer. Hence the title. AND, he isn't sure till the end, so we don't actually know if he'll choose to work only for the good guys, or take the side job paid by the mob.
What we know is that the girl still loves him very much, despite the fact that he killed her brother, but ok maybe she doesn't know this, okay okay, then what about his friend? When Baez wanted to be sure of his loyalty, he did to him what he did to Sarcone years before: back then he told Sarcone to kill Maldonado who was his friend and partner, now he abducted Malo's friend and the girl and told him to kill one of them, there and then. They didn't show us his choice, as if we couldn't guess by ourselves who would he choose between a guy out of his mind and sort of dangerous, and a nice girl crazy about him. Point is, he shot him right in front of her. Better him than me, she'll think, and now it's all forgotten and all that matters is the fact that he told her he loves her and she's done forever..
By the way, he killed his friend like Sarcone did. He was kind of enjoying that corrupted life. He's not that better, we're not sure if he's even a bit better, because it's not sure that he won't work for Baez. He had told Baez before, that he would.Conclusion, my personal opinion is that the end was shit and that they ruined a little chance they had of doing a good b-movie instead of ... this. For a moment it seemed cool when he was playing on so many fields, 'working for the DA' but also lying to Lureau, then lying to Sarcone, then lying to Baez. But that ending ruined it.
... I know, right?!? So he's really pissed off and decides to "really" follow his father's steps, even in the 'betraying-Sarcone"part. So it starts the game. He steals money from the mob, kills his sort-of-girlfriend's working-with-the-mob brother, and lets Sarcone think that it was done by his right hand man Lureau, played by Forest Whitaker, a violent cop who kills in order to steal, not caring at all if the murdered is innocent. Then he tell mob boss Baez that it was done by Sarcone! They all believe him! So in the end he ends up with Sarcone and Lureau dead, the trust of the mob boss, and the trust of the District attorney, who asks him not to take Sarcone's place working for Baez, but to work for him instead. Jonas doesn't seem happy at the idea of working for the right side of the law, oddly enough what with him still being a policeman, so he's offered to work for the DA as a freelancer. Hence the title. AND, he isn't sure till the end, so we don't actually know if he'll choose to work only for the good guys, or take the side job paid by the mob.
What we know is that the girl still loves him very much, despite the fact that he killed her brother, but ok maybe she doesn't know this, okay okay, then what about his friend? When Baez wanted to be sure of his loyalty, he did to him what he did to Sarcone years before: back then he told Sarcone to kill Maldonado who was his friend and partner, now he abducted Malo's friend and the girl and told him to kill one of them, there and then. They didn't show us his choice, as if we couldn't guess by ourselves who would he choose between a guy out of his mind and sort of dangerous, and a nice girl crazy about him. Point is, he shot him right in front of her. Better him than me, she'll think, and now it's all forgotten and all that matters is the fact that he told her he loves her and she's done forever..
By the way, he killed his friend like Sarcone did. He was kind of enjoying that corrupted life. He's not that better, we're not sure if he's even a bit better, because it's not sure that he won't work for Baez. He had told Baez before, that he would.Conclusion, my personal opinion is that the end was shit and that they ruined a little chance they had of doing a good b-movie instead of ... this. For a moment it seemed cool when he was playing on so many fields, 'working for the DA' but also lying to Lureau, then lying to Sarcone, then lying to Baez. But that ending ruined it.
lunedì 2 giugno 2014
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - important cast, but boring nontheless
Apparently it had a great success. I never read the book by John Le Carré, so didn't know a thing. I'm sure the problem was all mine, I mean there were a lot of characters, a lot of faces, and really a lot of names!! Both English and Russians. I spent a lot of time simply trying to work out who was who, and who were they talking about. Otherwise the plot is interesting, and the cast too. Gary Oldman is the protagonist, working with Benedict Cumberbatch (with a blonde hairdo). There is also John Hurt, yes indeed, and then there's Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, Mark Strong, David Dencik, Toby Jones, Simon McBurney, Kathy Burke.
The plot in few words is: the British secret services have a spy working for the Russians, and George Smiley aka Goldman tries to work out who that is.
This is probably the only movie about the British secret service I've seen that is not a Bond movie - meaning there is no M, there is Control instead, which was kind of fun because it remind me of "A bit of Fry and Laurie" and their hilarious sketches :lol:
Anyway, whatever the reason, this is not for me.
The plot in few words is: the British secret services have a spy working for the Russians, and George Smiley aka Goldman tries to work out who that is.
This is probably the only movie about the British secret service I've seen that is not a Bond movie - meaning there is no M, there is Control instead, which was kind of fun because it remind me of "A bit of Fry and Laurie" and their hilarious sketches :lol:
Anyway, whatever the reason, this is not for me.
Set up - absolutely pointless
Nothing to it, really. I watched the whole thing to be able to form a full opinion, but it didn't get better, it got worse. 50 Cent Jackson plays Sonny, the protagonist. He has two friends: Dave and Vince. Vince has a father in prison, Dave has a nice wife. The three of them are criminals, and together they steal diamonds for five million dollars, but instead of splitting the money Vince shoots both. Dave dies, Sonny doesn't, and this is already a plot hole, since we had just seen him shoot another man, a simple shot right in the head. Now all of a sudden he fails to kill Sonny. But let's go on. A hitman instead of killing Sonny and going after Vince to retrieve the diamonds, asks Sonny to find Vince and give them back! Absurd? Yeah. Sonny goes around telling all the tough criminals he finds to tell Vince he's looking for him. Good move, man! Really clever!
Not surprising that the mob boss (played by Bruce Willis) gets angry, so Sonny has to do a job for him. He takes the money from the russians without killing them, they he and the "muscle" working for the boss go looking for some drug, and the big guy shoots himself while playing with guns!! Oh please, they should leave these kind of things to Tarantino! Sonny doesn't say anything to the boss, afraid he won't be believed. Despite being just a thief not a murderer, Sonny knows a butcher who will make hamburger our of the body, as if it was a normal thing! Then Sonny thinks "Vince took care of the plan, this means that driver-girl must be part of it"... what? Why??? It makes no sense! It turns out the girl was working with Vince, and is later killed by the hitman looking for the diamonds. The hitman is later killed by Vince. Not much of a hitman, is he? Able only to kill a girl in her pijama. You'd think they would send someone better to retrieve 5-million-dollars-worth of diamonds!
Sonny suffers for Dave's death, they were friends, so he goes to his funeral and talks to the wife. I'd have thought she would have questions, since three of them went out, then one disappeared, one is dead, and the other one is now in front of her. But she only says Hi Sonny and hugs him, without asking him What happened.
Since Sonny didn't go back to the boss with the money, he's now looking for it. Kidnaps the two russians and tortures them to know the truth. I don't know what the first says, but the second actually told the truth, that Sonny had the money and that was all he knew, but the boss doesn't believe it and kills him too. Then Sonny goes to him saying: Vince came, stole your money and killed your man. And the boss believes him, just like that!! Absurd!
Boss Willis with his men and Sonny then meet with the other boss ready to hand over Vince and put an end to it, but a stupid guy starts shooting, so they all start shooting, and I suppose they all die. All except Sonny and Vince, of course. Which is to say, all the tough mob guys just stood there shooting and getting killed, while the two young criminals ran away. Of course, what's strange about that? Oh my...
At the end Sonny finally gets to Vince, he puts him in the car, drives to an isolated place, pours petrol all over him but doesn't set him on fire, instead tell him to dig a big hole in the ground!??!? Vince refuses and they talk. Vince explains he needed money to protect dear old dead, who actually is a real bastard even to his son, then Sonny leaves him there. He doesn't kill him because "I'm not like you". He then takes the money he stole and drives away. saying "I could live knowing he's still alive. Question is: could he?" ... I'll tell you:yes! What kind of an ending is that???Stupid as the rest of it, sure, no surprise.
Not surprising that the mob boss (played by Bruce Willis) gets angry, so Sonny has to do a job for him. He takes the money from the russians without killing them, they he and the "muscle" working for the boss go looking for some drug, and the big guy shoots himself while playing with guns!! Oh please, they should leave these kind of things to Tarantino! Sonny doesn't say anything to the boss, afraid he won't be believed. Despite being just a thief not a murderer, Sonny knows a butcher who will make hamburger our of the body, as if it was a normal thing! Then Sonny thinks "Vince took care of the plan, this means that driver-girl must be part of it"... what? Why??? It makes no sense! It turns out the girl was working with Vince, and is later killed by the hitman looking for the diamonds. The hitman is later killed by Vince. Not much of a hitman, is he? Able only to kill a girl in her pijama. You'd think they would send someone better to retrieve 5-million-dollars-worth of diamonds!
Sonny suffers for Dave's death, they were friends, so he goes to his funeral and talks to the wife. I'd have thought she would have questions, since three of them went out, then one disappeared, one is dead, and the other one is now in front of her. But she only says Hi Sonny and hugs him, without asking him What happened.
Since Sonny didn't go back to the boss with the money, he's now looking for it. Kidnaps the two russians and tortures them to know the truth. I don't know what the first says, but the second actually told the truth, that Sonny had the money and that was all he knew, but the boss doesn't believe it and kills him too. Then Sonny goes to him saying: Vince came, stole your money and killed your man. And the boss believes him, just like that!! Absurd!
Boss Willis with his men and Sonny then meet with the other boss ready to hand over Vince and put an end to it, but a stupid guy starts shooting, so they all start shooting, and I suppose they all die. All except Sonny and Vince, of course. Which is to say, all the tough mob guys just stood there shooting and getting killed, while the two young criminals ran away. Of course, what's strange about that? Oh my...
At the end Sonny finally gets to Vince, he puts him in the car, drives to an isolated place, pours petrol all over him but doesn't set him on fire, instead tell him to dig a big hole in the ground!??!? Vince refuses and they talk. Vince explains he needed money to protect dear old dead, who actually is a real bastard even to his son, then Sonny leaves him there. He doesn't kill him because "I'm not like you". He then takes the money he stole and drives away. saying "I could live knowing he's still alive. Question is: could he?" ... I'll tell you:yes! What kind of an ending is that???Stupid as the rest of it, sure, no surprise.
domenica 1 giugno 2014
In & Out- I like this film. A lot.
Not realistic at all, mind you. There's this professor Howard Brackett, played by Kevin Kline, who is really too perfect to be a real person. He's about to get married, has the job he loves which is teaching English literature, is loved by all his students which in itself is fantasy all over, he's the couch of the school team and all the players love him more than a best friend ( too much, really, it's not realistic at all), he's appreciated and respected by the whole town... I mean, seriously, this is too much, how could a city like this really exist??
Anyway, if you accept the first few minutes of the film, when this character is introduced, then the rest of the film is lovely and funny and adorable.
His bride-to-be Emily, played by Joan Cusack, is a nervous-wreck girl who now is thin and pretty but apparently she was very fat, she says at least, and she suffered a lot to be thin and pretty.
Howard and Emily are watching the Oscar ceremony as long as everyone else in the small town of Greenleaf because Cameron Drake ( played by Matt Dillon) grew up there, and when he wins he thanks Howard in his speech and says that "professor Brackett is gay". Cameron has won the oscar for his character of a gay soldier in such a stupid film: we are shown a few clips and it's terrible but funny. Anyway, that's why he says that. And for a few seconds there's silence in the whole town. Even Howard itself is mute, can't understand why he said that, and then keep telling everyone he's not gay, he's getting married!
News reporter Peter (played by a very funny Tom Selleck) follows him in order to get to the truth, or possibly to be the only one to get the scoop when it will come out :lol
Anyway, the other journalists make such stupid questions, it's surreal, but probably there was a time when most people thought like that, and unfortunately many people probably still do. Anyway, he's still denying with everybody, he's going out of his mind, when out of the blue Peter kisses him. A good, long, nice kiss! And apparently Howard liked it. He's all confused now. The most famous scene is probably when he tries to find out how much a macho he is trying to resist to the music of "I will survive" and failing, and dancing like crazy in the house. Perfectly understandable if you ask me. I still can't believe how anyone can resist the music of I Will Survive. It's such a great song, really beautiful, one of the best songs ever.
The day of the wedding arrives, everything is ready, she says I Do, he says I'm Gay... and Peter is there filming everything. Poor Emily of course is having a breakdown, she says she lost 33kg for him, she let him decide everything, choose her dress even, all her life was based on the fact that he wanted to marry her, and I surely felt very bad for her, and totally agreed that he should have told her before, not at the altar!!
For a few minutes I wanted to hit a lot of those stupid characters, all of a sudden not wanting to have anything to do with him. Jerks. But they make up for that at the end, when they stand up for him. Literally, standing up and saying I'm gay too. A bit too long is was, but understandable. Remember "Dead poet's society" when all the kids stand up calling him My Captain? Same thing.
They are driven to this by a sensible speech given by Cameron himself, come to Greenleaf to help the professor, realising he had put him in a difficult situation. Howard was in fact fired because he was gay, and this is the realistic bit. In this fucked-up world you can very well expect something like that, there are a lot of assholes out there unfortunately.
However this is a movie, so it all ends well.
When this film came out, I remember there was real curiosity as of the end: he's really gay or not? I was always convinced he was, and when a friend said "it doesn't end well, poor girl, he's really gay" and I said "sure it DOES end well, even for her. She was marrying him only because she had such low self-esteem she thought she had to change herself so as to be accepted and loved, but now she meets a famous and cute movie-star who thought she was "so beautiful" before the diet, and that now sits next to her feeding her chips, in a nice-relaxed way! Happy ending for everyone, in my opinion!
The funniest moment for me it's a little moment when Cameron is with his top-model girlfriend, but leaves her to go to Greenleaf, telling her to call a taxy herself and for God's sake please eat something! so she goes back into the room of the motel where they had stopped, looks at this old-fashion telephone, with a dial not push buttons, and the first time I saw her hesitate looking at it, I thought she couldn't remember the number of his agent, or something like that, but instead she was so confused by the dial phone, she started pressing it with her finger as if it had push-buttons. I laughed out loud, the first time I honestly almost rolled on the floor laughing for this. I don't know, I just found it very funny. Still do, but now I know what to expect so I can control myself :-p
Cameron was presented the oscar by Glenn Close as herself, and apparently the other nominations were Paul Newman Clint Eastwood and Steven Seagal.
...
I know they were fake nominations, but seriously Steven Seagal nominated?? That's too much.
Whoopi Goldberg makes a cameo in this film as herself.
Tom Selleck and Kevin Kline were really great!
Anyway, if you accept the first few minutes of the film, when this character is introduced, then the rest of the film is lovely and funny and adorable.
His bride-to-be Emily, played by Joan Cusack, is a nervous-wreck girl who now is thin and pretty but apparently she was very fat, she says at least, and she suffered a lot to be thin and pretty.
Howard and Emily are watching the Oscar ceremony as long as everyone else in the small town of Greenleaf because Cameron Drake ( played by Matt Dillon) grew up there, and when he wins he thanks Howard in his speech and says that "professor Brackett is gay". Cameron has won the oscar for his character of a gay soldier in such a stupid film: we are shown a few clips and it's terrible but funny. Anyway, that's why he says that. And for a few seconds there's silence in the whole town. Even Howard itself is mute, can't understand why he said that, and then keep telling everyone he's not gay, he's getting married!
News reporter Peter (played by a very funny Tom Selleck) follows him in order to get to the truth, or possibly to be the only one to get the scoop when it will come out :lol
Anyway, the other journalists make such stupid questions, it's surreal, but probably there was a time when most people thought like that, and unfortunately many people probably still do. Anyway, he's still denying with everybody, he's going out of his mind, when out of the blue Peter kisses him. A good, long, nice kiss! And apparently Howard liked it. He's all confused now. The most famous scene is probably when he tries to find out how much a macho he is trying to resist to the music of "I will survive" and failing, and dancing like crazy in the house. Perfectly understandable if you ask me. I still can't believe how anyone can resist the music of I Will Survive. It's such a great song, really beautiful, one of the best songs ever.
The day of the wedding arrives, everything is ready, she says I Do, he says I'm Gay... and Peter is there filming everything. Poor Emily of course is having a breakdown, she says she lost 33kg for him, she let him decide everything, choose her dress even, all her life was based on the fact that he wanted to marry her, and I surely felt very bad for her, and totally agreed that he should have told her before, not at the altar!!
For a few minutes I wanted to hit a lot of those stupid characters, all of a sudden not wanting to have anything to do with him. Jerks. But they make up for that at the end, when they stand up for him. Literally, standing up and saying I'm gay too. A bit too long is was, but understandable. Remember "Dead poet's society" when all the kids stand up calling him My Captain? Same thing.
They are driven to this by a sensible speech given by Cameron himself, come to Greenleaf to help the professor, realising he had put him in a difficult situation. Howard was in fact fired because he was gay, and this is the realistic bit. In this fucked-up world you can very well expect something like that, there are a lot of assholes out there unfortunately.
However this is a movie, so it all ends well.
When this film came out, I remember there was real curiosity as of the end: he's really gay or not? I was always convinced he was, and when a friend said "it doesn't end well, poor girl, he's really gay" and I said "sure it DOES end well, even for her. She was marrying him only because she had such low self-esteem she thought she had to change herself so as to be accepted and loved, but now she meets a famous and cute movie-star who thought she was "so beautiful" before the diet, and that now sits next to her feeding her chips, in a nice-relaxed way! Happy ending for everyone, in my opinion!
The funniest moment for me it's a little moment when Cameron is with his top-model girlfriend, but leaves her to go to Greenleaf, telling her to call a taxy herself and for God's sake please eat something! so she goes back into the room of the motel where they had stopped, looks at this old-fashion telephone, with a dial not push buttons, and the first time I saw her hesitate looking at it, I thought she couldn't remember the number of his agent, or something like that, but instead she was so confused by the dial phone, she started pressing it with her finger as if it had push-buttons. I laughed out loud, the first time I honestly almost rolled on the floor laughing for this. I don't know, I just found it very funny. Still do, but now I know what to expect so I can control myself :-p
Cameron was presented the oscar by Glenn Close as herself, and apparently the other nominations were Paul Newman Clint Eastwood and Steven Seagal.
...
I know they were fake nominations, but seriously Steven Seagal nominated?? That's too much.
Whoopi Goldberg makes a cameo in this film as herself.
Tom Selleck and Kevin Kline were really great!
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