Shawshank is Gr8 movie! I think it gets criticism just cos it hasnāt got a typical Hollywood ending - most people donāt like to see convicted murderers and wife beaters getting away with it - but I think itās a lot of fun, and the sex scenes are super-erotic!
Dunno Bear, everyone loved Matt Damon in The Talented Mr Ripley and he was offing people like on a weekly basis and getting away with it. Agree about Shawshank sex scenes though!
Went to see Ghostbusters myself today. Think Super Michael was a tad harsh in his review. Itās a better movie than Ghostbusters II, for a start. Didnāt mind the plot - Iāve seen some of Paul Feigās work with Melissa McCarthy before.
I watched the Half in the Bag re-review of the original. I havenāt seen their review of this yet. They hold the original in huge regard. They love the sarcastic humour, its quotability. They also say that like Robocop and Total Recall, theyāre movies that didnāt need to be rebooted. Iāve seen Total Recall, and gave up on Robocop halfway through. Iām sort of offended they exist, whereas Iām actually pretty glad this movie does.
It made me laugh. I think it got the mix of science and comedy right. Iām glad that they didnāt do a beat for beat retread. The characters are close enough to the originals to be familiar, different enough to be interesting. Kirsten is an Egon Ronay ashamed of her friends. McCarthy is definitely the Spengler of the piece. McKinnon is Venkman channelling the A-Teamās Murdoch. The fourth Ghostbuster seems a lot more fleshed out too.
A film of the storm in the late 90āsummer that proved to be one of the worst weekends in the mountains history.
Josh Brolin is the biggest name. Stunning cinematography, gripping adaptation of a true story and amazing that Base Camp was such a disorganised money grabbing cluster fuck back then yet so many people tried to step up and be heroes.
An off the radar film VERY worth catching on TV or wherever.
Oh and being a day ahead of the planet I have to tell you all to go see Star Trek Beyond this weekend. If nothing else it WILL stop Pap moaning about the new reboot for ST least 10 minutes
So then, the new Ghostbusters movie. I enjoyed it and there are some good moments, but really, why bother unless you are going to serve up something new and different. The only different thing about it is the female leads. Best bits for me were the (many) nods to the original films.
If you like mountains then you should really watch the film linked below. No longer available on Iplayer but if it reappears well worth 90 mins of your life: