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Big Boys Don't Cry (2020)
An example of how Not to write dialogue
I'm sorry, I hardly ever write a negative review because as an aspiring filmmaker I know how much time, effort and money people put into independent productions, but it has to be said this a great opportunity missed.
I feel sorry for the two leads as I've seen them before and know how natural and talented they are at acting, but it goes to prove you can't outact a badly written script.
The dialogue is cheap and corny and as a person who came from this background I can tell you this is not authentic in the slightest. I don't know for sure but I can only assume the director and writer did not come from this background and tried to make a project about a subject that they knew nothing about.
It's full of cliches and grinding repetitive cutaways in a desperate attempt to create artistic symbolism. You will know what I mean when you watch it.
The movie has huge pacing issues too and jumps back and forth between past and present for reasons best know to no-one except the writer. An experienced script supervisor would have been money well spent on this production and more money spent in the sound design as overall it the lack of it makes everything seem bland and boring.
Overall it comes down to bad direction from a badly written script. Hopefully they can learn from their mistakes for their next production. But then again they got it on Netflix, so what do I know 😊
Pig (2021)
Simple, beautiful and full of relatable emotion.
In our current world of mass media and fast food this film shows another side to humanity that is not about the cut throat, rat race of success.
Nicholas Cage is excellent in this, as he is in most of his films. In my opinion he is probably the most underrated actor of all time.
I'm getting quite sick of negative reviews from people on this platform. Quite obviously people who have always wanted to make film but never knew how, or worse never tried to. Let's see your film. It's easier to sit back and criticise than it is to take a risk and create something.
A Ghost Story (2017)
Cake scene could've been longer
Have your phone handy when she starts eating the pie. Or if you've been working on a novel, now may be the time to finish it, rewrite it and proof read it. You'll thank me later.
A Street Cat Named Bob (2016)
If Santa Directed Trainspotting
I was really looking forward to seeing this movie but I found it incredibly cheesy and annoying at times. The writing is awful which is very ironic seems as it's a true story. How do you take a best selling book on a true story and make a bad job if it.
The direction is awful, the tone is all over the place and the acting is awful and dialogue was completely unbelievable. It's like they took a gritty and raw true story and tried to turn it into a feel good Christmas movie.
I'm not sure if it was just me but I found it really annoying when the main character kept talking to the cat out loud in every single scene.
Line of Duty: The Intrigue (2019)
Come on like!!
Ah now here, come on for jaysus sake! Give our intelligence a little credit.
Morse code? Would you give me a break! Maybe he had his beats headphones in or was trying to click his fingers again for another cup of tea.
Also Hastings? Before it was Steve, then Dot, who's next? Kate, her husband? The dog? They really are grabbing it straws now. And as for Deuce Bigolo Male Gigolo , nobody suspected her after she done the exact same thing about 3 seasons back?
What are you smoking? I honestly think at this stage they've gone through the script archive and asked who hasn't been read their Miranda rights, discovered it was no one and so started all over again.
This had the potential to be the best British tv drama of all time, I had hoped that British drama had finally caught up with HBO and the likes, but once again the arrogance of the creators opinion of the audiences intellect is the down fall.
I'm off to watch The Wire, goodnight.
Arctic (2018)
Outstanding!
This is a superb film, it's a masterclass in acting, as there is little or no dialogue. Would definitely recommend.
Zimna wojna (2018)
Not what I was expecting
This years polski x-factor is really boring. Since they've replaced Simon Cowell it's just gone down hill really.
Dirty Wars (2013)
Great Story with fine camera work and post editing, but sadly a disappointing ending
I loved this documentary for the most part but felt the narrator was mellow-dramatic at times. i also found the approach of storytelling quite tedious and a little self-indulgent. I understand the narrator needed to tell the story in this way as he was the journalist who began the investigation over a decade ago, but I felt at times it lacked creativity.
My biggest problem with this documentary was it's ending. The story just seemed to go nowhere; or 'fell off a cliff" as my documentary tutor would say. The journalist had copious amounts of video evidence to which he done nothing about other than put it in his film. Why did he not bring it to the Whitehouse and demand comment and put the Generals of JSOC under pressure?
The line 'I realize now this story has no ending" for the fact the war on terror will always be in operation is a cop out on the producers part, it's a lazy way of saying I have worked so long on this film which has no ending but I want to get it out into the public domain. I feel in the end he was blinded by the excitement to release it rather than wait another 2 years to find a strong conclusion.
Apart from the above it is still an excellent documentary which is thoroughly enjoyable and well deserves its nomination for the Oscars, however I do not think it will win for its storytelling element over its political message.