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Agreed. Easy to write it off as simplistic, low budget and western centric (perhaps I just mean American centric) but I enjoyed this pleasingly old fashioned film.
Coyote Ugly + Cabaret + Sweet Charity + ... oh let's be realistic, it's just an extended music video.
I agree there is a lot to take in on 1st viewing but I don't think that is the same as good world building. I think they got carried away with the process and self-indulgently added detail upon detail at the expense of telling the story.
Agreed. The old unique feature was Sean Bean didn't die.
The sad thing is you wonder what another director would have made it. Doubly ironic that Terry Gilliam was in the cast. Despite all the special effects etc etc it seemed a bit unimaginative, flat and conventional.
7 seems about right to me. It was an expertly made film and the cast was very good. I particularly enjoyed the cinematography which was almost manga-like at times. But overall a little predicable and disappointing. I've not read the book or seen the BBC production yet it all seemed a bit familiar - perhaps it's the original victorian-british story line that made it so.
So torture and porn are OK family viewing but lesbian love making is not ! Have to be honest - that seem seriously warped to me.
Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes... The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
This is true, not the kind of film that attracts Oscars - though I wonder if that might have been different in earlier times (70s). But I just don't see the paedophilic aspect in this film. Matilda was very sexually knowing but Leon was unresponsive and I think he loved her in an innocent protective way. It was a family unit - pretty wierd family without the usual defined roles but perhaps more like elder brother and street-wise younger sister than anything else.
Agreed. Is it really 23 years! Seems completely fresh and undated.
I think Oldman is great in this film, even though the accent does seem to slip a little - but Walken is a very interesting idea.
I thought it was a lot better than just OK and really enjoyed it. It may not be in the same league as a Studio Ghibli classic but I'll be watching it again (and again).
PG sounds reasonable to me. I was in a cinema where I'm pretty certain there were kids younger than 12. But there is a little more in this film than some boob fondling and it had typical manga schoolgirl imagery that does give a parent pause for thought.
I remember a lot of publicity/interest around The Tamarind Seed and reoccurring news items about Julie Andrews as a sex symbol. It's not as if she disappeared - perhaps more the case they stopped making certain types of films?
CC was the reason I watched this rubbish. I really wish she'd turn up more often and in better productions. To be fair I thought the cast was OK but they couldn't overcome the handicap of this cheap, clichéd waste of time.
If you read a few of the other threads it appears this pretty average TV like movie hits the button with certain audiences. Personally I liked a lot of the cast and that's the only reason I enjoyed it as much as I did.
A deathbed scene would have been horrible and mawkishly and I would not have wanted to watch it. But having said that I was really surprised she did die. I just assumed they would find a cure because that's the kind of movie this was.
Seems to be doing OK outside the USA. The same for Lucy according to box office mojo.
I thought that when I saw it all those years ago. Watching it again recently and the message seemed less intrusive, the quirky romance more enjoyable.
Agreed. I prefer to not overthink a film when I'm watching but when they keep doing stupid things to move the story along I can't help thinking - why?