Films

[Asian Dawn]

I recently found out something interesting about the film Erin Brokovich starring Julia Roberts as Erin Brokovich and Albert Finney as Ed Masry (her boss).

About 10 minutes into the film, Erin Brokovich (Julia Roberts) takes her kids to a diner.
The name of the waitress who takes their order is Julia.
So Erin Brokovich played by Julia Roberts gives her order to Julia the waitress who was actually played by the real Erin Brokovich.

To complete the scene, the older guy sat behind Erin was played by the real Ed Masry (her boss)

There is something similar in La Bamba. Near the end of the film there is a family gathering and the old lady sitting on the end of the sofa is Richie Valens' mother in real life. She passed away a few months after the film's release but was honoured to have been asked to be in the film and loved the tribute to her son.

 

[Piece]

The Land of Saints and Sinners.

Surprisingly good, IMHO.

 

[PNWokingham]

Just been to cinema to see The Fall Guy. Walked out after a boring 35 mins

 

[rudebhoy]

Old.

Holidaymakers are trapped on a beach where time is messed up and they age rapidly.

Pretty crazy stuff, but enjoyable.

 

[larmen]

Have you ever watched a movie but in the end you are just happy you have watched it so you know you didn’t miss out?

Gray Man

Reading the books at the moment and found out there is already a movie, the being disappointed it’s only on Netflix just to find out that the family has Netflix when we stayed with the over the long weekend.

Just started the next book on the flight home, 40 pages of that are already much better than the 2 hours of the movie.

 

[jim8flog]

I watched the DRY 2 last night (sky)
Good film but one thing with it was not is dry.

 

[Fade and Die]

We watched Dune 2 last night…. Wish an hour of it had been left on the cutting room floor! Flabby doesn’t come close!

 

[spongebob59]

Chief of station, so bad it's good

 

[Lord Tyrion]

We watched Dune 2 last night…. Wish an hour of it had been left on the cutting room floor! Flabby doesn’t come close!

One of those where they tried to fit in too much from the book, tried to stay too true to it. Unnecessarily so. I agree with you

 

[Beezerk]

Finally got around to watching The Menu last night, we both thought it was very good.

 

[jim8flog]

I watched The Reptile last night (Netflix)
good murder mystery
could have been at least half hour shorter without losing anything from the plot.
Very good ending.

 

[rudebhoy]

Finally got around to watching The Menu last night, we both thought it was very good.

I loved it, the wife hated it

 

[simsini]

Happy Gilmore 2 officially confirmed.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1790823466087633355

 

[Orikoru]

Happy Gilmore 2 officially confirmed.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1790823466087633355

So many years have passed that I can only imagine it being disappointing. But we'll see. Still going to watch it of course.

 

[Paperboy]

One of those where they tried to fit in too much from the book, tried to stay too true to it. Unnecessarily so. I agree with you

Not too sure we watched the same film, he absolutely butchers the book and not in a good way. Hence Denis Vilnueve was a Random Irritation for me.

 

[GB72]

Not too sure we watched the same film, he absolutely butchers the book and not in a good way. Hence Denis Vilnueve was a Random Irritation for me.

I have not seen part 2 yet but the first part does seem to be a rushed precis of the book rather than following any of the detail. Looks stunning but removes much of the political machinations and lore from the story.

 

[Lord Tyrion]

Not too sure we watched the same film, he absolutely butchers the book and not in a good way. Hence Denis Vilnueve was a Random Irritation for me.

I guess I didn't want to get into a great long review and tried to sum it up in a couple of sentences. I finished the book shortly before seeing part 2. I, like you, was disappointed with the film. I thought 1 managed to keep focus, gave some strong characters, some strong scenes. 2 lost the focus, touched upon some parts but didn't really hone into the key things. In LotR Peter Jackson simply left out certain parts of the book as he did not want to do everything. I think 2 would have been better had the director done the same thing. Decided what were the key issues, really focus on them. Instead we got a bit of a precis of everything without really getting into the meat of the book/film. What should have been powerful wasn't in the end, key features of the book were glossed over. The strong characters were lost.

I genuinely loved Dune 1, I will stand by that. Dune 2, no.

I will watch it again when it comes on tv, just to see if my expectations were too high and second time around it may be better.

 

[Pin-seeker]

I loved it, the wife hated it

I agree with your wife

 

[Pin-seeker]

Happy Gilmore 2 officially confirmed.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1790823466087633355

Apparently Page Spiranic is going to play the cart girl.

 

[BrianM]

Apparently Page Spiranic is going to play the cart girl.

Hope so