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Watched some odd films over the weekend. The Mrs wanted to watch "Sisters". It was pretty poor, like a bunch of short comedy sketches, that they tried to tie together with a plot that started poorly and never went anywhere.

Then I was on Netflix and saw an Adam Sandler film "The Cobbler". Which I thought would be a light hearted comedy. I saw the trailer and chuckled, so I gave it a go. It wasn't a comedy, I'm not really sure what it was. It reminded me of the film he made called "click" where he plays a guy, who gets given a universal remote, so he can mess about with his life, relive the best bits, skip the boring bits, etc. Then it all goes wrong, he learns a valuable life lesson and tries to fix things.

The only difference between "click" and "the cobbler" is the device, in "the cobbler" he has a magic machine which lets him become a person, when he mends their shoes and then puts them on. The formats are the same, he then misuses his new found powers, it all goes wrong and he tries to fix it. Also the major plot "twist" I saw coming from about 20 minutes in.
 

COYBL25 said:
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A must watch on tonight - Film4 at 9pm.

Tom Hardy is magnificent as Ivan Locke, a construction worker with secrets, whose life unravels via a series of phone calls made to him whilst driving home from work. Fantastic film.
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Nowhere near as 'nail-biting' or tense as the critics would have you believe. A well executed film, full marks to Hardy for making a one-man film work so well, but I was not moved in the slightest by this film. I just admired his ability to operate his in-car Bluetooth so well.
 
The Cowboy said:
Nowhere near as 'nail-biting' or tense as the critics would have you believe. A well executed film, full marks to Hardy for making a one-man film work so well, but I was not moved in the slightest by this film. I just admired his ability to operate his in-car Bluetooth so well.
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I do agree, but it was all about his acting for me. He just needs to stay away from rom coms !
 
COYBL25 said:
I do agree, but it was all about his acting for me. He just needs to stay away from rom coms !
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Tell you what bothered me most about this film - opening scene is outside my office in London (the new UBS building in Broadgate), but in the film he's traveling from Manchester to London. So pedantic but it really annoyed me!
 
The Cowboy said:
Tell you what bothered me most about this film - opening scene is outside my office in London (the new UBS building in Broadgate), but in the film he's traveling from Manchester to London. So pedantic but it really annoyed me!
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It's been mentioned before about that mistake. I know what you mean. It would have been very easy to show the signs in chronological order, just by travelling the route and filming the signs as you past them !
 
COYBL25 said:
It's been mentioned before about that mistake. I know what you mean. It would have been very easy to show the signs in chronological order, just by travelling the route and filming the signs as you past them !
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I don't think the film did anything wrong from a continuity perspective, apart from implying that building site was in Manchester. I don't think anyone who isn't familiar with Broadgate would care about this!
 

At times like this you retreat, wounded, into familiar pleasures. Pan's Labyrinth.. A marvellous film, a modern classic and surely an escape from the despondency of today...

At least it was until this guy turned up:

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Spanish General with inflexible adherence to dogmatic philosophy who loses his troops and his family in a grim war against the locals he's supposedly arrived to give a better life to, while completely ignoring the many signs around him that the cause is lost... FFS... there's no respite to be found anywhere :(
 

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