03/08/2013 The Film Review


03/08/2013

Similar Content

Browse content similar to 03/08/2013. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!

Transcript


LineFromTo

Review. To take us through this week's releases is Anna Smith. What

:00:26.:00:31.

have we got? Three hotly anticipated releases, the first from the

:00:31.:00:37.

director of Bridesmaids. It's a buddy cop comedy called The Heat. We

:00:37.:00:40.

have Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy as a couple of mismatched

:00:41.:00:46.

cops. The only film is Only God Forgives. By contrast this is a

:00:47.:00:53.

sombre affair. It's from Nicholas Winding Refn. Ryan Gosling is in

:00:53.:00:58.

this one as part of the underworld in Bangkok. And Red 2, Bruce Willis

:00:58.:01:01.

back in the game with Helen Mirren and new faces as well in the comedy

:01:01.:01:08.

caper. I notice that the Heaton was ridge

:01:08.:01:13.

fally called untitled female buddy fally called untitled female buddy

:01:13.:01:18.

cop movie, which sums it up. Yes the hook is it's two women, we've so

:01:18.:01:22.

rarely seen this. Sandra Bullock plays a New York FBI agent, very

:01:22.:01:28.

uptight, very buttoned up and rule observing. Melissa McCarthy is this

:01:28.:01:31.

Boston cop. It's her local home. She runs around the streets cleaning

:01:31.:01:41.
:01:41.:01:44.

them up her own way. They do things How long is this going to take? I

:01:44.:01:48.

don't know maybe 12 hours, hope flip less. I have to find out what drives

:01:48.:01:54.

him. We could beat him with the phone book. No. It is crucial that

:01:54.:01:58.

you remain patient. It's crucial that you stop wearing that stupid

:01:58.:02:02.

barette. What is the problem with this? You have one on your head.

:02:02.:02:08.

top of my head like a normal person. What is the difference? Move on.If

:02:08.:02:11.

you go in the room you could break the bond we've created. Trust me on

:02:11.:02:15.

this one. Do you understand how important this is? Yeah I do.You

:02:15.:02:25.
:02:25.:02:25.

will be patient? I will.OK. All right.

:02:26.:02:33.

Hello. Coffee? I drink a little more coffee than I probably should.

:02:33.:02:37.

I laughed and I laughed throughout that. It's very funny. It is very

:02:37.:02:44.

funny. Melissa McCarthy is so hilarious. She has a talent for

:02:44.:02:49.

improvisation. She did that in Bridesmaids. She did a sarcastic

:02:49.:02:53.

bulldog impression and wonderful contrast with Sandra Bullock's

:02:53.:02:57.

uptight agent. It is really funny. The main problem is the plot, which

:02:57.:03:02.

is negligible. It's a Scooby Doo style. The writers aren't interested

:03:02.:03:05.

in the story, something about tracking down a drug dealer. Does it

:03:05.:03:10.

really matter when it's too funny? It probably doesn't. If you look at

:03:10.:03:14.

the first of the Hangover films and so on, you either laugh your way

:03:14.:03:17.

through it or Bridesmaids or you don't. At least Bridesmaids there

:03:17.:03:22.

say point to it. Yeah, Bridesmaids was probably a stronger film theme

:03:22.:03:26.

atically and emotionally. This has a sweet emotional payoff. Like many

:03:26.:03:30.

buddy movies, they start off hating each other and they warm to each

:03:30.:03:34.

other. Of the things is it's a bit of a cliche, but it's not a cliche

:03:34.:03:39.

with women. I've never seen one. That's the refreshing thing. We

:03:39.:03:44.

haven't seen this dynamic before. We saw it briefly in Miss Congeniality

:03:44.:03:49.

2 and she was paired with a female agent there. Normally it's men

:03:49.:03:55.

though. It brutes up other ideas like gender -- brings up other ideas

:03:55.:04:00.

like gender equality in the work place. Drive I thought was a

:04:00.:04:04.

terrific movie, Ryan Gosling was terrific. I'm looking forward it

:04:04.:04:10.

Only God Forgives. You may not be after we talk about it. I agree I

:04:10.:04:14.

loved Drive. Refn is a great director. He's written this on his

:04:14.:04:20.

own. It's very experimental, nothing against that, I've enjoyed many

:04:20.:04:25.

slow, pond Russ films like Enter the Void. But Ryan Gosling plays a crim

:04:25.:04:30.

nap who has to settle a score. He comes up against an angel of

:04:30.:04:36.

vengeance who is a vigilante cop. There's very little dialogue, and

:04:36.:04:42.

then suddenly, extreme violence. This almost fetishises violence and

:04:42.:04:47.

then asks for forgiveness. I couldn't forgive the tedium. Just

:04:47.:04:51.

relentless? And also, point is that you don't get to know the

:04:51.:04:55.

characters. They're very broad brush strokes. Because there's so little

:04:55.:04:59.

dialogue and Gosling chooses to give nothing away in his face at all in

:04:59.:05:05.

this film. He's a great actor but he looks mood moody without. We have

:05:06.:05:12.

Kristin Scott Thomas his brassy mother, that's briefly entertaining.

:05:12.:05:19.

This doesn't have the humour that Tarantino would have. It's a little

:05:19.:05:24.

solemn. Red 2, two views of this. I bumped into somebody who said "Why

:05:24.:05:30.

did they even make Red 1". I kind of laughed at Red 1. It's three star

:05:30.:05:35.

out of five fun. I don't see why they needed a sequel. But apparently

:05:35.:05:41.

they're making a third as well. This movive sees them coming out of

:05:41.:05:46.

retirement. Bruce Willis's character finds out that he's implicated in a

:05:46.:05:56.

nuclear plot, wrongly of course, but there's a hit out on him.

:05:56.:06:02.

Yeah. MI6 has given me a contract to kill you. Apparently you're guilty

:06:02.:06:06.

of nuclear terrorism, murder and you're number one on Interpol's most

:06:06.:06:10.

wanted. Did you say?I said yes, the money's good and if I don't do it,

:06:10.:06:15.

somebody else will. It's bad, isn't it? Is that Marvin?Yes, and Sarah.

:06:15.:06:21.

Send them my love, won't you. gave her a gun. Was it loaded?Yes,

:06:21.:06:26.

yes. Are you being controlling?No. You have to take chances in a

:06:26.:06:31.

relationship. You have to be supportive. I don't need her to fit

:06:31.:06:36.

in. I need her to be safe. Just rent Dirty Dancing and tell her you love

:06:37.:06:41.

her. It's important to enjoy life while you still can. I thought that

:06:41.:06:45.

was very engaging. There are probably four or five scenes like

:06:45.:06:48.

that which are very funny. The rest, not so much. There's a lot of action

:06:48.:06:53.

and the action is kind of, there's always that breezy light tone and

:06:53.:06:57.

bodies flying everywhere, which sits slightly oddly with that tone.

:06:57.:07:01.

Mary-Louise Parker is great fun. And John Malkovich who is great. Anthony

:07:01.:07:05.

Hopkins comes in and he brightens the screen up. But it just plodded a

:07:06.:07:09.

little. It wasn't as solid as the first film. It wasn't as funny as

:07:09.:07:14.

the first. Really, not as good as the first? I thought, I enjoyed the

:07:14.:07:18.

first film. Perfectly nice. But I did think when I was watching it,

:07:18.:07:23.

you know, this could be oceans 11, but it's not. Not sharp enough.It

:07:23.:07:30.

has a great cast, not slight slightly - Helen Mirren is terrific

:07:30.:07:33.

and terrific in the first one, but it doesn't quite carry it off.

:07:33.:07:38.

is the same, if not slightly worse. Give that a miss. Your best of the

:07:38.:07:48.

week? Let's move on to that. I've seen Wadjda, a Saudi film. Yes, the

:07:48.:07:51.

first female film director from Saudi Arabia. It's about a girl who

:07:51.:07:55.

wants to have a bike, which is very frowned upon for girls there. It's

:07:55.:07:59.

about her journey of discovery, coming into adulthood and really

:07:59.:08:05.

discovering what kind of repression is existing in her own world. It's

:08:05.:08:09.

not tub thumping feminism, but it's about her personal search for

:08:09.:08:14.

equality which has wider implications. I found watching it, I

:08:14.:08:20.

learned more about the human face of what happens in Saudi Arabia than in

:08:20.:08:23.

any newspaper or TV programme, you understand it through the eyes of a

:08:23.:08:28.

child in the way that Oliver Twist tells you about London. You get. It

:08:28.:08:32.

She's learning and we are learning with her. It's a lovely slice of

:08:32.:08:37.

life films that you feel you're immersed in that culture. I agree.

:08:37.:08:42.

And the men are peripheral. It's what women do to women in enforcing

:08:42.:08:49.

the stereotypes. Very much so.Your DVD is The Paperboy. It's not

:08:49.:08:53.

necessarily the Best Film, but if you didn't see it in the sin mew,

:08:53.:09:01.

get it on DVD. It's a torrid crime thriller about erotic obsession. You

:09:01.:09:08.

have Nicole Kidman fixated on John Cusac's character. It's a great

:09:08.:09:13.

cast. It's a film you would be talking to with friends afterwards.

:09:13.:09:18.

A review which said it's a plain bonkers thriller. That means you

:09:18.:09:22.

would disagree about it. A reminder before we go that you'll find more

:09:22.:09:26.

Download Subtitles

SRT

ASS