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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. |