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Hello, welcome to the film review on BBC News. To take us through this | :00:19. | :00:30. | |
week's releases, Mark Kermode. We have Blue Ruin, made on a very low | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
budget. We have Pompeii, the story of... Pompeii. And Vesuvius. And we | :00:35. | :00:46. | |
have Bad Neighbours. Seth Rogan and Zach Efron are Bad Neighbours. Blue | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
Ruin, on this programme, we like cheap movies that turn out to be | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
rather good. Blue Ruin is a very interesting case. Jeremy Saulnier is | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
the director. This is not a goofy horror comedy at all. We start and | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
meet a homeless man, who is having a bath in somebody else's house. He | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
escapes through a window. We see him getting food from a dumpster, almost | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
completely wordless. Early on in the film, a policewoman turns up and | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
says he needs to come to the station because she needs to tell him | :01:17. | :01:26. | |
something. Here's a clip. Joo`Ho I apologise for the mystery. `` I | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
apologise for the mystery. I don't mean to scare you. You're not in any | :01:33. | :01:36. | |
trouble. Everything's fine. You'll be fine. Somebody brought this by | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
our stoop. I just thought you should be somewhere safe when you found | :01:41. | :01:51. | |
out. With somebody. He's going to be released. I don't know how much you | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
may have missed. It's an awful thing he did to them. I'm just going to | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
hold your hand for a little while. Wow. 20 seconds this afternoon and | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
have you the creeps already. Exactly and 20 minutes of the film and you | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
actually cover the territory that most revenge thrillers would take | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
their whole running time for. Somebody is out of prison. He goes | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
looking for a weapon. Have you a sense of was going to happen. 20 | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
minutes in, they've covered that ground. Rather than being interested | :02:21. | :02:25. | |
in rehashing what's gone before, the director is interested in what | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
happens next. The interesting thing about Blue Ruin is it's a stripped | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
down, very gruelling, very powerful thriller played really well. What's | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
interesting about it is you hear so many times people making this kind | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
of movie saying, well, the message is that violence cupts and vengeance | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
is not good. But they spend 90 minutes enjoying the violence and | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
vengeance, oh, but it's all about. Blue Ruin is compared to the work of | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
the Cohen brothers, but it offers a genuinely broken antihero, somebody | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
who is weak, somebody who is scared. You saw the look of terror on his | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
face. It's a film which doesn't give the audience the standard pleasures | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
of a revenge movie but it is beautifully told. The first 20 | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
minutes is almost worldless. It's like watching a silent movie. It's | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
all to do with economy of story telling. It was a really, really | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
fine work. As I said from the director's previous film, you'd have | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
no idea it was the film he was going make next. What's fascinating is | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
talking to people that are fans of mainstream cinema, horror fans, | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
across the board, everyone has had the same reaction as you did. Also, | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
having heard of none of these actors, the performances are pretty | :03:36. | :03:43. | |
obviously amazing. Yes, Macon Blair is amazing. He has an encounter a | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
razor and fresh set of clothes and then emerges Aymar strange `` as a | :03:49. | :03:56. | |
strange, withdrawn character who is not think of as an avenging angel. | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
He has a terrible thing in his past attempting to come to terms with the | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
expanding violence behind him. If you want a straightforward thinker, | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
you get that. If you want something which is philosophical very offing | :04:09. | :04:14. | |
into the issues `` delving into the issues of the right to bear arms is | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
part of the key part of the country's ethos is in there. It's | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
really impressive. I was hoping Pompeii was about Up Pompeii as a | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
remake. Tlncht is a bit of Frankie Howerd because this is enormously | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
camp. This is pall WS Anderson's second Best Film. The first being | :04:35. | :04:42. | |
Event Horizon. We have Kit Harington, who is a gladiator and he | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
wants to have a relationship with Emily Browning. They're torn apart | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
because he's a gladiator and she's a noble woman. This is a build up to | :04:52. | :04:56. | |
the fact that about an hour in, Vesuvius explodes. Being a Paul WS | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
Anderson film, chuck in everything and the chicken sink, everything | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
explodes. I saw it in 3D, the volume up to 11. The best thing about this | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
it is completely stupid, but it's laughably stupid in a good way. I | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
think you're laughing with, it rather than at it. The time doesn't | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
feel boring or dreary. It's feels like if you were a kid in the 70s | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
watching this, you'd go, wow, look at the size of those explosions! | :05:25. | :05:36. | |
Everything is turned up to Elevnety stupid. Kit Harington knows what | :05:37. | :05:44. | |
he's doing, he's the gladiator and it's all there. It's exactly what | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
you want and we're seeing exactly what you said. There's no surprise. | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
The volcano is going to to explode. Do know what the plot is. Bad | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
Neighbours, we don't know what happens. Zac Efron, there was a film | :05:59. | :06:07. | |
called Neighbours. Bad Neighbours is the gag where they switched the role | :06:08. | :06:15. | |
around, they lived next this one, they live next door to each other | :06:16. | :06:25. | |
and tear each other around. Seth Rogan realises that Zach Efron who | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
has played clean`cut roles and now it's going to be a frat house. What | :06:31. | :06:41. | |
are they going to do. Who's this little lady? Stella. That's the best | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
name ever, are you kidding? She's a flirt. Like her mum, I bet. Cool. If | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
you could maybe just... Keep it down! All right. If you ever need | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
anything or we get too noisy, talk to me or Pete. We will take care of | :07:01. | :07:06. | |
it. Same with us, we're pretty loud. Game of thrones, we get loud. It's | :07:07. | :07:16. | |
crazy. All righty. They call the police and then there's a rivalry. | :07:17. | :07:18. | |
It's neighbours all over again. The problem is this: There is a feeling | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
in modern American comedy that actually everything being slack, | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
loose, free form, being slightly improve `` improv, it's great. If | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
you want to get comedy right, get tough. There's no fat on that at | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
all. Too often, you get the sense there's an idea for a scene, an idea | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
and they let the cameras role and let it keep going. It's not | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
disciplined enough by any means. There are some very funny sight | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
gags, which I would have laughed at enormously had they not been in the | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
trailer. It's a classic case of there's one central gag involving | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
air bags, which has a couple of punch lines and set up and punch | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
lines are in the trailer. When the thing finally comes, you think, OK, | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
that's the best gag in the movie, I understand you put it in the trailer | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
to get me to see the movie, but I've seen the gag. This is a film that | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
opens on a Saturday. Most open on a Friday. It opens on a Saturday, so | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
the opening box office weekend will be nine days long. I suspect it will | :08:21. | :08:28. | |
go to number one. I see. Just dot math. In America they only do math. | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
They can't add the S. Transcendence is the best of the week for you. You | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
are rowing against the tide. The tide is turning. I have had a couple | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
of conversations, one with Robbie Colman from the telegraph and with | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
Mark Cousins, who I know you're a friend of, they both went to see the | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
film and say it's interesting. It's not perfect. There are flaws. If you | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
want a big ideas, heavy science fiction film, not big on explosions, | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
not big on special effects, but dealing with ideas, it's a 70s throw | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
back sci`fi movie and I liked it. I thought it was enjoyable. It was | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
full of interesting ideas. I think you'd like. It I think you should | :09:12. | :09:14. | |
put the negative press aside and see it any way. Right Mark Cousins I'm a | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
fan of, A Story of Children and Film, the history of film is an | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
amazing series. It is, this is wonderful. It's him looking at the | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
role of children in sin paw. It's incredibly broad ranging, very | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
international, the entire history of cinema. If up go to the BFI player, | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
he's created a season of children's films. It's available on DVD as | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
well. Mark Cousins is a poet of modern cinema. He's a film maker but | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
looks at things with a critics' eye. He's not afraid to go against the | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
current. He has a wonderful, lyrical way of making films that's not so | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
much documentary, it's more like poetry. I think it's a wonderful | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
piece of work. A great writer, a fine writer. He is. Some people | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
don't like his delivery. I love it. Some people are wrong. We have | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
covered that already. Yes! Thanks Mark. | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
A quick reminder, you'll find more film news and reviews from Mark on | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
his BBC blog, Kermode uncut. That's it for this week. Thank you | :10:22. | :10:23. | |
for watching and goodbye. Hello, as the weekend begins | :10:24. | :10:38. | |
temperatures will be struggling. Some of us will have a frost going | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
into tomorrow morning. Temperatures will recover a bit though as the | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
weekend goes on. We've seen more in the way of sunshine today, though, | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
across the northern half of the UK in particular. And the cloud still | :10:49. | :10:51. | |
showing up on the satellite imagery. Most of that is going to fade away | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
through this evening and tonight, allowing temperatures to dip | :10:57. | :10:57. |