Filmography

[the_lady_lily]

Royal Flash

We watched this over the Jubilee weekend because we're contrary that way. Flashman is forced to impersonate a prince in order to bring about Bismark's plan for the unification of Germany. Bismark is Oliver Reed. Flashman is Malcolm McDowell. Duelling scars are invoked. There's some rather nice German scenery. The plot is utterly, utterly absurdist and joyfully, recklessly so - and we laughed hysterically. I think this may be well inside the 'silly films of the mid-1970s' classification.

The Losers

I don't really have a great deal to say about this as it was exceptionally silly. It's another comic book made-up number, and frankly, when I watched it that was all I had the energy for. People blow things up and steal things off each other and do a great deal of violence. There's a teddy bear in the wreckage scene early on. People are in hiding from government agencies because they're supposed to have been blown up. The dialogue tries to be witty and instead ends up being Really Really Bad In An Entertaining Way. Actually, it's one of those films that is actually so dire it goes through the other side and becomes amusing. Plus there are some attempts at being knowing about the genre, which just about pull themselves off. And I laughed quite a bit. So, yes. Highbrow it is not; entertaining it is.

Comments

[blackmetalbaz.livejournal.com]

I can't bring myself to disagree with your review of The Losers. I found it genuinely hilarious, perhaps unintentionally. If you fancy other comic book adaptations that are actually decent films and still funny, check out RED and the new Avengers movie.

[the-lady-lily.livejournal.com]

I very much enjoyed RED (http://the-lady-lily.livejournal.com/796664.html#cutid1), and I think it's a great example of a film which manages the tounge-in-cheeck self-aware nature of its identity perfectly. It's a tough line to walk, but when films get it right, they do it brilliantly. I still need to get to see the new Avengers one!

[metonymy.livejournal.com]

The best part of The Losers is Chris Evan in that "Go Petunias" shirt.

Amended: also Zoe Saldana with a rocket launcher.

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[the-lady-lily.livejournal.com]

Yes! All sorts of good moments... but I think it sets itself up a little bit too seriously to begin with. But, yes. Rocket launcher. Yay.

[kerrypolka.livejournal.com]

The Losers is the one with Zoe Saldana making out with Jeffrey Dean Morgan and a fight scene set to "Don't Stop Believin'", right? I saw that on a plane and really genuinely enjoyed it, for exactly the reasons you give here.

[the-lady-lily.livejournal.com]

That's the one! Yes, absolutely bloody hilarious, and very enjoyable, provided you go into it expecting it to be what it is rather than anything else.