Filmography
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the_lady_lilyDiamonds Are For Ever
I hadn't seen this before, but fancied trying out another Bond. Now I know where Neil Gaiman got the idea of Croup and Vandemar from. Also, this is very good fun and very silly. Lots of daftness, pseudo-science and lots of fun and exciting running around. Includes one of the most hilarious cuts from foreplay to post-coital cigarette that I have ever seen. Attempting to hide a cassette tape in bikini bottoms was a particularly daft move, but it almost worked! Anyway. Worth watching.
The Big Wedding
Robert De Niro and Diane Keating play a divorced couple who have to pretend to still be married when their adopted son gets married in order not to outrage his biological mother. Which all turns out to have been pointless, but leads to some whacky hi-jinks. Well, whacky-ish. Some of it is rather sexist, some of the dialogue is a bit daft, but there are clever moments. I have to say I don't know how De Niro's character gets away with it, because he basically seems to be a bit of a wanker, but never mind. It was a fairly interesting idea and I had a nice afternoon off vegging to it.
W.E.
The Madonna-directed film. For some reason I had assumed it was a straight biopic, which of course it isn't - it's two parallel stories of women named W.E., Wallace Edwards (Simpson as was) and Wally Winthrop, a young woman living in New York in an unhappy marriage. She has an obsession with Wallace, in which she loses herself as a way to escape her own unhappiness, tracing her life to the extent of basically fronting her way into seeing letters held by Mohammed Al-Fayed in order to satisfy her own curiosity. There are parallels to their life stories, in that they do both find happiness of a sort with men who were not their husbands... but yes. The psychological nature of obsession could have done with a bit more work and there were moments that dragged, but overall I thought this was better than the critical savaging implied. Reviews I skimmed afterwards complained about heavy product placement, but I didn't notice, other than a drawer of Chanel make-up at one point. Maybe I'm not sensitised enough to these things. There are problems, of course, such as the security guard Wally falls for living in an uber-chic loft apartment, and I wish more had been done with Wally giving up her job on her marriage and the consequences that had for her - it was alluded to but not really given enough consideration in terms of the impact that it would have on her character. So, I felt it was worth seeing, but not making a huge effort to see. If that makes sense.
I hadn't seen this before, but fancied trying out another Bond. Now I know where Neil Gaiman got the idea of Croup and Vandemar from. Also, this is very good fun and very silly. Lots of daftness, pseudo-science and lots of fun and exciting running around. Includes one of the most hilarious cuts from foreplay to post-coital cigarette that I have ever seen. Attempting to hide a cassette tape in bikini bottoms was a particularly daft move, but it almost worked! Anyway. Worth watching.
The Big Wedding
Robert De Niro and Diane Keating play a divorced couple who have to pretend to still be married when their adopted son gets married in order not to outrage his biological mother. Which all turns out to have been pointless, but leads to some whacky hi-jinks. Well, whacky-ish. Some of it is rather sexist, some of the dialogue is a bit daft, but there are clever moments. I have to say I don't know how De Niro's character gets away with it, because he basically seems to be a bit of a wanker, but never mind. It was a fairly interesting idea and I had a nice afternoon off vegging to it.
W.E.
The Madonna-directed film. For some reason I had assumed it was a straight biopic, which of course it isn't - it's two parallel stories of women named W.E., Wallace Edwards (Simpson as was) and Wally Winthrop, a young woman living in New York in an unhappy marriage. She has an obsession with Wallace, in which she loses herself as a way to escape her own unhappiness, tracing her life to the extent of basically fronting her way into seeing letters held by Mohammed Al-Fayed in order to satisfy her own curiosity. There are parallels to their life stories, in that they do both find happiness of a sort with men who were not their husbands... but yes. The psychological nature of obsession could have done with a bit more work and there were moments that dragged, but overall I thought this was better than the critical savaging implied. Reviews I skimmed afterwards complained about heavy product placement, but I didn't notice, other than a drawer of Chanel make-up at one point. Maybe I'm not sensitised enough to these things. There are problems, of course, such as the security guard Wally falls for living in an uber-chic loft apartment, and I wish more had been done with Wally giving up her job on her marriage and the consequences that had for her - it was alluded to but not really given enough consideration in terms of the impact that it would have on her character. So, I felt it was worth seeing, but not making a huge effort to see. If that makes sense.
