A wonderful look at the creative process and gaming industry. As with any great documentary it should be as fascinating to those who know nothing about the subject, although it perhaps needed to make a few concessions to explain some unfamiliar things.
I regretting not seeing this in the cinema, especially when it went on to find a place in many end of year lists. Now that I've finally caught up with it I think my original instinct to skip it may have been right. There isn't really anything especially bad, apart from some dodgy CGI snow, but it also failed to connect with me. I kept hoping it would get better or something great would happen but it didn't.
With Williamson back on writing duties this should have been a return to form but it's just boring.
It may be full of clichés but it does them well and is genuinely quite creepy in places.
77 minutes, a stand alone story, cinema screenings, 3rd highest weekend box office - I think it's fair to call The Day of the Doctor a film.
I've been a huge fan of Steven Moffat since Press Gang and Joking Apart, I adore his work on Doctor Who. There was a lot of hype and expectations to live up to but I certainly wasn't disappointed. There were flaws but also many moments of greatness and the whole thing was just a great deal of fun.
Now I'm wondering if I am classifying this as a film does that mean I need to position it in my Films of 2013 list...
Had me from the start and just got better and better.
The original title "La vie d'Adèle – chapitres 1 & 2" is much more appropriate because Blue is definitely a film of two halves. Whilst watching Chapter 1 I could understand why the film is receiving so much love and praise. It's a great story, beautifully filmed and wonderfully acted.
Chapter 2 was a huge disappointment in terms of both the characters, who didn't appear to have grown at all, and the film making which was dull and predictable. I think I had a different interpretation of what happened but all the interesting things happened in the gap between the chapters and we're just left mopping up the mess. Things do improve and the encounters towards the end of the film start to work again but for me it was too late.
I'm still thinking about the film days later, perhaps not in the way the film makers intended, so perhaps that means it's a better film than I originally thought.
After seeing all the positive responses when this was aired I was very disappointed. The first half is dull and we've seen essentially the same story told many times before. Once the show gets going things improve considerably and is full of great touches, performances and emotions.
Watched on Friday November 22, 2013.
Watched on Tuesday November 19, 2013.
Watched on Tuesday November 19, 2013.
Watched on Tuesday November 19, 2013.
Watched on Tuesday November 19, 2013.
