Doctor.K

I wish i could comment on the film but you have done it for me, took words straight out of my mouth, especially 'a great marsh mellow of a film'.

This has to be one of the most immaculate reviews of a film you have ever 'performed' (as you so elegantly do in that studio). Your words here were like music to my ears past all this jibberish about it being a 'spectacle', a 'harrowing masterpiece' etc etc etc bla bla bla.

This is certainly up there with your speech on the slasher genre when you over-viewed the remake of Prom Night and its 15 certificate.



Thank You, my opinion on this marsh mellow of a film was making me feel rather lonely until i heard this.

And because your so good at giving films a good hiding, you should draw your attention to the thoroughly sickeningly abysmal excuse for a film; Max Payne.

I understand you are not of the disposition to be playing the games the film was based on, and i hope your mind is open wide enough to appreciate my words when i say;

The game Max Payne was one of the only games thats story could possibly be made into a respectable film, and by respectable i mean award worthy, as the game didn't deserve the brilliant little back-story it received, it should have been savoured for the big-screen.

Without knowlage in the movies origins, you must appreciate how painfully terrible it is, and i am awaiting to see the film get the thrashing it deserves.

Great to see your review, Dr K. I enjoyed the film, but was not ennobled by it. Note that apart from Mork, there's also Merlin (Once and Future King) who famouly lived backwards... Never forget Philip K. Dick's 'Counterclock World' (will that be filmed?, Brian Aldiss's 'An Age' amongst others. On a related note, is there any plan to film The Time Traveller's Wife? Much better story!

There is a film of The Time Traveller's Wife in production with Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams though apparently it's in something of a development hell

This is from quite a good website about films: https://dcairns.wordpress.com/



“BENJAMIN BUTTON? BENJAMIN BORING BASTARD more like!”



That was my reaction at the end of David Fincher’s elderly-baby-based arse marathon THE CURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTON, the first Fincher film I’ve been furiously indifferent to. Does anybody want a run-down on what’s wrong with this movie? Can we be bothered?



It strikes me that the FORREST GUMP writer, in blatantly trying to emulate his earlier hit, has tried to avoid the controversy that greeted GUMP by removing all the elements some people didn’t like — the creepy political conservatism, the cheap exploitation of AIDS as a story device, the dumbness of the hero. So in BB it’s not clear what, if any, political views are being aired, which is strange in a story that takes in two world wars, the sexual revolution, several trips to the Soviet Union, and Hurricane Katrina. He’s also removed just about all the whimsy and fantasy and intersection with real historical figures, which didn’t work for me last time but at least staved off total tedium. We all know that awfulness is preferable to nothingness, which is why we put up with LIFE — and that little bit of pseudo-insight is at least as deep as anything in Eric Roth’s interminably uneventful screenplay which, placed under a microscope, would surely turn out to be composed of millions of little greetings cards.



I got deja vu from watching a older-than-he-looks Brad Pitt moping about New Orleans (INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE) and from watching a dull, simple, naive Brad Pitt being boring for three hours (MEET JOE BLACK) and from seeing the ’50s evoked by a character getting on a motorcycle (INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL). I got deja vu from seeing dance filmed and cut with brutish insensitivity (just about everything in the US mainstream for the past thirty years).



All that kept me watching was the vain hope for a spectacular and grotesque conclusion. I thought, “Okay, at first he had the tininess of a baby coupled with the creaky wrinkliness of an old man. So at the end he’ll have the girth of an old man coupled with the bouncy pinkness of a baby. Brad Pitt will basically become a giant, 5' 11 baby, toddling around like a hydrocephalic sumo wrestler, smashing through walls and trying to rip Cate Blanchett’s head off, like the monster does to Jane Seymour in FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY.” Something that it might actually be worth waiting 166 bloody minutes to see.



Spoiler alert: that doesn’t happen.





^^^^Hits the nail on the head.

Not seen the film as of yet, but Benjamin Boring Bastard is going to stick with me for a long time now! From this day onwards that's what I will be calling it! : )

Dear doctor,



I think you failed to mention how positively abhorring it was to hear a young girl talk with Cate Blanchett's voice.



Rrrhhh (attempt at a shiver sound effect).



Vinh Prag.

I haven't seen this drivel, but even I know it is yet further evidence of just how far up its own bottom Hollywood has travelled. This film is nothing more than a Brad Pitt ego trip, trying to be clever and profound. It is neither. Ignore.



PS: Maybe there's a reason why the original story was only 28 pages long. Could it not be that it was a load of pretentious, badly thought out bollards?