Rain Man (1988) Re-visited - but not in a good way

Rain Man (1988) Re-visited - but not in a good way

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24 January

Rain Man (1988) Re-visited - but not in a good way

At that time, he studied for such roles and won praise, but this also won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay :

The humanity in The Elephant Man (1980) seems worlds away, plus is this film any more insightful, or less of a parody, than As Good as It Gets (1997) ?

2 / 3

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Whether it's what Dr Bruner or the doctor in the small town say, it's a limiting view of autism :https://t.co/3RoOTM7xJp

* Even if Raymond knows that he went to Wallbrook on 21 January 1965, for other reasons this was in Worcester, on the night of Sunday 19 March 1989.

3 / 3

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Tweets by way of review of Branagh's Belfast (2021)

Tweets by way of review of Branagh's Belfast (2021)

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16 January

The Reggie Perrin Tweets

Maybe Branagh's 'most personal film', but it's unclear that what should have won Belfast (2021) a Golden Globe was his screenplay :

Stagey speeches, two given to Caitríona Balfe (Ma), and one to Ciarán Hinds (Pop), are most out of place in what isn't Meet Me in St. Louis (1944).

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That, and without (despite Hill's best) enough to maintain interest in Buddy's life at school or in love, using films (on t.v., or at the cinema) is meant to function as in Radio Days (1987), whereas Belfast has Van Morrison tracks around which to cohere - and not a Judy Garland.

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Cute though Jude's naive Buddy¹ was *meant* to be, too often it just set up Norman-Wisdom-type mishaps / misunderstandings, and I heard very much laughter for some weak jokes².

¹ Once I heard that he wasn't called Billy, I guessed why - if not at a song sung so sentimentally...

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Jamie Dornan's Pa also rather too closely physically evokes Sir K. ?

² There are two, maybe three, unforced laughs in the whole film, and a whole lotta schlock to soften The Troubles - Benigni's La vita è bella (1997) worked, where this doesn't, plus it's no Jojo Rabbit (2019).

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'[W]hich unfolds on a terraced-street set knocked up on an exhibition-centre car park in Hampshire, and looking every bit of it.'

Along with much else in the review, sadly accurate, e.g. the word 'speechifying', and on 'slip[ping] in footage from Zinnemann’s High Noon' !

2 / 2

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If #Titane is 'worse' than Raw (2016), which had potential that it squandered, then Life's too Short

If #Titane is 'worse' than Raw (2016), which had potential that it squandered, then Life's too Short

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5 January

If #Titane is 'worse' than Raw (2016), which had potential that it squandered, then Life's too Short

* And previous feature, which veered away (a) at the beginning, by abating the vet-school menace in favour of the private, er, snacking, and (b) into, at the end, what *might* have been a tag for a sequel, etc., but just repeated the worst of The Shining's resolution (in 1980).

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Proposition : Films set in space, but not really about space, are weird (work in progress)

Proposition : Films set in space, but not really about space, are weird (work in progress)

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3 January

Proposition : Films set in space, but not really about space, are weird (work in progress)

* At whatever stage that may have happened - maybe even before what would have been a better film was able to get (fully) funded ?

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