Last Chance Harvey

[slemslempike]

I realise that none of you knew I was going to see Last Chance Harvey, because I didn't know myself until this afternoon, but I still think that SOMEONE could have let me know, perhaps in a kindly email, that in this film Emma Thompson gets stood up. I do not cope at all well with people being stood up, least of all people as brilliant as Emma Thompson, and I did not cry at all quietly. Emma Thompson wasn't upset, Emma Thompson merely accepted it as her inevitable due which was frankly one of the most tragic things ever to happen on any size of screen. Oh god. That aside (as if you could ever put something so horrible aside), it was still a pretty bad film.

Comments

[metamorphosa.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sorry you had to sit through that film. I saw it on the place to Arizona back in June, and the list of things that were bad with it were too long to be bothered with writing about.

I've just been to see The Half Blood Prince, and I thought that was bad, too. Ice Age 3 is next week with the children, and I'm pinning my hopes on that one!

[anglaisepaon.livejournal.com]

Oh, you didn't like The Half-Blood Prince?

[metamorphosa.livejournal.com]

No. I have absolutely loved every single film, but this one really disappointed me. Partly because it seemed to drag half a film's worth of content out over one very long film, but mainly because of the way they spent the first twenty minutes setting you up to see physical relationships through the eyes of a child, and then they immediately slid into somebody who 'collects children', who found enjoyment by entertaining children in the evening, in his private room, by plying them with party food. And on top of that Harry's staged innocent eagerness to be everything that professor wanted just made my skin crawl at how it all just seemed rather like an underlying tone too similar to grooming. Especially as for much of the film the professor was assumed to have some bad secret about him. I know H has always had a close relationship with Dumbledore, but somehow the falseness around the one with the professor made all the difference.

And it ended sort of.. unfinished, but without a cliffhanger. The people in the cinema booed and we all complained as we walked out. We're obviously a picky lot. :)

ETA: I tried to put this behind a cut but it didn't work. Meh.