tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post1822584746144543979..comments2024-03-28T15:25:55.785-07:00Comments on Raybeard: Film: 'A LONG WAY DOWN'Raybeardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12424095016313843883noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-20877429930967520122014-03-30T04:01:28.660-07:002014-03-30T04:01:28.660-07:00You're always free to give it the benefit of t...You're always free to give it the benefit of the doubt, Mitch, though for me there's no doubt at all.Raybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12424095016313843883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-69121717111013221602014-03-29T11:41:40.843-07:002014-03-29T11:41:40.843-07:00Ew. I hadn't heard of this one. And, if not fo...Ew. I hadn't heard of this one. And, if not for you review, it's possible I never would have.Moving with Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12954028272162285597noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-1925201900802934172014-03-28T07:15:44.412-07:002014-03-28T07:15:44.412-07:00I hear that the book's narrators (I think it m...I hear that the book's narrators (I think it might be all four characters in turn) isn't translated into the film, which would have been highly confusing if they'd attempted it.<br />But apart from that, the film showed so many of the cliches one fears, 'mood music' horribly up-front.<br />Another cliche I didn't mention: As the suicide bids are called off at the beginning there's a sudden thunderstorm, complete with torrential rain which appears as if by magic in a second - why does that ALWAYS happen in films? Anyway, do they have any idea how many times we get thunderstorms in this country? I'd say in any given area about one a year, and it's nearly always fairly routine and unspectacular. So that was another factor which got me in an early bad mood. <br />Oh, and by the way, I also didn't mention that about 20 minutes after the start one of the audience members started to snore loudly - and off and on for the rest of the film. It was a measure of the audience's interest in the film that not a single other member tried to wake him up or even shouted "Shush!" from their seat. That just about about says it all! Raybeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12424095016313843883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-926347286766677626.post-18717648531671595672014-03-28T05:06:15.196-07:002014-03-28T05:06:15.196-07:00After Hornby's success with "About A Boy&...After Hornby's success with "About A Boy" (currently a weekly series here) and "An Education" you wonder what went wrong?paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02085842904367441128noreply@blogger.com