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Reviews
Cloverfield (2008)
was this a cheaper film to make ?
I had really looked forward to watching "Cloverfield" but had not expected it to be shown so quickly and on Channel Four in the UK. Having resisted the temptation to leave it early I persevered. Did we need to have the over long camcorder farewells to our hero leaving for Japan without any idea as to why as none of those interviewed left sufficient of a favourable impression that I cared at all who lived or who died or who was saved and ended with the impression that this fuzzy strategy stuck the Director with this approach for most of the film at the end of which I felt no resolution and still wondering whether it was made on a shoestring budget but probably wasn't ?
The Tuskegee Airmen (1995)
Why did this excellent film have to wait fifty two years to be made ?
Living in Britain it is hard to appreciate how much deeper the racial divide was in the United States especially during the time from when they entered the 1939-45 war. I lost a father unnecessarily during that war so was emotionally angry by the time it ended and would have liked to have known what happened to all the key personnel whether they stayed in the Army Air Corp or returned to civilian life and how they got on. The record that the Tuskagee 400 or so airmen achieved of not losing a single Flying Fortress during bombing missions to Berlin and elsewhere wasn't just impressive bearing in mind so much racial abuse and restrictions compared to the lack of problems that even Polish, Czech, Canadian, Australian and Free French Fighter pilots had in the Battle of Britain but was admirably portrayed by Laurence Fishbourne and others.
Tristan + Isolde (2006)
Not the Wagnerian opera
Having never seen the Wagner opera I have no idea whether there were plot similarities but with so little music there would seem no other justification for naming the Cornish champion Tristan or the Irish princess Isolde ? And nor was it sufficiently explained why the Irish kept attacking Cornwall over what would have been mainly open water rather than Wales or Lancashire ? The fight and ambush scenes were very well done although it is unlikely that the Cornish archers were such good shots on or off horses ? I soon got bored with the relationship between Isolde and Tristan after her supposed expertise in healing herbs was hardly needed after her unwanted fiancé's poison hardly worked at all ? And how much did the scriptwriters pinch from Camelot and the Launcelot/Guinevere/King Arthur cuckolding ? I found who was on the side of who and who was changing sides and then coming back extremely confusing but then I was watching on TV with one eye whilst working with the other this afternoon.