Posted August 25, 200816 yr Did anyone else see Somers Town? i thought it was good and found in no way were any refs to Eurostar really really obtrusive
August 27, 200816 yr Saw this yesterday, really liked it..... I actually used to live not far from where they shot this, just 10 mins away from Kings Cross/St Pancras in Mornington Crescent, Camden, so I recognised a fair few of the locations... A bit short it has to be said, I could've sat and watched a lot more of this, the interplay between Tommo and Marek was just brilliant, and the "dodgy geeeezahhhh" was just hilarious... :lol: About the only time where I felt there was obvious "product placement" for St Pancras station/Eurostar was the bit where Tommo and Marek were kind of waxing lyrical about the "hugeness" of the station.... This was a lot better than the other film I saw yesterday - "Shoot On Sight" a film about an innocent Muslim bloke shot by cops on the underground and the Police investigation into the shooting... Sure sounded like a great film, and it started off fantastically for about the first 20 minutes or so, but then turned into some sort of weird family melodrama and the principle story seemed to just get totally forgotten... It was like the film tried to tell two separate stories and did justice to neither.... Bad scripting let a potentially good film down....
August 30, 200816 yr Author Saw this yesterday, really liked it..... I actually used to live not far from where they shot this, just 10 mins away from Kings Cross/St Pancras in Mornington Crescent, Camden, so I recognised a fair few of the locations... A bit short it has to be said, I could've sat and watched a lot more of this, the interplay between Tommo and Marek was just brilliant, and the "dodgy geeeezahhhh" was just hilarious... :lol: Yeah totally and this was picked up in some reviews - think Anthony Quinn in the Indie was one - saying that he should be in the film more with some of Tomo's lines being funnier if they came out of his mouth and with the twee Franco love affaire reduced (tho obv this couldnt be exclude like totally or Eurostar would have to be replaced with like Midland Mainline :lol: :lol: ) This was a lot better than the other film I saw yesterday - "Shoot On Sight" a film about an innocent Muslim bloke shot by cops on the underground and the Police investigation into the shooting... Sure sounded like a great film, and it started off fantastically for about the first 20 minutes or so, but then turned into some sort of weird family melodrama and the principle story seemed to just get totally forgotten... It was like the film tried to tell two separate stories and did justice to neither.... Bad scripting let a potentially good film down.... Well didnt get to see that one - must have been quite limited as most screens near me seemed to be filled up with sing-a-longa mamma mia....might have more potiential if they had extended it to 3.5 hours and added some europop styled hindi sung bollywood songs....(was watching Kal Ho Naa Ho at home this week...which like a few bollywood films seemed to try and shuv about 62 different genres in to about 4 hours and had its fair share of melodrama among its rom-com and its cheesy europop styled hindi sung bollywood songs....so long with ad breaks that my mum kept coming into the room and saying is this still the same film :lol: - and i wonder how long a bollywood remake of Somers Town would be? 6 hours>!>!) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a5/KalHoNaaHo1.jpg
August 30, 200816 yr extended it to 3.5 hours and added some europop styled hindi sung bollywood songs....(was watching Kal Ho Naa Ho at home this week...which like a few bollywood films seemed to try and shuv about 62 different genres in to about 4 hours and had its fair share of melodrama among its rom-com and its cheesy europop styled hindi sung bollywood songs....so long with ad breaks that my mum kept coming into the room and saying is this still the same film :lol: - and i wonder how long a bollywood remake of Somers Town would be? 6 hours>!>!) I really dunno how "Shoot On Sight" was classed as a 'Bollywood' film tbh, what, just cos it was made by a mainly Asian crew??? I was under the impression that "Bollywood" was more an actual genre of film these days.... Came across more like a one-off Drama that the Beeb would do tbh.... It seemed very "made-for-TV" in a lot of ways, whereas most Bollywood films are clearly very Cinematic affairs....
August 30, 200816 yr Author I really dunno how "Shoot On Sight" was classed as a 'Bollywood' film tbh, what, just cos it was made by a mainly Asian crew??? I was under the impression that "Bollywood" was more an actual genre of film these days.... Came across more like a one-off Drama that the Beeb would do tbh.... It seemed very "made-for-TV" in a lot of ways, whereas most Bollywood films are clearly very Cinematic affairs.... well i wouldnt class it as traditional bollywood film either (tho it might work better as one :lol: ) but these days the bollywood film industry are branching out funding quite a lot of other things (think the happening was part funded by bollywood as well) - i dont know what the funding is for that film is (got a few weeks of screen international to catch up on :lol: ) but i think its done by the same people as provoked...so might qualify as i think that was backed by bollywood money and put out by a hindi film specialist...and talking about Aishwarya Rai...i've read that she's got a part in the pink panther 2...which might have to be noted on part of the love guru/get smart thread...
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