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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)
Not as good as I had hoped
In one of the iterations, the protagonist says that he has stripped out a lot of the code so that the player only thinks they are in control. This was very much the idea with Bandersnatch... The viewer only thinks they are in control.
This is the weakest of all Black Mirror stories, since there isn't enough 'meat' to any iteration. Which brings me to feeling that this kind of interactive TV is never going to be anything more that a minority interest.
Most people want to be entertained without having to make decisions, so having them think they are choosing when in fact they are looping until they go down the intended path is only going to be enjoyed by gamers, it will put the majority of 'sit back and enjoy' viewers off.
In the end, this would have better been called Boojum, because when you think that you have settled on a plausible ending, it vanishes in front of you.
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Regrettably bad
With a star studded cast, I thought this was going to be a real treat. unfortunatly, despite the sumptuous sets, the film is marred by awful inconsistencies. But the thing that really marred this for me was the CGI'd train... This wouldn't have cost any more to get right, after all the images were computer generated, but four carriages? The Orient Express to Constantinople had twenty carriages. Bad research!
Professor Branestawm Returns (2015)
Brilliant Christmas Fare
Don't pay any attention to the HonestReviews troll.
This children's programme is perfect family viewing. Based on the writings of Norman Hunter, it brings to life the original madcap illustrations that accompanied them, done by the master of the absurd: William Heath Robinson.
The goofball inventions of the professor are enough to make anyone giggle, but the reaction of the stereotypical middle-England residents of mid 20th century Pagwell are what makes this so special.
Forget the bad reviews, sit down and enjoy some British Quaintness at its best.
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012)
Utter Drivel
There was a time when Aardman could do no wrong. Sadly this film marks the end of those glory days. The story was awful and the jokes were hackneyed. Not even the animation was up to its usual mark.
Usually they say that a film has 'something for everyone to enjoy' this film had something to insult everyone. It depicted many major historical figures that people revere today as either evil ogres or incompetent buffoons. It insulted the British Royal Family, it insulted the American presidency, it insulted the French republic and its depiction of Darwin started to make me think the whole show had been funded by fundamentalist Christians.
The chimpanzee was just a poor copy of the sign-language chimps from Madagascar, hardly original and far from funny.
It was no surprise that people walked out of the cinema I was at, it was a waste of money and time.
Don't bother watching the movie, the only moderately humorous parts are all in the trailer, just watch that and save yourself the money.
The Day of the Triffids (2009)
A Wasted Opportunity
With modern production capabilities, this version could have been the most brilliant rendering of Wyndham's book, but it wasn't. The CGId triffids from the leaves upwards were fair depictions of Wyndham's description but the speedily creeping tendrils at the bottom were more reminiscent of the Evil Dead than the Day of the Triffids. The lack of the three stumpy legs on which the plants 'hobble' and (through which they obtained the name Tri-ffed), as well as the hammer appendages through by they communicate with an indecipherable and creepy kind of Morse code (replacing this with typical Bug-Eyed-Monster growls), really wrecked the essence of the title.
What we got was not 'The Day of the Triffids' but 'The Night of the Salivating Foxglove' As normal, the script suffered from 'BBC Disease' - the sacrificing of literary accuracy for 'Social Relevance', which was taken to such extremes that it threw away any relationship with the original story and could only be described as supremely silly.
Eagerly anticipated, a sad anticlimax! better by far is the 1981 production starring John Duttine.