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Full English Breakfast (2014)
Hate myself for liking this
The camera work is pretty good, high quality in fact. The film looks very professionally shot, don't listen to people who say otherwise.
Dave himself is on great form - Honestly he's worth the ticket price alone as aging but still formidable, charismatic psycho with a fondness for nine irons and hot, trophy wives.
Nigel St Lewis who has no lines yet manages to absolutely terrify as mute, smiling psycho, particularly in the (probably best scene of the movie) set to 80's classic Je Taime... moi non plus. It draws parallels with Layer cakes ordinary world scene but blows that out of the water. You'll never listen to Serge Gainsbourg the same way again.
Bad points - Many times the film felt very contrived. Bad writing both in terms of plot structure and dialogue. Some of the actors honestly were just reading the lines. At times it was bad it was jarring, to the point you just can't suspend your disbelief.
There's a lot of things wrong with FEB - But you don't buy a fiesta and expect a Ferrari. It never pretends to be Oscar bait and damn it it is (sometimes unintentionally) fun. All I'm saying is that if you locked Dave and Nigel in a room with a decent Director, a good script and a budget then you'd really have a movie!
Angels Sing (2013)
Angels Cried
Oh dear...where to start The film should have started with the tragedy that shapes HCJ's decision to go grinch (Thanks Rache) but nooooo. Instead it plods through a full 30 mins of unnatural, slightly awkward character development in which no characters are developed.
The main problem is that there isn't a plot (84 minutes of one guy trying to decide if he should put up Christmas lights and deciding to do it)and poor direction although the acting isn't Oscar bait. A gurning HCJ gets out acted by Willie Nellson and two plastic reindeer's.
If you're a fan of kumbayah Christmas Carol singing, Christmas jumpers and acoustic guitars in front of roaring fires then then your in for a real treat because this is at least 30 minutes of run time.
If not prepare to cringe as Kristofferson and Co break out the guitars every 15 minutes and stare at one another with creepy expressions of wide eyed wonderment whilst the kids are forced to go Acappella on such classics as 'Twelve Days of Christmas' Sacharine sweet and dripping with schmaltz. Cast and crew are all going on the naughty list, except Willie who turns in a pretty decent St Nick