Me too, chuckled at some of it given what we’ve learned here about the craft.
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That’s partly what made it so interesting 
The Commitments.
Joey “The Lips” Fagan.
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I didn’t realise that Johnny Flynn the singer of the Detectorists theme was also an actor (Francis in this film)
No, me neither.
Downhill Racer.
I first watched this around 30 years ago and remember it having an impact on me, noticed it was on Amazon, I was right back then, it’s very good, well worth a watch.
Saw the ‘Ferrari’ movie on Friday evening, and enjoyed it. Despite the casting, it doesn’t end-up unrecognisably Americanised (unless you ask an elderly Italian, I’d imagine), and the action scenes are visceral and mostly very good with remarkably little in the way of CGI. indeed the effects are sometimes almost period-correct: clunky in-car shots filmed on trailers and speeded-up footage of mincingly-driven classic cars that are nowadays worth $millions!
While there are no true casting or acting stinkers (praise-be that Hugh Jackman baled years ago…), the family-life side of things is almost completely carried by a stunner of a performance from Penelope Cruz. Contrastingly, Adam Driver overcooks the cool, distance of Enzo Ferrari’s personality, leaving little savor of his charisma, much-less his extensive darker side - a missed opportunity that seems downright odd.
Then, this is quite a nuanced movie, that tunnels down to a brief episode in Ferrari’s life, and focusses on a race (the Mille Miglia) which, while one of the true post-war epic death-races, is largely unknown outside Europe - and then doesn’t even make it clear that the appalling (and graphically-portrayed) incident in Guidizzolo was the one that finished the race as a state-of-the-art contest forever*.
What you’re left with is a movie that’s not completely satisfying to lovers of historical dramas, nor to race-fans or Ferrari obsessives, but it’s also Something A Bit Different in a world of depressingly-predictable modular movie making, and that is very welcome.
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*A race of the same name resumed decades later, but only for historic vehicles at legal speeds.
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“Harlen Coben’s ‘Fool Me Once’” . . . Just watched episode 1.
Oh dear.
I hope this gets a LOT better, and quickly.
But, if you like the notion of a poundshop pastiche of a Tom Cruise vehicle, but smeared out over eight episodes, and full of clunky generic dialogue, semaphored plotlines and one-dimensional cut-and-paste characters, then you will 
this.
I may stick with it purely from self-loathing…
Wife said it was shit.
Ditto
Wives were right 
stop fecking about with this & get on with TD1
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I do not have TV remote control Privileges in this household… 
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We started TD1 tonight, 2 in and it is as good as we recall
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Panorama on the shit show that is the Royal Mail.From comments on here over the last 2 years it could have been written by @Rob998 .
But shows that what he (and my local postie) has been saying is common all over the UK as is local managers saying it isn’t.
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https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/26/opinions/dune-part-two-colonialism-berlatsky/index.html
CNN going to a point where even the Grauniad might think it was a bit too right on.
