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Whisky Galore! (2016)
A pleasant way to enjoy some Scotland - with a story too
We all know the overall storyline. Islanders loot a wreck and solve their whisky shortage, and then are pursue by HMRC and the over zealous incomer Home Guard officer.
If you enjoy seeing officialdom outwitted, and the delights of the scenery as a background, with some comic moments, then take a look.
The Sea Wolves (1980)
Real Events, told on film
The thing about making a film from actual events is that real life doesn't come with special effects and constantly dramatic personal interchange.
The film provides plenty of suspended anticipation, and a bit of manufactured drama, such as engine trouble.
Just expand your mind a bit, and place yourself in Portugal in the early days of WWII and consider the actual risks and activities, and your enjoyment may be improved. Slightly cheesy models used at the end, but that was the technology of film at the time it was made.
Alien Conquest (2021)
You feel embarrassed for the actors
You know those really, really bad adverts that make you shudder and wonder how anyone could possibly demean themselves to be a part of one? Even if you're a starving actor surely you have self respect enough to turn down such a job.
Well - imagine one of those that goes on for 87 minutes.
HG Wells wrote an excellent story - even better when you realise when he was writing.
Luckily, this has nothing whatever to do with the original.
I see that asylum films were involved in making it. Must have been when they were inside an asylum.
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
Watch this and judge by the context of its time.
1944, and the losses of wartime are still at the front of every audience member.
The film gives a glimpse of a landscape, a way of life, that was about to vanish, and looks back, using the Canterbury Tales as something to hang the lyrical photography on.
Not much of a story, and the pace is that of a pilgrim walking to Canterbury, but that is what makes it.
The shots of Canterbury, and the bomb sites and ancient streets will never come again, nor the innocence of the children playing.
Something to appreciate rather than to entertain or thrill. A bit of education for the G. I. s assembling, a nod at the town/country divide and the landed gentry versus the serf class of pre war rural kent.
Nothing to not like.