Film Festival 2009: Day 2

[svendelmaus]

The Cove was, in some senses, a very well done film -- a rollicking adventure story of a band of plucky adventurers who use a high-tech heist to expose a corrupt government cover-up. And the footage that they capture is arresting, with the beach and cove turning red with the blood of slaughtered dolphins. And these were the rejects that didn't get

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[exiledinpn]

This is based on the TV comedy "The Thick of It" - which is a modern, Blairite take on "Yes Minister". I highly recommend it (the TV show, at least).

[grandexperiment]

Luke and I are getting the 5 hour version of Red Cliff. Im looking forward to it.

Sam

[stephanie_pegg]

(I thought that this film was very accessible to a Western audience, which makes me wonder whether it was cut differently for us.)
- The original For China release was two 2-hour movies. So, yeah, it was cut differently. Apparently they cut out a lot of exposition scenes from the beginning, like a tiger hunt where the riding, shooting, spying princess is first introduced but with some recut scenes to help us Westerners understand what's going on. So if it doesn't make sense in places, there are reasons. (I looked it up on Wikipedia.) I have to admit that I totally lost track of who a lot of the generals and advisors were. But I understood the ending, so I guess it must be alright.