Having left my home and native land some 30 years ago to go and live west of the Rockies I was thrilled to be introduced to this series for a birthday present.
The cars, and certainly the gadgets, may be different now, but the characters, the ups and downs of everyday life and all the absurdities are no different. When I was young, we were the Welsh and they - the English - were them. Related, we knew we had to tolerate one another, but at times it was a challenging truce (perhaps like the relationships in the series?)!
Now looking at England and Wales from the outside many years later, the two have far more in common than differences. However, in North America, Britain is called 'England' and I'm quite often asked if I'm English. ... Read More:
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Only recently watched both series - Alison Steadman is an excellent actress but feel she bas been cast in something that is far beneth her.
I have to admit Ruth Jones as Nessa and Rob Byron as Bryn are both excellent as boring and as simple as Bryn is some of the lines were so funny the one about going on myspace and boosting about 5 friends I thought was quite funny
The main 2 characters Gavin (who has also appeared in Catherine Tate show) is very wooden and Stacey who plays Gavin's g'friend/fiance/wife - must be the woman in men's nightmares - so clingy and the high pitched welsh accent made me just want to cringe
All in all i feel that aside from the main 2 characters the show could be really good
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Very Annie Mary is funny, touching, and is scary in places only because there are characters in the film that are so true to life it's uncanny. If you have ever had any connections with the South Wales Valleys, take a look at this and be entertained. The cast names read like a welsh 'Who's Who' and have been listed in previous reviews, but look out for Joanna Page (Gavin & Stacey) as Lil Bethan Bevan and Ruth Jones (G&S) who has a bit part of a woman buying bread! I bought sweets as a child in the same shop used by Hob & Nob, and the choir in the film sang at my wedding. A truly precious film.
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Miss Julie is a seriously excellent adaptation. Some might dislike its very stagey feel, but with the amount of utterly uninteresting plays I've seen lately, I could not have been more pleased! With only 3 proper characters (although we might add the silent presence of the Count), a set basically consisting of one room and some very intense dialogue, it's a very claustrophobic film.
Saffron Burrows is quite spectacular, carrying the emotions of Miss Julie magnificently. And Julie is a pretty emotionally unstable gal! The passion, the anger and the vulnerability all explode onto the screen (the bird-scene is just pitch perfect) and leave Mullan, to be frank, a little behind. Still, his performance is subtle, even if it does not quite ... Read More:
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Very Annie Mary is funny, touching, and is scary in places only because there are characters in the film that are so true to life it's uncanny. If you have ever had any connections with the South Wales Valleys, take a look at this and be entertained. The cast names read like a welsh 'Who's Who' and have been listed in previous reviews, but look out for Joanna Page (Gavin & Stacey) as Lil Bethan Bevan and Ruth Jones (G&S) who has a bit part of a woman buying bread! I bought sweets as a child in the same shop used by Hob & Nob, and the choir in the film sang at my wedding. A truly precious film.
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Golding was fascinated with what happens when a group of humanity is thrown on their own, isolated from other humanity and forced to recreate their own society. He studied this in Lord of the Flies, and in a great way in the sea trilogy that this film is based upon.
The story involves maturation of Edmund Talbot, an aristocrat who takes ship from England for Sydney, Australia, to take up a post sponsored by his influential Godfather. It's also the story of a group of people of disparate backgrounds who are jumbled into the cramped confines of an elderly, leaky man o' war, with all of the effluvia of 50-year-old ballast and the constant suppuration of slimy bilge water, and packed humanity crammed between the decks. Finally, it's a story about class and ... Read More:
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Golding was fascinated with what happens when a group of humanity is thrown on their own, isolated from other humanity and forced to recreate their own society. He studied this in Lord of the Flies, and in a great way in the sea trilogy that this film is based upon.
The story involves maturation of Edmund Talbot, an aristocrat who takes ship from England for Sydney, Australia, to take up a post sponsored by his influential Godfather. It's also the story of a group of people of disparate backgrounds who are jumbled into the cramped confines of an elderly, leaky man o' war, with all of the effluvia of 50-year-old ballast and the constant suppuration of slimy bilge water, and packed humanity crammed between the decks. Finally, it's a story about class and ... Read More:
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Golding was fascinated with what happens when a group of humanity is thrown on their own, isolated from other humanity and forced to recreate their own society. He studied this in Lord of the Flies, and in a great way in the sea trilogy that this film is based upon.
The story involves maturation of Edmund Talbot, an aristocrat who takes ship from England for Sydney, Australia, to take up a post sponsored by his influential Godfather. It's also the story of a group of people of disparate backgrounds who are jumbled into the cramped confines of an elderly, leaky man o' war, with all of the effluvia of 50-year-old ballast and the constant suppuration of slimy bilge water, and packed humanity crammed between the decks. Finally, it's a story about class and ... Read More:
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Very Annie Mary is funny, touching, and is scary in places only because there are characters in the film that are so true to life it's uncanny. If you have ever had any connections with the South Wales Valleys, take a look at this and be entertained. The cast names read like a welsh 'Who's Who' and have been listed in previous reviews, but look out for Joanna Page (Gavin & Stacey) as Lil Bethan Bevan and Ruth Jones (G&S) who has a bit part of a woman buying bread! I bought sweets as a child in the same shop used by Hob & Nob, and the choir in the film sang at my wedding. A truly precious film.
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