The only time I can see Call Me By Your Name is at 8:15 tonight. It wasn’t very well distributed down here when it came out in November & the day I could see it there was football so that came first. It does mean there’s a lot of time to hang around. So let’s go see another films first. Only problem is iv seen almost all of them & dont want to watch 50 shades so it’s got to be the Mercy. Even though it looks a little bit dull.
Screen 8 was full of older people on meerkat wednesdays & it was about 30% full, which is okay i guess probably about 20 other people in there.
Trailers there was finding your feet, which everyone else laughed uncontrollably at the trailer, which you know isnt that funny. Then we had the panthers which still looks epic. Then it was a film bout Guernsey or jersey & there book club which did look a bit boring & then a toned down trailer for i Tonya. there was also an advert for a nt ballet thing,mehhh.
& then the film started….hmmmm. Well its 102 minutes of my life i will not get back & i was right to be judgmental before i went in to see it. It was just really dull & boring & no passion in it, which considering the film is about someones passion for adventure really bothered me.
Firth & Weisz & everyone else in it (including Gatiss which was a nice surprise) are all good actors who looked like they had seen the idea for the film & the real life story & had gone yea im up for that. But not one of them showed the emotion love & passion for the film, to make it the historical piece it should have been.
Okay yes its hard to film someone on a boat for so long & Firth was okay in that, but the flash backs & the visions & the emotions could have been conveyed better. It was just a little bit too stop start for me. When you were getting somewhere it changed its tone or just didnt hit the heart strings where it was meant to.
Honestly i was very merciful when the Mercy ended & was really grateful that i was going to have another film to watch straight away to block this one from my mind.
Well done Gerard Butler, you no longer have the worst film of the year. This was just awkward & awful & the real Crowhurst is probably turning in his sea grave, thinking that this is how his end is being portrayed.