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Notting Hill (1999)
What possessed me to watch this c**p?
12 November 2000
What do I hate more? The film 'Notting Hill' for being such a heaping pile of mildewed, rotten, putrid smelling sh*t, or myself for paying money to the industry that allowed this artificial fairytale 'romance' to ever appear at my local Odeon.

This is without doubt the most cloyingly saccharine sweet, disturbing, appallingly reality-free piece of film of all 1999, appealing only to a) Self satisfied idiots b) Drippy romantics/new couples. I'm neither a) nor b), so I see through the veil of c**p.

Will Thacker owns and runs a bookshop. Badly. The biggest film star in the world, Anna Scott, (Roberts) drops into Will's Notting Hill bookshop, one thing leads to another and the two start a relationship.

Not impossible, by any means. Just highly, highly improbable. The relationship and the place they called Notting Hill. I live near Notting Hill, and it don't look like that, believe me. Where are all the different races? Where are the tramps? Where's the rubbish? All conveniently airbrushed out to feed the Hollywood view of England as full of Hugh Grants (effeminate fops) and Rhys Ifans (lovable rouge) - granted, he's Welsh, but the US aren't listening that hard.

Incredibly, both the US and UK's general public seemed to fall for the same character Hugh Grant has been playing since he was born - (blithering mook) - and as for Julia Roberts and the scene where people are bad-mouthing actresses: boo-hoo!!! My heart goes out to Roberts, the beautiful actress living a dream, and earning dream money to go with it.

I should know better - I think I'm a pretty intelligent man, yet I paid my money and sat down for my medicine. And boy, did it taste bad.
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Honest (2000)
What have I just sat through?
30 May 2000
This film started poorly and did very little to pull itself up and away from the lowest common denominator; 'roll up and see the All Saints get their boobs out!' Any film needs more than celebrity nudity to make it watchable - sadly Honest didn't have much else to recommend it. The script is average, the plot has an exciting base but doesn't build on this, and the Appleton accents are 'novel' at best. For me Melanie comes away her head held high. She is sweet and engaging as Jo, but is that because she is a good actress or that Melanie Blatt herself is sweet and engaging? The film would always be slated in England regardless of how good it was. It isn't terrible, but it definitely isn't anything to write home about.
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12 Angry Men (1957)
10/10
Quality, quality film making
4 May 2000
Finally, a site that recognises quality when it sees it.

Being a big fan of star Fonda and director Lumet isn't a pre-requisite to liking this film; Those two performances are magic, but the expert way the tone is set, then tweeked to wring the emotion from every scene.....perfect

A film that, although made in black and white, has a vibrancy not often matched by todays efforts.
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