gillies
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This is a teenage romance comedy, modeled after the famous play Cyrano de Bergerak. Billy Walsh is the hot new American male at the British upper class boarding school. Emelia is a sweet Indian-British young girl who falls in love with him. Archie is her best friend her whole life who is secretly in love with Emelia. The trouble proceeds from there.
A lot of people are giving it very low ratings. I'm afraid the problem is Sebastian Croft who plays Archie. He does a pretty good job maybe an above average performance but the writing for this character is just cringe almost all of the time. All the other characters are completely lovable but the audience never develops any sympathy for Archie.
There are some awesome moments in this film and they are very very funny but there are some very painful cringe moments that are not funny and are just hard to watch. If they had reworked the script this could easily have been at 10 of a movie. Charithra Chandron (Emilia). And Tanner Buchanan (Billy) turn in outstanding performances.
The best thing I can say about this movie is that it reminded me of the hit Netflix series "Never have I ever" about an Indian girl trying to fit into American culture and that is superb and everybody should go watch "Never have I ever", I recommend anything to tries to follow in its footsteps!
A lot of people are giving it very low ratings. I'm afraid the problem is Sebastian Croft who plays Archie. He does a pretty good job maybe an above average performance but the writing for this character is just cringe almost all of the time. All the other characters are completely lovable but the audience never develops any sympathy for Archie.
There are some awesome moments in this film and they are very very funny but there are some very painful cringe moments that are not funny and are just hard to watch. If they had reworked the script this could easily have been at 10 of a movie. Charithra Chandron (Emilia). And Tanner Buchanan (Billy) turn in outstanding performances.
The best thing I can say about this movie is that it reminded me of the hit Netflix series "Never have I ever" about an Indian girl trying to fit into American culture and that is superb and everybody should go watch "Never have I ever", I recommend anything to tries to follow in its footsteps!
Im only 2 episodes into the series, which I'll call, *Breaking Bad UK" in the NCIS Miami sense of the word. A desperate situation confronta a young man with a good heart, a new inheritance, a bad brother, and an unwitting woman drug dealer as his new partner. Like in the original series, everything gets just a little bit WORSE at the end of every episode, with plenty of dark humor and incompetence & drug dealers mixed in! Giancarlo Esposito - the world's #1 bad guy - "gus" in breaking bad - also stars and I'm sure they have something diabolical planned for him! Overall, if you don't get too invested in any side characters (who will be obviously expendible) and roll with the punches and irony and sutuation stupidity (a form of situation comedy) I think you'll enjoy this ride!
I know nothing of Guy Ritchie. This isn't as as smart or as good as Money Heist from Spain but its still worth a watch!
I know nothing of Guy Ritchie. This isn't as as smart or as good as Money Heist from Spain but its still worth a watch!
Seven strangers wake up on a plane with the pilots locked away in the cockpit and nobody remembers being drugged or kidnapped to get them there. The plot begins to unfold when one passenger finds that his phone was not confiscated and he is able to communicate with norad on the ground ...
This was undoubtedly the inspiration for the highly successful SyFy Channel series "Dark Matter" two years later. The lead actor, Anthony Montgomery as Cole, does a really outstanding job of holding this $42,000 low budget romp together. Think "Blair Witch" budget film, with less camera shake ... It plays - mostly - like a movie costing 100x more, until the very end of their mysterious flight ...
This was undoubtedly the inspiration for the highly successful SyFy Channel series "Dark Matter" two years later. The lead actor, Anthony Montgomery as Cole, does a really outstanding job of holding this $42,000 low budget romp together. Think "Blair Witch" budget film, with less camera shake ... It plays - mostly - like a movie costing 100x more, until the very end of their mysterious flight ...