Tom Hiddleston 8 (1000)

331 Name: Anon : 2016-05-15 15:19 ID:NAvnUPQi

Well, I finally went to ISTL today, despite the fact that the sun was shining. Fan guilt!

Due to a paucity of screenings anywhere, I ended up at a lunchtime screening at the Westfield (giant shopping mall in West London, for the uninitiated). This actually proved quite useful as there was a tapas bar right by the entrance, which helpfully sold me a giant glass of white Rioja to get me through the entertainment.

I thought for the entirety of the trailers it was just going to be me and my flasher raincoat, but at the last possible second another woman walked in. We didn't make eye contact and at the end we both scuttled out clutching our handbags and looking ashamed for not having gone to see Captain America: Civil War.

I have to say, it wasn't as dreadful as I thought it was going to be. It felt like a sweet well meaning little tv movie. I enjoyed the concert scenes a lot and TH's "sangin" sounded a whole lot better than in any interview (helped I guess by a lot of practice at the time and possibly a touch of improvement in the editing suite, who knows). And the cinematography and costumes were great.

The rest, as Anon. and whatsinaname have said, was a load of unconnected scenes cut together by a person who had never edited a movie before. I spent a lot of time going "who's that? what happened to the other guy? Hank's been screwing around and drinking a lot? But you just got married 5 minutes ago and we've only seen him screwing you!" My particular favourite was the 10 second pregnancy: cut from Audrey giving the happy news to Hank sitting in a bar with a load of guys whose names we haven't been told, learning that Audrey is about to give birth. The "hanging out with people we know nothing about" seemed to happen a LOT in this movie.

This wasn't helped by TH's accent which I found quite hard to understand in parts. Ah well. I felt how much they wanted to make it good and it seemed a shame that it wasn't.

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