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[Rory Abel]

How did it fall apart at the end? It's pretty bleak, but the ending works I think.

EDIT: I just tried to watch the new AbFab - had to switch off after 5 minutes before I put my foot through the TV.

Ok, the central idea of the film is that

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while the characters keep looping around the boat continues to travel forward in time. It is not stuck in the loop, hence why there is a build up of broken necklaces and dead bodies. However, once she escapes the boat and returns to the normal world, everything should be stuck in the loop otherwise it doesn't make sense. If the world continued to move forward while more and more versions of her pop into it everything falls apart. Her son wouldn't be there because another version would have already popped in, killed the original her and taken the kid. But then when she hits the seagull (or is it a pelican, I can't remember) she finds the ditch full of dead birds, just like on the boat. This makes absolutely no sense, there shouldn't be any other birds because this is her first time coming by. The only way it might have made sense was if when she gets into the car accident there should be multiple copies of her son sprawled out on the road but there aren't. So either the world is in the loop or it's moving forward but it can't be both. Likewise, the final reveal doesn't make any sense. If she's already been through the loop at least once then she shouldn't have been shocked and confused by the events on the boat, because she had already lived through them at least once before. There are other small problems that are more of nitpicks that just re-enforce that while the director had a really good idea he didn't fully think through how it would work.

Overall, I liked the film and thought it had some really powerful moments,

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particularly the deck strewn with dead bodies of the same perosn,

but thought it was too bad that the ending didn't work nearly as well.

[steveuk]

'The Borrowers' on BBC1, with Christopher Ecclestone, Victoria Wood and (soon) Stephen Fry.

So far, so good.

[Paul F]

New David Jason vehicle The Royal Bodyguard is on. It's not good.

[Steve Sensible]

New David Jason vehicle The Royal Bodyguard is on. It's not good.

The trailer was enough to convince me of that. It was essentially just him knocking things over.

[Stephen G]

Just finished watching RDJ & Jude Law's initial Sherlock Holmes movie, in preparation for seeing the sequel tomorrow afternoon with my lovely wife . Really enjoyed it - as I hadn't watched it since' it was in theatres. Very much looking forward to the next chapter.

We may throw in the new Mission Impossible after that, as well for grins & giggles.

[Ogul]

'The Borrowers' on BBC1, with Christopher Ecclestone, Victoria Wood and (soon) Stephen Fry.

Is that based on those little mouse-people?

[garjones]

Yes.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1975269/

[steveuk]

Yes.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1975269/

And it was pretty good. Not excellent, some big shifts in the story now and again, but it looked good and the cast all gave it their best. It was decent, BBC Christmas entertainment.

[Ogul]

Huh. Might check that out.

[stephanie familiar]

totally crying watching the ending of the Downton Abbey Christmas special!

[Paul F]

totally crying watching the ending of the Downton Abbey Christmas special!

My recording messed up the last half-hour...

Hopefully it recorded properly on my other box back home.

[stephanie familiar]

My recording messed up the last half-hour...

nooooooooooo!!

[steveuk]

'Up Pompeii', the film.

Very much 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum' on a lower budget, with less singing, but still good, undemanding fun.

[David Chapman]

Saw Fincher's Girl With The Dragon Tattoo yesterday. Very good remake, with just enough changes to keep it fresh without altering the story. For reasons which have nothing to do with Daniel Craig, I'd quite like to see Fincher do a Bond movie now.

[Nicholas Taggart]

The Downton Abbey Christmas episode really delivered. The ending made for a great moment.

[stephanie familiar]

The Downton Abbey Christmas episode really delivered. The ending made for a great moment.

aww, did you cry? you can tell us!

[Nicholas Taggart]

aww, did you cry? you can tell us!

No

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I went like

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And said "yeaaaaaaah!"

[Johnny Henning]

Saw Fincher's Girl With The Dragon Tattoo yesterday. Very good remake, with just enough changes to keep it fresh without altering the story. For reasons which have nothing to do with Daniel Craig, I'd quite like to see Fincher do a Bond movie now.

I remember about a decade or so ago, Tom Cruise's production company Cruise/Wagner was trying to develop Poe's novella THE NARRATIVE OF A. GORDON PYM. I think John Logan (Gladiator, Hugo, many other big movies) even wrote a draft of the screenplay, but it never got far.

Lovecraft called AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS an unofficial sequel to PYM (Jules Verne's An Antartic Mystery was also an intentional sequel to the story), so maybe that had something to do with Tom Cruise agreeing to join Guillermo Del Toro and James Cameron's doomed attempt to put Lovecraft's story on screen, but I think I'd rather see Fincher handle something like Pym or possibly another Poe story and make it work for modern audiences.

I don't think THE RAVEN will really reintroduce the author any more than TOTAL RECALL had much to do with P. K. Dick's fiction.

Ironically, my first introduction to Poe were the lurid Roger Corman adaptations that usually starred Vincent Price. I think the Raven will probably be more in that vein.

[Craig MacD]

Watching Iron Man 2 with commentary by Jon Favreau.

[Steve Sensible]

Watching Iron Man 2 with commentary by Jon Favreau.

Does he give any insight into how it went off the rails?