(Notice how excited I am?)
For all the fuss, this doesn’t really leave much of an impact. Better than the rest of the recent stuff and pretty good entertainment. A few good touches in the beginning and, interestingly, absolutely no wokery that I could detect. But nothing anywhere close to beating Casino Royale, which (and I said so right after that came out) is rather counter-productive and unfortunate for the rest of it all.
(Ugh. Billy-****ing-Eilish in that company).
Also remember the line about a film only being as good as its villain, and god, darling Rami is no match for Raoul Silva.
But at least people tried.
A bit hard to find a suitable follow up to a Bond film, any Bond film (unless it’s Spectre, heh). But I thought I’d give this a try.
I’m already loving this. Pretty good so far, situation ain’t hopeless out there.
Gets stale 40 per cent through. The little girl is v. annoying and the older couple is caricaturesque.
Last night, it was Lamb, the newest from that strangest of studios, A24. Set on a remote, misty volcano in Iceland, a married couple live a remote, misty life, raising sheep way down a long, misty road. Life mainly consists of surviving, harvesting grass and feeding the sheep. It's a life that could be spiritually enlightening or that would drive any normal person completely batsh*t crazy. I'm among the latter since I understand it when the couple adopt a lamb, put it in clothes and set it up at the dinner table. There's something else in their past, implied, the loss of a child and really, there' nothing else to do in this miserable place.
Then the husband's brother shows up. He's an unknown, seems to be sketchy and ominous, has designs for the wife. Things get even stranger when he, after some initial "reservations", takes to the lamb as a human kid.
I don't know how some people might impose interpretations on all of this, but I'm thinking that if I lived in this place, I would be so crazy that dressing up a lamb as a person would be the least of my problems. As it turns out, that is the least of their problems.
It's an A24 movie, so you know that none of this goes anywhere normal or simple.
Oh, and, by the way, unlike the trailer, you will not hear the Beach Boys singing God Only Knows anywhere in the movie. I think it was the trailer makers way of making a little joke and telling you that this gets strange. As though you didn't know that already. After all, it's an A24 movie. I wonder if they will ever make a Rom-Com?