What you thought of Up in the Air
Excellent: 4
Good: 12
Average: 17
Poor: 2
Very Poor: 2
Overall response in favour 60%
American nonsense. Fun Movie. Light entertainment.
Very funny in parts but overlong for the material – slight overall.
A potentially grim subject made into a very quirky and enjoyable film.
It was a nice critique of the corporate life!
Don’t sell your soul to a man. Never believe a woman!
Not great but a comment on individualism – or should I say a warning!
Inconsequential fluff with pretensions. The separate elements did not gel together at all. Nice aerial shots.
Entertaining but not great.
A rather predictable thesis! Still enjoyable.
Trite, predictable, visually uninteresting, even monotonous: one or two amusing lines but overall I wanted to jump off a bridge myself!
Interesting but limited.
Predictable story line – acting OK but nothing special. I actually found it a bit boring – like his life.
George is to acting like wood to a puppet. Come back Michael Caine.
Natalie’s whining voice and the usual American film poor diction spoilt and otherwise passable film.
The dialogue wasn’t very clear; even after all your valiant efforts.
I prefer Clooney’s “Big head-waggling, saucer-eyed comedies”.
Thanks that did me some good!
OK, but I’m glad I didn’t pay for a ticket at the cinema for it.
What a hell of a job.
Makes you appreciate the Job Centre.
Did I miss something?
Give me a morbid film with a sad ending!
PLEASE can people keep mobile phones off.
I have nothing to say.
The next film Heartbreaker is preceded by the AGM on Thursday, April 7th at 7. 00p.m. There will be an opportunity to air comments on the new venue, the refreshments and the absence of shorts this season. We will be celebrating our 25th anniversary and there will be an opportunity to donate towards the expenses of the Democratic Voice of Burma.
Thursday, 24 March 2011
Thursday, 17 March 2011
Welcome
What you thought of Welcome:
Excellent: 38
Good: 28
Very Poor: 1
Overal Reaction in favour: 86%
Intrinsic. Very good film. Bon Chance. Thought provoking; very sad.
Another good film. Thanks. More like this please. Totally absorbing. Lovely club.
Heartbreaking. Very good but very sad. We must always do our best.
Many complex issues – how sad. Sad at the end: I’m glad I’m English.
So Mona ends up in an arranged marriage, knowing that the person who loved her died trying to get to her….
And they all lived….. Sad but enjoyable.
I almost hoped for a happy ending!
So much in life depends on where you are born. One of the saddest films I have seen.
More like this please. So many issues covered – sensitively done.
I don’t need this: life is sad enough. I want films that make me happy.
Something happier next time please.
Showed the power of an individual story.
Predictable story – nicely acted and photographed.
An affecting tale, well told. Good choice.
Thought provoking – what a difficult world we live in. Very moving. Superb acting and direction.
All the more powerful for being understated. Very well acted indeed.
Brilliant acting – very moving. Loved the music. Very sad but compelling with superb acting.
Well-judged. Cast a light on a nearly invisible (unseen) situation.
Very moving and especially interesting information about detention camps, rules regarding helping illegals, forced marriages in the UK.
The human driftwood of our vile actions overseas – hope some of the others really make it next time.
Heartbreaking. How can kindness be illegal?
We live in a privileged society. I had no idea the French had such wicked laws.
The French did not behave as our media implied.!
Another haunting allegory ( along with Un Prophete) on France and its ills.
Very moving story – a good insight into what goes on across the Channel.
Absorbing and believable – what would I have done? Good choice.
A lesson about compassion and humanity for all.
Utter tosh from the makers of la-la land. Total waste of space. Why did I stay?
Great improvement on the last one.
Simon’s ex-wife must have the same hairdresser as Helena Bonham-Carter. Very poignant.
You don’t very often see French people that scruffy.
The next film will be Up in the Air on Thursday March 24th.
Excellent: 38
Good: 28
Very Poor: 1
Overal Reaction in favour: 86%
Intrinsic. Very good film. Bon Chance. Thought provoking; very sad.
Another good film. Thanks. More like this please. Totally absorbing. Lovely club.
Heartbreaking. Very good but very sad. We must always do our best.
Many complex issues – how sad. Sad at the end: I’m glad I’m English.
So Mona ends up in an arranged marriage, knowing that the person who loved her died trying to get to her….
And they all lived….. Sad but enjoyable.
I almost hoped for a happy ending!
So much in life depends on where you are born. One of the saddest films I have seen.
More like this please. So many issues covered – sensitively done.
I don’t need this: life is sad enough. I want films that make me happy.
Something happier next time please.
Showed the power of an individual story.
Predictable story – nicely acted and photographed.
An affecting tale, well told. Good choice.
Thought provoking – what a difficult world we live in. Very moving. Superb acting and direction.
All the more powerful for being understated. Very well acted indeed.
Brilliant acting – very moving. Loved the music. Very sad but compelling with superb acting.
Well-judged. Cast a light on a nearly invisible (unseen) situation.
Very moving and especially interesting information about detention camps, rules regarding helping illegals, forced marriages in the UK.
The human driftwood of our vile actions overseas – hope some of the others really make it next time.
Heartbreaking. How can kindness be illegal?
We live in a privileged society. I had no idea the French had such wicked laws.
The French did not behave as our media implied.!
Another haunting allegory ( along with Un Prophete) on France and its ills.
Very moving story – a good insight into what goes on across the Channel.
Absorbing and believable – what would I have done? Good choice.
A lesson about compassion and humanity for all.
Utter tosh from the makers of la-la land. Total waste of space. Why did I stay?
Great improvement on the last one.
Simon’s ex-wife must have the same hairdresser as Helena Bonham-Carter. Very poignant.
You don’t very often see French people that scruffy.
The next film will be Up in the Air on Thursday March 24th.
Friday, 4 March 2011
The White Ribbon
What you thought of The White Ribbon
Excellent: 15
Good: 27
Average: 12
Poor: 4
Very Poor: 2
Approval rating: 70%
An enigma! Very haunting and fascinating. Deafening. Utterly dull.
Oppressive, abusive, sick people. Wonderful and very moving. Uncomfortable.
Sheer agony to watch – can’t imagine how it won an award. Too loud also! Interesting!
Absorbing – much better than Black Swan. Hard to watch. Unresolved.
Different but who did it?
The kids did it.
Oh dear, what a depressing film. Probably very good in various ways but I certainly didn’t enjoy it.
Excellent acting but it needed a dénouement.
Much darker than I had envisaged and not a very satisfactory ending.
No glamour, just a damn good film. A beautifully executed tale of mystery and intrigue.
Too long; well- acted but with no outcome it was rather depressing.
Wonderful photography but too deep and meaningful for me. Obscure. Too loud.
Atmospheric film, superb cinematography but not my kind of film.
Well done but infinitely depressing. When do we get episode 2?
An everyday story of country folk!! But glad we stayed to see it – after reading your résumé we nearly went straight home. At least no one fell off a roof….
Where was Miss Marple when you needed her? Vorsprung dürch Hanging Rock (Prefiguring Hanging Rock)
It was like Village of the Damned.
Explosive start! Confusing in parts but strangely compelling. Midwich Cuckoos?
Buddenbrooks meets Hammer House of Horror!
A German Lord of the Flies?
Let’s hope they all died in the Great War. Bloody Germans. A bit Teutonic! (sound was very shrill)
Why was the film made? There didn’t seem to be a reason.
A village with circles of evil percolating to all levels with “proprieties” preventing intervention and preserving the evil intact. The no telling tales culture.
Interesting insight to the period before the First World War.
I thought it would never end! My seat got harder and harder. A nightmare.
Brilliant and terrifying – even more so on this my second time.
Came in happy – went home distressed. Very strange but riveting.
Very strange but strangely compelling. I do see why it was in black and white.
Strange film, someone should write an ending. Not for the first time I wonder why that generation of parents ever had children.
Weird – too long but beautifully photographed and sound excellent.
I would like to see it again.
What the hell was that?
Strange. Can’t categorize.
The next film will be Welcome on March 17th at the School Hall.
Excellent: 15
Good: 27
Average: 12
Poor: 4
Very Poor: 2
Approval rating: 70%
An enigma! Very haunting and fascinating. Deafening. Utterly dull.
Oppressive, abusive, sick people. Wonderful and very moving. Uncomfortable.
Sheer agony to watch – can’t imagine how it won an award. Too loud also! Interesting!
Absorbing – much better than Black Swan. Hard to watch. Unresolved.
Different but who did it?
The kids did it.
Oh dear, what a depressing film. Probably very good in various ways but I certainly didn’t enjoy it.
Excellent acting but it needed a dénouement.
Much darker than I had envisaged and not a very satisfactory ending.
No glamour, just a damn good film. A beautifully executed tale of mystery and intrigue.
Too long; well- acted but with no outcome it was rather depressing.
Wonderful photography but too deep and meaningful for me. Obscure. Too loud.
Atmospheric film, superb cinematography but not my kind of film.
Well done but infinitely depressing. When do we get episode 2?
An everyday story of country folk!! But glad we stayed to see it – after reading your résumé we nearly went straight home. At least no one fell off a roof….
Where was Miss Marple when you needed her? Vorsprung dürch Hanging Rock (Prefiguring Hanging Rock)
It was like Village of the Damned.
Explosive start! Confusing in parts but strangely compelling. Midwich Cuckoos?
Buddenbrooks meets Hammer House of Horror!
A German Lord of the Flies?
Let’s hope they all died in the Great War. Bloody Germans. A bit Teutonic! (sound was very shrill)
Why was the film made? There didn’t seem to be a reason.
A village with circles of evil percolating to all levels with “proprieties” preventing intervention and preserving the evil intact. The no telling tales culture.
Interesting insight to the period before the First World War.
I thought it would never end! My seat got harder and harder. A nightmare.
Brilliant and terrifying – even more so on this my second time.
Came in happy – went home distressed. Very strange but riveting.
Very strange but strangely compelling. I do see why it was in black and white.
Strange film, someone should write an ending. Not for the first time I wonder why that generation of parents ever had children.
Weird – too long but beautifully photographed and sound excellent.
I would like to see it again.
What the hell was that?
Strange. Can’t categorize.
The next film will be Welcome on March 17th at the School Hall.
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