Yeah well I watched 'The Navigator: A Mediaeval Odyssey' the other dayAlas, I did konw what happened. It went like this: badly-shot black and white film with people putting on bad Scottish accents pretending to be 14th-century Cumbrians caught up in the Black Death segues into badly-shot colour film of said people tunelling through the Earth to modern New Zealand so that they can recast a cross and put it on the cathedral or some shite.
The only interest in the entire film stemmed from learning that the guy who played the Hobbit who went 'Grrrrrrr...' and made faces when Gandalf's fireworks went off in the Fellowship of the Ring is, and always has been, a completely useless actor with one facial expression.
Utter fucking bilgewater, that film was. Utter fucking bilgewater.
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(The only interest in the entire film stemmed from learning that the guy who played the Hobbit who went 'Grrrrrrr...' and made faces when Gandalf's fireworks went off in the Fellowship of the Ring is, and always has been, a completely useless actor with one facial expression.
Utter fucking bilgewater, that film was. Utter fucking bilgewater.
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boris the spider,
Wed 28 Dec 2011, 21:00,
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I forgotThe film ended back in badly-shot black and white back in Cumbria, was improbably revealed to be the invention of the irritating boy, who then turned out to have the plague. This means it had a saving grace: everyone died.
( boris the spider,
Wed 28 Dec 2011, 21:02,
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YOU DIDN'T SAY IF YOU'VE SEEN THE NAVIGATOR: A MEDIAVEL ODYSSEY(Or even "The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey" which is how I think they spell it.) Someone must like the film other than the director's wife.
( boris the spider,
Wed 28 Dec 2011, 21:11,
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Well I liked it but I'm probably biasedVincent Ward is a tosser and this is one of his less shit films (all downhill from his early work), some nice cinematography I think.
The lead is pretty annoying, but otherwise I like the supporting cast - Marshall Napier is often good and I'm a particular fan of Paul Livingston (arguably more in his comic persona, Flacco).
The cathedral has long been iconic, but even more so since the earthquakes have completely fucked it up in the last twelve months.
At least it's not the abomination that is River Queen
(The lead is pretty annoying, but otherwise I like the supporting cast - Marshall Napier is often good and I'm a particular fan of Paul Livingston (arguably more in his comic persona, Flacco).
The cathedral has long been iconic, but even more so since the earthquakes have completely fucked it up in the last twelve months.
At least it's not the abomination that is River Queen
Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat,
Thu 29 Dec 2011, 0:07,
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to be fair to itthe "badly-lit" bits of my laughable "review" are very harsh, and i couldn't pretend the cumbrian bits weren't atmospheric. but i was really disappointed - the internet had lead me to expect a really good film, and i got... a rather confused, underwhelming mess.
i may avoid vincent ward's other stuff though. you're not giving it a good write-up...
(i may avoid vincent ward's other stuff though. you're not giving it a good write-up...
boris the spider,
Thu 29 Dec 2011, 0:10,
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