These are the movies I watched yesterday, and my thoughts on them:
GRAVITY – It is still one of the few regrets I have in life, that I did not go and see this movie in a cinema. Good to watch it again anyway, and the story itself (when you are not being distracted by the effects) is not as bad as I had remembered it to be.
THE MERCY – Director James Marsh followed up ‘The Theory of Everything’ with this, another true-life account of a British man. Colin Firth stars as Donald Crowhurst, perpetrator of one of the most audacious hoaxes of the 1960s – claiming to be sailing round the world while in reality drifting hopelessly around the Atlantic, falsifying daily reports and slowly going crazy. It’s not a brilliant film, but it’s a fascinating story if you decide to do a bit of your own research. I also have a suspicion that Mr Firth may have been genuinely seasick during some of the at-sea filming, as there are scenes where he almost looks as green as Kermit.
RC 30-8-20
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