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Anyone else find this rather boring?

posted 14 years ago by DeutschlandUberAlles
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I expected more of something with David Jason in it to be honest. The story-line was simply far-fetched and unengaging, even considering the girl at the end turned out to be a ghost. You know you have a weak story when the only way the screenwriter can think of moving the story forward is by pure co-incidence, the lorry they're looking for just happens to drive past a field in the middle of nowhere when they're lost.

Nothing about their road trip was made particularly exciting either, they'd stop, argue for a bit, carry on, argue for a bit more than move on until they eventually happened to stumble upon (more conincidence) where their friend wanted to be buried.

And at the start I couldn't work out why a young girl of 20-25 would be willingly travelling around with two pensioners with a dead body, but I suppose that was answered by the fact she was a ghost. Although, I don't know whether she was originally intended to be a ghost, or whether that was the only way they could reasonably justify why a young girl would be travelling around with these two?

All in all a poor attempt.

[–] spotlightne 14 years ago

I think you're correct. The ghost thing was a last ditch attempt to justify why a very attractive woman in her mid 20s would want to hang around two old creeps with a dead body in tow. The answer is, NO YOUNG WOMAN WOULD WILLINGLY HANG AROUND WITH TWO DODGY OLD GITS AND A DEAD BODY.

The whole thing was stupid. So thus the director must have asked for a script re-write and made the young woman into a ghost. How stupid and how pathetic. No one in their right mind why buy the ghost conclusion. It's completely ridiculous. Just like this awful programme.

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Anyone else find this rather boring?
by kornology 5 hours ago (Mon Sep 13 2010 05:42:13)
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UPDATED Mon Sep 13 2010 05:44:00
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And at the start I couldn't work out why a young girl of 20-25 would be willingly travelling around with two pensioners with a dead body, but I suppose that was answered by the fact she was a ghost. Although, I don't know whether she was originally intended to be a ghost, or whether that was the only way they could reasonably justify why a young girl would be travelling around with these two?

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[–] DeutschlandUberAlles 14 years ago

Indeed, I think it was a last minute script change. This is proven by the fact the "ghost" spoke to the lorry driver, managed to get the body back AND drove the taxi, "ghosts", or figments of one's imagination are unable to do things like this. Considering how random the "ghost" bit is, I'd even go as far to say this was originally filmed not to include a ghost, and then the last scene was re-filmed to make her a ghost upon realising how rediculous the whole thing was.

[–] bogwart-1 13 years ago

I think you're barking. The girl was obviously written in from the beginning, and is completely part of the narrative. The story is slight because it is an allegory; none of it is supposed to represent reality. It could just as well be the dying dream of Frank or Harry, and it's a mistake to start complaining about the coincidences.

Or maybe you thought the girl was real from the outset?

[–] siemprepatty 13 years ago

I'm glad I waited for the library copy of this so it didn't cost me anything to watch.

I love English movies, and English humour, but have to agree that this is a pretty bad movie. Like others, I watched about half of it and when it didn't seem to be improving, switched it off, ejected the disc, and it's back to the library with it today.

Disappointing because I also like David Jason - at least as Frost.

[–] lancer165 11 years ago

Watching this right now.

It is just a story.

Funny how making pottery is iconic when the guiding hands are from a ghostly presence or 'I see dead people' is an ok thing in sixth sense.

How many veterans are thinking about moments from their journey through from
D-DAY if they got through.

I have absolutely no great feeling about the life beyond and for those who trot out their [usually for a living] nonsense about it all. But I do have no problem with any type of tale with the supernatural being involved.

This tale requires the belief that living humans can create something akin to a life in their thoughts anyway and perhaps Albert has been living with the spirit of the young woman he feels he let down.

Just accept that this was pleasant enough little story about some sort of atonement for a moment regretted. Although this was about the life of one of the enemy? It was a non threatening life but nonetheless portrayed as one which the Russian felt need to put down. It is perhaps not right to have had this dehumanizing addition to the tale.

Especially when so many [beautiful] Russian girls seem to want to marry us non Russians. BTW that was meant to be a joke.