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Post by jaqs on Sept 14, 2019 17:20:50 GMT
I quite enjoyed it, very empty cinema this morning, but is was early.
It was lovely to look at and nice to revisit all the characters even if they had to show horn a few back in.
Getting to see Maggie, Imelda and Penelope all sniping at each other was the highlight. But also the continuation of Barrow’s story which really needs its own series.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Sept 14, 2019 17:39:49 GMT
I am sure there must be some fan fiction detailing the story of Barrow with various characters... not that I have looked for it (I hasten to add)
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Post by learfan on Sept 14, 2019 18:23:16 GMT
Not sure why all the comments about empty seats, this was never going to do massive business.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Sept 14, 2019 19:37:30 GMT
Not sure why all the comments about empty seats, this was never going to do massive business. I still expected to there to be more people - particularly in Oxford. But it is true that it wasn't going to appeal to the blockbuster action movie types |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2019 19:58:30 GMT
In terms of ticket sales, admittedly I have no idea how this will perform in the UK. The movie was almost certainly made for the US audience and international markets as a whole and it’s still something of a novelty that a British TV show has continued as a movie as oppose to a reunion episode.
Really speaking, they should have released the Christmas specials internationally as movies and tested the waters whilst still on air and Downton was still hyped (particularly the Highlands and London Season ones), but I suppose contracts were signed before they realised the potential.
Anyway, I do hope this performs well and we get a second outing in a few years. But not only for that reason... if it’s a success I can see the BBC sitting up and taking note and asking what a Call The Midwife movie might look like.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2019 20:14:08 GMT
I've never seen the tv series but am going tonight as I assume I could see this as a standalone production and thought I would enjoy it. Plus it's "free" with my Curzon membership and a slightly less late night for once (early evening showing, post-theatre matinee) would be welcome. Oddly I was the first to book for my chosen screening and had left it quite late but I think the cinema added screens for this after assessing its initial popularity. Suits me as I get an aisle seat in a small auditorium instead of being stuck in the middle of a long row in a larger one.
Heavens! I'm not sure how much someone who has never watched it will get out of it! It will all make sense but you get a tiny bit of each character, Christmas-specialled up.
I enjoyed it, it was utter nonsense but fun and sweet. The only thing missing was a Mary/Edith bitch fight, and a Denker/Spratt scene.
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Post by learfan on Sept 14, 2019 20:24:33 GMT
In terms of ticket sales, admittedly I have no idea how this will perform in the UK. The movie was almost certainly made for the US audience and international markets as a whole and it’s still something of a novelty that a British TV show has continued as a movie as oppose to a reunion episode. Really speaking, they should have released the Christmas specials internationally as movies and tested the waters whilst still on air and Downton was still hyped (particularly the Highlands and London Season ones), but I suppose contracts were signed before they realised the potential. Anyway, I do hope this performs well and we get a second outing in a few years. But not only for that reason... if it’s a success I can see the BBC sitting up and taking note and asking what a Call The Midwife movie might look like. The release date is odd, mid September is a graveyard BO wise. |
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Post by Jon on Sept 14, 2019 22:08:40 GMT
It and It 2 proved that a film can make big money in September, likewise Bridget Jones’s Baby.
As I’ve said, the target audience for this won’t be coming on the weekend, it’ll be weekday afternoons
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Post by showgirl on Sept 15, 2019 3:21:41 GMT
A rush to get there (not the first time the Finborough's advertised play running time has been wildly wrong) but I enjoyed this and by the time of the performance, both "mine" (5.30 pm) and the 6.15 pm in a larger screen were sold out.
Of course I can't tell which nuances I may have missed but I had no trouble working out who was who, how the characters related to each other and following the plot.
Not sure I'd want to see more unless there is another film idc but at least it ended my day on an undemanding and enjoyable note, after the tedium of the much-praised The Souvenir (I was looking at my watch after 25 mins of the 2 hours) and the emotional turmoil of Anahera.
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Post by kathryn on Sept 15, 2019 15:40:07 GMT
Does the gay servant actually get a decent storyline?!
That seres promised me gay shenanigans in the opening episode that it never lived up to for the rest of the series. Most disappointed. Had to make do with the glorious archness of Maggie Smith and lines about hats.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Sept 15, 2019 16:19:01 GMT
Does the gay servant actually get a decent storyline?! That seres promised me gay shenanigans in the opening episode that it never lived up to for the rest of the series. Most disappointed. Had to make do with the glorious archness of Maggie Smith and lines about hats. {Spoiler - click to view}
He does get story.
Flirting with a Palace valet. A trip to a gay club in York. Arrested for being there. Saved by the valet. They are more than just friends.
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Post by Rozzi Rainbow on Sept 15, 2019 17:15:48 GMT
I saw this yesterday, being a huge fan of the TV series. I was glad to have recently discovered the rerun on ITV3, which has just finished, otherwise I would have struggled to remember how it had ended. I thought the film was good, not great, there were episodes of TV series I thought were better. I was glad to have seen it but won't rush to go again. Although I will watch it when it gets round to being shown on Freeview. To me, there didn't seem to be a lot of drama, it all felt very safe. But it was great to see what the characters got up to 18 months later, and there were plenty of lines that made me chuckle, mostly from Maggie Smith.
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Post by kathryn on Sept 15, 2019 19:04:50 GMT
Does the gay servant actually get a decent storyline?! That seres promised me gay shenanigans in the opening episode that it never lived up to for the rest of the series. Most disappointed. Had to make do with the glorious archness of Maggie Smith and lines about hats. {Spoiler - click to view}
He does get story.
Flirting with a Palace valet. A trip to a gay club in York. Arrested for being there. Saved by the valet. They are more than just friends.
I did shed a tear for him - he has the potential for personal happiness I might make the effort to catch it over the next couple of weeks then. Seeing Hustlers tonight. |
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Post by justfran on Sept 15, 2019 20:56:11 GMT
Saw this today and really enjoyed it, perfect film for a Sunday afternoon. Our screen was about half full and it was lovely to see how much everyone enjoyed the film, especially the funny scene with Mosley had everyone laughing. All the characters got their moment and Dame Maggie was as great as expected. Nice storylines for Barrow and Tom, seeds planted for future films/ Christmas specials.
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Post by greeny11 on Sept 15, 2019 21:04:20 GMT
Never seen an episode, but saw the film this evening and really enjoyed it. It didn't take me too long to work out who the characters were and how they were related. I adore Maggie Smith, and thought she was wonderful in this - and she got a lot of the funniest lines. My local cinema has put this on 3 screens (out of 8), including 2 of the biggest screens, which seems a risk - there were about 30 people in the screening I was at (out of about 250 seats).
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Post by Jon on Sept 28, 2019 16:22:42 GMT
I wouldn’t mind seeing a sequel and they left seeds for a follow up. Perhaps one set in the US in 1929 so we can meet Cora’s family and also Lady Rose.
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Post by oxfordsimon on Sept 28, 2019 18:20:06 GMT
Given the US box office figures, I would say a sequel will happen
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Post by Jon on Sept 28, 2019 18:46:12 GMT
Given the US box office figures, I would say a sequel will happen The budget was for this was between $15-20m so they’re already in the black. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2019 19:11:57 GMT
I wouldn’t mind seeing a sequel and they left seeds for a follow up. Perhaps one set in the US in 1929 so we can meet Cora’s family and also Lady Rose. I would love this! I see no reason why Shirley McLaine and Paul Giamatti wouldn’t return either. Didn’t one of the kitchen maids leave to be Harold’s cook too? The market crash would have a big impact I’m guessing for the Levinson and possibly the Crawley family too (knowing how Robert likes to invest the family fortunes...). It would leave most of the downstairs lot at a loose end though... until Mrs Patmore decides to elope with her shopkeeper. |
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Post by hulmeman on Sept 28, 2019 19:30:51 GMT
It would leave most of the downstairs lot at a loose end though... until Mrs Patmore decides to elope with her shopkeeper. Now that's a movie I'd pay good money to see Beryl Patmore, domestic temptress!! Cue grocery puns such as - they would set the pulses racing. |
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Post by Jon on Sept 28, 2019 22:12:36 GMT
It’s a little cliche to have a film set aboard but I think there’s a lot of story potential but also what the American equivalent of Downton Abbey would be location wise, somewhere in the Hamptons for example?
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Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2019 0:49:20 GMT
It’s a little cliche to have a film set aboard but I think there’s a lot of story potential but also what the American equivalent of Downton Abbey would be location wise, somewhere in the Hamptons for example? I believe Cora’s family live in Newport, which is also where I think the prequel spin-off, The Gilded Age, is to be set. New money and new builds, but indulgence and excess from what I’ve heard. I think the problem successive Downton movies will face - and I saw Julian Fellowes comment on this during the press tour - is that a movie needs a singular story that works to bring all of the characters back together. Certainly this first movie needed to work as a stand-alone piece of cinema so as not to exclude anyone who hasn’t watched the TV show, but I think they can be a bit more lax about that moving forward in that upstairs and downstairs could have separate storylines (such as when staff got left behind when the Crawleys would go visit Scotland or London during the Christmas specials). Plus if a sequel starts with Violet’s funeral and ends with Tom’s wedding, upstairs and downstairs can split during for the bulk of the movie, as the funeral and wedding would be something that unites both groups rather neatly at both ends of the movie (and proves perfectly valid reasons for Carson to leave his cottage without getting his old job back) |
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Post by Jon on Sept 29, 2019 2:40:17 GMT
I believe Cora’s family live in Newport, which is also where I think the prequel spin-off, The Gilded Age, is to be set. New money and new builds, but indulgence and excess from what I’ve heard. I think the problem successive Downton movies will face - and I saw Julian Fellowes comment on this during the press tour - is that a movie needs a singular story that works to bring all of the characters back together. Certainly this first movie needed to work as a stand-alone piece of cinema so as not to exclude anyone who hasn’t watched the TV show, but I think they can be a bit more lax about that moving forward in that upstairs and downstairs could have separate storylines (such as when staff got left behind when the Crawleys would go visit Scotland or London during the Christmas specials). Plus if a sequel starts with Violet’s funeral and ends with Tom’s wedding, upstairs and downstairs can split during for the bulk of the movie, as the funeral and wedding would be something that unites both groups rather neatly at both ends of the movie (and proves perfectly valid reasons for Carson to leave his cottage without getting his old job back) Having googled Newport, Rhode Island houses, there is plenty of houses there that could easily could be used in an America set sequel. I wouldn't be surprised if they attract a bigger name or two for the sequel since the film is a success. |
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