THELMA & LOUISE (1991) [FILM ONLY REVIEW]

Advantages: Hugely enjoyable, great performances, beautiful photography, a breathtaking and liberating ending
Disadvantages: Some improbable plot twists

...Ridley Scott's THELMA & LOUISE was released in 1991 to an unprecedented level of uproar against the film's chauvinist preoccupation, but how much of it is true? Louise talks her best friend, bored housewife Thelma, into packing together some bags and taking off for the weekend. Notwithstanding her overbearing husband's wishes for her to remain at home like she's expected to, Thelma agrees and, leaving him a microwave dinner and a beer, she joins Louise in her classic ThunderBird '66 car, packing it to the brim with everything but her kitchen sink, to cruise the highways, smoke cigarettes, sing Aretha Franklin inspired songs and enjoy America's beautiful great outdoors. At a country bar along the way they have one too many drinks and Thelma gets involved with a charming cowboy who in one moment, like a gentleman, escorts her...

Charles_Strickland 22.02.2007 (19.10.2007) · Read review
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Advantages: Free trial, large choice, post included,new realeases
Disadvantages: see review

...I like movies and I like freebies, so when you get offered both in one swoop you?re bound to accept! I used my two week free trial with this company and remained with them for a couple of monthsbefore moving on to try many other companies free trials (and winning a new DVD player on Tesco DVD rental site on their free trial offer). I then had an email from DVDs 365 asking me to go back, and offering me a free DVD if I did so. I had just left Tesco (with my new DVD player) so I chose to go back with them. ∆◊◊ THE SERVICE THEY OFFER ∆◊◊ Basically it?s like going to a video shop and hiring films on DVD, except you don?t pay for each film you chose ? rather a monthly fee for which you can watch as many movies as you can fit in, for us this is usually around 8 a month (2 a week usually weekends...

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Surprising Picture Quality - Panasonic DVD-S54

Advantages: Incredible picture quality when compared to my old non-upscaling player with a scart lead
Disadvantages: Sometimes disc drive can be really noisy when DVD's initially load.

...At first I wasn't convinced by up-scaling DVD player technology but was persuaded after reading an article in "What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision" magazine. Unable to afford a Blu-Ray player my sister and I bought the Panasonic DVD-S54 to match our parents brand new Panasonic TX-32LZD80 LCD television as their Christmas 2008 present. Admittedly it was a slightly selfish purchase as we both live at home and wanted to watch DVDs on the big new TV ourselves! We bought the player from the electrical retailer Comet for about £100 just before Christmas so there were no discounts applied. On Christmas day when opened we found a relatively small box tightly packed with the player in polystyrene packaging. All the components such as cables, remote and manuals were well presented in their own protective plastic bags, to keep them protected. The player...

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My Take - Gary Barlow

Advantages: Nicely written, honest and revealing
Disadvantages: As you'd expect it won't win a literacy prize

...I only got this book because I quickly needed to find something to take advantage of WHsmiths 2 or 1 offer. I'm not really a Take That fan although I do like some of their songs and I like Gary Barlow as a songwriter. The book is actually a really good read. Obviously it won't win any prizes for literacy but it's got some really interesting stories. The book takes from Gary's early beginnings, from when he got his first musical equipment and started to get gigs in working mens clubs, through to the Take That days and the solo career and if you buy the updated version the reunion. Probably the most interesting parts concern his relationships with key people such as the Take That manager Nigel Martin-Smith and Robbie Williams. Gary is also honest enough to admit failings and some levels of immaturity in certain situations which is...

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The power of friendship

Advantages: Great lead actresses, funny & a brilliant story
Disadvantages: None whatsoever

...Thelma & Louise is an American road movie that was released 24th May 1991 & happens to be one of my favourite films. It runs for approximately 129 minutes & is rated 15. The film was made on a budget of $16,500,000 & grossed an estimated $45,360,915 at the box office. Thelma & Louise was an instant success, the critics simply had nothing negative to say about it. Thelma & Louise is directed by extremely accomplished director Ridley Scott who I?m sure most of you will know. He?s directed huge hits such as: Gladiator, Blade Runner & Alien. Thelma & Louise steers away from the norm, being that the lead characters are played by females. Thelma is played by Geena Davis who?s appeared in: The Fly, Stuart Little & Tootsie. Louise is played by Susan Sarandon who?s married to Tim Robbins, she?s appeared in films including: Stepmom, Dead Man...

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Hit The Highway

Advantages: good acting
Disadvantages: -

...There are a lot of films past and present which are on my list to see but it's a matter of getting hold of them and getting the time to see them. Sometimes I like older films better as I feel the acting was a bit better and it was less about the amount of special effects but purely about the plot. When we were having our weekly DVD night, my friend mentioned that she had the film 'Thelma & Louise' it is a classic that I've heard so much about and was curious about but had never had the DVD so when she said it all other options went out of the window and we settled on this for our choice that week. Geena Davis (Thelma) and Susan Sarandon (Louise) are two middle class friends who have decided to plan a weekend trip away from their partners. Thelma's husband is controlling and intolerable and Louise's does not seem to want to settle...

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Gary Barlow - 'My Take'

Advantages: A must for all Gary and Take That fans - even for Robbie fans, too!
Disadvantages: None

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Gary Barlow

Advantages: has a Wife, kids, big house, job he likes, can play piano
Disadvantages: easily piles on the pounds

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Man... I feel like a woman!

Advantages: Great characters, great cinematography and dialogue
Disadvantages: Male characters are all nasty?

...Thelma and Louise: before I watched this film I knew very little about it, other than the Simpsons parody of it when Marge runs off with her friend for a wild weekend. But if it gets a Simpsons parody, it must be good, right? My theory was proved correct, since I found it to be a really interesting, well-directed and ultimately entertaining film. It's the film that helped kick off girl power when the Spice Girls were still at school, and it's part of director Ridley Scott's large back catalogue of influential movies. Susan Sarandon plays Louise, a waitress who is bored of her boyfriend, and who invites her friend, Thelma, on a weekend break. However, Thelma (Geena Davis) is forbidden to go by her slobbish husband, so she sneaks away while he's at work, leaving a note attached to the microwave. Thelma just wants to make the most...

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A Poignant Tale of Two Women...

Advantages: Wonderful acting, writing, directing, everything is wonderful!
Disadvantages: Aren't any.

...One of the best films made in the nineties, in my opinion, was Thelma and Louise. All aspects of the film are wonderfully done. The acting. The directing. The writing. There’s nothing missing in it. All the boxes have been ticked. It’s been labelled many a time as a chick flick, which totally lowers it. What Thelma and Louise is, is a film about independence. About love. Not sexual love, but the love you can feel for a friend. Most films don’t concentrate on this aspect of a relationship with people. Almost all Hollywood films nowadays have a boy meets girl scenario that has become tiring. Thelma and Louise was a classic film way before it’s time. And that’s just one reason why it’s one of the best films not just of the nineties, but also of all time. ◄◄The Plot►► Thelma...

Mattroberts 07.06.2004 · Read review
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