RED RIDING... ... ...

whippetgirl · Post by **whippetgirl** » Fri 06 Mar, 2009 12:19 am

Great minds.....gather no moss!

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Fri 06 Mar, 2009 12:50 am

Strange how that Hillard's bag was instantly recognisable, must be 30 years since they closed. And were there so few cars around?

simong · Post by **simong** » Fri 06 Mar, 2009 1:03 am

leedslily wrote: I think the first one was the weakest, for all the reasons you've mentioned - there were bits where we were just waiting for some character from The League of Gentlemen to appear. The second one is probably the best of the three, I think - Paddy Considine is the main character, and he doesn't try so hard, so isn't so trying! There are lots of aspects that don't exactly match the books, but to be honest I was quite glad that the films were less complicated and (very slightly) lighter on the violence. Still better than a lot of what passes for 'drama' on TV, but probably not doing the local tourist industry too many favours - I can't see people coming to Leeds for 'the Red Riding experience' like they go to Goathland for the Heartbeat one! I always wanted to do a Get Carter walking tour in Newcastle, so we can only give it time...

simong · Post by **simong** » Fri 06 Mar, 2009 1:09 am

Cardiarms wrote: Brandy wrote: Bad acting,Bad costumes and Bad sideburns.......................what a load of old ocks-boll, ive been looking forward to this pile of garbage for weeks,what a let down!They think they can liven it up by throwing a few sex scenes in? what a waste of a good 45 minutes of my life. Hang on, that wan't 45 mins, that was the 1970's.I liked it but the plot was predictable and lacked subtlety, even before Mr Bean arrived you knew he did it. Better than most fare but that says more about the dire [edited for content] on TV nowdays. Our cable box has been bust for 5 days and I haven't missed it. I think they've concatenated '1974' and '1977' a little too much there. I can't remember what happened to Dawson and when in the books now. I do get a horrible feeling that an important plot point from the first two books is being underplayed in the films.

Brandy · Post by **Brandy** » Fri 06 Mar, 2009 1:13 am

Thank heavens for the smoking ban,was it really that smoky in the 70's lolWas this [edited for content] made on a low budget or something?

simong · Post by **simong** » Fri 06 Mar, 2009 1:54 am

Brandy wrote: Thank heavens for the smoking ban,was it really that smoky in the 70's lolWas this [edited for content] made on a low budget or something? Well, yes, it's British but the three films were shot on contemporary media: 1974 was shot on 32mm film if I remember correctly.

Lilysmum · Post by **Lilysmum** » Fri 06 Mar, 2009 8:57 am

After all the hype I thought I would watch it because of the local interest. I also managed about 45 mins before giving it up as a bad job! To sum it up with a good old yorkshire phrase it was a load of tripe.

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Fri 06 Mar, 2009 10:00 am

Where were the buses?

simong · Post by **simong** » Fri 06 Mar, 2009 11:31 am

Cardiarms wrote: Where were the buses? Actually, I think that's a good thing. Apart from the clothes and the cars, there wasn't much to identify the period. One thing that got me was a shot of the Leeds skyline which looked like it was taken from a back road somewhere to the south. It was identifiably Leeds but looked like it must have done at the time, with none of the newer buildings obvious.

Misc · Post by **Misc** » Fri 06 Mar, 2009 12:26 pm

I enjoyed it, it was mostly free of the adolescent self-indulgent *%&%^ that mires the books. Shame the editor of the YEP was a Manc yet this was never commented on. Overall the accents weren't anything like as bad as I'd feared though.Can anybody identify any of the locations? Where are the funny little houses "Paula" lived in? What about "Shangri-La", was that Mombasa or whatever it's called, out near Thorpe Audlin or somewhere, does anybody recognise where the exterior shots of "The Karachi Club" were done?We thought the skyline shot was probably a contemporary one that took an age to alter in post-production?