[BLOG] Now Is Good

[Beate]

Well I didn't cry for once. It was a sweet film but not sickly sweet and I liked all the actors and how the subject was handled. Jeremy Irvine is a bit of a dish (and I am old enough to be his mother) and I liked the brother's innocent questions in front of her ("When Tessa dies, can we go on a holiday? We haven't been for such a long time!"), and I think she liked it more than the fussing her Dad did. There was a lot of teenage rebellion as well but her love interest was almost too handsome and perfect. "Yes, beautiful?" he asked when she woke up in the middle of the night with a jolt. That was impossibly cheesy but I *cough* didn't mind it.

8/10

[biggins]

My friend had a sniffle at this - but her sister has cancer so I guess it was a bad subject for her to watch although she said she enjoyed the film. SB the hilarity was coming from two females who were sitting next to us and I am sure they must have had a good drink before they came in as they they were laughing very loudly from the start at things that were not that funny. I mean when the guy asks if she wanted tea or coffee and then says actually we have no coffee - they found that hilarious!!! But then both females were crying their eyes out at the ending and couldn't move out of their seats until they had dried their eyes.

A film that has been done so many times with the same theme but watchable. 6/10

[McG]

At Braehead tonight in the company of Yinster and OH. I thought the subject of the film was handled very well and was not too sentimental. The 2 main characters played by Dakota Fanning and Jeremy Irvine were very believable and beautifully matched. The film really examines the relationships of the main people affected by Tessa's impending death and shows a gradual change in their relationships. I loved the character of Tessa's young brother who did and said exactly as a small boy would do. Excellent scripting!
I was moved by the final scenes and thought it was sensitively handled.
[spoiler]I liked seeing the views of how life could have been if Tessa had not been ill.[/spoiler]
Marks 7.5/10

[stuartboy]

Presumably these were the beautiful dreams the nurse told her to expect...

[Kaybeelon]

A good idea, good actors, a moving subject, ...
... but - I can't put my finger on it why - somehow it did not quite come together into something that I hadn't seen on the screen before in a similar way. I forget which one but one of the scriptwiriting gurus once said that for a really good film you must "give the audience what they want but not the way they expect it". Especially as in this story the likely end was known from the start the journey there could perhaps have taken a little less predictable route ...
Also, at times I had the impression that the director was more intent on making the audience cry than do the story justice. Plus more sensitive directors don't end a film with the most heartbreaking scene but give you a minute or two after that to dry your tears before the credits run and the light comes on. The effect was that people rushed out of the cinema even faster than usual.

Btw the screening in Wimbledon started with the wrong film (Untouchable!) and although I and someone else went out immediately to tell them it took them ages to stop the disc and put in the right film thus giving us a kind of unintended trailer for Untouchable. By the time Now is Good started some people had already left ...

[sunny hucknall]

given that this story has been told so many times before, wouldn´t it be nice if the main protagonists were not always so attractive?

i have nothing against good looking people (how could i ?), but filmmakers might try harder if used more ¨normal¨ looking actors. Pull on my heartstrings with a terminally ill, chubby, spotty adolecencant, rather than the ¨Ralph Lauren¨ models that we get in this film.

oh, ps, mother had not seen it before. have told her that any more slips of this type & its the nursing home for her.

[mandyk]

Does anyone have the correct Metro code for the screening on the 17th please? The one in the Free Films section is wrong... And I can't find it online

[mandyk]

Someone very kindly gave it to me: Good. :)

[marjoreemarjora]

Saw this in Edinburgh with Biggins and as she said was not us laughing.

More of a tv film here I think. mum and I thought it fair as we like Dakota but friend not too keen on it. Miserable night and mum left her brolly oops.

Loved Jeremy Irvine and liked the scene with the running horses, reminded me of Warhorse.

wee bit too much hilarity and the usual late comers is a bit off putting

6/10 from us

[jcolombi]

This was very good, right balance of light humour and sadness 7/10