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Re: The Help

#191 Post by Celini » Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:28 pm

Just realised than Minny and her fried chicken "Fried chicken just tend to make you feel better about life." reminded me a lot of Bubba (Forrest Gump) and his shrimps!
Adorable!
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Re: The Help

#192 Post by Beate » Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:29 pm

Celini wrote:Just realised than Minny and her fried chicken "Fried chicken just tend to make you feel better about life." reminded me a lot of Bubba (Forrest Gump) and his shrimps!
Adorable!
Our local pub serves Southern Fried Chicken with coleslaw. I shall be ordering that this week sometime!
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Re: The Help

#193 Post by Celini » Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:30 pm

prettyxcool wrote:
valda wrote:Ap can have one of mine as Celini got one today o/ vx
so, how many does that make? :giggle:
I wanted to give mine to the turtle, but you also have 1 for her... so I think we are set, I keep mine (mine), you can give mine (yours) to a_person.... errr, do I make sense :shifty:
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Re: The Help

#194 Post by DaveWeed » Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:31 pm

Just watched this at Cheshire Oaks with the Mrs
All i can say is "excellent"
We both give it a 9/10 o/

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Re: The Help

#195 Post by prettyxcool » Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:35 pm

Beate wrote:
Celini wrote:Just realised than Minny and her fried chicken "Fried chicken just tend to make you feel better about life." reminded me a lot of Bubba (Forrest Gump) and his shrimps!
Adorable!
Our local pub serves Southern Fried Chicken with coleslaw. I shall be ordering that this week sometime!
Southern Fried Chicken with coleslaw - yum! *licks lips*
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Re: The Help

#196 Post by biggins » Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:43 pm

The Vue Omni, Edinburgh checked everyone's ID tonight which was the first time I had been asked for any ID here. Gave us a goody bag as we went into the screening. Told to move up and not leave empty spaces as they said it was going to be a full house but there were plenty of empty seats so I guess the staff took the leftover goodies home.

The film was excellent and the two hours twenty minutes flew by. 9/10
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Re: The Help

#197 Post by RioBravo » Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:57 pm

This film is balls. Let's start with the humour, because this is one of the most unfunny films I've ever seen. It got about 5 laughs out of our audience by just repeating the word shit. There are no characters in this film, just the evil one, the earnest one, the chubby eccentric one, the senile eccentric one etc. Surely noone can justify the 'comedy' of the fat one going insane and grabbing a stick to attack Jessica Chastain's husband, just because he drove up his own drive way? Emma Stone crying because people say she's ugly, she's clearly stunning. It is almost unbelievably heavy-handed, sappy, earnest and worthy. 2 hours 20 minutes!!! I though for sure they couldn't stretch this much beyond 1 hour 40. Then again, I didn't know that they spend a whole half an hour building up to separate end points which sadly did not actually turn out to be the end until, well, the end.

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Re: The Help

#198 Post by Celini » Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:59 pm

errrr, this was no supposed to be a comedy :confused:
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Re: The Help

#199 Post by Beate » Tue Oct 11, 2011 10:59 pm

While I respect your right to a different opinion I am also going to ignore it.
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Re: The Help

#200 Post by funthing29 » Tue Oct 11, 2011 11:01 pm

RioBravo wrote: Surely noone can justify the 'comedy' of the fat one going insane and grabbing a stick to attack Jessica Chastain's husband, just because he drove up his own drive way?
This is actually completely understandable.

Up to this point in the film, Minny had not met Cynthia's husband so when a white man approaches a black woman with an offer to help, it is logical that she would be frightened for her safety.
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