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Re: The Grey

#41 Post by Beate » Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:20 am

I am afraid I missed it too as I was busting to go to the toilet so basically ran out! Then again I have never been one for hanging around till end credits finish. It looks like I missed quite a few things in the first 15 minutes though, although there was a flashback to the beginning when he gets asked what he went out for with his rifle.
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Re: The Grey

#42 Post by kotoranka » Wed Jan 25, 2012 12:50 am

A few questions remain about the film that I just don't get [spoiler]When the blonde annoying guy who originally sits next to Liam on the flight and then changes places is found after the crash, aren't his legs so damaged by the crash that surely he wouldn't be able to stand up properly in the next scenes when they are in the fusilage??[/spoiler] Also, [spoiler]Was Liam's wife meant to be dying in the hospital because she looked pretty damn good with her perfect make-up during all of those scenes, didn't look very ill at all!![/spoiler] I do think Liam was very solid in the film and aside from the first 20 minutes, this just turned into a repetitive wolf-kills-man routine that got duller and duller as it went on. It felt like the writers were trying too hard, surely no-one can be this unlucky with their lives?? [spoiler]Boy has alcoholic/abusive father, grows up and marries a woman who (later) is terminally ill and dies leaving him all alone, then crash lands in the middle of nowhere, watches all his colleagues die as they are chased throughout the woods by a pack of man-eating wolves and finally (hilariously even) walking for what seemed like ages, he ends up in the wolves den after all?!!?!? LOL! :wall:[/spoiler]
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Re: The Grey

#43 Post by David » Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:58 am

https://moviefilmreviews.wordpress.com/ ... -the-grey/ Thought this was pretty good. Unfortunately I didn't stay for the post-credits but doesn't sound like it shed too much light on what happened. I liked the ambiguous ending anyway.
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Re: The Grey

#44 Post by steve » Wed Jan 25, 2012 8:43 am

Ejoyed the film, can't say much more as KK has already siad better than I ever could

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#45 Post by tinks » Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:14 am

Enjoyed the movie - a must to see

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#46 Post by milkchocmonkey » Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:42 am

I must be the only person that really didn’t enjoy the movie. I thought it was very unrealistic and i didn’t like the storyline. Not really my kind of movie. I thought it was funny that after everything Liam went through and getting wet and everything that the note he wrote was still intact and the ink had not run at all. My fiancé loved the movie though but it just wasn’t my cup of tea

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Re: The Grey

#47 Post by ejwrank » Wed Jan 25, 2012 11:22 am

I saw this at the Mayfair Hotel and didn't notice Beate and OH arriving late so they must have been very quiet. There was someone in the row behind me repeating lots of dialogue to his OH and someone else was unwrapping sweets which the man in front of me was not happy about. Last time in the Mayfair I sat next to a woman who ate noisily throughout so it does seem to be just a few annoying folks in The Telegraph crowd but they are very noticeable in the otherwise quiet lot. Glad to say hello to Cliveas and now I know that he saved the day for Beate.

I thought the film was better than expected but then again I expected very little. Agree with milkchocmonkey that too much was too unbelievable. I am quite sure the cold would have got them long before they had to worry about the wolves. And whilst I quite like Liam Neeson, am I the only one who thinks he is always the same?

Still it was a lot better than the dreadful Like Crazy the night before so I was grateful. I know that's not saying much but in the great scheme of things it was a relief.
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#48 Post by milkchocmonkey » Wed Jan 25, 2012 11:27 am

ejwrank wrote:I saw this at the Mayfair Hotel and didn't notice Beate and OH arriving late so they must have been very quiet. There was someone in the row behind me repeating lots of dialogue to his OH and someone else was unwrapping sweets which the man in front of me was not happy about. Last time in the Mayfair I sat next to a woman who ate noisily throughout so it does seem to be just a few annoying folks in The Telegraph crowd but they are very noticeable in the otherwise quiet lot. Glad to say hello to Cliveas and now I know that he saved the day for Beate.

I thought the film was better than expected but then again I expected very little. Agree with milkchocmonkey that too much was too unbelievable. I am quite sure the cold would have got them long before they had to worry about the wolves. And whilst I quite like Liam Neeson, am I the only one who thinks he is always the same?

Still it was a lot better than the dreadful Like Crazy the night before so I was grateful. I know that's not saying much but in the great scheme of things it was a relief.

I was sitting behind you but it wasn’t me and my fiance talking it, i promise ;o) it was the couple behind us-he kept repeating everything it was really annoying.
Heehee i did notice beate and OH come in late...tut tut. You sat in the row behind us but you were quiet about it so it all good ;o)

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Re: The Grey

#49 Post by Beate » Wed Jan 25, 2012 11:32 am

Must have been the same people then who kept annoying us! Glad we weren't much of a disturbance but sorry I missed you guys!
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Re: The Grey

#50 Post by milkchocmonkey » Wed Jan 25, 2012 11:35 am

Beate wrote:Must have been the same people then who kept annoying us! Glad we weren't much of a disturbance but sorry I missed you guys!
yeah they were the same people...you sat next to them and we were infront of them. gonna try and aviod them at the next screening ;)

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