Admin Michelle Young Posted 2 February , 2018 Admin Share Posted 2 February , 2018 Off to the cinema in Bath tomorrow night to watch the film Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Bennitt Posted 2 February , 2018 Share Posted 2 February , 2018 Guardian review here https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/feb/01/journeys-end-review-sam-claflin-asa-butterfield-paul-bettany-first-world-war Cheers Martin B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 2 February , 2018 Author Share Posted 2 February , 2018 As noted in the Rant thread, it's not on wide release. Catch it if you can, or wait for the DVD I suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 2 February , 2018 Admin Share Posted 2 February , 2018 I’m going to a cinema I’ve never heard of to watch it. It’s on at the multiplex at Cribbs Causeway but I’d rather jump on a train and have a trip to Bath to watch it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Margosh Posted 2 February , 2018 Share Posted 2 February , 2018 Fingers crossed and hoping for it to arrive in more cinemas next week (as the movie promotion suggests). I notice it is already scheduled to come to a local cinema next week but not this. And so far no showings in Birmingham this week at all, surely it must hit at least one cinema in that area. Haven't been to the cinema in years (since my then teenaged son fainted in a small cinema due to overheating from excessive clothing and lack of drink!) but I really do want to see this on the big screen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bernard_Lewis Posted 2 February , 2018 Share Posted 2 February , 2018 (edited) Not coming to Neath. Harrumph! I'll have to check Swansea... Bernard Edited 2 February , 2018 by Bernard_Lewis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted 3 February , 2018 Share Posted 3 February , 2018 Not on anywhere local to me as yet. The famous "Kinema in the Woods" in Woodhall Spa apparently has no plans to screen it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamRev Posted 3 February , 2018 Share Posted 3 February , 2018 On Radio Five Live's film review programme 2-4pm yesterday (2 February), Mark Kermode gave Journey's End an excellent review: he knows the original play, and thinks that the film is a good version of it, reflecting the long hours of discomfort, boredom and then moments of sheer terror. It was pointed out that as well as his novels and 17 plays, R.C. Sherriff wrote scripts to 15 films, including Goodbye Mr Chips, The Dam Busters, The Four Feathers and No Highway. William Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pighills Posted 3 February , 2018 Share Posted 3 February , 2018 Can’t believe it’s showing in my local cinema (Harrogate) twice today. We don’t usually get anything. So torn about going Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 3 February , 2018 Admin Share Posted 3 February , 2018 I have to say I found it very powerful, tense and well acted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark holden Posted 3 February , 2018 Share Posted 3 February , 2018 I saw it tonight and I thought it excellent. It captured the claustrophobia of the original play and tension prior to combat very well it also broadened the depth of the original with some very evocative trench scenes. Paul Bettany was the star IMO. The period detail was excellent you could see the expert hand of Taff Gillingham throughout. Highly recommended Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 7 February , 2018 Author Share Posted 7 February , 2018 Just back from seeing it at Harbour Lights in Southampton: really, really good. The only blot on the horizon was fact that I had to go to the Silver Screen showing at midday: on the bright side it had subtitles for the deaf old codgers, but the regualrity with which other audience members had to leave the room was unnerving. I suspect I also brought the average age in the cinems down by a few years. The only quibble I have with the film is the dodgy set of statistics at the end: did 700,000 men really die in the Spring Offensive? Were all the German gains made really recaptured a month after the offensive ended? Did a million more men die in the Advance to Victory? The only disappointing thing about the film itself was that I could nothing with which to quibble. Bloody annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
squirrel Posted 7 February , 2018 Share Posted 7 February , 2018 Someone's got their numbers mixed up I reckon.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
51st Sikhs Posted 7 February , 2018 Share Posted 7 February , 2018 (edited) Pips were not worn on the shoulder, save for the Guards! Really, didn’t the artistic or wardrobe director or even the GWF extras pick up on this? Grrr.......😡 Edited 7 February , 2018 by 51st Sikhs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 7 February , 2018 Author Share Posted 7 February , 2018 Pips were commonly worn on the shoulder later in the war in some regiments. The London Scottish are adamant that their officers didn't (and I've certainly never seen a photo to disprove it), but by 1918 pips on the shoulder were not uncommon. I suspect that's not the sort of error Taff Gillingham is likely to make. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IanA Posted 7 February , 2018 Share Posted 7 February , 2018 1 hour ago, Steven Broomfield said: The only quibble I have with the film is the dodgy set of statistics at the end: Gosh! I know a chap who could have helped you with that. Unfortunately, he's just left the tent saying: "I may be some time". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 7 February , 2018 Author Share Posted 7 February , 2018 That very thought crossed my mind. That's why I felt safe mentioning it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil andrade Posted 7 February , 2018 Share Posted 7 February , 2018 Disappointed that it’s not been screened on my local cineworld yet. Perhaps Dunkirk and Darkest Hour following so fast on its heels have persuaded the group to hold fire on more war films for a week. Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
593jones Posted 7 February , 2018 Share Posted 7 February , 2018 1 hour ago, Steven Broomfield said: Pips were commonly worn on the shoulder later in the war in some regiments. The London Scottish are adamant that their officers didn't (and I've certainly never seen a photo to disprove it), but by 1918 pips on the shoulder were not uncommon. I suspect that's not the sort of error Taff Gillingham is likely to make. Also in some regiments earlier in the war, see Robert Graves 'Goodbye to All That' and his reception in the 2nd RWF after being attached to the Welsh Regiment in 1915. Graves was wearing shoulder stars and a senior RWF officer accused him of wearing 'a wind-up jacket'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Broomfield Posted 7 February , 2018 Author Share Posted 7 February , 2018 I'd forgotten that, Mr Jones. And, of course, the 6 degrees of separation that brought Graves' association with 'The Surrey Man'. Mr Andrade: as previously discussed, it's not on (and I suspect won't be on) at megaplexes. Art House movie theatres and silver screen showings only I reckon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suesalter1 Posted 7 February , 2018 Share Posted 7 February , 2018 Not showing in my local cinema either. I wouldn't mind, but the cinema only opened last December after 40 years on being a bingo hall. Since then, there hasn't been a film I've wanted to see! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Ridgus Posted 7 February , 2018 Share Posted 7 February , 2018 Enjoyed it very much. I thought it a slight shame it denied Stanhope his flash of gallows humour with the Sgt Major but otherwise I found it spot on. A bravura performance by Sam Claflin. He had to carry the film with the camera rarely more than a few inches from his face. No matter how many times I read it, watch it or teach it, the play never palls David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil andrade Posted 14 February , 2018 Share Posted 14 February , 2018 On 07/02/2018 at 15:55, Steven Broomfield said: The only quibble I have with the film is the dodgy set of statistics at the end: did 700,000 men really die in the Spring Offensive? Did a million more men die in the Advance to Victory? Usual conflating of casualties with killed : something that is persistent. Rhetorical exaggeration. And yet.....it surprises me to discover that between 21 March 1918 and the Armistice, not far short of a million men did actually die in France and Belgium. The film exaggerates , but not by that much. Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philgb Posted 14 February , 2018 Share Posted 14 February , 2018 The movie is listed on Terrarium tv. Films for those who have the APK downloaded on their android tablet/box/ firestick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
51st Sikhs Posted 17 February , 2018 Share Posted 17 February , 2018 On 2/7/2018 at 11:57, Steven Broomfield said: Pips were commonly worn on the shoulder later in the war in some regiments. The London Scottish are adamant that their officers didn't (and I've certainly never seen a photo to disprove it), but by 1918 pips on the shoulder were not uncommon. I suspect that's not the sort of error Taff Gillingham is likely to make. Intersting. Thanks for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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