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A load of (black)ball |
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| Since the days of ole Chris Coloumbus have us mere britians been in the shadow of our fat relations across the pond. Americans have always tried to be the damn best at everything.. first man in space, first to start silly wars and the buggers have even dominated most of the entertainment region. Whilst we beat the americans hands down with comedy series (the office, only fools) the americans can still teach us a thing or two about making movies. We've had the odd hit, 'Chicken run' was okay despite the fact that the main characters were made out of play-doh. So when a movie actually starring real life people comes along it might stand a chance against what the yanks do, right? Wrong. Blackball is a so-so british movie, about bowls. Doesn't sound good, does it? |
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| Sadly, the only thing that made me laugh was Johnny Vegas who was the main characters mate. The rest of the movie was okay but lacked any decent comedy and storyline. I've noticed, most movies follow this style, and thats why truly decent movies don't go near this plan. Here it is: |
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Stage 1: Beginning
The movie begins and you find out about the characters. The setting of the movie has begun and in the example of blackball it shows the difference between the owner of the bowls club (respectable oldish man) and our hero starkey (20 something mess-about). No suprises here, it is a movie: starkey has an amazing tallent for bowls despite his apperance. |
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Stage 2: The up
Here, the main star of the movie has a recent lucky spell. Typical examples: In 'the mask' carrey finds the mask. In titanic, the main couple begin to meet and talk. In 'bend it like beckham' the indian lass gets picked to play for a team. In 'blackball' our hero meets a lady, wins a tourniment and after some faffing about, finds himself on telly and lands himself a nice place to live. |
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Stage 3: The down
Oh no! Things begin to fall through for the main character! The dinos escaped in jurassic park, the titanic sinks, Morpheus gets captured in the matrix and in blackball, starkey loses his girlfriend, his best mate, and becomes worse than me at bowls. What can our hero do? Hes fucked! |
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Stage 4: The triumph
But whats this? After some more stuff happening, like a confidence boost, a powerful speech and a little comedy, our heros in every movie always win and despite the tough stage 3, they'll come out okay. |
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Next time you watch a movie, try seeing if it falls into these stages. Only truely decent movies avoid this, like resivoir dogs, for example. Triumphant win for the resivoir dogs? No. |
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| Another problem with this flick is that revolves around a competition. Which makes stage four seem so obvious. It was just like 'bend it like beckham'; the main character stuggles to become the best and finds love along the way. And the last few moments of the final competition aren't really so tense, mainly because you know our guy will win. Pah. |
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| The movie tried to be funny in parts. At the start, I thought we were onto a right winner here. Then at parts the movie didn't become so funny and certianly dragged on a bit. Good old johhny V did supply some much needed laughter, but except for that, there was no real comedy here - just slightly amusing stuff happening. If you want to go and see it, wait until its on the telly, you wont be missing much. |
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| As for the good parts in the film..? I thought the actors were good and well suited for the parts that were given to them. Except for that agent guy. Hes been in films before and I fucking hate him with a passion. And much to my amusement, I had a good laugh at kearns fighting the sleep. Sleep at the cinema? What a dick. |
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