Whipster's profile

Whipster's profile

Whipster

Whipster

 
Favourite film: Harvie Krumpet
 
URL: http://www.lovefilm.com/profile/Whipster
 
About me: Movie fanatic who prefers edgier content

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15/02/2012

09/02/2012

  • 12:00: Whipster reviewed with the review

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Approaching the extreme (8)
"Movies approaching the extreme edge have always attracted me - by the "edge" I mean the limits of wh..."
24/12/2009

Average rating: 5.00   100% from 1 member
AVOID - the bottom of the barrel list... (13)
"The movies on this list are so abysmal, so utterly dull and tedious, so godforsakingly awful that I ..."
07/04/2011

Average rating: unrated
Movies to savour and digest (23)
"Each of my listed movies has that certain something which puts them in a class apart - it could be h..."
13/07/2007

Average rating: 4.50   90% from 4 members

Recent review

Since when was Stig (of the Dump) a character in the Borrowers? , 15 February 2012
  • Arrietty on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Bridgit Mendler,  Amy Poehler,  Will Arnett
    Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Being a Studio Ghibli admirer I was really looking forward to this title but unfortunately it really disappointed me. The characterisations were wrong, to put it simply. Pod as a sullen patriach and Arrietys mother looking and sounding like a witch from Spirited Away ruined things almost immediately, plus Spiller looking and sounding like Stig of the Dump. All the charm and quirky slightly surreal tone of the original novel were absent. Very pretty backgrounds as we've come to expect but the interpretation is just really poor. Probably still wonderful for small children but sorry to say its only 3. 5 stars for the rest of us. Dubbed. Japanese.
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 1,434 member
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