[Film] "Brighton" (2021)

[jcdenton08]

Has anyone else seen this absolute omnishambles of a film? Absolute disaster from start to finish.

Ostensibly set in Brighton, it stars Larry Lamb (who looks uncannily like Jim from Friday Night Dinner), Phil Davis doing his best Phil Davis impression, Lesley Sharp and Marion Bailey.

It is just about the most pointless 1hr 30mins imaginable. It is almost Biblical in its shitness. Absolutely no care, no attention to detail (long shots of Bexhill and Hastings, complete with shop signs prominently showing 01424 phone numbers). Even the final shot of the movie is a slow zoom out on Hastings pier.

The plot is almost nonexistent. It watches like a play (I'm assuming it was written as one) with the characters sitting around on deck chairs talking endless shite. There is practically zero location shooting in Brighton. It plays at being an examination of generational differences, touching on homophobia, racism and general prejudice - but doesn't really make any points or tell a story.

One of the most feeble movies I've seen in decades.

 

[Lethargic]

Get off the fence and say what you mean [emoji16]

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[B-right-on]

Saw the trailer for it and that was enough to put me off. That alone was awful.

 

[banjo]

Thanks for the warning.

 

[Boroseagull]

Tried watching it - lasted 15 mins, and that's 15 mins of my life I'll never recover.

 

[Jim Van Winkle]

Saw the trailer for it and that was enough to put me off. That alone was awful.

Same. The trailer made it look like a steaming pile of CPFC

 

[Stat Brother]

It is almost Biblical... ...It watches like a play... ...touching on homophobia, racism and general prejudice.

Sounds good - I might give it a watch.

 

[studio150]

One of the most enjoyable films ever for anyone who likes playing guess the filming location

 

[Acker79]

Did you mean to post this in the Amazon Prime recommendations thread?

 

[el punal]

One of the most enjoyable films ever for anyone who likes playing guess the filming location

Did they show Portslade? If they did, was it a fun town to go to?

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Has anyone else seen this absolute omnishambles of a film? Absolute disaster from start to finish.

Ostensibly set in Brighton, it stars Larry Lamb (who looks uncannily like Jim from Friday Night Dinner), Phil Davis doing his best Phil Davis impression, Lesley Sharp and Marion Bailey.

It is just about the most pointless 1hr 30mins imaginable. It is almost Biblical in its shitness. Absolutely no care, no attention to detail (long shots of Bexhill and Hastings, complete with shop signs prominently showing 01424 phone numbers). Even the final shot of the movie is a slow zoom out on Hastings pier.

The plot is almost nonexistent. It watches like a play (I'm assuming it was written as one) with the characters sitting around on deck chairs talking endless shite. There is practically zero location shooting in Brighton. It plays at being an examination of generational differences, touching on homophobia, racism and general prejudice - but doesn't really make any points or tell a story.

One of the most feeble movies I've seen in decades.

Doesn't Larry Lamb have a sister in Brighton? He could have used his local connections.

 

[OzMike]

Isn't there a 'the' missing between the words Larry and Lamb ?

 

[maresfield seagull]

Has anyone else seen this absolute omnishambles of a film? Absolute disaster from start to finish.

Ostensibly set in Brighton, it stars Larry Lamb (who looks uncannily like Jim from Friday Night Dinner), Phil Davis doing his best Phil Davis impression, Lesley Sharp and Marion Bailey.

It is just about the most pointless 1hr 30mins imaginable. It is almost Biblical in its shitness. Absolutely no care, no attention to detail (long shots of Bexhill and Hastings, complete with shop signs prominently showing 01424 phone numbers). Even the final shot of the movie is a slow zoom out on Hastings pier.

The plot is almost nonexistent. It watches like a play (I'm assuming it was written as one) with the characters sitting around on deck chairs talking endless shite. There is practically zero location shooting in Brighton. It plays at being an examination of generational differences, touching on homophobia, racism and general prejudice - but doesn't really make any points or tell a story.

One of the most feeble movies I've seen in decades.

You actually watched the trailer And still subjected yourself to this tripe

 

[jcdenton08]

You actually watched the trailer And still subjected yourself to this tripe

I did not, no.

 

[Wozza]

2/5 in The Guardian. Possibly generous.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/may/31/brighton-review-lesley-sharp

 

[jcdenton08]

2/5 in The Guardian. Possibly generous.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/may/31/brighton-review-lesley-sharp

Very generous. I'd give it one star, and that is only because the cast are competent, if unappealing.

 

[m@goo]

Isn't that one of the Indie films someone on here wrote or directed?

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

It's a bit like that Cloughie movie. Lazy film-making. The Cloughie one's just about sole reference to Brighton was somebody shuffling on a zimmer frame past a front window. Sake!

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

It's a bit like that Cloughie movie. Lazy film-making. The Cloughie one's just about sole reference to Brighton was somebody shuffling on a zimmer frame past a front window. Sake!

If by “that Cloughie Movie” you mean the Damned United, it’s hardly centrally about Brighton!

 

[Badger Boy]

Who are any of the people you mention as being in the film?! What platform did you watch it on? I've seen nothing about this "film".