My Brassed Off DVD arrived from Amazon today and I watched it almost immediately. This movie was better than I expected, and I had high hopes for it from the beginning. The music was absolutely amazing! The drama parts of the movie are very poignant, and I have to say I "almost" cried at couple points. Very moving. Superb cast and director. Well worth the price of admission. I'm giving it the vaunted 3 thumbs up.
Maybe you saw this . . . 20th anniversary interview with Stephen Tomkinson. Brassed Off was his first movie. Epic interview, and I haven't even seen the movie! I did buy the HD DVD from Amazon and will have it tomorrow (Tuesday, 1/26)
If you watch enough trailers on Youtube, you can almost watch the entire movie. I didn't realize Melanie Hill was in this show. I watch her on Coronation Street.
You know, I feel the exact same way! Mine is as good as the day I bought it. Movies look great, sports look great. Hey, I'm set!! Like you, I have other things to do. I'm not getting a smart TV!
I don't have a smart TV either. As log as this one works well, I don't need one. I can't watch it all at the moment anyway... So many programs, so little time
I don't get Netflix. They bounced me because I would not buy a smart TV. My TV works as well as the day I bought it. However, I bought it 10 years ago. BUT at the time, it was the best TV you could buy . . . it was a 55- inch, Samsung Series 700. No, seriously. I was still working at the time and a client of mine in Orange County turned me on to his "entertainment guru." After the guru knew roughly what I was looking for, he phoned me a day or two later and told me where to buy it, what brand, and model number. Anyway, to make a short story long, I don't have Netflix any more. I may get forced into buying a smart TV.
After reading your comments and watching the 2 videos, I'd like to see this movie. But who knows when it will be aired in my part of California? Amazon sells the HD DVD for $13. Hmmm.
Oooooooooh yes yes yes! One of my all time favorite films. surely want to watch it again : for the story and for the music... :-))) One of those songs will be played at my funeral ;-)
The film is about the troubles faced by a colliery brass band, following the closure of their pit. The soundtrack for the film was provided by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, and the plot is based on Grimethorpe's own struggles against pit closures. It has been generally very positively received for its role in promoting brass bands and their music. Parts of the film make reference to the huge increase in suicides that resulted from the end of the coal industry in Britain, and the struggle to retain hope in the circumstances.
In the United States, the film was promoted simply as a romantic comedy involving McGregor and Fitzgerald's characters.
You will surely not regret it... I'm sure you can rent the dvd at any library :-) Another British diamond is : The Imitation Game... but that poster is for later
I just looked up the meaning of title as I didn't know it. I linked it to the brass of the band. but All Knowing Google said: British, informal. : annoyed and unhappy feeling a bit brassed off. And this concludes today's lesson
Absolutely not :) I saw the Full Monty.... and Calendar Girls :-) But this one is one of the best British movies I ever saw. And even I'm not to into brass band music that much, the music of this colliery band is breathtaking. I saw this movie some 3 - 4 times and it touches me every time
This is a wonderful movie and you really should see it. Pete Postlethwaite was a great actor and I was truly a fan. The coal mine in a northern English village may be closing, which would also mean the end of the miners' brass band. Just check the trailer (you really really should see this film) :-) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b4zPoleN28 And this is the (emotional) musical ending of the movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX035j00Pxc
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