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The World Is Not Enough (1999)
Pleasantly Disheartened
Every two years I look forward to the new Bond movie and this year I waited in anticipation until finally "The World is Not Enough" was released. The best thing about the film would have to be the more serious and dangerous approach to both the storyline and the character of Bond which has been missing for ten years and even at that never equals the hardness of "Licence to Kill" or Timothy Dalton's much superior interpetation of James Bond. I did enjoy the film very much but then, this being a Bond film, I was always going to enjoy it. The only problem I really have with TWINE is that it is an over-long film and fails to make good use of the characters involved in the plot, possibly because there are far too many characters. John Cleese is a welcome addition and the farewell for Q was very poigiant and altogether shockingly quick. It is definatley Pierce Brosnan's best Bond film yet and I feel that he has managed to grasp the role much better this time than he did in his previous two. I will not deny that I came away from the film feeling a little disheartened having expected something a lot better but nevertheless it is still a pretty good addition and well worth going to see.
The Woman in Black (1989)
Scary, very, very scary
I first saw The Woman in Black when I was ten years old. It was broadcast on Xmas eve 1989. It frightened me senseless and it has never really left me.
It is a really wonderful film and a delight to know that there are some really good ghost stories out there. The whole atmosphere is made tense by the fact that you never know when something truly awful is either going to appear or going to happen and your are treated to the same amount of terror that the main character, Arthur Kidd, is experiencing which is very rare for any film to get the audience involved in that way.
You must see this film, track it down and view something that is so terrifying that you won't sleep for nights on end.
It is a shame that the film is no longer available on video in Britain and is hardly ever shown on television now so come on somebody get this out on video or even better on DVD as it is a classic and defines how all ghost stories should be made.