"Confetti"? Too widely dispersed and messy.

[ScreaminTree]

Saw this film last night and was perusing the Internet Movie Database this morning where I located this opinion of it (paraphrased by me):

"The weddings in the end were quite entertaining , but the journey to them was painful A mixture of comedy actors from channel 4 and BBC2 produced another British comedy with out any laughs...What is happening to the British film industry , every time I go to see the latest offering I come away very disappointed..."

I'd give "Confetti" 6/10, personally...not bad, but I don't care if I never see it again. Regarding the first sentence, I believe the complete reverse to be true, and there were a few laughs, but I agree wholeheatedly with the remainder of this person's statement.

I get annoyed - and embarrassed - with contemporary British filmakers as I think they're trying too hard to create films with a broad (ie transatlantic) appeal in a quest for profit and approbation, and are not being parochial enough in trying to capture the essence of our humour. Which can travel well if delivered with conviction - like American humour for example.

A huge % of good films these days are European, Eastern and, yes, American; North and South. I'm rather glad Britain has a legacy of Ealing comedies, Powell and Pressburger, Lindsay Anderson, Ken Loach, Mike Leigh et al for example, but when does the renaissance of consistent British high-quality film-making begin?

I'm not a cultural jingoist (a great film is a great film... from wherever); I'm just culturally smarting a bit and don't want us to be a laughing stock for all the wrong reasons!

Anyone else got (strong) opinions about this?

[Octavius]

Who knows, but I understand Ken Loach's latest ""controversial"" offering is meant to be rather good.

Personally it's each to their own, if you don't like a film, you don't like a film and that is that. I doubt we will ever achieve the great heights of the Carry On era though, but at least they are preserved for our future prosperity.

[ScreaminTree]

I agree with "each to their own" Octavius...it's just we rarely seem to make great movies any more.

Like the Carry On Sarcasm. Notice how I didn't include them in my list (entertaining as some undoubtedly are...)

[Octavius]

It wasn't sarcasm, I have the entire collection on DVD.

[ScreaminTree]

Then I apologise unreservedly. Sometimes the printed word can look so cold. "Cleo", "Jungle", "Khyber", "Screaming", "Doctor" and "DLY Head" are all, in my humble opinion, quality.