Dom Hemingway

[spudmulkahee]

Advance notice of Times Plus screening on 5 November. Code not yet available.

[eumenides]

Might have to shield my parents from this one having read the Sunday Times interview with Jude Law. Might be a bit OTT from the snippets of dialogue the interviewer talks about.

[Yinster]

Back from Glasgow Quay. What a load of b*******s. I had no sympathy for Dom Hemingway at all from the moment he came onto the screen. You can take that literally to the last moment when his name onto the screen to say the film had finished. It was a very strange way of telling the story. Almost theatre like with Dom doing a lot of soliloquies almost sounded like Shakespeare and not a common Londoner. And casting Emilia Clarke as his daughter with a seven year old son. Dom must had his daughter when he was like 14 then and being a granddad at 40. Do the maths. 2/10

[valda]

I'm the exact opposite! I found it really interesting and pretty funny. I did wonder if it were orginally a play as it came across like Pinter crossed with Shakespeare. I was finding it hard to figure out when it was supposed to be. Smoking is banned, but I don't remember seeing any mobile phones etc.

It was good to see Jude, going to seed, and not being the pretty boy anymore. Reading up on the Writer/Director, I found he also wrote and directed The Matador, a film I really enjoyed, starring a washed up potbellied Pierce Brosnan a film on sort of similar lines.

Loved the soundtrack as well. 6.5/10

ps where did Dom get the suntan from?

[deb1]

Saw this tonight at Glasgow Quay with OH, teddybear1, McG, Yinster and OH.

This is the first film that we've seen in ages that I could have easily left part way through and not worried if we'd missed anything. When I suggested to my OH we leave (several times), he kept saying it will get better. It didn't! Really didn't enjoy this, not my kind of film at all, didn't feel anything for Dom's character and felt there was no real story.

Totally agree with Valda - couldn't help but notice Dom's white bits from his suntan, where was he in prison.

Glasgow Quay was freezing tonight, think they turned off the heating to distract us from the film. 1/10.

[stuartboy]

Not the best, and not helped by arriving late having taken 2 hours to do a 45 mile trip. Not amused. 35 minutes home. Thankfully nice Times girl let me in no problem. Had seen the trailer so at least I had some idea who these two clown were riding in a Rolls Royce Corniche.
I agreed that this was very theatrical. Indeed I thought I heard some iambic pentameter in there and some of the lines they spoke seemed to rhyme. I too wondered if this was, had been or meant to be a play.
Not much of a story, with not much happening either. I thought this would have been better suited as a 2 part ITV production on TV. Would have been unimpressed if I had used spondooliks to see this.
Barely recognised Jude Law, but who could miss Dickie Grant (sans main).

4/10. Could have, should have, would have been much better.

[scootermcc]

Saw this tonight at Glasgow Quay with OH, teddybear1, McG, Yinster and OH.

This is the first film that we've seen in ages that I could have easily left part way through and not worried if we'd missed anything. When I suggested to my OH we leave (several times), he kept saying it will get better. It didn't! Really didn't enjoy this, not my kind of film at all, didn't feel anything for Dom's character and felt there was no real story.

Totally agree with Valda - couldn't help but notice Dom's white bits from his suntan, where was he in prison.

Glasgow Quay was freezing tonight, think they turned off the heating to distract us from the film. 1/10.

So that's where all the Glasgow FMUK were,wondered why the back row was empty at Don Jon.

[McG]

ps where did Dom get the suntan from?

As so many folk seem to think prison is a holiday camp, it must have been there!

[funthing29]

It was refreshing to see Jude Law play a different type of role but not sure what tone the film was aiming for, it was not a black comedy, a serious drama or a crime thriller – more like a mishmash of all of the different genres which did not work at all. 4/10.

[j_b]

I had such a laugh! The film reminded me a lot of Nicolas Winding Refn's Bronson. Jude Law as Dom is very good and Richard Grant as Dickie complements him perfectly. It's a great movie, go see it!!! 8/10