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What's your favorite film by Michael Apted?

14 Up
3 (10.3%)
The Triple Echo
0 (0%)
Stardust
0 (0%)
21 Up
2 (6.9%)
The Squeeze
0 (0%)
Agatha
0 (0%)
Coal Miner's Daughter
3 (10.3%)
Continental Divide
0 (0%)
P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang
1 (3.4%)
Gorky Park
2 (6.9%)
Firstborn
0 (0%)
28 Up
2 (6.9%)
Bring on the Night
0 (0%)
Critical Condition
0 (0%)
Gorillas in the Mist
0 (0%)
Class Action
0 (0%)
35 Up
1 (3.4%)
Thunderheart
0 (0%)
Incident at Oglala
1 (3.4%)
Blink
0 (0%)
Nell
0 (0%)
Extreme Measures
0 (0%)
42 Up
1 (3.4%)
Always Outnumbered
0 (0%)
The World Is Not Enough
3 (10.3%)
Enigma
1 (3.4%)
Enough
0 (0%)
49 Up
0 (0%)
Amazing Grace
3 (10.3%)
other (specify)
2 (6.9%)
haven't seen any
3 (10.3%)
don't like any
1 (3.4%)
56 Up
0 (0%)
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
0 (0%)
Chasing Mavericks [co-directed by Curtis Hanson]
0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 28

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Jared

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Re: Apted, Michael - Director's Best
« Reply #20 on: February 07, 2013, 10:42:44 AM »
1) The Up Series (seen all except 56 Up) 3/5
2) The World is Not Enough 3/5
3) Coal Miner's Daughter 3/5

I also am a little baffled by TWINE hate. I think it's easily the second best of the four Brosnan (Tomorrow Never Dies is kinda poor and Die Another Day is one of the worst in my opinion). Poor Denise Richards gets really picked on for her acting, but I guess I never really except the Bond girls to be great thespians.

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Re: Apted, Michael - Director's Best
« Reply #21 on: February 07, 2013, 06:37:05 PM »
My vote is the Up series as a whole.
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Re: Apted, Michael
« Reply #22 on: January 19, 2016, 02:51:20 AM »
42 Up: 7/10
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Re: Apted, Michael
« Reply #23 on: March 29, 2016, 01:17:19 PM »
1. The World is Not Enough (3)
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Re: Apted, Michael
« Reply #24 on: August 06, 2020, 12:17:45 AM »
Agatha (1979)
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The potential in the idea is genius. Based on the true and never explained 11-day disappearance of Agatha Christie in 1926, this fictional film supposes Christie (Vanessa Redgrave) used the time to plot the perfect murder against the mistress of her husband (Timothy Dalton). A slightly eccentric, hyper-intuitive journalist (Dustin Hoffman) looks to uncover the truth. The film uses some basic Christie murder mystery foundations to have fun with the tropes while centering on the criminal as much as the detective. Hoffman is perfectly cast as a Christie type investigator and who better to plan the perfect murder, what better cover than Christie herself doing some research under an alias. Unfortunately, Apted doesn't focus in on the fun, but instead lets things go slack with Christie working on getting her groove back, which also entails an improbable romance between the two leads.

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Re: Apted, Michael
« Reply #25 on: August 06, 2020, 05:47:44 PM »
Coal Miner’s Daughter, 40°
Gorillas In The Mist, 30°

Extreme Measures, 10°
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Re: Apted, Michael
« Reply #26 on: August 06, 2020, 06:11:13 PM »
Coal Miner's Daughter

21 Up

28 Up
7 Plus Seven
Gorillas in the Mist
35 Up
Gorky Park
Continental Divide
Class Action
The World Is Not Enough


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