Starter for 10
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Movie Reviews of Starter for 10
Movie Review: Trip down memory lane
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie was an exercise in nostalgia for me. I attended an English university not long before this movie takes place in 1985 so there was a lot that was familiar. Having said that, it's a fairly entertaining hour and a half that never tries to go very deeply into the characters. There is some muffled social commentary in there somewhere but basically this is a movie about a rather straightforward, likable young man trying to get to grips with the world. First he falls for the wrong woman, the blond, and then for the right one, the political activist. Like a lot of movies, it doesn't promise very much but it delivers what it promises.Movie Review: Starter (or Non-Starter) for 10???
Summary: 3 Stars
Somewhat likable despite its formulaic portrayal of British university life, wanker!! Interesting sound-track crammed with good mid-80's tracks from British bands. Quiz show whiz learns that smarts are more than just knowing the right answer and that knowledge of trivia need not be confused with insight and good judgment.
The quiz champ protagonist is torn romantically between the super-hot babe (a Christie Brinkley lookalike) or the unconventional but appealing Jewish chick ..
Hmmm, which way will he choose? Tune in to see. I wonder ...
Not a bad way to spend 96 minutes ...
Movie Review: Seeing a Jew First Time
Summary: 3 Stars
A funny movie of the eighteen year old making his way from a working class-vanishing provincial suburb to Bristol Uni of the Tetchier epoch and his interaction with world outside native English suburbia, sexual encounters on a plate.
Probably, this movie, darer for the Brits overlived an era of explicit lies still somehow dominating someone mythology of lazy dummies not willing to work as even slight possibilities of being taken on exist in a British Commonwealth anglosphere for mates privileged only, is still of an interest on various merits.
Movie Review: too much pull back, not enough step forward
Summary: 3 Stars
This is glossed over, too much of a movie that pulls back to show some broad stage but which does not focus on the characters, does not dive into the story.
I highly recommend that if you want it you also watch a number of other "kids go to college and try to grow up" movies so you don't get trapped into the "I guess that was all they could do" answers for why the movie blundered several times, barely made the steps a few times, and only soared once or twice.
Movie Review: Ruined by an artsy ending
Summary: 2 Stars
I guess it was realistic and artsy to give depressing ending to "Starter for Ten."
Good acting but the director was clearly in a split mind as to what kind of film he was making. The film starts with the promise of 'about a boy, but looses its way. The actor playing Bamber Gascoin must have been told it was a piss take. The ending is implausible and only serves to make the watcher feel a fool for watching beyond the boring start.