so just watched first instalment of the eagerly awaited "Red Riding" based on the 4 gritty novels by David peace, got to say i thought it was brilliant! did you think the same?
roll on next week!!!

Missed it. How was our Sean?

:suspect: before you get jumped on for posting this in the wrong section, i didn't think this was a patch on "our friends in the north" even though i thought it was the best thing channel 4 have done in years.

I can't wait for next weeks :)

Anyone know if its repeated? I missed it and apparently one of the neighbours kids makes an appearance in it?

Cheers

Jim:thumbsup:

it was brilliant -really enjoyed it

Anyone know if its repeated? I missed it and apparently one of the neighbours kids makes an appearance in it?

Cheers

Jim:thumbsup:

not sure if going to be repeated but for sure it's going t be released on dvd, C4 are advertiseing that already but play.com may be cheaper!! was ruudy good and only to get better if the ripper saga is included (which we all know is!!)

Try 4 on demand.

Missed it. How was our Sean?

He wont be winning any Oscars thats for sure.

Blink and you missed him. Can you win an oscar for a tv show?

could people actually make sense of it?
that guys constant smoking really annoyed me.
I got bored of it so flipped onto Grey's Anatomy.

Blink and you missed him. Can you win an oscar for a tv show?

If you could and he did then he would win one every year seeing as he appears to be playing the same character in everything he makes, he can weld though :thumbsup:

Next weeks could be good though, Paddy Considine is in it :thumbsup:

It was interesting

If we'd not had life on mars first to get used to the idea that 1970's cops were thugs, this would have been somewhat unpalatable

The editing tried to be to clever and just made it difficult to follow in places - chopping and changing from beat-up scenes to flash FORWARDS images :loopy:

it wasn't a touch on the books. It was very glossed over and the characters just didn't convince me =(

It didn't "grab" me like "Life On Mars" or "Our Friends In The North" did. (Even if the squad room looked as if it were lifted from the LOM set... )

I thought the editing was horrendous! Jumping backwards and forwards, dream sequences etc it just made is confusing and impossible to follow. With such a good topic why did it need all these surplus effects?

With such a good topic why did it need all these surplus effects?

Because that's how the books work - they are dense and tangled and intentionally confusing. They would have destroyed the spirit of the novels had they turned it into a purely linear story; I'm delighted they didn't do that.

Having said that, the plot had been thinned out considerably and numerous characters dropped; I actually thought it was very easy to follow in a way that the books just aren't. I did miss that sense of complete disorientation, but thought they'd got as close as it was possible to get considering that they'd only got 2 hours to play with. Sean Bean was actually superb.

The other thing to bear in mind is that each film is made by a different director, so the next two may treat the material differently. We shall see.

Well I switched on around 10 mins into it, he was shagging someone, after a few mins I went and made a cup of tea put some washing in etc, then I had a flick through the channels a bit, turned it back on about an hour later, he was shagging someone. Is this what he did for the whole 2 hours?? Maybe I missed the whole point in the first 10 minutes, it was something I was really looking forward to watching as well.

Maybe I missed the whole point in the first 10 minutes,

Sounds like it.

I really liked it although I did find it a bit predictable. Felt like id seen it all before somewhere. I thought the acting was spot on though, even Sean

I thought the editing was horrendous! Jumping backwards and forwards, dream sequences etc it just made is confusing and impossible to follow. With such a good topic why did it need all these surplus effects?

I found it hard to follow too.

Sean was in his element. Very naturalistic acting.

I thought it portrayed the whole system of bribery and black market manipulation very well. Yes, it was a drama, but it also had a very important point to make - that this kind of thing inevitably does happen in a society obsessed with money and power.

The bleakness of the entire thing was beautiful.

Have to say i was disapointed by it. I thought the production values and acting were top notch, however i felt the story lacked something, it was all a bit too obvious. I've not read the books, maybe that explains more the relationships between the characters and why they are all scratching each others backs?

In the end it just felt a bit like chirpy southerner returns to roots, gets too big for his boots, goes to one grim location, gets beaten up, moves to another grim location gets beaten up then finally flips, i dunno I just kept wanting more depth :(

I'll be watching next weeks episode though, and a hope that as a story arc it becomes a good series, the potential is certainly there

it lost me completely - I thought the way it was filmed was too dark and fuzzy (ok I know nearly all of the scenes were in smoke filled rooms) but I just thought it made it hard to watch.

Sean Bean was better than usual though - maybe because he could speak in his own accent, and didn't have to try pronouncing his t's like he has to in big movies!

I thought the editing was horrendous! Jumping backwards and forwards, dream sequences etc it just made is confusing and impossible to follow.

I found that too. I got quite bored with the whole thing until the last 20 or so minutes.

The fact that EVERYONE had a fag in their mouth all the time was rediculous beyond belief!!!! !! Why they chose to give free advertising for cigarettes for 120 minutes I do not know......I half expected even the kids to have fags in their mouth it was so OTT.....I was around in 1974 and pubs and clubs were not the fag filled gas chambers they were portrayed to be in this show....this show gives the impression that everyone smoked in the 70's, totally and completely wrong....even the Sweeney and other 70's shows, while true to say the lead characters enjoy the odd fag or 2, do not puff themselves to death throughout the entire duration of the show......

for that terrible and gross misrepresentation of the period in question, the production failed....COMPLETELY...
they may as well have slipped in subliminal ads or background posters for Benson and hedges, marlboro, Players, ET AL....
the story was good until the final 10 minutes.....then it went to pot, and the ending was totally ludicrous......shame as the first 90% of the plot was sound......

Just to clarify, the plot is not over yet.

Just to clarify, the plot is not over yet.

Is Sean Bean not dead then????

I thought the editing was horrendous! Jumping backwards and forwards, dream sequences etc it just made is confusing and impossible to follow. With such a good topic why did it need all these surplus effects?
I found it hard to follow too.

Same here, glad it wasn't just me.

I thought this would be really good but I was very dissapointed. It was hard to follow & the constant smoking/ smoky rooms was annoying. I also found the violence a bit hard to stomach. I ended up turning over in the end.