National Treasure: Ch4 9pm

[chilistrucker]

Bit of a burner, but i'll stick with it.
My money is on his creepy actor mate being a 'wrong un.'

[Legacywr]

chilistrucker said:

Bit of a burner, but i'll stick with it.
My money is on his creepy actor mate being a 'wrong un.'

Agreed, Coltane's daughter has obviously been abused, and, I think it was the life long friend!

[p1doc]

ended as a bit of a damp squib-no real closure for anyone-bit of a shame but cracking acting by Coltrane though

[droopsnoot]

I'd agree, that was a bit of a rubbish ending. It had gone downhill by last week though, and I just stuck with it as 75% through. Oh well, let's see what the new "The Missing" turns out like.

[Legacywr]

I thought that, the fact that he got off, although he was guilty, made it quite interesting!

[GetCarter]

Legacywr said:

I thought that, the fact that he got off, although he was guilty, made it quite interesting!

I actually liked it more as it went on. Mostly as they stopped moving the fking camera, and those fking bells! (Omnesphere 2 I guess)

Great performances I thought. Worth a mention in the gongs.

[Marty Funkhouser]

I am watching but its a classic example of the director distracting from what could be a far more involving story. Far too many pretentious shots - the drawn out weirdly lit scene where she is sorting his hand out for example. Also the slow mo reverse of the final scene. Too much wilfully arty stuff that may get the creatives ego's massaged but just get in the way of the story. The incidental music is very good in places and inappropriate in others. C4 have fluffed this a bit I think. Its a pity because its a great cast - Julie Walters is superb - terrifyingly so. Cant decide if I will continue watching.

[IanCress]

Wonder if there will be a series 2. Seemed there's so many things unresolved - His daughters mental illness, the relationship with his wife, chance of further people coming forward, the feeling that Carl knows a lot more than he lets on...

Agreed it was overly 'arty' and it did detract from the story slightly.

[droopsnoot]

Marty Funkhouser said:

I am watching but its a classic example of the director distracting from what could be a far more involving story. Far too many pretentious shots - the drawn out weirdly lit scene where she is sorting his hand out for example. Also the slow mo reverse of the final scene. Too much wilfully arty stuff that may get the creatives ego's massaged but just get in the way of the story.

I also hate that kind of stuff, have managed to stop myself commenting on it now because it's just the way "everything" is, whether it's a drama or just something like a Nigel Slater cookery thing, it's packed full of poor focus. I've just decided it's padding because they can't think of another way of filling the programme length - I reckon without all that "atmospheric" stuff this series could have been done in three episodes. I've tried to make a point of recording anything that has adverts in it now, so I can FF past them, and unfortunately when I see a bit of filler for more than a second or two I've started doing the same.

[james_tigerwoods]

We watched this over the past 4 weeks and each episode was met with the comment "well, that was a bit slow" - Each segment (between ads) seemed to just drag with much arty stuff and little real content.

I think a real opportunity was missed here and the verdict surprised me as I didn't see that coming - Post verdict was a bit of a let down too. I think something done by the BBC would have been a little more hard hitting though.

That's not to take away from Robbie Coltrane and Julie Walter's performance though - These were brilliant.