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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 423521" data-attributes="member: 8">STAN &amp; OLLIE (2018)[ATTACH=full]56358[/ATTACH]The motivation was the novelty of watching actors playing Laurel &amp; Hardy, but 5 minutes into the film I realised I could have watched that on youtube (the trailer, or a few scenes).Also, because it&#039;s about them it&#039;s not a traditional Laurel &amp; Hardy comedy, and I wondered if I had made the wrong choice.But as the film progressed I started to love it more and more and I also realised that I didn&#039;t know very much about them.The dramatised events of their theatre tour in the UK and Ireland in anticipation of a movie comeback look elegantly sentimental, and the actors (including the actresses as the wives) are delightful to watch.The end credits show various scenes and pictures of the real Laurel and Hardy and I almost didn&#039;t recognise them because I thought they were supposed to look like Steve Coogan and John Reilly.Only goes to show the power of movie illusion.One downside: it feels kind of frustrating that the Robin Hood/Rob &#039;M Good film was never made (but there are some spoilers anyway!)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 423521, member: 8"] STAN & OLLIE (2018) [ATTACH type="full"]56358[/ATTACH] The motivation was the novelty of watching actors playing Laurel & Hardy, but 5 minutes into the film I realised I could have watched that on youtube (the trailer, or a few scenes). Also, because it's [I]about[/I] them it's not a traditional Laurel & Hardy comedy, and I wondered if I had made the wrong choice. But as the film progressed I started to love it more and more and I also realised that I didn't know very much about them. The dramatised events of their theatre tour in the UK and Ireland in anticipation of a movie comeback look elegantly sentimental, and the actors (including the actresses as the wives) are delightful to watch. The end credits show various scenes and pictures of the real Laurel and Hardy and I almost didn't recognise them because I thought they were supposed to look like Steve Coogan and John Reilly. Only goes to show the power of movie illusion. One downside: it feels kind of frustrating that the Robin Hood/Rob 'M Good film was never made (but there are some spoilers anyway!) [/QUOTE]

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