Film 83 (19th December 1983) Part 1/7

Barry Norman reviewing a comedy film,which I thought was a good film !!!

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[MarkSkidMcCormick]

Do you have film 86 where Bazza reviewed Commando? Thanks for this!!

[dee74raz]

@MarkSkidMcCormick Sorry this is the only one I got !!!

[DaveyC95]

Well this is from the year I was born, it feels a bit surreal but I love it..Thank you for the upload. :-)

[ninfilms]

Trading Places is a classic film.

[alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

Thanks for posting this up. Great to see the old style film show with Bazza on it. Don't get me started on either Ross or Winkleman and the travesty of the film programme now!

Still for your film reviewing stuff listen to Dr. Kermode or watch old clips of Bazza.

[barryw53]

@Runrome Same here. I assumed it was going to be the same format. It's like breakfast tv....

[Runrome]

I have just been watching film 2010 with Cludia Winklman , within the first twenty minutes I had to switch it off, I remember theses shows with Barry Norman as articulate ,considered and informed presented by a man who was steaped in film lore past and present the current incarnation of this show in 2010 is gimky loud and lacking in any real substance

The quality of this shows prove that a great show has turned into pure tabloid thrash(film 2010)

[KaitainCPS]

@maxiboy666

btw I wouldn't say he pans the film. He just thinks that the final third goes a bit lowbrow for his tastes, having been very good beforehand. The review is still pretty positive overall.

[KaitainCPS]

@maxiboy666

Agreed.

Norman has admitted that he sometimes got movies wrong, realizing later that he had misappraised them on first viewing.

I think in the early 80s cinema was still thought of by critics as being primarily a very serious medium, and lighter films were often treated as an annoyance. By the end of the 80s, Norman was much more tolerant, for example when praising "Bill and Ted's Escellent Adventure".

[maxiboy666]

Film XX was always part of the true quality British broadcasting on the BBC back in the days when it was more interested in programming than spouting out left-wing political propaganda.

Barry Norman was a good film critic but here, like he did sometimes, panned a light hearted movie for no good reason. How can you criticise a movie that was designed to be light comedy and turns out that way? Sometimes he took these kind of movies too seriously.