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The Not Old - Better Show

#124 "Their Finest" Movie Review & "Dunkirk" Movie Comparison

The Not Old - Better Show

Paul Vogelzang

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51.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2017

⏱️ 17 minutes

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"Their Finest" Movie Review, Interviews & "Dunkirk" Movie Comparison

I watched 2 movies this weekend. “Their Finest,” from BBC films. I wasn’t sure why I hadn’t heard of Their Finest. Probably because it never actually got an American release, and even its UK release came two years after it acquired distribution. But its cast is everything good in the world: Gemma Arterton and Bill Nighy, who’ll join us in a bit, via SKYPE.

“Their Finest,” is really a ‘movie within a movie,’ about an aging British matinee idol who thinks he's been given too small a role as the uncle of twin sisters. An American who's supposed to play a hero is as dull as a stick. But a young woman in the script department has an idea that might make the formula work for a wartime British drama that's supposed to lift spirits at home and warm hearts across the ocean.

The wartime drama is centered around the role the twins play in rescuing soldiers from Dunkirk.

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0:00.0

The Welcome to the Nett

0:25.0

Better Show I'm your host, Paul Vogel-Zang. I watched two movies this weekend, and I'm going to review both of them for you today.

0:31.0

One I'm going to give a little bit more of a look at for you in the way of a review.

0:35.4

The other I'm just going to kind of pass by you'll understand as I get into this but the

0:40.2

movies the first one that I'm going to talk about is Their Finest from BBC Films.

0:45.4

I wasn't sure why I hadn't heard of Their Finest, probably because it never actually got an American release and even its UK release came two years

0:56.0

after it acquired distribution there. So it's odd but this cast is everything good in the world.

1:06.4

Jemma, Arterton, and Bill Nai,

1:09.6

who will join us in just a bit via Skype are just excellent. Their finest is really a movie

1:16.8

within a movie about an aging British matinee idol played by Bill Nae who thinks he's been given too small a role as the uncle of

1:26.9

twin sisters. There's an American who's supposed to play a hero but he is just dull as a stick and this young woman

1:37.1

played by Gemma Arterton who's in the script department has this idea that might make the whole formula work for a wartime British drama that's supposed to lift spirits at home and warm hearts across the ocean. The wartime drama is centered around the role

1:56.5

the Twins play in rescuing soldiers from, wait for it, Dunkirk, your hint about the second movie that I watched, but let's

2:05.5

listen to a sound bite from the film Their finest.

2:08.3

If we gave you an Uncle Frank really worth your time and your talent. I wonder if you would

2:15.4

consider putting that same time and talent towards helping Mr Lunderbeck and

2:19.5

the picture. I don't think we've been properly introduced. I'm Catherine Cole. I'm one of the

2:29.6

writers. Catherine, between us, we'll have them weeping in the aisles.

2:35.0

Of course the second film I saw as I mentioned was Dunkirk from Christopher Nolan and

2:41.5

through advertising we know a bit about

2:44.8

Dunkirk the film if not the event itself during kind of the pre-World War II stage

2:50.4

run-up of the war but the film Dunkirk begins in harrowing fashion as the first

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