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Last Train to Christmas with Michael Sheen

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Juststopamoment · 21/12/2021 21:32

Can anyone tell me who he was married to in the end? Was it Sue? And I take it that was his cousin/brother on the piano?

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lightswitchmoment · 21/12/2021 21:43

Yes and yes

This was my take on it but I had to concentrate to figure out what was going on throughout.

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Juststopamoment · 21/12/2021 21:49

Ok good. I did understand then! Thanks. I thought it was so good. Really enjoyed it. Especially the way they handled all the different decades and the last one with him as a little boy was brilliant.

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Wanderingowl · 22/12/2021 23:33

Why didn't he walk back onto the 80s carriage. He just lost decades of life for no reason?

Iamblossom · 23/12/2021 07:39

I enjoyed this too, I thought the acting was very good.

Covetthee · 23/12/2021 07:41

I was really looking forward to seeing this film, but was very disappointed. Started off very promising but i hated it

Iamblossom · 23/12/2021 07:43

@Covetthee

I was really looking forward to seeing this film, but was very disappointed. Started off very promising but i hated it

Dh thought it was shite and went to bed before the end 😂

DaisyDaisydoo · 23/12/2021 07:43

@Wanderingowl

Why didn't he walk back onto the 80s carriage. He just lost decades of life for no reason?

I thought this too! I really enjoyed it though

Covetthee · 23/12/2021 07:46

I did start drifting off towards the endish, After the weird plastic surgery michael sheen appeared 🤣 my husband doesn’t like finishing things so he soldiered through but he thought it was shit too.

Covetthee · 23/12/2021 07:47

Sorry meant he doesn’t like NOT finishing films

mcdog · 23/12/2021 07:48

I cannot understand why he was old when it ended??? Also, the little boy jumping off the train was all levels of silly.

I thought it was fab up to the black and white scenes.

GoodnightGrandma · 23/12/2021 07:49

I didn’t make it far into this film, I just found it boring. And I thought the lighting was bad.

Wanderingowl · 23/12/2021 10:45

@mcdog

I cannot understand why he was old when it ended??? Also, the little boy jumping off the train was all levels of silly.

I thought it was fab up to the black and white scenes.

That was a stylistic thing. The 1950s carriage was the same. Both were made to feel like dramatic movies from the 50s and 40s. It would have worked better if the carriages from the earlier decades had similar tone shifts for each decade but they didn't. Where I felt it went a bit off for me, was when he dumped his first wife in the 60s in order to give her a better life than the one she had with him. He wiped out his marriage and made his son not exist and instead of heading back to his present or future to see what the consequences were, he went straight back to the 50s and changed his whole family history.

The whole movie changed tonally from there and became about his brother not coping with what he learned. But Roger was happy and successful when he never knew who his mother was. He seemed nice and even though Tony had hurt him, cared about him and wanted a relationship. He seemed happy with his wife and twin daughters and was due for huge success in the 90s. Then we see one alternative time line, where he has completely screwed Tony over because Tony didn't screw him over and we never learn why. And once the new timeline where he does learn the truth, he treated Tony like a hanger-on-er in the 60s but by the 70s is a mess and Tony has leveraged his success from his talent.

This wasn't well written enough. It was an interesting concept but the script needed a lot more passes before it was full coherent. But was interesting and watchable because Michael Sheen and Cary Elwes are both great actors who elevated it above the writing.

waltzingparrot · 24/12/2021 01:36

Sounds intriguing, what channel was it on please?

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Juststopamoment · 27/12/2021 17:55

It’s on Sky Movies. I really liked it!

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RandomDent · 27/12/2021 18:01

I liked the idea and Michael Sheen was really good, but it was very woolly in places. I’m also not convinced it was worth a whole film. Inside No.9 would have had it sorted in 30 minutes.

Groovee · 27/12/2021 18:43

I was looking forward to it. Huge disappointment

hallamoo · 29/12/2021 10:35

@Wanderingowl

Why didn't he walk back onto the 80s carriage. He just lost decades of life for no reason?

This was because when he jumped off the train as a little boy, when they brought him back they said 'there's space at the front of the train for him to recover'

so the front of the train was present day, hence he skipped out the intervening decades, as he didn't walk through the carriages, he was taken straight to the front.

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