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Eureka | Nicolas Roeg | 1983

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Watched The Day of the Triffids (2009) last night. It was awful. I love John Wyndham's stories, read them as a kid and reread my favourites every year or so ... and one thing he does exceptionally well is build tension.

This had decent performances from the leads but they were overrun with scary plants from the beginning. The disaster should unfold, but no sooner had Bill woken up in his bandages than the hospital looked like a Home Bargains at closing time on 24.12 ... it was not right.

Don't get me started on the African masks. 🤐😦

One of the most exciting scenes in the book is them outwitting and escaping a paramilitary outfit that wants to bring them in. Not exciting enough for Patrick Harbinson, who had to have Eddie Izzard doing crazy stuff and triffids everywhere.

I get that CGI is fun, but it seems to me that a more realistic looking monster does not mean you have to throw out a good story nor does it compensate for the loss of it. Numpties!

I need to watch John Duttine and Emma Relph NOW to take the nasty taste away ...