2011 Directed by John Madden
British retirees travel to India to take up residence in what they believe is a newly restored hotel. Less luxurious than its advertisements, the Marigold Hotel nevertheless slowly begins to charm in unexpected ways as the residents find new purpose in their old age.
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It’s a good thing that those poor Indian folk had Maggie Smith to step up to the plate, take charge, put things right, and do it properly.
Should actually be called "The Below-Average Marigold Hotel"
This film wasn't great. I'll get the positives out of the way first. The cast did a genuinely great job. This movie works well as an ensemble piece. Each actor seemed passionate about this project and all of them did a good job. Especially Dev Patel, who was very charismatic and energetic in this role. But unfortunately, the rest of this movie was fairly bland and barely competent. The synopsis seemed like a good idea but the writers didn't do a good job of executing the story. It was just a mess half the time and the other half the time it wasn't all that entertaining. None of the jokes landed. And…
I wish bill nighy would come fix the dripping tap in my flat bc god knows my landlord won't :)))))
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Oh look, Maggie Smith's a racist. I wonder if, by any chance, she might have changed her outlook by the end of the film.
There's just nothing to this film. It's a really bizarre comedy drama in that it's neither funny nor particularly dramatic. It just meanders its way through its over-long running time, have someone inevitably and tragically cark it, have someone else being presumed to have carked it, and that's it on the drama front.
Then have it be simultaneously patronising and admiring of India and Indian culture, throw in the usual jibes about Indian food giving you the shits, have the hotel owner be a gibbering moron who has…
For some reason, this film rarely gets mentioned and I've often found myself wondering why this is.
Maybe because it's not perfect, but so are most films so I've come to a rather unsatisfactory conclusion that it's because - and I truly hate this word - it's not "cool" (a notion, guide or predisposition for many that I find beyond pointless and utterly redundant).
So, if this is the case, what is it that makes this film "uncool" (shudder). Maybe it's the theme of getting older (I wondered if this in itself could be a reason why people rarely mention it, with many viewers being unable to relate to the characters and their various hurdles, hopes, confusion and regrets -…
Everything will be all right in the end... if it's not all right then it's not yet the end.
Some of the best british actors alive are assembled in a film about retirees moving to India, and feeling shocked by the culture differences.
A film packed with such a talented cast was expected to be, at least, watchable and funny. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is extremely boring, predictable and cliched.
John Madden has no idea of what he is doing throughout the movie because he doesn't care about the characters. It's just a mix of people, with no significant development and it's very hard to feel connected to them. Every moment of, let's call it, stronger emotions feels very…
Guaranteed to make you smile, it's a comedy that portrays some of the gritty truths about growing old, while showing you that it's never too late to be young.
For some reason I didn't think I'd like The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel at all. This is in large part why I'm just now getting around to seeing it. The title was a bit of a turn off and the plot didn't seem like something I'd enjoy, at least that's what I thought. As it turns out this simple story of a group of English people in their twilight years choosing to spend them at a hotel in India is quite charming. It features a cast actors and actresses most are sure to recognize, and all the culture and nuances of the country it's set in. Directed by John Madden and adapted from Deborah Moggach's novel, These Foolish Things, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel was a pleasant surprise and one I wish I'd gotten to sooner.
Ron's recommendation:</b See it.
The power of an actor, or in this case actors, can sometimes carry through a piece of work that without them wouldn't particularly stand out, and that's very much the case with The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (for the Elderly & Beautiful). John Madden's movie, based on the novel These Foolish Things by Deborah Moggach, is directed with an elegant, cultured, charming malaise and very much has a script to match; his piece casually ambles it's way through a tale of senior citizens on a voyage of self-discovery as they trade in a set of dour, middle-class lives for the late vestiges of the Raj in Jaipur, a land of crumbled old buildings, eternal sunsets, noisy & loud streets and err... call…
