Originally posted in November 2010, this was the final episode of the second season of the show (with the exception of the two Christmas specials that year) and was the 50th episode. This re-edited version has the usual changes I've applied to this re-posts, which tighten up the pacing and editing, and runs 1m 39s shorter than the original. This is the second of my re-posts to tie into Murder on the Orient Express, another mystery that has Derek Jacobi in it, although I re-edited it for another film I saw for Projector with Jacobi in that I will hopefully get to soon. I think this is an underrated episode, and features one of the most preposterous twists ever featured on the show, so hopefully this will reveal this episode to more viewers.

@thundertits

6 жыл бұрын

are you ever gonna make new bad movie beat down episodes?

@CollectionofHorrors

6 жыл бұрын

"What in the holy name of f(bleep)!?" That is my favorite Bad Movie Beatdown moment ever. This is one of your best episodes, Matthew.

@samuelbarber4154

6 жыл бұрын

Film Brain did you review Night at the Museum 2? Because I can't find your review anywhere.

@Eddyinjapan

5 жыл бұрын

I bought this on ebay for 50p and showed it to my parents for christmas. they now tell me " i owe them big time".

@gaminggoof1542

3 жыл бұрын

Just a theory but I think tramp Dickens is supposed to be a ghost. That's the only reason I see why he'd be alive

The under-title of this movie was "Some secrets should stay hidden." How very ironic of a movie that was never released.

@scottylewis8124

3 жыл бұрын

That tagline was a warning!

" Let's make a movie about riddles .... and let's cast the whole crew from Lock , Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ..."

@davidjames579

4 жыл бұрын

Plus Derek Jacobi and Vanessa Redgrave! Oh..okay.

19:45 I think the implication was supposed to be that the mud was jamming his gun. But the mud looked neither thick enough nor could it have gone into the mechanisms that makes the gun fire properly based on how the gun was positioned.

I actually own a book that was published in 1888, which is later than anything Dickens ever wrote, and the pages are so yellowed, brittle and fragile I can't even turn them without them fragmenting. Paper from that era is unbelievably delicate due to the acid that was used in making it. The pages Vinnie Jones is carrying around with him should have disintegrated from the careless way he was treating them.

If I keep watching this review, I will eventually be able to understand what's happening in the movie.

@SuperMarkerComicBro

4 жыл бұрын

That's the same reason I keep watching this review, to try and remember what the movie's about. Sad when the most comprehensible thing about the movie for me is "Charles Dickens is an immortal bum."

The tagline for this film says some secrets should stay hidden. I think it was a warning..

After that pizza delivery scene I got a Pizza Hut ad lol

@davidjames579

4 жыл бұрын

Did you leave it to go cold for extra authenticity?

The return of another BMB Classic!

This episode is amazing. I've heard of obscure films but one this obscure with this many well known actors is something special!

My grandparents have the newspaper DVD of this in a binder, I never knew that it was first released in the Daily Mail

Happy 50th, Film Brain!

@davidjames579

4 жыл бұрын

He's not that old!

Obviously Charles Dickens is a vampire. ;-) (And before anyone says anything, in actual folklore and even in Dracula vampires can go out during the daytime. Vampires dying in sunlight is a Hollywood myth, not actual folklore.)

@iKadaj

6 жыл бұрын

haha, i love how "this made up fictional stuff" is treated as some kind of fact over 'that other made up fictional stuff".

This review is great. Doesn't seem to explain how Dickens became immortal, though I suspect the film didn't do a great job of that.

Vanessa Redgrave, Derek Jacobi, Vera Day, and... Vinnie Jones. One of these things is not like the others, one of these things can't act to save his life.

I'm still enjoying Yuri uploading these things, gives me a chance to catch up on your work. Hope you're having a wonderful day God bless!

Vinnie jones making a movie career for himself really tickles me, he's a legend, can't act but still no one's gonna say that to his face are they!

@davidjames579

4 жыл бұрын

Not much of a looker, either

@scottylewis8124

4 жыл бұрын

No wonder he became a homicidal butcher on a Subway Train.

Yessss, I'm so glad to see this episode again! This is one of my favourite Film Brain episodes!

I swear, this film's plotting is so convoluted, I can barely follow what the hell is even going on at any given moment, even with you explaining it as best as you can. What a damned mess, even for a clearly very cheap-looking film. And Redgrave and Cox slumming it in this ? Ungh. Ladies, you can do better. Jacobi doesn't surprise me as much. He and Ben Kingsley appear in bloody everything. :-D

@davidjames579

4 жыл бұрын

Who's Julie Cox? I've never seen her in anything else

It must be the only film on the IMDb to have it's distributor listed as The Mail On Sunday.

I've rewatched this review many times and I will take the plot twist to my grave as well

20:32-20:35 This has to be made into a GIF.

@scottylewis8124

3 жыл бұрын

That was pretty much everyone's reaction to the last season of game of thrones.

Great as always!

Vinnie Jones being in this movie means one thing: it's gonna be EMOTIONAL!!!

Always one of my favorites!

I spied at least 3 lock stock actors in the riddle...they should have utilised Cockney rhyming slang with the title "The Jimmy Riddle" it's certainly a shower of piss 🤣

Did phelous ever actually review that bog bodies film? I feel the need to either subject myself to it, or watch someone else suffer in my place

@FilmBrain

6 жыл бұрын

I've had a copy of it for years that I've never got around to watching.

@julieb.8751

6 жыл бұрын

Film Brain 1) thank you so much for replying! Hope you are having a great day/night. 2) I'm shocked that you, phelous, or Brad haven't reviewed it yet! I guess I'll have to track it down and see how bad it is for myself

@PhantomShadow224

6 жыл бұрын

As far as I know, still nope. I really hope he goes back to reviewing crappy horror movies instead of the plethora of crappy goodtimes or dingo “animated” pictures, bootleg toys from 90s series, and haunted tours. And currently I enjoy film brain bashing B rank action flicks, with rants & SYMBOLISM!!! and rocking out to his theme song. Ghost rider 1, the pirates of the Caribbean movies and the haunted mansion are still childhood favorites of mine and I’m too scared to hear him rant about it but curious of the video at the same time

15:42 Full song here kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZaunqcOLkr3PacY.html Not sure on the artist or the exact title but it was featured in Secret Diary of a Call Girl

Is there a review of Fatal Deviation somewhere?

Flim Brian!

That last part reminded me of "Dear sister"

@scottylewis8124

3 жыл бұрын

Mmmm whatcha say...

Legend Of The Bog. Did Vinnie Jones have a dodgy Vindaloo and they made a film about it?

Those guys were trying to make world's dumbest criminals weren't they?

Legend Of The Bog. Appropriate name for a giant turd.

What’s the song at the end? Kinda sounds like low-budget Weezer, lol.

The end is almost like a goodbye. But we know film brain didn’t die so I find this confusing knowing the future he does projector now. So I don’t get it

@FilmBrain

Жыл бұрын

It is a goodbye to a friend who was working on episodes with me.

Damn... Still no Vinnie Jones from Phelous...

@scottylewis8124

3 жыл бұрын

He did review midnight meat train.

So disappointed this was not a Batman villain origin story!

I get that the funeral music is not a copyrighted tune, but why did they use football commentary?

@scottylewis8124

3 жыл бұрын

Could be cause of laziness

@davidjames579

3 жыл бұрын

@@scottylewis8124 It's bizarre. There's tons of Copyright Free Music out there, but Football Commentary! It's like the editor dropped in the wrong audio file and it's never been changed.

I was expecting him to do a riddler skit at the beginning and at 3:05 (jumpcuts to jumanji). Sorry I may have watched too many Phelous and NC reviews.

@scottylewis8124

2 жыл бұрын

Lol!

"Newspaper"

For your next review, Check out Bucky Larson

I don’t mind your projector series but is bad movie beat down dead? There have only been 3-5 episodes in the last 2 years. I’m just disappointed because I miss your analysis.

@FilmBrain

6 жыл бұрын

No, I've just been busy.

@Kingdom007Hearts

6 жыл бұрын

Oh okay. Thank u for a quick response.

The sound mixing for the montage at the end is terrible.

Hey its mary shelley

Because he is The master XDDDD

Omen 4 is great.

@scottylewis8124

3 жыл бұрын

Have you even read the reviews for that one? Worst sequel ever?

Call yourself British?! IT'S PRONOUNCED 'HANGED'!

Review snatch and midnight meat train.

@scottylewis8124

3 жыл бұрын

Midnight meat train was legit a good film. it's based on a short story by Clive Barker.

Why does the British press hate humanity

Or he could be a descendant of Dickens.

@FilmBrain

6 жыл бұрын

That's not what they're implying.

@scottylewis8124

3 жыл бұрын

This was basically Se7en with a serious head injury.