The Longest Ride Cast- a critique by Kermode and mayo

Full-text transcript of The Longest Ride review:

[00:00:00] Basically, the last time we reviewed an Xbox film, I said the thing I love about it is that there are all these sort of key elements and you know exactly where you are with them. And there was we were in a screening some while ago, and it was an Xbox One. I can’t remember one. It was. And literally the opening it went Miller Time Sunset Boat Dog guy with no shirt during the game. And Chris Tookey I think it was who was the film critic for the Daily Mail said out loud and we’re back. And the whole room did the same thing. The difference was for me. I went, Yeah, and I’m glad to be back. So the story here, there are there are a couple of this is probably the most ambitious of the next box films in terms of sort of production values. So the story is art student Sophia, played by Britt Robertson. She’s just finishing up her course. And then she’s going to go to New York, where she’s going to do some stuff in an art gallery here. Meanwhile, Scott Eastwood, son of Clint, is a cowboy who rides bulls, you know, competitive bull riding like rodeoing, but not rodeoing with bulls super dangerous. And he’s working his way up the bull riding scale, you know, and he wants to get to number one in the world. And they they meet cute over.

[00:01:09] When they’re first together, they find a car which is run off the road in which is Alan Alda. Right. And Alan Alda has been in an accident in 91 year old to get into hospital. He, of course, next box has a book of letters and the letters which are recounting his relationship with his wife, which don’t you know it. He was a different guy. She was interested in art. And so we get two parallel relationships, the modern relationship between the art student and the cowboy, the old relationship between the guy who’s now in hospital and my wife. And she was. And then the story does the next Mark’s thing. It does the OK, how much does he have to open his eyes to art in order to appreciate her? How much does she have to sacrifice in order to be in love with him? Is there any way that these two worlds, the very different worlds of both writing and art, can in any way be reconciled while all the time flashing backwards and forwards between these two time periods? I think we have got a clip. We’ll play you a clip. I have to say, the clips aren’t particularly great, but this just gives you a flavor of the tone of the film, I think is pretty simple. All you do is hang on for eight seconds.

[00:02:18] Wow, have nothing to it.

[00:02:21] Some holes are nice like that. So how do you know which way are you

[00:02:30] Going to get? You don’t pick from a bowl. Khalid.

[00:02:40] What about the ball drop bouncing a little we lose points if you control the ball. You could start with that, how you do the hand that. Could you tell what was happening in that clip he was teaching her to be all right, but he was doing it on a barrel because he was sort of saying this is the kind of, you know, the meeting of the two worlds. And and these moments happen all the time and it’s moment. So, look, here’s the thing with Nick Sparks. You know what you’re going to get with Nick Sparks in this case, a little bit of no guy sending down the boat. There are some of the key scenes that I have loved in other films. Aren’t that it does feel like it’s slightly more ambitious. Many people who I saw it with said longest right here and I wonder, it’s called one hundred twenty eight minutes long. Really bored me. It was really long. I cried. I’m just not proud, you know, not ashamed to say it. It’s it’s, you know, they’re always the same. It’s to do with, you know, intelligent, independent women who have to decide, you know what, they’re willing to make the choices. You guys who are sort of you know, they can they can send a boat down, but they’re quiet and and it does that thing. And you know what? Yes, it’s formulaic. Yes. It’s the same story. Yes. It’s essentially the same film. I like that film and I know that. And believe me, in an in a week in which entourage and it’s foul horror is out, this felt like a long cold drink of water. This felt like, you know, like as they would do in the film, it felt like a, you know, an ice cold, cracked open bottle of beer just as the sun was going down scenically over the phone whilst the horses rode off into the distance. I like you. It’s Nick Sparks. You know what you’re going to get. And I am happy to get it.