FridgeMagnet
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Almost as long ago as the last post on this thread then!
Blade Runner and Withnail and I: why do people bang on about these pissing films?
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Almost as long ago as the last post on this thread then!
Steel Icarus
an attempt was made
Steel Icarus
an attempt was made
It's shit.
I do hope you're not basing your whole opinion of a film on the concept of the Camberwell carrot.
Not only that. Just don't see what the fuss is about.
Steel Icarus
an attempt was made
I don't suppose I'll convince you no matter how beautifully I word a response, will I? No matter. Different strokes for different folks etc.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
this thread contains 75% of very missed posters.
factoid
factoid
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Aye.
I wonder what she'll make of "Bladerunner" tomorrow?
If she doesn't cry when roy batty dies then ditch the emotionless whore.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
^ this
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
An important word of advice:
DO NOT make a Camberwell Carrot entirely from Cambodian Red skunk and try being greedy enough to Bogart the entire thing.
This has been a Public Service Announcement from the 'It's a really bad idea to attempt this, then end passing out and being found face down on the kitchen floor during a party' Information Council.
Steel Icarus
an attempt was made
I was joking about watching Bladerunner, because of the OP. She's seen it loads, and gets it.
Steel Icarus
an attempt was made
fen_boy
Exits gracefully.
It's shit.
The Flaming Carrot is not shit, he's flooby.
The book has no big, pretty lights, and although it does put the main character into a position where he starts reflecting on his own life, its life of the much more mundane variety; a washed up, meaningless bloke who kills 'em to get the cash he needs to buy a status-raising real animal instead of an artificial one (his clapped-out electric sheep), in order to help his unhappy marriage.
I had to look up 'flooby.'
this thread contains 75% of very missed posters.
factoid
tru say
kyser_soze
Hawking's Angry Eyebrow
The lesson here children, is be generous with your giant, idiot-strength spliffs.
I love both films. BR because it's fucking brilliant all round, and Withnail because it's like the English language has taken off it's specky, thick frames and lifted it's head up, swished it's hair and revealed a stunning, gorgeous and beautiful thing underneath.
ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
Blade Runner is visually brilliant, so I can see why it blows many people away. Personally I found it rather shallow, but I'm not a visual person.
Withnail is excellent. Not least because Richard E Grant puts in one of the all time great film performances in it. The trouble is that it takes itself far too seriously. I'd probably feel different if I'd seen it when I was much younger. As it was I'd seen enough myself to see it all as rather tame stuff.
Withnail is excellent. Not least because Richard E Grant puts in one of the all time great film performances in it. The trouble is that it takes itself far too seriously. I'd probably feel different if I'd seen it when I was much younger. As it was I'd seen enough myself to see it all as rather tame stuff.
stupid dogbot
Haughty and Superior
I love Blade Runner, but I'm totally disinterested in the other one.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
i think you had to catch withnail at the right age. I never saw it as that funny.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
although richard e grant does a good pisshead considering he is teetotal.
trashpony
Hag
He got drunk to make the film (he's allergic to alcohol) in the interests of veracity. His autobiography is very good (possibly only if you have a crush on him though
)DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
nah, its a good bio. Flair and honesty make up for what is otherwise a fairly mundane run of modestly succesful roles. we are talking about the one with his head in a box on the cover...?
trashpony
Hag
Spion
I hear ya
LOL.I never got Withnail and I.
Two students get pissed, go away for the weekend at some boring gay guys house, abuse some people in a teashop, then go home.
Maybe i was too stoned.
Withnail is one of the best hangover movies. Ever. Fact
Bakunin
I am Noodle's bitch.
ericjarvis
give a feck for the feckless
He got drunk to make the film (he's allergic to alcohol) in the interests of veracity. His autobiography is very good (possibly only if you have a crush on him though
He's a marvellous guy. Brilliant actor, not just seriously talented, but also works harder at it than almost anyone I know of. Oddly enough nobody seems to hate him for this. Probably because he also manages to be a thoroughly nice bloke.
He's better on stage than on screen, in my opinion, he's best when he's being slightly larger than life, and that doesn't really work on screen.
Because they are good
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