Stuart, A Life Backwards - ont telly next Sun

[sojourner]

Sunday 23 September, 9pm, BBC2

 

[mrs quoad]

Yep.

 

[Tank Girl]

I'll be there.

 

[mrs quoad]

I'll be here, there and everywhere.
Here, making each day of the year.
There, running my hands through her hair.
&c.

 

[foamy]

loved the book, hope the programme is true to it.
looking forward to seeing Cambridge on the TV where its not all punting outside Kings

 

[purves grundy]

It was reviewed on Arty Newsnight last night. Looks by turns tragic, funny, moving, all those kind of adjectives.

 

[felixthecat]

Book was great - look forward to this.

 

[mrs quoad]

Bump!

 

[trashpony]

Ooh thanks for bumping. Didn't know. foo went to the preview didn't she? Was it good foo?

Foo?

 

[Kidda]

fantastic book

im hoping the programme does it justice.

 

[wiskey]

is it fact, fiction, or fiction based on fact?

 

[maximilian ping]

its a brilliant book and show looks good too. i worked a lot with Alexander Masters on the Cambridge Two campaign and this book/film has come about because he was willing to get in amongst it and stick with it.

 

[moomoo]

I don't like it. Too sad and I had to turn it over when he was beating up his girlfriend and the baby was screaming.

I like fluffy, happy programmes.

 

[8ball]

I was seduced by Hellboy and missed too much to get into it.

 

[Dillinger4]

that was brilliant

 

[Kidda]

is it fact, fiction, or fiction based on fact?

fact

 

[wiskey]

it didnt really drag me in but it seems like an interesting story

i take it its fact then?

how did it stand up to the book?

eta: thanks lovely

 

[purves grundy]

Loved it.

 

[Kidda]

it didnt really drag me in but it seems like an interesting story

i take it its fact then?

how did it stand up to the book?

eta: thanks lovely

The books really really good.

Ive found the programme quite hard to follow at times because i couldnt understand what he was saying. It was nicely done .

I read the book around the same time i read 'Urban Grimshaw and the shed crew by Bernard Hare' both made me want to cry and shake with rage.

Worthwhile reading tough.

 

[Macabre]

I'm going to have a crap nights sleep after watching that and I feel like a fucker because I know that's the only problem I'll have tonight

 

[moomoo]

I'm going to have a crap nights sleep after watching that and I feel like a fucker because I know that's the only problem I'll have tonight

Harrowing wasn't it.

Even worse if it's true.

I wouldn't mind reading the book, the film was a bit too graphic.

 

[Tank Girl]

I missed the first hour

the book is very good.

 

[AnMarie]

Even worse if it's true.

Its a true story apparently
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/article535040.ece

Brilliant production imo, Tom Hardy was amazing as Stuart

 

[madzone]

That fucked me up a bit

 

[Swearing Nonna]

I preferred the book. Although I thought the film was interesting the audience reaction to certain scenes was more harrowing that the film at times. Better to watch at home for sure than to be surrounded by the Cambridge Gwyder St. knit your own socks massive laughing at Stuart rather than with him.

Tom Hardy, method actor I read, thought he gave it his all. . .shame about the 6 pack tho!

 

[xenon]

I didn't see it. A mate recommended the book and tonight the TV show. TBF I stayed in the pub instead. Sundays bloody Sundays.

 

[foo]

i preferred watching the film in the comfort of my own home rather than with the 'good people' of Cambridge (braying cunts). they ruined it for me - we left the premier sharpish (and sat outside with the street lot, smoking spliffs) 'cos of the audience's chortling at Stuart. an audience who 'should have known better' (dry laugh).

i knew Stuart from out and about (a good few years before Alexander Masters and him met) and i think the actor did a really good job. the noises and his gait were spot on. shame about the hollywood bod and teeth!

the actor who played Alexander comes across as much more uptightly middle class than the man himself. the real Alexander is a lot more quirky and odd. i didn't really believe in the friendship when i watched the film.

it's wierd watching a film about stuff you've grown up around. i knew quite a few of the characters - they let some of them play their own characters....(just not my mate, he's aged too much )

it wasn't a bad film, i just think i preferred the book.

 

[LDR]

i preferred watching the film in the comfort of my own home rather than with the 'good people' of Cambridge (braying cunts). they ruined it for me - we left the premier sharpish (and sat outside with the street lot, smoking spliffs) 'cos of the audience's chortling at Stuart. an audience who 'should have known better' (dry laugh).

I found it incredibly moving and bits reminded me of my own childhood. I almost turned it off at one point as it was so upsetting.

I also found Stuart a funny guy too and laughed out loud a couple of times. Does that make me a bad person?

 

[foo]

I found it incredibly moving and bits reminded me of my own childhood. I almost turned it off at one point as it was so upsetting.

I also found Stuart a funny guy too and laughed out loud a couple of times. Does that make me a bad person?

no of course not. there are comedy bits in the film and the book. he was a funny bloke.

you had to be there i suppose LDR. the laughter was inappropriate, and sneering. seriously, it was horrible.

and it wasn't just us who thought so. when we escaped and were talking about it outside, the street sleepers heard and called us over - they had left the premier because of the same reaction. they'd been invited (a lot of them were in the film too) but told us they felt totally out of place, and humiliated, by the people attending the premier - and the audience reaction to the events in the film.

an uncomfortable and not very enjoyable evening.

 

[foo]

I found it incredibly moving and bits reminded me of my own childhood. I almost turned it off at one point as it was so upsetting.

yeh, for me, the bit about the kids' home, and that cunt who abused them was upsetting. i knew a few lads who were fucked over in that home. the film showed the bleakness of a 70s childhood quite well, i thought.