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― NotEnough, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 15:13 (4 years ago) Permalink
saw it at the glasgow film festival. i really enjoyed it, though odd how chris addison et al play different characters. not something i noticed after a little bit tho. plus anna chlumsky!
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Wednesday, 18 March 2009 15:20 (4 years ago) Permalink
Like Bugsy Malone with real guns.
― James Mitchell, Monday, 6 April 2009 09:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
the poster for this is shit imo.
i can't remember my favourite line but it's basically jamie saying why play classical music when you can just have a badge saying 'i went to public school'?
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Monday, 6 April 2009 09:54 (4 years ago) Permalink
this was so good. the line about having to try and crack one off to sharks on the discovery channel in his hotel room because if he watched porn it would end up on the register of members' interests got big topical lols.
― joe, Friday, 17 April 2009 17:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
The funniest line in this film is way too funny to spoiler on this thread but yeah, just fucking hilarious from start to finish.
A new high-water mark for creative swearing though. Even if the UN HQ did look an awful lot like the Royal Festival Hall.
― Enormous Epic (Matt DC), Tuesday, 21 April 2009 21:53 (4 years ago) Permalink
oh my god.
slight qualm with what Matt said, though; it was fucking hilarious from start until about 5-10 minutes from the end, where SORTA SPOILER BUT ONLY SORTA it suddenly became devastatingly bleak, almost tearjerking, which was probably necessary and certainly effective
― Young Chizzy (country matters), Thursday, 23 April 2009 22:26 (4 years ago) Permalink
Difficult Difficult Lemon Difficult
― Shannon Whirry & the Bad Brains, Thursday, 23 April 2009 22:32 (4 years ago) Permalink
^^^as my facebook status comment already attests, the slight pause before "lemon" (rather than the actual saying of it) is the comedy moment of the decade
― Young Chizzy (country matters), Thursday, 23 April 2009 22:34 (4 years ago) Permalink
although I've already forgotten the best (probably) line, which was spoken by Simon Foster to Toby during his reading of the extracts of the riot act
― Young Chizzy (country matters), Thursday, 23 April 2009 22:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
yeah the ending is massively depressing
I like how it was a sort of logical extension of the Thick of It, ie here's what happens when this kind of petty venal politics is applied to something really life or death, and not a government injoke ministry of no obvious purpose
enjoyed Tucker's climactic swearing suckerpunch at the American guy. Jamie also properly demonic
― EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Thursday, 23 April 2009 23:13 (4 years ago) Permalink
it was basically subplot, but Capaldi vs Gandolfini was short, sweet and as awesome as any verbal duel I've seen on screen this decade
they really should have just shaken hands at the end or something
and yeah basically so glad they kept on the Jamie character
― Young Chizzy (country matters), Thursday, 23 April 2009 23:18 (4 years ago) Permalink
SHUT IT, LOVE ACTUALLY
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 23 April 2009 23:36 (4 years ago) Permalink
my biggest laugh was probably for "on a subconscious level, maybe in some way, I was trying...to stop...the war" tbh
― Young Chizzy (country matters), Friday, 24 April 2009 01:53 (4 years ago) Permalink
oh yeah and i remember the other one i mentioned above...willy banjo
that's enough spoilers, i've covered most of my massive thigh-slapping lols but nowhere near even a tiny proportion of my medium-to-substantial ones
― Young Chizzy (country matters), Friday, 24 April 2009 01:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
just saw In The Loop here @ Tribeca fest; we don't know the show over here. Capaldi = genius.
good angry -- one might say enraged -- comedy.
(also one of the best Iraq war films. of course the scenario could be in the future, w/ Obama & Brown invading Pakistan)
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 24 April 2009 02:19 (4 years ago) Permalink
well, at least I missed the show on BBC America, along w/ 300 million of my countrymen.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 24 April 2009 02:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
Yeh, bit that got me was "it's just fucking ... vowels"
― stet, Friday, 24 April 2009 02:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
why do they have a SECOND ranting demonic Scot -- is he on the show too? are there many of them in yr central government?
I honestly don't think 80% of the Yanks who see this are going to get Capaldi's punchline "Don't ever call me English."
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 24 April 2009 02:25 (4 years ago) Permalink
Second ranting Scot is the only other character kept verbatim from the TV series, and he's awesome, think the idea is that once you're spared Capaldi you're then faced with a slightly less nuanced but even more visceral barrage of Caledonian abuse...when Capaldi signed off a phone call "I love you" to him, it was in its quiet way one of the more delicious lines of the film
― Young Chizzy (country matters), Friday, 24 April 2009 02:29 (4 years ago) Permalink
The New York press audience loved the filthiest lines. I nearly lost it when Capaldi called random Washington tourist lady a "vinegar-faced cumbag."
Never suspected that the next actor to match Joe Pesci in passionate comic profanity would be the sweet aide de camp from Local Hero.
so Tom Hollander (who reminds me of Gervais) was not on the show?
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 24 April 2009 02:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
I was thinking that about Capaldi! 27 years between his defining roles...and in the other one, aye, he was pretty much diametrically opposed to this
Tom Hollander wasn't on the show, no. Speaking of which, the two-part special (each an hour long, so feature-length in all but name) was a masterpiece, almost on a level with this movie. God, they nailed it on the big screen, though.
― Young Chizzy (country matters), Friday, 24 April 2009 02:59 (4 years ago) Permalink
my biggest laugh was probably for "on a subconscious level, maybe in some way, I was trying...to stop...the war"
Ditto.
― Enormous Epic (Matt DC), Friday, 24 April 2009 07:37 (4 years ago) Permalink
My god, that was Capaldi in Local Hero?
Laffed non-stop all through this, but forgot all about it about 5 minutes after leaving the cinema. Gandalfini was good though.
― Stevie T, Friday, 24 April 2009 08:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
Incidentallly, Ian Martin, the swearing consultant for TToI, has an hilarious column in the Architects Journal, of all places:http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/the-critics/ian-martin/preserving-the-ruins-of-our-heritage-reviving-the-ruins-of-our-high-streets/5200866.article
― Stevie T, Friday, 24 April 2009 08:06 (4 years ago) Permalink
― Dr Morbius, Friday, April 24, 2009 4:21 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
no-one saw it in england either!! it was very low-budget, kind of a media-class cult almost.
in the series i think they introduced the second angry scot just for a gag: when toby/olly (chris addison) goes to work for capaldi, he finds the whole place teeming with the "caledonian mafia" and tells jamie "i thought you were going to be the *nice* scot"
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Friday, 24 April 2009 08:10 (4 years ago) Permalink
swearing consultant?
I have to assume Capaldi's LH romance with the mermaid didn't work out. "Feck off, ya soggy bint!"
I'd call this merely top big-screen TV, a la The Simpsons movie, except that the fury of it does linger. I embrace its thesis that if you have a shred of faith in the US or UK government, you're a fucktard.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 24 April 2009 11:38 (4 years ago) Permalink
no-one saw it in england either!!
about to get a repeat in the .au - thank goodness we don't know = care about Langham's legals.
never got the specials though :(
― Bostin' Legal (sic), Friday, 24 April 2009 13:07 (4 years ago) Permalink
Yeh I think that's meant to be the case, at least from Gandolfini's confused look anyway. That other and other Scots-shoulder-chip stuff went down better in the Glasgow cinema I was in than anything since Braveheart.
― stet, Saturday, 25 April 2009 11:42 (4 years ago) Permalink
both those bits got loads of applause at the Glasgow Film Festival. Most cheering in a cinema I've been in since the scientist was watching Man U v Celtic in the Day After Tomorrow.
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Saturday, 25 April 2009 14:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
Rebecca Front has been confirmed as playing the new Minister for Social Affairs & Citizenship in the new series. Which should be pretty cool.
― William Bloody Swygart, Monday, 27 April 2009 08:57 (4 years ago) Permalink
A new TV series? Better make it quick before Cameron becomes PM.
― Venga, Monday, 27 April 2009 09:21 (4 years ago) Permalink
iirc it's going to be about the run-up to the new election. which is pretty unlikely to be before june 2010. show will go out in the autumn.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Monday, 27 April 2009 09:24 (4 years ago) Permalink
btw it looks like all of Thick is on YouTube
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 27 April 2009 10:58 (4 years ago) Permalink
Pretty sure Capaldi's character could go and work for the Tories without too much trouble.
― Enormous Epic (Matt DC), Monday, 27 April 2009 11:17 (4 years ago) Permalink
Hmm, not sure about that myself. Narcissism of small differences to thread.
― Bad fucking Bowie (Lord Byron Lived Here), Monday, 27 April 2009 11:56 (4 years ago) Permalink
iannucci has made cryptic comments basically saying tucker would still be in the show if the tories won. he could just about go either way, though it'd be fun to see him working for the opposition.
can't remember how 'spinners and losers' (the most recent special) ended, but i think the party still needs a leader. tucker would want a part in that fight.
― FREE DOM AND ETHAN (special guest stars mark bronson), Monday, 27 April 2009 12:35 (4 years ago) Permalink
if there's a US version, Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel wd be an obvious template. Guy mailed an adversary a dead fish.
― Dr Morbius, Monday, 27 April 2009 12:52 (4 years ago) Permalink
US version was tried by Mitchell Hurwitz but ABC killed it after seeing the pilot.
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Monday, 27 April 2009 13:56 (4 years ago) Permalink
judging from sit down shut up maybe not such a bad move
― A B C, Monday, 27 April 2009 14:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
I shared hearty lols with many of the lines mentioned (willy banjo, just vowels, etc), but also the dissing of I <3 Huckabees
And Anna Chlumsky wtf!!
― try to fix the puffiness with some nolva and then go juicin' (gnarly sceptre), Monday, 27 April 2009 15:01 (4 years ago) Permalink
"and fourthly you have a tiny fucking head"
"let's do lunch some time, we'll have a tete-a-tiny-tete"
― zinguist (cozwn), Saturday, 2 May 2009 12:39 (4 years ago) Permalink
no US film release til July.
― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 2 May 2009 13:10 (4 years ago) Permalink
Reading this thread reminds me of how many hilarious moments there are in this film but... didn't think any of the American characters were funny esp. not James Gandolfini
― Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 12:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
didn't think any of the American characters were funny
What, not even Karen Clarke and her dental problems or 'Hanging' Chad?
― featuring Strawberry and the Shortcakes (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 14:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
The dental thing was funny and working out the defence costs on the child's toy calculator.
― Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 14:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
Steve Coogan wasn't funny either
― Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 14:15 (4 years ago) Permalink
You must be a hard man to amuse as Coogan's appearances got some of the biggest laughs at the showing I was at.
― featuring Strawberry and the Shortcakes (Billy Dods), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 14:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
I don't know why it didn't work, getting Coogan to play Dom Passantino I mean
― Sacco, Vanzetti, Passantino... (Tom D.), Tuesday, 5 May 2009 14:24 (4 years ago) Permalink
because if he watched porn it would end up on the register of members' interests got big topical lols
no kidding
but Capaldi vs Gandolfini was short, sweet and as awesome as any verbal duel I've seen on screen this decade
yep
not as good as the series but B+ film. silly little thing really but felt important that they all looked sans make-up.
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Monday, 15 June 2009 11:53 (3 years ago) Permalink