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
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."
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
Difficult Difficult Lemon Difficult
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 (4 years ago) Permalink
fantasied about Tucker appearing in The West Wing afterwards
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Monday, 15 June 2009 11:54 (4 years ago) Permalink
wish lord john marbury had made a cameo
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Monday, 15 June 2009 12:27 (4 years ago) Permalink
gandolfini kind of phoned it in - i.e. the "bite heads off kittens" line he was kind of laughing apologetically which works if you have already established yourself as an utterly ruthless bastard but he hadn't really
pretty funny stuff but yeah it sure didn't feel like a movie
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 11:45 (3 years ago) Permalink
bisque
bisque?
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 11:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah i find myself contrarily glad i never got to see this in theatres
ianucci's grasp of american speech patterns seemed a bit off - not wrong, but like his idea of it was a different level of stylisation away from the way the british ppl speak
this poster upthread otm:
"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"
― EMPIRE STATE HYMEN (MPx4A), Thursday, April 23, 2009 11:13 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark
but i don't think the ending quite nails what they're going for: i guess the general's last argument with the washington woman doesn't quite stand enough as a capstone on the pettiness of the last scenes with the brits. (like haha maybe his reasons for not resigning aren't shitty - the script seems ultimately uncomfortable with the character, with the whole zone of "i've been there" military anti-war rhetoric.)
― thomp, Tuesday, 14 July 2009 22:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
Americans: it will be available to watch on IFC On Demand this month.
― The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Tuesday, 14 July 2009 23:53 (3 years ago) Permalink
NYT interviews Iannucci and others.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 19:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
be nice to our movie, america
― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip a hoy hoy (country matters), Tuesday, 21 July 2009 19:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
Anyone been watching 'Getting On' with Jo Brand etc? Has a similar feel, not as lolsome but pretty well observed and all that. Has a couple of Thick of It people including Capaldi.
PS: Since 'In the Loop' came out I am incapable of referring to 'The Thick of It' by anything other than '*In* the Thick of It'. ?!
― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 21 July 2009 22:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
Saw Getting On tonight. Capaldi directs them! But it feels like they've gone "right, TTOI had lots of swearing, and was depressing, and everyone loved it. So let's do more sweary depressing stuff". And it ends up just being hard to watch, without being very funny at all.
― JimD, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 01:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
Really loved 'Getting On', can't belive it's only 3 episodes long. Dr Pippa Moore is a genius character. Her polite, middle class niceness barely hiding a venal, careerist snob. The scene with the hamper basket was just jaw dropping in her brass neck. It is depressing but I still lol'd several times through the series.
― DJ Angoreinhardt (Billy Dods), Thursday, 23 July 2009 21:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
None of what's in this will be any news to the UK crew but this Slate piece on Iannucci is actually the best mass-media piece I've seen over here on him and most everything he's done over the years.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 24 July 2009 01:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
Literally downloading it (the show, not the movie) right now. Just joined the box dot bz primarily for this show, pretty much impossible to find otherwise (in the US, at least).
Good articles, Ned. Happy to learn the word paraprosdokian.
― sciolism, Friday, 24 July 2009 07:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
Also: interview with Iannucci on the AV Club.
― sciolism, Friday, 24 July 2009 13:23 (3 years ago) Permalink
finally got around to watching all of these after nrq recommended a while back--fuckin hilarious
― max, Friday, 24 July 2009 14:19 (3 years ago) Permalink
i understand maybe 40% btw capaldis accent and the britishisms but what i do get is rofl
― max, Friday, 24 July 2009 14:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
"i'm going to take your ipod from its tiny nano-sheath and shove it up your cock"
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 24 July 2009 14:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Everytime I hear a song I hate, WHICH WILL BE ALL OF THEM, I'll skip ahead BY PUNCHING YOU IN THE BOLLOCK"
― It's Not Fair And I Think You're Robbie Keane (William Bloody Swygart), Friday, 24 July 2009 14:31 (3 years ago) Permalink
it's PUNCHING YOUR BALLS iirc (well I saw it last week, and roffled at great length)
― Code Ten Abbott (country matters), Friday, 24 July 2009 14:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
there's a line about the kind of strong cheese malcolm wants, from one of the specials, i wish i could remember what it was
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 24 July 2009 14:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
multixpost
Great interview with Capaldi on AV Club too
― DJ Angoreinhardt (Billy Dods), Friday, 24 July 2009 15:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
The only film so far this year I've been compelled to see twice.
― Simon H., Sunday, 26 July 2009 07:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
I'm not a very good client for comedies in general, but this one made me laugh out very loudly and very frequently. I'm going to start the 'Thick of it' tonight.
― J4mi3 H4rl3y (Snowballing), Sunday, 26 July 2009 07:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
Thick of It is a rip-off on iTunes -- it's down as two separate series, with three episodes each
― stet, Sunday, 26 July 2009 16:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
"you ever take the piss outta Jolson again and I will remove your Ipod from its tiny nano-sheath and push it straight up your cock. And then I'll put onto shuffle with my fucking fist. A-and then, whenever something comes on that I don't like - which will be every time something comes on - I'll skip to the next track by crushing YOUR BALLS" fwiw
― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Sunday, 26 July 2009 16:39 (3 years ago) Permalink
the explanation that the taskforce story being leaked by a disgruntled civil servant was itself a story that was leaked by a disgruntled civil servant is the most Armando Iannucci thing imaginable, you can hear him saying it in your head
― Susan Tully Blanchard (MPx4A), Sunday, 26 July 2009 16:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
i almost cheered when jamie came on while watching in the cinema. i still think RISE OF THE NUTTERS made for a better one-off special. perhaps because there was a sympathetic central charcter in it. a tory too oddly.
― piscesx, Monday, 27 July 2009 00:36 (3 years ago) Permalink