"I'm irrelevant I'm irrelevant I'm irrelevant... what do you know about Hitler? he had a moustache and lived over there. Fuck it all!"
"He thinks he's been leaking, wait till I've finished with him - he'll look like Mel Gibson's Jesus"
"These are good biscuits and they cost £4"
― DavidM, Saturday, 14 July 2007 22:02 (5 years ago) Permalink
the "15 shades of grey" bit is poetry.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Saturday, 14 July 2007 22:07 (5 years ago) Permalink
everyone correct, although my favourite two phrases:
"I'll send a warning shot across his throat"
"You're the heavyweight of hope"
The Ollie-Ben double-act ascended new levels of abject wonder this episode, which felt, in the best way possible, like a never-ending manifestation of hell. With the audience was backing Satan all the way. Whoever doubted that Malcolm would prevail?
― Just got offed, Saturday, 14 July 2007 22:21 (5 years ago) Permalink
*With the audience backing Satan all the way
ayo, americans, is the US version going to air in the US?
i can't find the pilot anywhere.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Sunday, 9 September 2007 19:18 (5 years ago) Permalink
^^^^
― banriquit, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 16:31 (5 years ago) Permalink
no one on this side of the atlantic has any idea what you're talking about.
― s1ocki, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 16:54 (5 years ago) Permalink
there's a US version??? hahaha puhleez
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 16:56 (5 years ago) Permalink
yeah there was a pilot done by mitch hurwitz with oliver platt, so i dunno why you're all puhleez because it sounds good!
― banriquit, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 17:02 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0903651/
and john michael higgins who is v funny
― banriquit, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 17:03 (5 years ago) Permalink
yeah but like.. no swearing, right?
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 17:04 (5 years ago) Permalink
troo
― banriquit, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 17:05 (5 years ago) Permalink
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1226774/
― banriquit, Saturday, 21 June 2008 18:07 (4 years ago) Permalink
^^^second film of note to be filmed in Northampton in recent times.
Just behind "Kinky Boots".
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Saturday, 21 June 2008 18:10 (4 years ago) Permalink
Not sure how recent this was but it doesn't mention Coogan as a cast member at all.
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 21 June 2008 22:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
Director and writer Armando Iannucci has already satirised the psycho that lurks deep within the political psychology of Whitehall in his TV series ‘The Thick of It’.
article needs retranslation into english.
i'd imagine coogan's in for a cameo or summat.
― banriquit, Saturday, 21 June 2008 23:22 (4 years ago) Permalink
ok the film is a stone classic
― special guest stars mark bronson, Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:48 (4 years ago) Permalink
very keen to see it then.
― Henry Frog (Frogman Henry), Saturday, 24 January 2009 03:53 (4 years ago) Permalink
They showed the first season on BBC America a few years back, it was awesome.
― Maltodextrin, Saturday, 24 January 2009 05:13 (4 years ago) Permalink
psychedhttp://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/fk-off-fairey/
― Hard House SugBanton (blueski), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 18:15 (4 years ago) Permalink
seconded on the psyched. Is that a UK release as well?
― NotEnough, Wednesday, 18 March 2009 15:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
Click on the link, read the link, THEN post . . .
― 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
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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