Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

Tristram Shandy: A Cock And Bull Story

  • 08-03-2006 12:49am
    #1
    Nightwish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭


    Did anyone happen to catch this great movie that was out last month? Not many cinemas showed it, but it has to be one of the most clever, well made hilarious films ever. Steve Coogan is a genius!


Comments

  • #2
    arbeitsscheuer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,391 ✭✭✭arbeitsscheuer


    Have you read the book? It's absolutely brilliant, altho quite difficult to get into, purely cos of the style of writing.

    I imagined that it would be impossible to translate to the big screen, but from the trailers I was convinced that they'd done it exactly the right way...

    Damn, I really want to see this now... Any cinemas open at 1oclock in the morning?!!?


  • #3
    Nightwish
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,129 ✭✭✭Nightwish


    I didnt know there was a book! They keep referring to it in the film. Must get that!


  • #4
    arbeitsscheuer
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,391 ✭✭✭arbeitsscheuer


    Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman


  • #5
    monkeyfudge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,216 ✭✭✭✭monkeyfudge


    I seen it. Wasn't expecting much... but it really was very funny.

    It's a terrible movie though... really just a showcase for the comedy skills of Brydon and Coogan. Brydon steals the show if you ask me though.

    I've read the book as well... and yes.. you couldn't possibly film that book... which I think is proven by this film to great comedic effect as the film is about their attempts to make the a movie out of the book.

    If you like Coogan and Brydon in this, you should definitely pick up a copy of Cruise of the Gods.


  • #6
    segadreamcast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,872 ✭✭✭segadreamcast


    Yeah, Brydon definitely stole the show for me - being a big Partridge fan, it was great to see him doing a send-him of Coogan ("I don't talk like that!" " 'I don't talk like that' ... yes I do!")... not sure I agree with the praise though, a lot of the scenes just felt superfluous, and it dragged like hell at times. As a body of work, sure it was funny... but not deserving of the praise that the OP gives.


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    MisterAnarchy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,106 ✭✭✭✭MisterAnarchy


    Watched this last night.
    Absolute tripe to be honest.
    It has very little to do with the book and Winterbottom’s film adaptation more or less gives up on the novel at a certain point and concentrates largely on an occasionally amusing, but generally insipid, film within a film .i.e., a fictional look behind the scenes during the shooting of an adaptation of Tristram Shandy.
    The scenes that relate to the book are funny but when it switches to the modern day scenes it is excruciating.
    I'm a fan of Brydon and Coogan but their talents are wasted on this drivel.
    2/10.


Advertisement