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Film of the Week #50 - Withnail & I

  • 21-12-2007 3:35pm
    #1
    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭


    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094336/

    Absolutely classic comedy, easily up there with the greatest, and features quite an impressive preformance from Richard E. Grant.

    Discuss!


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  • #2
    Pride Fighter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Pride Fighter


    I am delighted because its easily one of the great comedies of all time.


  • #3
    Tusky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,080 ✭✭✭✭Tusky


    Up there with Spinal Tap & the Python movies as one of the greatest and most quotable comedies of all time.

    "Lets cover ourselves with deep-heat and lay beside the radiator, we might make it till morning!"

    "We want the finest wines available to humanity, we want them here and we want them now"


  • #4
    Boston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,163 ✭✭✭✭Boston


    What was that classic line "Withnail & I proves you don't need a plot to make a great film".


  • #5
    Karl Hungus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29,130 ✭✭✭✭Karl Hungus


    Pity there isn't much discussion going on about the film... Seriously guys, why the **** bother to vote for a film if you're not even going to post about it afterwards?


  • #6
    Boston
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,163 ✭✭✭✭Boston


    most real life discussion of this film surrounds quoting lines back and forth. Not a real big discussion piece.


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  • #7
    ixoy
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 18,001 Mod ✭✭✭✭ixoy


    I'm going to take this as an example of a movie that was ruined for me by being over-exposed to it before I ever saw it. Having gone through college with numerous quotes liberally lifted from it by drunken friends, when I saw the movie I just saw it as a mere collection of lines with the slimmest of plots woven around them.

    Rather than laugh at the character's feckless nature when they asked to be brought the finest wines, I'd grimace with distaste at hearing the same line the hundredth time rather than for the first. The character's slacker attitudes also conflicted with my more dogmatic approach to life, so I found little to empathise with and didn't really care if they got the biggest reefer ever or ended up washed against a reef.

    Definitely, to me, an example of a movie that's nothing more than a sum of quotes that, once heard (within or without the movie), make it a fairly weak viewing experience. Certainly not a film of the week for me (and look critics of FotW - not everyone always agrees with the choice!)


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