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Advice - Withnail & I

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    #62
    time4tea
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38 ✭time4tea


    I feel unusual


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    #63
    Daroxtar
    Registered Users Posts: 4,320 ✭✭✭Daroxtar


    budgemook wrote: »
    how do you know that?
    Its mentioned on the extras on the version of the Dvd that i have, and on websites aplenty.
    Spore wrote: »
    Freeze-frame on the telegram 'I' receives in the cottage, read the name on it - subject to some debate but it seems to read Peter Marwood...

    Here's a question for the fan-boys: what date does the film take place on? (okay it's over a few days, but what is the opening day?)

    Exact date? Not sure but going by Danny's speech back in the flat, "its 91 days till the end of the decade" so that'd be in or around october 1st and the opening scene was a week before that so its the last week of september. If i were to freeze frame the screen when withnail was reading about Geoff Woade or when Marwood was in the cafe i might be able to get the date off the newspaper but its late and i dont have a HD tv:)

    Close enough for you?


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    #64
    orourkeda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,919 ✭✭✭✭orourkeda


    strokemyclover wrote: »
    If you don't demand to have some booze after watching it there's something wrong with you!

    For a film set in the 60's, watch out for the 80's cars in the background when they begin their journey to the countryside

    There's always one.


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    #65
    Columbia
    Registered Users Posts: 1,494 ✭✭✭Columbia


    Didn't like it when I saw it. To be honest I still don't understand what people think is good about it, the lines quoted even in this thread all seem lame to me.


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    #66
    flyton5
    Registered Users Posts: 1,112 ✭✭✭flyton5


    Bernard Black of Black Books has to be based on Withnail...


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    #67
    Lapin
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    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    tried to watch and fell asleep 3 minutes in :(

    With who ?


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    #68
    Super-Rush
    Registered Users Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    I'm preparing myself to forgive you.


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    #69
    ArtSmart
    Registered Users Posts: 5,614 ✭✭✭ArtSmart


    did y'all know Richard E Grant is allergic to alcohol?

    literally, allergic - before the movie was made - cant drink alcohol at all. ever.

    great movie, but it was made a while ago, so bare that in mind (pace, cinematography etc.)


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    #70
    Lapin
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    Enjoyed it and loved the quotes but it didn't quite live up to the hype I've heard surrounding it. Part road movie, part stage play and laden down with sexual frustration. Bit confused at times.

    However the (carrot) joint smoking character and his afro friend made it for me.

    Its probably up there around 26 or 27 of my all time favourite films.

    However that could change for the better if I decide to watch it again with additional wine, gin and a generous portion of stimulating herbal stuff.


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    #71
    ArtSmart
    Registered Users Posts: 5,614 ✭✭✭ArtSmart


    Lapin wrote: »
    Enjoyed it and loved the quotes but it didn't quite live up to the hype I've heard surrounding it. Part road movie, part stage play and laden down with sexual frustration. Bit confused at times.

    However the (carrot) joint smoking character and his afro friend made it for me.

    Its probably up there around 26 or 27 of my all time favourite films.

    However that could change for the better if I decide to watch it again with additional wine, gin and a generous portion of stimulating herbal stuff.
    yes, it def a movie where been wasted helps a lot. an awful lot.

    ps, you're right about the play bit - it's actually those play one-liners which make it iconic - and Grant's excellent performance.


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    #72
    Trog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 456 ✭✭Trog


    Lapin wrote: »
    However that could change for the better if I decide to watch it again with additional wine, gin and a generous portion of stimulating herbal stuff.

    I told you, and it will. Get off your gee and then give it a bash.

    It's... matter....


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    #73
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    ArtSmart wrote: »
    did y'all know Richard E Grant is allergic to alcohol?

    Yep. I met him a few years ago when he was filming here (my bro was the editor on the film). Sound bloke - smokes pure weed all day long, like a chimney. Won't work unless he's half baked.


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    #74
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    ArtSmart wrote: »
    did y'all know Richard E Grant is allergic to alcohol?

    literally, allergic -......... cant drink alcohol at all. ever.

    The poor bastard,


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    #75
    ArtSmart
    Registered Users Posts: 5,614 ✭✭✭ArtSmart


    Lapin wrote: »
    The poor bastard,
    yeah. just read wiki, gave the usual story that he was told to drink, for the first time and did so. but according to an interview with grant , Grant categorically stated he didnt drink in the movie or at any time, as he is clinically allergic to alcohol

    ironic huh?


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    #76
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,082 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Lapin wrote: »
    With who ?

    My boyfriend, why?


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    #77
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    A-A-are you the farmer?


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    #78
    WindSock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    wandatowell wrote: »
    SCRUBBERS!!!!!!!!

    Ponce!


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    #79
    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    One of the funniest films ever made. Heartily recommend it to anyone whos 'been there' on one of those weekends. You kinda hafta have done that to get it i think.


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    #80
    flas
    Registered Users Posts: 1,270 ✭✭✭flas


    good film, obviously has it watched by now! i spent the first half hour of it trying to open a pie with a knife, had no tin opener and my brother laughin at me for my lack of pie opening skills!everyone was peckish for some reason!


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    #81
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,215 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    Haha, just watched a clip on one of those "film and TV bloopers" shows of the 80s cars and a motorway that hadn't been built at the time the film was set. :)


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    #82
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    tried to watch and fell asleep 3 minutes in :(
    Lapin wrote: »
    With who ?
    Tar.Aldarion wrote: »
    My boyfriend, why?

    Scurrilous, unfounded, nasty rumours doing the rounds.

    Thats all.

    Not to worry, I never believed them in the first place.;)


    I take it your boyfriend fell asleep during Witnail too then?


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    #83
    Tar.Aldarion
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,082 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Oh he was all like 'its great woooo, watch this.' But I fell asleep on his loverly flat man chest of warmth.


    worth getting to watch again?


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    #84
    OutlawPete
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    I have a heart condition. If you hit me, it's murder.


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    #85
    dr ro
    Registered Users Posts: 970 ✭✭✭dr ro


    chin chin


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    #86
    david75
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,611 ✭✭✭david75


    Get some drinks in, get cosyt with yer other half, and watch it..every time they take a drink in the film, youve to take a drink..makes an already amazin film even more amazing..youll hafta watch it again cos youll be scuttered drunk by about halfway through but its a comedy classic of the highest order..ye hafta see it, youll be so glad you did.


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    #87
    Dermighty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,748 ✭✭✭Dermighty


    KeithM89 wrote: »
    Jesus, stop posting quotes youll ruin it on him!
    Oh and they all die at the end...

    Hitler dies in the end.


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    #88
    Lady von Purple
    Closed Accounts Posts: 318 ✭✭Lady von Purple


    Turns out Bruce Willis was a ghost all along.


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    #89
    --Kaiser--
    Registered Users Posts: 6,461 ✭✭✭--Kaiser--


    Daroxtar wrote: »
    I tend to judge people on what they think of this movie. It has never let me down.

    I don't think could never respect anyone who didn't like this film. Funniest film ever made, and by a long shot.

    Danny: Has he just been busted?
    Marwood: No.
    Danny: Then why's he wearing that old suit?
    Withnail: Old suit! This suit was cut by Hawke's of Savile Row. Just because the best tailoring you've ever seen is above your ****ing appendix doesn't mean anything.
    Danny: Don't get uptight with me, man. Because if you do, I'll have to give you a dose of medicine. And if I spike you, you'll know you've been spoken to.


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    #90
    yeppydeppy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭yeppydeppy


    F*ck the wellingtons, we'll tell him there was a farmers convetion

    ______________

    I think an evening in the crow - (one of my favourite things to do!)


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    #91
    time4tea
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38 ✭time4tea


    Columbia wrote: »
    Didn't like it when I saw it. To be honest I still don't understand what people think is good about it, the lines quoted even in this thread all seem lame to me.

    well, clearly

    i'm not sure why anyone would expect to like quotes from a movie they didn't like in the first place :confused:

    You do need to be at least a bit tipsy to truly enjoy it and it gets better with repeated watchings.

    I couldn't tell you how many times we watched it as Students after the boozer.


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