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Why is life not worth living?
Posted by renkadima on 6 June 2010 - 11:54am.
Because you've just found yourself blubbing at the end of this week's Doctor Who.....then discovered it was written by Richard Curtis!
The shame, the shame!
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He's good at that
...damn him to hell!
Sobbing like a baby
at the end*.
This happens more and more as I sidle further into middle age. And not just with Curtis...
*I've just finished watching it on the iPlayer.
I had something
in both eyes! It's come to this - I'm blinking back the tears to Saturday evening prime time TV. Silly old fool that I am. I think it's the manopause.
They
did warn you at the beginning it was he what writ it. I fell asleep during transmission so have no idea what happened to the monster parrot.
I Sky plussed it...
..so just fast-forwarded to the start. Should have twigged when Bill Nighy appeared, though.
The unforgettable end of Balckadder
No, time even for a last cunning plan from Baldrick
"Well, I am afraid it will have to wait. Whatever it was, I am sure it was better than my plan to get out of this by pretending to be mad. I mean, who would have noticed another madman around here? Good luck, everyone."
Apart from that ending though,
series 4 was very poor. Just a constant stream of laboured similes.
Series 2 and 3 on the other hand, comedy gold.
contrafibularities
anyone else notice the second ever use of this word in last nights ep?
agree with the above assessment of Blackadder series 4 though - 'as something as a something with a something that something something somethings...' ad infinitum did get a bit wearing
The map
The full scale map of the land taken was a classic scene.
3 and 4 are my favourites
Although most people seem to agree series 2 is brilliant. It´s got its laughs, granted, but I don´t think it´s up there with 3 and 4. Love Miranda Richardson as Elizabeth though.
How about the first season? Anyone?
Blackadder The Third
easily the best of the three ELton/Curtis series.
Though I am perverse enough to like The Black Adder rather more than received opinion, so what do I know?
the black adder
i still hold a torch for series 1 - or the 'not funny' series, as referred to by Rowan Atkinson... but he's wrong! The Spanish Infanta, the Witchsmeller Pursuivant, the Duke of Edinburgh '...as Scottish as the Queen of England's tits', the Black....... Vegetable. Although the series peaked with II & The Third. Hell, even 4 has it's moments, eg, 'I'd rather sit on a stepladder in No Mans Land smoking endless cigarettes through a luminous balaclava'.
The famous Blue Stone Of Galveston.....
"It's a famous blue stone and it comes....from Galveston"
"So what you are telling me Percy, is that something you have never seen is slightly less blue than something else you have never seen."
I also think series 1 is a lot funnier than it's given credit for.
Contender for best line in series 4? "Made a note in my diary on the way here. Simply says: 'Bugger'."
Oh...
...there is SO much to cherish in "...Goes Forth"! Sure, the whole simile shtick gets a little old, but the whole series is worth the price of admission just for Stephen Fry's shoutingly insane General Melchett.
Although...
..."The Third" is my favourite series. If nothing else, the description of Dunney On The Wold in "Dish and Dishonesty" as containing "four rather mangy cows, a Dachsund named Colin, and a small hen in its late forties" is proof that no-one at the time was writing like Elton and Curtis.
That whole episode is ridiculously good comedy writing.
(See, I love it enough to have just done that from memory. Sad, sad man.)
Blackadder
deserves it's own thread but while we're here the scene where George runs through the tiddlywink society is heart wrenching and funny in a way that I don't believe I've seen before and for that alone it stands as a great comedy. For me they were all great, a comedy that tries to make you laugh and mostly succeeds, now there's a thing.
I have but one thing to add:
SAUSAGE?!
Love Actually made me cry
There. I said it. I´m out!
Me too
The Andrew Lincoln/Keira Knightley section with the placards.
And Emma Thompson's disintegration at the 'wrong' gift.
Underneath the slush, he does occasionally get real emotion spot-on.
The Colin Firth section did it for me
God Only Knows is, and will always be (at least as long as there are stars above us), God Only Knows.
It is a guilty pleasure for me
But I don't agree about the Andrew Lincoln/Keira Knightley section. In fact I disliked that entire plot strand- I found it hugely creepy. If that had happened in real life the Andrew Lincoln character would have been lamped by his mate and told in no uncertain terms to stay the hell away from his wife.
Possibly,
but unrequited (and never-to-be) love is the most irrational and bitter-sweet of all, and can drive people to do strange and mad things.
Elvis knew:
Elvis was so good he was good
even when he really wasn´t good (movies not included).
It must be difficult
sometimes when the thing that some people don't like about you is that you are good at what you do and that some other people like you for it, ho hum.
Richard Curtis is a true pro.
I think the Who ep shows he can turn his hand successfully to most things. I don't like everything he does, but I respect it. (In a fluffy mainstream sort of way...!)
Even
The Boat That Rocked was not quite as awful as some reports suggested.
Mind you, it was all over the place in terms of the soundtrack chronology.
I enjoyed that movie
although I was very, very drunk when I saw it.
from the sublime ...
I did shed a little tear at the end of Doctor Who, but I don't feel bad about that at all.
What I do feel bad about is falling asleep in front of the box the other night (sadly, during Family Guy) then waking up around 1am to catch BBC 3 plumbing new depths with a sitcom called Coming of Age.
The 'plot', as such, involved a young man being talked into giving his girlfriend one 'up the botty' (that was indeed the name of the episode) in his mum's bedroom. The location was important because it added to the thrill, obviously. The young couple then endured hilarious consequences as the girl lost control of her sphincter during said anal intercourse and ended up defecating on his mum's bed. The first time it happened, they explained the mess by blaming the family dog. Cue laughter track. The second time it happened, they blamed the young man's invalid and senile grandfather. Cue laughter track, again. The 'sub-plot' involved a friend of the young man trying to talk his prudish girlfriend (successfully, as it turned out) into 'tugging him off'. And then, to round off the episode, the 'up the botty' girl, having promised her boyfriend that everything would be OK because she hadn't eaten for two days, ended up defecating a third time during another rigorous bout of anal intercourse. Honest, I'm not making this up.
Vulgarity, in context, doesn't bother me at all. I was just gobsmacked that people on the public dime had been paid to write, produce and perform this illiterate, spectacularly idiotic trash.
And if anyone dares make the 'cutting edge comedy' argument, I'll be round with my revolver ;)
Mostly agreed
with two qualifications : the girl who plays Chloe and the lad who plays DK deserve a run at something good, as they can do comedy.
Deja poo
That is totally ripped off from a Terry & June episode IIRC.
*Snorts*
Oh bloody hell.. Could you just imagine it? "June.. June.. Look what's happened! Again! And the MD and his wife are arriving for dinner in ten minutes.. clean yourself up, woman.. Aaaaargh! No! That's my only clean shirt you're using.. Hang on, I'll disguise myself as a lampstandard and hide in the wardrobe.."
Coming of Age
I take it this wasn't a Richard Curtis written episode then.