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Bruno · Post by **Bruno** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:05 pm

Great film. The book is better - infact any McCarthy book is worth a read.

Chigurh in that movie is relentless.

enfieldwhite · Post by **enfieldwhite** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:26 pm

Bruno wrote:Great film. The book is better - infact any McCarthy book is worth a read.

Chigurh in that movie is relentless.

I may take that read as a recommendation. Tommy Lee Jones is his usual dour self.

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Sun Jul 12, 2009 11:45 pm

Agree with Bruno, NCFOM is a superb film. That scene with Chighurh and the shopkeeper...hair on neck stuff.

I quite enjoyed Tommy Lee Jones's performance. Played the disillusioned old-timer quite well. A world he is in, but a world he doesn't know.

Have any of you read 'The Road' by McCarthy? Absolutely superb book, if very dark. Darker than NCFOM I fancy, though I haven't had the pleasure of reading it.

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 8:09 am

Watched Stewart Lee: 41st Best Stand-Up on Comedy Central. Excellent stuff. It's on again next weekend, Friday I think.

Sample section here but it's best taken in context.

Bruno · Post by **Bruno** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 8:12 am

The entire 'This Morning With Richard Not Judy' is available online. Worth a watch.

Bruno · Post by **Bruno** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 10:16 pm

Saw another episode of an animal show on 4 where they dissect them.

Last week it was a whale, today a crocodile. Hosted by an ex-CBBC presenter alongside Richard Dawkins.

Strange, but interesting.

enfieldwhite · Post by **enfieldwhite** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 10:22 pm

'How not to live your life'

New comedy on BBC2

Mildly amusing.

Bruno · Post by **Bruno** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 10:24 pm

Just turned on 'Destroyed in Seconds' on some Sky channel.

Lots of sportsmen crashing and such. Dramatic and morbidly interesting. Excellent stuff.

jimbo · Post by **jimbo** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 10:47 pm

enfieldwhite wrote:'How not to live your life'

New comedy on BBC2

Mildly amusing.

Aye. Wasn't too bad. Some quite funny bits. Nice light viewing for a Monday night.

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Mon Jul 13, 2009 11:39 pm

'The street' was tough viewing. excellent drama. At heart a remake of 'High noon' in contemporary Mancland. Good writing. Good acting.

Bruno · Post by **Bruno** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 9:23 am

William the White wrote:'The street' was tough viewing. excellent drama. At heart a remake of 'High noon' in contemporary Mancland. Good writing. Good acting.

Didn't think it was a patch on previous series'

William the White · Post by **William the White** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 4:53 pm

Bruno wrote:
William the White wrote:'The street' was tough viewing. excellent drama. At heart a remake of 'High noon' in contemporary Mancland. Good writing. Good acting.

Didn't think it was a patch on previous series'

Didn't like series 1 myself, and avoided since. so not qualified to make the comparison myself. Which aspects disappointed you in yesterday's episode?

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:19 pm

Mrs Barnet is watching alleged drama Freefall, a two-dimensional piece of shit about nawty bankers and ordinary common folk, with characters who manage to be both unlikable and unbelievable, a bit like the camera-work. She agrees that it's a bag of elephant wank, but is grimly determined to see if it gets any better or - more likely - laughably worse.

On the bonus side, Daily Show with Jon Stewart's back on More 4 tonight (we Brits just need Comedy Central to take up the option for Colbert Report), there's Charlton Brooker's You Have Been Watching Right F*cking Now on 4, followed by The Inbetweeners (to which I'm a late-ish convert) or a Flight of the Conchords, and there's always a nice relaxing Wainwright's Walks if I tire of chuckling.

KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab · Post by **KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:24 pm

Forgot You Have Been Watching was on last week, so this is my cherry popped. Tremendous. Doesn't even need the guests.

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:28 pm

KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab wrote:Forgot You Have Been Watching was on last week, so this is my cherry popped. Tremendous. Doesn't even need the guests.

Would get by without it, but they give him a foil. And there was something mesmerising about watching Jamelia's upper half straining to stay in an extremely ill-chosen top. Should be on 4oD if you want more Brooker. - ah yes - here chum

Prufrock · Post by **Prufrock** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:32 pm

Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:
KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab wrote:Forgot You Have Been Watching was on last week, so this is my cherry popped. Tremendous. Doesn't even need the guests.
Would get by without it, but they give him a foil. And there was something mesmerising about watching Jamelia's upper half straining to stay in an extremely ill-chosen top. Should be on 4oD if you want more Brooker. - ah yes - here chum

You sir, are an officer and a gentleman, I forgot it last week due to being asleep by 7pm. Watching now. Some gold in there. Was last week David Mitchell, coz I was/am very looking forward to those two together?

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:34 pm

Prufrock wrote:
Dave Sutton's barnet wrote:
KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab wrote:Forgot You Have Been Watching was on last week, so this is my cherry popped. Tremendous. Doesn't even need the guests.
Would get by without it, but they give him a foil. And there was something mesmerising about watching Jamelia's upper half straining to stay in an extremely ill-chosen top. Should be on 4oD if you want more Brooker. - ah yes - here chum
You sir, are an officer and a gentleman, I forgot it last week due to being asleep by 7pm. Watching now. Some gold in there. Was last week David Mitchell, coz I was/am very looking forward to those two together?

Yer welcome. Not Mitchell (would he and Brooker work well together?) but Jamelia, Richard Herring and Rufus Hound, who I think may be on every week (Keebaab?)

KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab · Post by **KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:36 pm

No. Frank Skinner, and two comediennes who I've never heard of - Josie Long and Grace Someone. Both are crap. Even Skinner's not need, although his analogy of the Trafalgar Square plinth and Princess Di is excellent.

Prufrock · Post by **Prufrock** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:42 pm

I'm pretty sure Mitchell is scheduled on one of them, and I think they'll either be really good together, syncing in one ginormous world righting rant, or a bit rubbish. KeeeeBaaab is right, I saw Josie Long on something else and she was quite good for a female comedian (ie managed to get through making maybe only six or seven jokes where the punchline was 'men'), but both are a bit nothingy on here, though Skinner is good. Nearly choked on the comparision of Torchwood and Chuckle brothers with cum-shots.

Dave Sutton's barnet · Post by **Dave Sutton's barnet** » Tue Jul 14, 2009 10:42 pm

KeeeeeeeBaaaaaaab wrote:No. Frank Skinner, and two comediennes who I've never heard of - Josie Long and Grace Someone. Both are crap. Even Skinner's not need, although his analogy of the Trafalgar Square plinth and Princess Di is excellent.

Josie Long's, er, long been a favourite of the Guardianistas. The other, I imagine, is Grace Dent, north-easterner who does the Guardian's soapwatch and has featured before on Screenwipe. Not a comedian but a comic writer.

Skinner's doing the rounds - was on Mock the Week last, er, week. Got a book out or summat?

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