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Exactly what you'd expect, more social awkwardness and faux-pas and surreal snippets of everyday life. David Brent Chasing the dream. The non-sequitur to "The Office" - but not, it's only David Brent, after all, more of a television special than a movie but if you liked "The Office" you'll like this. 3.2 Bananas.
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Visually splendid, but I have a feeling it will be a bit devoid of plot and meaning. Time will tell.
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Monday afternoon, January 2nd, take the daughter and the boy to see The Poseidon Adventure. By which I mean the original, 1972 version with Red Buttons and Gene Hackman and Ernest Borgnine, etc, etc.
Both brilliant and absolute rubbish, laughable fashions (that I'd kill to replicate), overly explicit dialogue, the complete adherence to all the moral conventions of disaster films. Gene Hackman does well, Ernest Borgnine bugs his eyes, Roddy McDowell, well, I'm sure it paid well. Just a good introduction to the world of bad classic disaster films, when it's over the boy's spent an hour and a half laughing while the daughter happily exclaims "That was good...how come I've never heard of it?...".
Oh, there's a lot more you've never heard of. Have to get her out to the Koot's to show her "Towering Inferno" and "Airport" and maybe "Earthquake" and, for a bit of comic relief (that she'll then understand) - Airplane.
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Something to look forward to:
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I remembered the first film, the seaweed waving in the river, the parting on the bridge, like a film I'd seen a long, long time ago and didn't remember...it made me sad.
Maybe I didn't. Maybe I hadn't seen it all. The next two in the series, they're on their own, I've no recollection whatsoever.
It's Cambell's "The Hero's Journey", but in Japanese and some decades before he wrote it. It's "El Topo" without the Acid. It's genius, and in countless tiny things brilliant and without peer, it's that rare film (trilogy) - that hired a proper writer and director, and the results are clear...