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In Reply to: Withnail and I posted by albee33 on April 10, 2004 at 11:06:51:
Not a short list, but this one holds a special place. Turning it off felt like spitting out the piece of dog crap someone forced there.There is apparently demand for such degrading garbage... I don't know if it is uniquely British though... we certainly have produced our fair share of it. The British one has particular flavor, of course.
With movies like that one can't help but wonder if the term "decadent" indeed has some foundation.
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Poor, out of work, and young might be another way of putting it...Sure, there's a certain over-the-topness to the style, but degrading? No. Decadent, maybe...but I think 'I' (Paul McGann) spends most of the film, precisely, resisting the decadence and dissolution of his roomate. And the drug dealer is not painted as any cool hipster type, but as an out-and-out creep, hilariously so. Having had myself a decadent, dissolute, still charming roomate, been poor, out of work, and young in NYC, I can sympathize, but my enjoyment of the film has nothing to do with identification. It's well-acted--Richard Griffiths is especially funny--well written, and well plotted. It has period grit and cohesive texture. It's a good, dark comedy.I didn't like it at all the first time I saw it. Not at all. Not even 'didn't like it,' it made no impression whatsoever. The second time I saw it, something clicked. How I'd failed the first time to appreciate Girffiths' performance in particular I don't know, that sometimes happens though, with music or movies or books...first time, nothing, second (maybe third) time's a charm.
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A Scots friend, who was ga-ga about this film, couldn't believe El Grinning Culture Vulture hadn't seen this and went to great lengths to find me an NTSC vhs copy
And was shocked when my opinion of this film (on a first viewing) was little-nothing"But its joost sooch a BLOODY laff, Mon!!"
Some time later I played it again and something just clicked; I couldn't stop laughing, and its become a favorite
Ralph Brown, who plays the creepy drug dealer, is apparently a Preacher(!) He's also the barman in The Crying GameGrins
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