sovay: (Viktor & Mordecai)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote 2021-10-29 01:58 pm (UTC)

Pete Postlethwaite and Bill Nighy did what with Julie Walters who played a sexually voracious what now who?

I didn't even mention—partly because I have no idea who plays it—the "clapped-out merchant bank" that keels over dead at a key moment in that sketch!

(The vagueness of the credits really did give me trouble. I could mention actors by name in this review only if I either knew them on sight or was able to go back and figure out who they must have been. At least the zillion-character Nicholas Nickleby tells you who's doubling for whom.)

This seems really timely and also like the third consecutive film you have reviewed which, across genre and time, has a whiff of banana.

No more than much political art! I mean, try to describe Aristophanes or substantial portions of John Oliver's Last Week Tonight.

The Daily Show once provided an excuse for Jon Stewart to declaim grandiloquently, "One day, a god named Zeus looked down upon the people of Earth from Olympos and thought, 'I will turn myself into a bull.' Then, as a bull, he went down amongst the humans and fucked a spider. And that is why, today, we have coconuts." Do I remember the politics that provided this excuse? Absolutely not. Can I still quote whatever the hell that was? Worth it.

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