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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Andy on August 27, 2006, 07:25:44 PM
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I have some old Chris Morris stuff downloaded because of a recommendation (I think from the old board), but until now, I've been too lazy to check it out. Should I delete it, or check it out?
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Maybe you can get someone to listen to them for you and give you a summary. Or if that takes too long maybe they can talk on your behalf about how they enjoyed them.
Chris Morris is brilliant and worth listening to! You've got greatness sitting on your computer that you didnt have to dig around for!
Come on, lazybones! Don't make entertainment sound like homework! This is the Fun Stuff!
Tom.
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Here is my very uneducated response.
If it is Brasseye, watch it immediately. Utterly amazing.
If it is the radio shows, listen when you have a chance -- some very worthwhile stuff (or listen immediately to one to see if it is your kind of thing (though it probably is since you downloaded it in the first place?)).
http://chilled.cream.org/forums/portal.php
should be able to give you some help / info as well
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holy shit:
http://www.warprecords.com/ography/WARP79/
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Although Brass Eye and The Day Today are what I would recommend to get into Chris Morris (not so much his Jam and Blue Jam "anti-comedy" as it were)...he's also got a great and very fitting role in The IT Crowd as the "boss".
This episode is great:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=UPPFE7XJ4X8&mode=related&search=
I've olny seen what's on youtube so if anyone knows of where else the It Crowd likes to hang out...
AND Richard Ayoade is great and was my favorite part of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.
"we all have to go sometime"
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AND Richard Ayoade is great and was my favorite part of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.
Same here. I hear they've got a fake talk show coming out with him as Dean Learner and the Garth Margenghi guy playing various interviewees.
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"On the Hour" is good radio stuff, I think it features the first appearance of Alan Partridge.
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* On the Hour is podcasted. iTunes it now!
* Chris Morris, as a genuinely interested nerd, toured CERN last summer. Here's an podcast:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/audio/2008/jun/30/cern.chris.morris.podcast
and an article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jun/30/cern.particle.physics2
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First look at Four Lions...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/aug/12/chris-morris-jihadi-film
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First look at Four Lions...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/aug/12/chris-morris-jihadi-film
As usual with Chris Morris, this project looks interesting so thanks for the info.
Unrelatedly, it is a strange feeling when you come to the message board, you see a thread title that interests you, you start to read it (and don't notice that the thread is 3 years old) and then read your own response that you have completely forgotten.
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I've olny seen what's on youtube so if anyone knows of where else the It Crowd likes to hang out...
They run it on the "Automat" on IFC and season one is out on DVD here in "the states".
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First look at Four Lions...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/filmblog/2009/aug/12/chris-morris-jihadi-film
Very interesting. It's bound to be controversial, of course. I just hope it's controversial in a good way - I have high hopes.
Also, that Guardian article has a link to a comment piece Morris wrote in 2007 (about Martin Amis), which is really good (and ties in with the movie inasmuch as it confirms Morris' levelheadedness about the subject).
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Unrelatedly, it is a strange feeling when you come to the message board, you see a thread title that interests you, you start to read it (and don't notice that the thread is 3 years old) and then read your own response that you have completely forgotten.
That happens to me all the time. Matthew_S, you should go back through the old boards and read what you said there. I said some stuff I had absolutely no recollection of.
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I'm optimistic but afraid that David Zucker has set the bar for suicide bomber jokes impossibly high.
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I've olny seen what's on youtube so if anyone knows of where else the It Crowd likes to hang out...
They run it on the "Automat" on IFC and season one is out on DVD here in "the states".
Also, NETFLIX has the first two seasons on Instant Queue.
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Graham Linehan (Ted, Black Books, IT Crowd) is the greatest.
http://www.channel4.com/news/article.jsp?id=3308762&time=120932
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Great link, Samir! However, Linehan does not address the very serious issue of Obama's proposed death squads.
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Clip from Four Lions (http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/video/2010/jan/21/chris-morris-four-lions-sundance), which is premiering at Sundance this week.
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Holy shit, this film is almost unwatchable. I read reviews that weren't exactly favorable but they didn't prepare me for it's overwhelming mediocrity. It was a laugh free experience.
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Holy shit, this film is almost unwatchable. I read reviews that weren't exactly favorable but they didn't prepare me for it's overwhelming mediocrity. It was a laugh free experience.
That surprises me. Haven't heard anything quite so negative about it. I laughed more in the cinema at this than I have at anything in years, when I really wasn't expecting to. The characterisation was fantastic, particularly the main bloke and Barry the psychotically overzealous convert. Buffoonish as some of the characters are, the confusion it instils in the viewer as they begin to empathise with suicide bombers is beautifully done. And the ending is genuinely quite affecting. It's very old fashioned in a lot of ways, but the combination of old fashioned gags with such sensitive subject matter worked very well I thought. Politically, it hints at lots of things without ever hitting you over the head with a sledgehammer about it, and mainly concentrates on the character-based comedy. Though attempting to humanise what is generally regarded as 'other' is a political statement in itself.
Anyway, my 2 pence worth. Morris' best work in a long time.
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I thought it was hilarious.
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I liked it, too.
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Is this movie still in theaters or will it be on DVD soon?
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http://warp.net/films/four-lions/out-now-on-dvd-and-bluray (http://warp.net/films/four-lions/out-now-on-dvd-and-bluray)
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It has finally got a US distribution deal. Which is encouraging. Hopefully this won't result in "Sick terror comedy" headlines though.
http://www.hollywoodnews.com/2010/09/09/alamo-expands-to-film-distribution-starts-with-four-lions/ (http://www.hollywoodnews.com/2010/09/09/alamo-expands-to-film-distribution-starts-with-four-lions/)
Alamo expands to film distribution, starts with “Four Lions”
CEO and founder Tim League announced that he’s expanding the Alamo Drafthouse brand into film distribution under the banner Drafthouse Films. The first film to release under the new label will be Chris Morris’s Sundance comedy, “Four Lions.”
The comedy illuminates the war on terror through satire and farce. After Sundance, it closed South by Southwest, won the Independent Camera Award at Karlovy Vary and was voted Best Narrative Feature by audiences at the Los Angeles Film Festival.
“I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Morris’ comedic television and radio for years. To launch our new distribution label with what I consider to be a modern classic is a dream come true,” said League.
“Four Lions” will kick off a 10 city promotional screening tour with Chris Morris in attendance in mid-October. The film is slated to release this fall in New York, Los Angeles and Austin and will expand wider in the following weeks.