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I Give It a Year (2013)
Just watch the Stephen Merchant Bits
The Stephen Merchant parts are funny but the rest are atrocious. It is a fourth rate copy of 4 Weddings the acting is awful with no comic timing. The characters are paper think uncharming smug rich kids. Every cliché is overused together with hackneyed awkward sentences and engineered Anglo-American comrardary and unsubtle romantic sound tracking. The jokes are old and recycled from old episodes if Robin's Nest. Who watches these banal chick flicks? This is a totally forgettable date movie. As always with Romcoms they try to be romantic and funny and fail at both. Olivia Coleman was completely wasted in this using lines recycled from Agony and It takes a Worried Man. No originality just a complete fail. The audience must have been suckered inti the cinema by the Stephen Merchant bits that you see in the trailer.
Theatre 625: The Year of the Sex Olympics (1968)
Royalties from Endemol
I hope that Nigel Kneale is receiving royalties from Endemol, producers of "Big Brother". Incidentally a death has occurred on a reality TV show. A contestant was killed during the making of "Noel Edmond's House Party". Plus there have been many deaths caused by the conflicts created on the "Jerry Springer Show". This is a must see film. It's a pity that the lessons of it were not headed. Leonard Rossieter went on to do "The Rise and Fall of Reginald Perrin" that also challenged the idea of the rat race. Nigel Kneale worked on the wonderful 1984 BBC adaption of 1984 and Quatemass. It is a shame that thought provoking science fiction like this is not being made, due to the dumbing down of television that Kneale predicted in this play.