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Aye, saw that trailer for it before Hot Fuzz, not holding out much hope.

I thought Dom Passantino would be declaring his intention to run the London Marathon in this thread.

did the last schwimmer/pegg collab even make it into cinemas?

Pretty sure it did, only limited though. We toyed with the idea of going to see it, then decided it would probably be shit.

Though I can't remember if we got as far as looking to see if it was actually on in the cinema, that's how I'm not sure what sort of release it got.

December 1st last year, apparently. And it took less than 150k opening week

xxp

I saw The Big Nowhere. It was poor. It was particularly scuppered by being set in the US whilst clearly filmed in the Isle Of Mann with a completely British cast on the whole doing poor US accents except for Davis Schwimmer. The fault was not so much the acting as the script which, whilst quite clever for a black comedy, laid its far fetched coincidences so heavy that the whole conceit imploded.

Oh, and David Schwimmer's character motivation was poor x 1,000,000. Pegg's US accent in particular was a bit patchy.

why did they think, at any point, that that would work??

why is schwimmer making faux-american films on the isle of man? someone needs to sack his agent.

i think his agent is doing pretty well in the circs

for shame, we saw the big nothing in the cinema. total fucking waste of 89 or so minutes of our lives, although that blonde lass who's in starter for 10 is admittedly cute.

http://www.momentumpictures.co.uk/assets/posters/51st-state_Poster.jpg

some of these people's careers were not adversely affected by starring in this movie.

<i>Big Nothing</i> was pretty fucking appalling. I'm pleased to note that I've blanked pretty much all of it from my memory, all I can recall is a sense of futility only equalled by watching episodes of Hyperdrive.

[] obv, sheesh.

UseYourPsybeam (1 week ago)

OMG does his shirt in the beginning say
National Erectile Dysfunction Awareness?

sweet.

Target audience found??

haha. brilliant.

I just saw this... There were some nice moments, but basically it had every possible cliche of the "underdog guy wins back his ex-girlfriend/wife from her smug new boyfriend" story. I mean, the new guy tripping the main character in the marathon and then blaming it on him was just too much, plus the scene where he runs to finishing line because he sees his ex and son there was totally cringeworthy. Has there ever been a movie where the new boy/girlfriend of the protagonist's ex is actually a nice, decent human being?

Has there ever been a movie where the new boy/girlfriend of the protagonist's ex is actually a nice, decent human being?

Lois Lane's husband in Superman Returns maybe

Hank Azaria was great in this! But yeah it was all a bit Love, Actually otherwise.

Well yeah, I don't blame him for his role being a walking cliche, he handled the job of being an ultra-smug American suit quite well.

i liked this? it was a cute trifle.

HEY GUYS DID I MENTION I INTERVIEWED DAVID SCHWIMMER AND HE WAS A MENSCH AND THIS WAS THE MOVIE I INTERVIEWED HIM ABOUT.

I watched this film on a transatlantic flight and it just about helped to pass the time. If I didn't have an increasingly obtuse loyalty to Pegg though I wouldn't have got past the first 15 minutes or so.

s1ocki are you by any chance in hawaii this week

ohhhhhh this movie was shit.

It was really awful.

basically it had every possible cliche of the "underdog guy wins back his ex-girlfriend/wife from her smug new boyfriend" story.

^^^ this

It was a huge success at the box office, though, so maybe Schwimmer doesn't need to sack his agent after all.