"How To Get Ahead In Advertising": Classic...

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...or a pork pie.

― David, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I liked it, but I'm sure I'll get in trouble for saying that.

― DG, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Why, exactly?

― David, Monday, 13 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Classic and near Brunelian in it's satire.

― Jason, Tuesday, 14 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Richard E. Grant is usually (not always, though) reason to pay attention -- and I say this still having not seen all of _Withnail and I_.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 14 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Grant's performance in _How To Get Ahead In Advertising_ is certainly reason enough to pay attention to it.

― David, Tuesday, 14 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This would be the moovee wherein protag. gets giant zit on shoulder which grows into another actual head, correct? The head being his conscience cuz he works in advertising & therefore is soulless crap-peddling whore, correct? Good fillum!!

― AP, Tuesday, 14 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eight years pass...

Classic, although it does fizzle out after the new head replaces the old head.

― dog latin, Thursday, 28 January 2010 17:08 (sixteen years ago)

I always feel his character in Posh Nosh is akin to this character.

― Mit der Kattzheit kaempfen Goetter selbst vergebens (Michael White), Thursday, 28 January 2010 17:44 (sixteen years ago)

posh nosh is one of my top 5 tv shows of all time

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 28 January 2010 17:45 (sixteen years ago)

this movie is ripe for a remake with jim carrey

― aarrissi-a-roni, Thursday, 28 January 2010 17:46 (sixteen years ago)

The dinner party scene near the start where Bagley is berating Penny Wheelstock is a masterpiece by itself. "I wouldn't care if you were so huge we had to put up scaffolding to feed you!"

A common complaint against it, even by Bruce Robinson itself, is that it's too didactic and doesn't hang together, but the comedy is so persistently rich and strange that I think that becomes subsidiary.

― Freedom, Thursday, 28 January 2010 23:22 (sixteen years ago)

And I presume the poster upthread from all those years ago meant Bunuelian rather than Brunelian, unless old Isambard had a sideline in satire.

― Freedom, Thursday, 28 January 2010 23:27 (sixteen years ago)

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