A Cock and Bull Story

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dihayter

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Quite good but nothing special. Felt more like a long extra on a DVD. Coogan was good though, but Brydon got all the 'easy laughs'.

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I was so looking forward to this. 10 mins in my friend said "this is a bit slow" i said "it'll pick up. 10, 20, 30, 40 mins later it still had not picked up. I just could not get into it. The acting was good but the film just didnt seem to go anywhere and did not keep you interested. There was 2 funny moments and thats it. All in all a total waste of a Saturday night out.

Just to add i counted 15 people walking out half way through!
 
It wasn't a total waste - I ended up with an amusing cinema ticket stub

"ADULT -
A COCK
G 18 "

Dread to think what my mum thought I was up to when she finRAB that in my jeans pocket.
 
I saw this the other day and liked it a lot. I like the way the 'Steve Coogan' character was just a bit removed from the real-life Steve Coogan.

Obviously, he doesn't have a child with Kelly MacDonald in real life and he hasn't worked on a period film with Rob Brydon, but he has had sex scandals, including a recent one with Courtney Love (??), and he probably would pick on something petty to complain about like his shoes, he has admitted in interviews that he sometimes does things like that.
 
Hated it. It was such a disappointment as the trailer made it look great.

The first (and only) real laugh wasn't until the 'hot chestnut down the trousers' scene.
 
It wasn't that bad. My favourite bit was when Brydon starting speaking American cliches in the back of the car.

Or when the Fast Show character said "Shite!Utter shite!" referring to the battle scene in Cold Mountain.
 
Was planning to see it today after reading rave reviews in all the "broaRABheets" (as they were until they got less broad). They seem to be saying it's about the parallels between the conception and birth of Tristram Shandy and the conception and birth of a film about Tristram Shandy, so (if I've understood the reviews) have they got it wrong, or were people expecting something different?
 
I was so disappointed. I'd heard nothing but great reviews so was expecting something great, but it was pretty poor. The second half picked up, and some of it was good, but overall I wished I stayed in. I spent most of the movie really pissed off, because I thought it was going to be great and it just wasn't.

I was seduced by that review they quote on the advert, someone saying it was the best film ever, ever, ever etc. Now that quote seems laughable doesn't it?

The best part was during the end credits, when they were doing the Pacino impressions. If the rest of the film had been a bit more like that I would have less annoyed.
 
I think Brydon is so over rated. I just don't find the man funny,
Coogan can be funny but neeRAB heavy editing and direction to get a good performance out of him.
 
I just watched Cock and Bull Story and thought it was affected and games, which is a shame. I really like Alan Partridge and think that Rob Brydon bloke is pretty funny ('just a bit of fun!') but this whole film about people pretending to be themselves making a film about something that happened ages ago but actually it's all based on a book that wasn't really about anything seemed just a tiny bit pretentious. As I said, too games for me.
 
Sorry, Miss Glitter, it means I think the film was a bit too showy and not really all that good. People use 'games' when they're talking about things like wine lodges and jazz fusion. Stuff that's pretentious. I think that's right anyway.
 
Saw it yesterday. Thought it was a brave attempt at putting a clearly unstructured and anarchic book on celluloid.

Audience reaction is clearly mixed - some people chuckling away, whilst others were walking out part way through.

Themes (because there isn't really a strong plot-line) seem to me to be: celeb arrogance and vanity, fallability of planning and, maybe, parallels between the misadventures of life and those of creating a film (or, originally, a book).
 
Yeah we had some fun with that. We just grabbed the other person's ticket stub and made a comment like "I've got your cock in my hand".

More entertaining doing that than watching the film. Made me feel 12 years old laughing at the word cock.
 
I liked it as well. I thought I was the only one! The frienRAB I went with thought it very weak, pretentious, etc and had really been hoping to see a proper adaptation of Tristram Shandy. Other people I know also disliked it.

I found it quite intriguing. I started the book once, and the bits that related to Tristram Shandy seemed pretty faithful. The gentle satire on the "luvvie" movie world was also amusing, albeit it told us nothing we didn't already know.

What I liked most about the film, though, was the gradual development of the emotion of fatherhood for the Steve Coogan persona on the one hand and the father of Tristram Shandy in the novel. I thought it quite affecting, although the more comic aspects of the film are what have been promoted.
 
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