The Impossible Cert: 12A / 113 mins / Dir. Juan Antonio Bayona
Okay, we read your script and we LOVE it, there's just a couple of little changes we want to make. Kids on a tropical island? That's great, but their mom's a doctor? Who likes a doctor? Nobody, that's who! Doctors SUCK! So we make her... a SCIENTIST! Kids love science!
And we don't make it about a tsunami, we make it about DINOSAURS and we call it...
Jurassic! Park! Four!*
*ish*.
No.
Yes.
DVD.
No.
No.
No.
* Well, I say 'review'. I can see what everybody else loves about The Impossible, but I didn't really like it if Im being honest. I found it slightly irritating, slightly too often. Make if that what you will. Anyhow, if the main body of the post made any sense to you, you have great taste in obscure 1990's television comedy. This footnote doesn't count as part of the 77 words, by the way. Obviously.
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• ^^^ That's dry, British humour, and most likely sarcasm or facetiousness.
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The link is to a studio tape of series two of Fist of Fun*1, with unedited footage of Rich and Stew discussing Pancake Tuesday. Here it is:
So why am I boring you with this? I was there when they filmed that, me.
In the final broadcast version, I appear (very briefly) on the telly. I'm in this clip, too, at around 4m50s.
Okay, it's my long hair in the corner of the picture, and the back of my sister's head. She's on the telly more than I am there. But I'M ON THE TELLY!
There's a longer tale about pushing in the queue at BBC Television Centre, but this isn't really the time or place. Ask me when you see me, yeah?
Huge thanks go to Andy McH for locating this, as well as Paul Dullson for originally uploading it.
Fist of Fun Series One*2 will be available on DVD soon from the awesome Go Faster Stripe. It's going to be excellent, and you should buy it.
*1 Or, as all the cool kids are calling it: FOF (fof). *2 That's the one without me in it, I'm afraid. Sorry. Series Two next year, so I'm told.
DISCLAIMERS: • ^^^ That's dry, British humour, and most likely sarcasm or facetiousness.
• This is a personal blog. The views and opinions expressed here represent my own thoughts (at the time of writing) and not those of the people, institutions or organizations that I may or may not be related with unless stated explicitly.
