(SkUG>_O i got a couple of stitches in my eyeball... ow,
Tue 24 Feb 2009, 23:06,
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It's a reference to a Coen brothers film I didn't like
In which George Clooney plays a singing arse.
(_Felix's school of dance and occult sciences,
Tue 24 Feb 2009, 23:04,
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erm...
what now?
(SkUG>_O i got a couple of stitches in my eyeball... ow,
Tue 24 Feb 2009, 23:06,
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Well you see the Clooney character obsessively uses the above depicted hair product.
This happens several times within the alleged comedy film, being in the nature of a running joke. At one point he is offered an alternative hair product and quirkily refuses!
...wait, maybe it was the other way round, and this is the one he turns down. In which case I like the design more.
(_Felix's school of dance and occult sciences,
Tue 24 Feb 2009, 23:09,
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You really didn't like it, did you.
Not even the soundtrack?
(Rapitinuiget in the cage and I'll give you a treat,
Tue 24 Feb 2009, 23:09,
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Even if you can't stomach George, the supporting cast was wonderful.
I'll watch John Turturro in anything.
(Rapitinuiget in the cage and I'll give you a treat,
Tue 24 Feb 2009, 23:11,
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I guess so.
Crappy story, though, in which we are encouraged to regard the main character as a charismatic rogue, even though he is manifestly a shit from beginning to end. Rather similar to No Country For Old Men in that respect, as I have whinged previously on this forum.
(_Felix's school of dance and occult sciences,
Tue 24 Feb 2009, 23:17,
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I did in fact like the soundtrack, yes.
and annoyed people by singing it for some time afterwards.
(_Felix's school of dance and occult sciences,
Tue 24 Feb 2009, 23:12,
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I did find the Odyssey underpinnings a bit of a stretch
but as a riff on the early days of commercial hillbilly and race records, it's great.