There’s no way around it – this fifth edition is
unequivocally The Liam Neeson Show. Every topic or segment seems to come back
to him like a massive game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon in which the mentor-turned-kickass-butt
kicker takes the place of the Footloose
star. By now, our ability to go on tangents has become so refined that we’re
even able to unintentionally cover related projects – the Narnia link was completely
not planned. As James points out, it’s as if the universe wants us to talk
about him.
I suppose I’m to partially blame for this Liam love-in
though. After all, I was the first to bring him up when I compared the changing stock roles
filled by Firth to those Taken by
Neeson, and I only did that because, like with Fight Club, we can’t really talk much about The King’s Speech (Not that it’s an official rule – it’s just that
there’s little that we can make light of). Hence, we spend most of the Film
Club discussing everything but the film. As with the Fight Club show, we don’t even get around to talking about Helena
Bonham-Carter, so if she’s reading this (I doubt it) or has heard the shows
(see content of last brackets), I can only apologise – not for the shows in
general, but for not acknowledging her contribution to those movies.
Another aspect of the Bonham Carter canon that we
did not say much about, this time deliberately, is the Harry Potter series. It transpires, during
the King’s Speech Box Office rundown,
that Producer Alex has not seen the recent films because his flatmates have
insisted he read the books first as he “forgot” to tackle them earlier. Ah,
yes, an interesting interpretation of the word “forget” there. I was under the
belief that it meant you had neglected to do or remember something important.
In this case, it appears to refer to not doing something that was forced
upon you, as in ‘Mum told me I’d "forgot" to paint the house”. Well, you can’t
say The Film Show isn’t educational…
What you can say is that occasionally we make mistakes – no,
this isn’t a segway into the Corrections segment (although, in retrospect, it
very much should have been), and even the presenters’ names aren’t immune to slips
of the tongue. Not only do I start the show by making Chris sound like two
people, I end this edition by calling Alex ‘James’ (which, if this was indeed
his name, would certainly make asking his verdict on Taglines scores very
confusing). Ah well, nobody’s perfect.
Except Liam Neeson.
‘We’re discussing The
King’s Speech’. We’re clearly not.
Chris misspeaks – we don’t like Sex and The City. As for sex in the city...
James definitely does not think Crossroads needs a sequel. Not even Britney Spears wants that.
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