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Film - "Three And Out"
Can't say that I can't stand this... as I haven't even seen it...
But I can't stand the thought of me ever watching it!
The film opens as tube driver, Paul Callow (*Mackenzie Crook*), accidentally runs someone down with his train. A few days later, he has the misfortune to have another one-under. His colleagues tell him about a little known rule at London Underground. The one no-one talks about. THREE under within a month, and youre OUT... earning yourself 10 years salary in one lump sum. This is an attractive proposition for someone with heavy debts and a yearning to escape the stresses of the big city to write a novel.
Paul sets about trying to find someone prepared to die under his train by Monday morning.
Not easy. But the search he embarks on is both hilarious and emotional.
How do you approach a complete stranger and ask him if he fancies dying under your train!?
After many failed and excruciatingly embarrassing approaches; he comes across Tommy Cassidy (*Colm Meaney*) attempting to jump off Holborn Viaduct.
To Pauls amazement, Tommy agrees to his outrageous proposal. The incentive? Enough money for a last weekend to tie up the loose ends of his life. Once its agreed, Tommy is determined to go through with it: A deal is a deal.
With a new suit and a hired car, Tommy travels to the Lake District via Liverpool so that he can try and reconcile things with his wife, Rosemary *Imelda Staunton* whom he walked out on 8 years ago, and his feisty daughter Frankie *Gemma Arterton*. And Paul tags along to protect his investment.
We encounter a host of other characters on the way including the Callaghans, (*Annette Badland*) and (*Gary Lewis*), who have something that Tommy needs which leads to a very slippery situation; Mary, (*Kerry Katona*) an angry mistress; Vic (*Mark Benton*) a fellow tube-driver and expert on the Three and Out Rule; and Maurice, (*Sir Antony Sher*) a French chef with culinary designs of a very unusual nature.
So come on... has anyone actually had the guts to go out and see this?
I've not as I said - I've no intentions of seeing it - I find the idea behind the whole thing appallingly bad taste - seriously, considering the issues it deals with.
Like the Brass Eye - 'Kiddy Fiddling' episode, it's something that I reckon I'm never going to see.
Narrow minded, or simply because I've got standards?
Someone watch three and out please so I can see what's reckoned... or if ye've no intentions of seeing (like me) - at least bung in what you think about it!
If it ain't a review, at least we'll have a 'lively debate'.
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Not something that appeals to me either TBH - and Brass Eye was another no-no for me too!
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The 'Brass Eye' thing... a former colleague from way back comented re: the spoof 'paedophile' documentary by saying:
"I thought you'd have watched that - it seemed up your street" - he referred to my interest in 'spoof' stuff - but I went effing apesh*t at that comment as I do NOT want to be associated with such material which is in such bad taste, and certainly must be distressing for the numerous people who've been abused, to find someone 'making light'.
Again... I think maybe the same about this 'comedy film' - the poor drivers who have seen real suicides and the trauma it's caused to them - comedy?
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Not funny in my book!
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18/May/2008, 20:40
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Definitely not.
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