Richard E Grant

21:12 / 23.04.04

what is the point? how does he get work? rrrrrg...

Spatula Clarke

21:21 / 23.04.04

I think quite a few people here like him. You might have opened up a whole ugly can of worms there, Xoc. A whole ugly can of whole ugly worms.

Can't stand the fellow, personally. Those shitty Argos ads? That's his one thing. How do you carve an entire career out of one thing? How do you carve an entire career out of such a limited, obvious, teeth-gnashingly annoying thing?

21:34 / 23.04.04

He was born in Swaziland you know. Rrrrrrg... *angry*

21:49 / 23.04.04

Okay, what's wrong with Mr Grant?

I know not of Argos ads. You can't expect me to hate a man because he was in an advert I haven't seen.

22:00 / 23.04.04

You disappoint, fridgemagnet. Is our word not good enough then? Tell me one good thing about REG and give me pause for pity.

40%

22:03 / 23.04.04

Heh. If you'd seen the adverts...

I can't see the point of them at all. Makes him look like a twat, and makes Argos look twats by extension. So nothing achieved for them really. And they're fucking huge anyway, they've got their niche, so why bother? I saw the adverts and thought isn't that Richard E. Grant? What the Jimminy Cricket is he doing advertising a cheap mail order store? His image is supposed to be pretentious and aloof, isn't it? I think it's supposed to be Grant making fun of himself, but it just reinforces the need for mockery, unfortunately.

22:11 / 23.04.04

twat, cheap, aloof and pretentious sums it up exceedingly well. I am prohibitively drunk of course and therefore in the right frame of mind to punch him but the only C List Celeb I've seen out all night was Matt Lucas and I have no desire to punch him.

22:17 / 23.04.04

As an actor, his repertoire is limited to playing an extremely narrow range of infinitesimally slight )and, naturally, loathsome) variations on himself. No doubt Withnail & I will be cited here, Xoc, but it repulses me as much as any other REG vehicle. On this occasion, my dear, I am very much with you.

Benny the Ball

22:39 / 23.04.04

I thought Withnail & I was bollocks. And wish that people would stop re-enacting that fucking camberwell carrot scene around me.

Alex's Grandma

22:50 / 23.04.04

Yeah all right, he's done some bad roles since, and that book he wrote... well the less said the better, but I'll forgive him anything for Withnail And I. Anyone who doesn't like that film simply has no soul.

22:57 / 23.04.04

He's good in Withnail, and he's good in Advertising. And I don't care who knows I think that.

Now, that may have just been good casting, he may be shit in general, but I don't have much else to go by. He'd really have to be quite an extreme tosser in subsequent adverts to counteract the aforementioned.

Yes, I like How To Get Ahead In Advertising, crude though it may be. Screw you.

22:59 / 23.04.04

Anyone who doesn't like that film simply has no soul.

Agreed - where 'soul' can be translated as 'liking for preeningly unlovely ham-acting wankstains'.

Alex's Grandma

23:34 / 23.04.04

G, aside from all the cultural baggage, and all the bollocks R E Grant's been responsible for since, did you deep down honestly hate that movie ?

If so, I... I just can't unnerstand

23:41 / 23.04.04

I'm afraid REG poisons it for me. That and the tittersome predatory homo stuff.

23:47 / 23.04.04

Well, clearly he's a ham, I'd agree on that. I don't think the Monty thing can be blamed on him though.

23:54 / 23.04.04

No; I was asked about the film generally. REG's performance is its own 'reward'.

23:58 / 23.04.04

Ah, okay, I can see that then. To be honest, that element does bother me. It's all a bit "backs to the wall, lads, you know these homos".

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

00:12 / 24.04.04

Screw you

I am going to bed now with a smile on my face that fucking Richard E Shite Actor and Overhyped Ugly Boy couldn't have put there.

I wish you had been in more films with the Spice Girls, fridge. I mean how hard can it be when that numpty Grant got away with it? Hey ya...

Camberwell Carrot for chrissakes. Go anywhere in the world beyond these UK shores and people roll doobies that dwarf and make mockery of this supposed superjoint. I always have a bend in the middle of mine, hence the soubriquet "Bruntsfield Banana™".

00:22 / 24.04.04

"How to Get Ahead in Advertising" is ace.

00:24 / 24.04.04

No, it's not. Wastched it on a plane once and fell asleep. Not even my loathing for turdface averted the somnolence. I thought better of you Stoatmeister.

00:40 / 24.04.04

Yes it is! I've fallen asleep through more films...

ah, what's the use, this post is just going to degenerate into argh argh argh argh...

00:48 / 24.04.04

It started out with both feet firmly in the argh argh argh plane I think. Just let it die and be utterly forgotten with all Richard crap actor Grant. Tomorrow I'll be sober and ashamed and glad it withered.

00:56 / 24.04.04

I've fallen asleep through a lot of films on planes, though. Dog Day Afternoon was the most recent. Classic. Expert swearing from Mr Pacino. Did it keep me awake? No, clearly. Do I have a point here? Goodness, no. Would I appreciate a pork pie? My word, yes.

01:01 / 24.04.04

Pie, yes! Dog Day Afternoon, one of my favourite films ever, how dare you fall asleep? So far beyond any heights that Granty would have been able to attain.

01:18 / 24.04.04

Well, it was the second time it'd been on. I watched it all the way through the first time, alternating with short-arse Cruise in The Last Samurai.

Loomis

09:05 / 24.04.04

Hurrah! I thought I was alone in finding Withnail & I rather tiresome. "Do you see? I am acting eccentric!" - urgh.

However REG has redeemed himself by appearing in one of my favourite films ... Hudson Hawk. Which I know gets panned regularly, but I like it 'cause it's purposely over the top and overdone, kind of cartoonishly. So it fits REG like a glove really. Bunny - ball ball!

kosmonaut

10:34 / 24.04.04

It's all been downhill since Warlock for Richard, I'm afraid.

Bed Head

20:04 / 24.04.04

Actually, I quite like him in LA Story. Or, I like to hate him in LA Story. Of course, I’m already in a teenytiny minority for thinking LA Story is really good, it rather devalues my opinion about everything else. He’s totally repulsive in that film. The last person on Earth you’d want to be shagging the love of your life.

D Terminator XXXIII

22:33 / 24.04.04

Yay to Hudson Hawk and LA Story.

(My Lord! I thought I was the only one who'd publicly profess a liking for LA Story, but there you have it)

REG did fine work in both.

Char Aina

03:09 / 25.04.04

...but LA story was wicked!

rizla mission

15:53 / 25.04.04

Richard E Grant could spend the rest of his life beheading children for all I care, and I'd still love him for Withnail and Advertising.

If any more people turn up to start having a go at Withnail & I, I'm afraid I'm going to have to stick my fingers in my ears and start chanting "you're wrong you're wrong you're wrong" as I quietly weep in the corner.

Olulabelle

16:37 / 25.04.04

I also have my fingers in my ears. And what about Jack and Sarah? That's a wonderful film and he's not all hammy and Richard E Grant-ey in that.