Britainology 90: Withnail & I
Added 2024-09-29 11:21:00 +0000 UTCThank you to the fan who commented that we should continue to explore Richard E. Grant's career. As such, we've watched the 1987 film WITHNAIL & I and.... enjoyed it? But it's very hard to escape the notion that 1987 Britain conjuring 1969 Britain looks indistinguishable from 2024 Britain in terms of vibes, aesthetics, degree of shitness, you name it. We hope you enjoy this!
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I'd pay £28 for the Narnia pill
Serkles
2025-01-06 21:24:48 +0000 UTCI really liked Letter to Brezhnev but that would have to be a KJB crossover.
Cate Kneale
2024-10-06 15:49:57 +0000 UTCI have never watched this simply because every annoying guy in my generation quotes bits of it. I think it's just because it has drugs in it.
Cate Kneale
2024-10-06 15:48:06 +0000 UTCOr Saltburn. Which is terrible but gives weird British vibes very well.
Cate Kneale
2024-10-06 15:46:57 +0000 UTCSpeedway is also a great song by black midi
Josh L
2024-10-04 12:30:45 +0000 UTCif you're taking film episode requests: The Cook The Thief His Wife And Her Lover. Great film that also examines british class weirdness
Ed carron
2024-10-04 11:46:46 +0000 UTCTalking about the first Danny scene at the start of the movie got me thinking about the mid 00s Johnny Vegas vehicle Ideal, which has, coincidentally, just popped up on streaming. So many relatable moments from buying drugs from randoms at turn of the century
Stuart Harrison
2024-10-03 21:35:28 +0000 UTCi spend a bunch of time around temple bar in dublin, i can confirm it's like birthright for irish americans, they all show up and get the same photos of the same dozen tourist trap bars, then get absolutely wasted in them singing trad band covers of mr brightside or whatever
Jayde D
2024-10-02 07:40:46 +0000 UTCThe weekend-length pill referenced by Riley sounds like bromo-dragonfly. A very good example of the "can but shouldn't" category of psychadelics.
Athena Von Tharsis
2024-10-01 10:25:26 +0000 UTCIn canada in 1980 the standard retail rate for a decent hit of blotter acid was 5$, or five hits for 20$. And decent weed (which was nothing like as good as nowadays) was 40$ an ounce.
spaced_out_armour
2024-10-01 03:53:50 +0000 UTCI'm just here to be the IndyCar defender in the comments
SylvieJ
2024-09-30 23:36:24 +0000 UTCTaking the IRA pill
Joe Wakefield
2024-09-30 23:20:39 +0000 UTCPLEASE tell me your 'Richard E Grant's oeuvre as lens for the class system' phase means you'll be doing Gosford Park next.
h tt
2024-09-30 16:20:09 +0000 UTCalso Richard E Grant's father was a violent alcoholic, think that has had more to do with his not drinking than the allergy
Tovfly
2024-09-30 16:18:29 +0000 UTCBruce Robinson was a young actor in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet, and was sexually assaulted by Zeffirelli, he's supposedly who Uncle Monty is based on. I think he's said before that's closer to Marwood than Withnail.
Tovfly
2024-09-30 16:17:22 +0000 UTCMilo's pronounciation of the Irish name Micheál ("Mee-haul") made a balaclava and armalite spawn into existence in my living room
Sa
2024-09-30 14:24:25 +0000 UTCPlease, Mr. Deepthroat was my father.
HAUNTER
2024-09-30 14:04:31 +0000 UTCDerek and Clive would make a good britainology
Razbert Francis
2024-09-30 11:57:18 +0000 UTCBlowing past some of the best line reads in cinema with nary a mention, shaking my head over here. "Monty you terrible cunt", "we want the finest wines available to humanity", "even if it must be burglary", this film is *endlessly* quotable
Sir Kid Harmer KC
2024-09-30 11:21:03 +0000 UTC*Walter White in the SUV voice* NATE! NATE! LARRY BIRD IS NOT FROM SPEEDWAY! HE’S THE HICK FROM FRENCH LICK! A FULL 100 MILES FROM SPEEDWAY!
Matthew
2024-09-30 11:18:39 +0000 UTC1 vote for the Threads episode
Callum Butler
2024-09-30 11:07:34 +0000 UTCIf you allow me to do some Polandology, but motorcycle speedway is like, a Top 5 sport in Poland, after like soccer, volleyball, and ski jumping, more or less. Like the speedway league there is basically the Premier League of speedway leagues. It’s prominent enough where from time to time a speedway guy will win Poland’s sportsperson of year, like one time this guy pipped prime era Robert Lewandowski, much to my bemusement. I don’t get it, nor does my family.
Matthew
2024-09-30 10:51:20 +0000 UTCI was a dedicated Pie In The Sky fan so it was even weirder for me.
SpookyPenguin
2024-09-30 10:47:46 +0000 UTCI also can't get out of my head that Uncle Monty and Richard Griffiths' character in History Boys are the same person at different stages in life.
Andrew Humphrey
2024-09-30 07:52:47 +0000 UTCI live in perpetual fear that Milo and Nate will come on one day and tell me something formative in my life is shit or bigoted. I am the age where some of my cohort have made this film their entire identity. The latter hasn't happened for me, great though this film is. And thankfully, so far, as of this episode, nor has the former.
Andrew Humphrey
2024-09-30 07:49:18 +0000 UTChttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16_mm_film#cite_ref-:0_13-0
Maria Neptune
2024-09-30 02:31:42 +0000 UTCthe BBC used 16mm almost exclusively I think, which would be why it all looks so similar
Maria Neptune
2024-09-30 02:20:49 +0000 UTCquite charming that milo was surprised that jocks yelling 'fag' at randos from vehicles is a venerable american pastime
boo
2024-09-30 00:24:53 +0000 UTCthink I have the car nate was half remembering. honda clarity. i have one, bought it on a salvage title off a tajik guy dealing cars out of a flooring store
Noah Blascyk
2024-09-30 00:23:58 +0000 UTCWould love to see you guys cover the films of Alan Clarke and Mike Leigh in the future ❤️
A Horse In A Man Costume
2024-09-29 23:39:12 +0000 UTChow can you watch the whole movie for work and still pronounce it "with nail" 🤔
Nick
2024-09-29 23:30:07 +0000 UTCMy vote is for Doric giant.
Man, I Got Nothing
2024-09-29 22:40:07 +0000 UTCOrbital / Orbital 2 (US) uses it also and I presume they take it from the movie since it's later (1993) so it's a double quote.
SpookyPenguin
2024-09-29 21:15:25 +0000 UTChttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aFh4oTmIio it's 'Cool Your Boots' from the Ride album 'Going Blank Again'
Trashfuture
2024-09-29 20:02:25 +0000 UTCIt's planet of the shapes of Orbital 2
Ian DeSoucey
2024-09-29 19:38:59 +0000 UTCThe car with the wheel covers Nate is trying to remember is the Honda insight
Connor Francis
2024-09-29 19:37:03 +0000 UTCCame here to say this
Stephen Boyd
2024-09-29 18:31:36 +0000 UTCNate, I think you'd enjoy Long Way Round as a bit of a palate cleanser from Top Gear. Where Top Gear were just cunts on tour, Ewan McGregor is just incredibly happy to get to do this sort of thing.
A premium hog
2024-09-29 16:59:09 +0000 UTCThe giant sounds like Alan Moore
The Squash
2024-09-29 16:49:06 +0000 UTCyou have to watch The F…ing Fulfords a documentary series about a poor aristocrat family
Greg Markman
2024-09-29 14:51:50 +0000 UTCCrucially, Speedway almost exclusively occurs on greyhound tracks
Stuart Harrison
2024-09-29 14:46:07 +0000 UTCI can't remember the song you're talking about, but the "stopped clock" clip is sampled on an orbital and I believe a Sasha and Digweed record
Ian DeSoucey
2024-09-29 14:26:49 +0000 UTCadolescent crush and excellent choice of actor
MI
2024-09-29 14:24:22 +0000 UTCOh the depp enthusiasts, I forgot they existed for a bit there , but yeah defo more problematic in the current state of humanity, heh 👀🫣
Overzealous Euthanasiast
2024-09-29 14:02:38 +0000 UTClol I’m well aware of Terry Gilliam, I confused my Johnny Depp enthusiasts
MI
2024-09-29 13:57:29 +0000 UTCyou wouldn’t need to, they’re all variations on an identical theme
MI
2024-09-29 13:54:04 +0000 UTCI don't think you're supposed to watch them all in one go lol - holistic analysis' of directors tendencies and political beliefs was not the intention of original comment.
Overzealous Euthanasiast
2024-09-29 13:46:35 +0000 UTCFun factoid: that politician's name is the Irish version of 'Michael', Micheál (pronounced mee-haul). This led to him being called 'Me-hole Fartin' on Irish social media.
Jack Fennell
2024-09-29 13:45:15 +0000 UTCYou could reach back to Quiet Days in Clichy too, either way they’re all so amab coded it’s a little tiring
MI
2024-09-29 13:42:25 +0000 UTCTim Burton? Nah It's Terry Gilliam, the Monty Python guy! He's got a much more solid portfolio of movies, though undeniably messy in their own way. Tideland is one I'll never forget. Brazil also.
Overzealous Euthanasiast
2024-09-29 13:35:50 +0000 UTCIt's me, I'm the fan! Thanks for doing it and really glad you enjoyed it, did not expect you to do it so soon Go sparkplugs
Alex
2024-09-29 13:21:20 +0000 UTCHey tbh I saw both those movies way before I knew anything about politics (thanks to an apathetic working-class upbringing and a lot of homelessness during young adulthood), so politics wasn't an available lens as much as: one of these felt like a lived experience directly calling me out while the other was some American guy I didn't even realise was based on a real person till a dealer I lived with told me about him years later lol - Recalling the experience is no value judgement on politics or overall quality, if it needs to be said 😇
Overzealous Euthanasiast
2024-09-29 13:07:37 +0000 UTCCan we get the Lads Holiday one that was promised wayyyyy back in one of the first few episodes at some point pls? Particular focus on the other Lineker in Ibiza is most welcomed
H
2024-09-29 12:51:50 +0000 UTCmeh, hunter s thompson with the steering wheel on the right side
MI
2024-09-29 12:48:39 +0000 UTCHow to Get Ahead in Advertising would have been ideal
MI
2024-09-29 12:41:32 +0000 UTCThe life of a flamboyant wreckhead. How the film reached from the past to target me personally, I've yet to discover. More drugs are evidently in need of testing.
Overzealous Euthanasiast
2024-09-29 11:47:07 +0000 UTCThis movie sums up living with my best friend in Australia before moving over to Britain
David Power
2024-09-29 11:29:39 +0000 UTC
