Showing posts with label burn up. Show all posts
Showing posts with label burn up. Show all posts

July 26, 2008

You weren't expecting that

The Star Bradley Whitford, Josh in The West Wing -" We've just lost eight years because we've had the worst President in history at the most delicate time in history."

OK. So the yanks are the bad guys, but we all knew that. The British who are the good guys do a deal with the Chinese who almost become the good guys until the evil yanks offer them a nuclear deal. The whole plot spins around the post Kyoto2 rave which everyone is at and in the end the world economy crashes. Unusually the darker skinned guy doesn't get it first. He doesn't even die, he drives off. Oh and there is a dancing bear.

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July 24, 2008

FIRE BURN DEM

Everyone should watch Burn up. Everyone who hasn't already that is. Its an "Eco-Thriller". Its hilarious.

Some reviews:

...To say Beaufoy’s characters are two-dimensional would be an insult to flat surfaces...

...It probably would be sensible to at least wait until I’d seen the second part before condemning Burn Up as an absolute stinker. But why wait...

...It wasn’t a bad attempt at taking on climate change in a dramatic made-for-TV format. The first turns at addressing a new social/political phenomena are always going to be a little cliched...

..I expect it’ll get so much sillier in the final episode. But the greenies won’t care anyway...

I found the whole thing fucking hilarious. I laughed all the way through. After these stupid luvie terr-ist fantasies (First episode of Bonekickers and Britz) we needed a global warming thriller! I read loads more reviews of this where people were complimenting the acting. Strange. It looked to me like everyone was acting with the script stuck up their ass sideways. Don't get me wrong, I agree completely with the sentiment- we've got photo-voltaics on the roof, Mescoli woodchip burners, I cycle everywhere- I don't even use the tube if I can help it, but this is just crap. Hilarious, but crap. Can't wait for episode two.