"I only ask, because your butler told us you were dead!"

[lost_spook]

Since I did find quite a few of the films a while back, here are the rest of my waffly reviews.  (And before people wonder why I've got the little sanity I have left to me, these were watched over the last 3 or so weeks, not just today or something!)

New friends, well, you remember I said I was slightly mad...  Here be proof.

Comments

[john_amend_all]

... Oh, and while we still are talking about Screaming: Not only did I borrow Jon Pertwee's bit (and "It's worse than rabbits!") for The Engineer's Thumb, I'd had it in mind for some time.

[lost_spook]

Yes! I think maybe I do still qualify as marginally saner than someone... I'll have to go reread that, then. (Any old excuse!)

[jjpor]

"Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me!"

Ah, Carry Ons...I used to watch them all the time as a kid, and it was usually the dodgier later ones that seemed to get repeated on TV in those days. Although I sort of built up a familiarity with all of them almost by osmosis via those clip-shows they used to have on all the time; "What a Carry On" etc.

It's only in later years that I've come to realise a) how much risque humour went straight over my head as a wee nipper, and b) just how good some of them are. I think Screaming and Cleo may be the pick of the crop, for me, although I do like Up the Khyber rather a lot. I am in sort of quiet awe of Kenneth Williams in most things I see him in, actually.

[lost_spook]

Yes, even the later ones have redeeming features. (Except the very last 2). I'd be in agreement with your top 3, except for loving Cabby and Cowboy quite unreasonably. ;-) KW is great. It's just as a 9/10 year old I was really attached to him in the films. (As in the film's no good if he's not in it / playing an undead evil scientist who gets killed at the end / wearing a moustache and putting on a funny accent. So THANK YOU YouTube, because I knew it must be something like that!!!)

[safcooper]

I've seen Screaming, Cleo and Abroad recently and I know I've seen Don't Lose Your Head, but I don't remember the other two. I really enjoyed Screaming and Cleo was great fun although my brain got a bit stuck on Cleopatra being 'er off of Corrie!

[lost_spook]

Heh. She's one of the female drivres in Cabby as well, you know. Being terribly posh...

[belantana]

Mind you, if you have too much imagination, what happens is actually the same as the oh-so-shocking death in Spooks 1.2. - Oh, yuck yuck yuck. If I were ever to make a list of horrible ways to die, that would be at the top.

Doctor: Well, tomato sauce, tomato ketchup, what's the difference?
Nurse: 2p per bottle.

Heeee!!!

[lost_spook]

Yes, although thankfully no one yells out "Frying tonight!" in Spooks. And technically he was dead already...

I know - it's a great because a) obvious joke - it's not blood, it's tomato sauce; then the doctor thinks Crump is being snobbish at him for saying 'sauce' and the nurse chips in with the bit of complete pragmatism. (In far less words than it took me to say it.)

And I love the odd job man taking 10 years to save £50... (My parents were just married and living on £5 a week in 1975, when this was made - how far away does that make it all seem?)

[jjpor]

You mean, like...head...chip pan...?? I'll go on record and say that that was possibly the most horrible thing I'd ever seen in a 9-10pm BBC drama up to that point; it certainly underlined the fact that the Spooks were playing for keeps...

[lost_spook]

*nods* I love Spooks. I mean, more for twistiness and sarcasm than that, but still... And even though some of the deaths since have been possibly more shocking, nobody can forget the chip fat incident!! :-D

[lost_spook]

*helpless laughter*

What do they mean, not for reasons of historical accuracy? Are they casting doubt on the squre wheels, dinosaurs, and Marcus & Spencius...?