Best damn thing you'll see all week: Sightseers

Movies
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From start to finish, Sightseers belongs to the tremendous Alice Lowe.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at http://www.quartertothree.com/fp/2013/12/10/best-damn-thing-youll-see-week-sightseers
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"Murderer."
"It was an accident, Mom."
"So were you."

I think I'll like this movie.

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Cue Soft Cell's Tainted Love.

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Neveremind, this was in entirely the wrong thread.

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There's a 1976 Mike Leigh TV Play called "Nuts in May", which is a legend of UK television, to which this movie owes a huge debt, I think.

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I love how your perception of Lowe's character changes over the course of the movie. Also best ending ever.

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I found Sightseers pretty tedious but I've never been able to put my finger on why. I preferred it to Kill List though which was bloody awful from what I remember. Don't get me wrong, I got a few chuckles from it, and the performances were tip-top, but I just wanted the characters to fall down a hole towards the end. I didn't realise that was Alice Lowe from Garth Marenghi's Darkplace either.

"I'm one of the few people you'll meet who's written more books than they've read." -- Garth Marenghi

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She's buried somewhere in the Eastern bloc. If she got a burial.

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For the record, I'm no fan of Kill List either. "Bloody awful" about sums it up. :) Although I really like one of the actors in it, Michael Smiley. And I freely grant that Sightseers is, uh, an acquired taste. I can completely understand it not working for a lot of people.

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Ooh, it's on Netflix! Thanks for the tip, Anton!

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Very little homicide in it! Hardly any. None. There is no murder in it. But if you watch it you'll see what I mean about the tone.

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Nuts In May is a unadulterated joy to behold.

Let us know how many times you can chew your nuts Tom!

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Finally got around to seeing this. It took a bit to get going, but I thought this was excellent. Thanks for the recommendation!

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This was on Film 4 over Halloween, and I just watched it. Great stuff. Reminded me a bit of The Lobster.

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Just watched Nuts in May, after it was, I think, mentioned by Tom on one of the podcasts, though it’s possible it was another movie podcast. I love the comparison with Sightseers, and just the whole ineffable Britishness of it.

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I think i remember Mark Kermode also drawing parallels between the two films, but i don’t listen to Wittertainment as much as i used to.