Comments on: Rope http://www.rotational.co.uk/2009/07/rope/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:44:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cakes http://www.rotational.co.uk/2009/07/rope/comment-page-1/#comment-1256 Cakes Sun, 26 Jul 2009 17:42:12 +0000 http://www.rotational.co.uk/?p=108#comment-1256 I don't like Psychoville! True that it invites unflattering comparison with LoG (just as Peepshow trounces That Mitchell & Webb shite) but even so... Yes -- get Ice Haven! I don’t like Psychoville! True that it invites unflattering comparison with LoG (just as Peepshow trounces That Mitchell & Webb shite) but even so…

Yes — get Ice Haven!

]]> By: MrSneeze http://www.rotational.co.uk/2009/07/rope/comment-page-1/#comment-1254 MrSneeze Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:24:34 +0000 http://www.rotational.co.uk/?p=108#comment-1254 Psychoville started well. I liked Mr Jelly at first, but he's not Papalazarou enough... and Dawn French is just Dawn French - ie completely over the top. And just when I was relieved that it wasn't all the League OG folk, the missing one turned up in the "Rope" episode. I'll watch the remaining but it doesn't make my sides split like Flight O' The Conchords. La Cakes - I'll check out the Ice Haven, been meaning to (and great C3PO, too!) Psychoville started well. I liked Mr Jelly at first, but he’s not Papalazarou enough… and Dawn French is just Dawn French – ie completely over the top. And just when I was relieved that it wasn’t all the League OG folk, the missing one turned up in the “Rope” episode. I’ll watch the remaining but it doesn’t make my sides split like Flight O’ The Conchords.
La Cakes – I’ll check out the Ice Haven, been meaning to (and great C3PO, too!)

]]> By: Alex http://www.rotational.co.uk/2009/07/rope/comment-page-1/#comment-1253 Alex Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:12:51 +0000 http://www.rotational.co.uk/?p=108#comment-1253 Ha! Yeah, Rope invented Columbo's 'Just one more thing...'! And, yeah, we were prompted to watch Rope after seeing that crappy Psychoville episode and hearing it was meant to be a pastiche, but remember so little of it that I can't see the comparisons. Psychoville's been pretty disappointing, eh? Ha! Yeah, Rope invented Columbo’s ‘Just one more thing…’! And, yeah, we were prompted to watch Rope after seeing that crappy Psychoville episode and hearing it was meant to be a pastiche, but remember so little of it that I can’t see the comparisons. Psychoville’s been pretty disappointing, eh?

]]> By: Cakes http://www.rotational.co.uk/2009/07/rope/comment-page-1/#comment-1252 Cakes Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:10:37 +0000 http://www.rotational.co.uk/?p=108#comment-1252 As an aside, if anyone is interested in Leopold and Loeb, there is a very good retelling in Daniel Clowes' Ice Haven (Jonathan Cape). As an aside, if anyone is interested in Leopold and Loeb, there is a very good retelling in Daniel Clowes’ Ice Haven (Jonathan Cape).

]]> By: Alex http://www.rotational.co.uk/2009/07/rope/comment-page-1/#comment-1251 Alex Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:05:53 +0000 http://www.rotational.co.uk/?p=108#comment-1251 There's no such thing as coincidence any more, Ste. Amazon dictates the viewing habits of the nation every time it puts a boxset on offer. There’s no such thing as coincidence any more, Ste. Amazon dictates the viewing habits of the nation every time it puts a boxset on offer.

]]> By: MrSneeze http://www.rotational.co.uk/2009/07/rope/comment-page-1/#comment-1250 MrSneeze Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:09:47 +0000 http://www.rotational.co.uk/?p=108#comment-1250 God, I love Rope. If I had to list my favourite films by any director, I wouldn't have a clue which of Hitch's films to ditch, from Vertigo to North By Northwest to Strangers On A Train, Rear Window and Psycho... but Rope is fab. It's one of those rare times that theatre looks good on screen - the BBC could learn something from that with its lack of faith in a modern Play For Today. Jimmy Stewart is fab... the attempt at one take for the whole film is admirable... there's the suggestion of a homosexual relationship between the two murderers... It's genius. Where would Columbo be without Rope (sorry, Hannah!)? Did you catch the Psychoville episode that was a pastiche of Rope? It's not a bad series but this particular episode was very poor and didn't do Rope any favours. At one point I think it was trying to shoehorn in Psycho too. Ye Gods! God, I love Rope. If I had to list my favourite films by any director, I wouldn’t have a clue which of Hitch’s films to ditch, from Vertigo to North By Northwest to Strangers On A Train, Rear Window and Psycho… but Rope is fab. It’s one of those rare times that theatre looks good on screen – the BBC could learn something from that with its lack of faith in a modern Play For Today.
Jimmy Stewart is fab… the attempt at one take for the whole film is admirable… there’s the suggestion of a homosexual relationship between the two murderers… It’s genius. Where would Columbo be without Rope (sorry, Hannah!)?

Did you catch the Psychoville episode that was a pastiche of Rope? It’s not a bad series but this particular episode was very poor and didn’t do Rope any favours. At one point I think it was trying to shoehorn in Psycho too. Ye Gods!

]]> By: ste http://www.rotational.co.uk/2009/07/rope/comment-page-1/#comment-1249 ste Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:36:53 +0000 http://www.rotational.co.uk/?p=108#comment-1249 I watched this last week. I'm working through all of his films, sort of, via a couple of incomplete boxsets I picked up from Amazon. Coincidence! I watched this last week. I’m working through all of his films, sort of, via a couple of incomplete boxsets I picked up from Amazon. Coincidence!

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