Does anyone like or remember this episode (WAR)? because i've never ever heard anyone big this episode up and i thought it was funny as hell. Particularly Rik Mayall's character as an inept U.S army general .
I think WAR is one of the best early efforts from The Comic Strip. Does anyone else like this or am i alone on this one?
I doubt anyone here's forgotten it, jag, not least because I suspect we all have it on DVD. And no, you're not alone. I for one always loved it. I love the surreal quality of it; and the Russian Roulette sequence is priceless. Peacock, Richardson and Planer are all brilliant in it.
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I loved Riks character, espicially when he was showing Danny Peacocks character [the characters names have escaped me] pictures of his house!
"This is my yard, now, all this green stuff...is grass!"
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Just finished watching it. Loved Rik's character too! "This is my neighbour's house...he lives in it...but you can't see him now, because he is obscured by this wall..."
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Hehe, yeah, that's the best line of the episode :D
shareWAR and THE BEAT GENERATION are my two favourite Comic Strip films ever.
The writing pair Richardson & Richens at their very best,
light years away from Sex Actually, Space Virgins or Churchill: The Hollywood Years, which I think is them at their worst.
The problem with "War" is that it completely falls apart at the end with all that stupid racist POW camp stuff. Until that point, it is sublime! I can't get enough of Peter as Miguel, or Nigel as the Russian, or Rik as the general. The Russian Roulette scene, all by itself, is one of the most powerful AND funny statements about war that I've ever seen.
I've read the original script for the show, and a LOT was cut at the end that would have helped that scene to work.
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I loved the roulette scene and Adrian's hippy character.
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I'm too young to have seen any of the Comic Strip when it was first on so I'm making my way through them slowly.
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I haven't seen it for over 20 years, but if I remember rightly, but wasn't the line:
(American showing photos of his house): "This is my neighbour's house...he lives in it...but you can't see him now, because he is obscured by this wall..."
followed up by:
"and you see all this green stuff.....that's grass"
Did I rememeber that correctly?
I'm not to keen on War. I just never found anything in it funny.
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I'd say it was Rik Mayall's scenes that made it funny.
The humour is quite surreal and dry on the whole though.
I loved Danny Peacock's face during the Russian Roulette scene xD
And Rik as the confused General
"So let's get this straight...we had to travel across this blue stuff...to get to this yellow stuff."
"That's Europe."
"How's your Scottish stereotype coming on?"
"Hick! Erm, 2 nil, you bastards, Jimmy."
I love War.
It reminds me of a student film (but a good one ;-) )
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I loved War, I thought it was one of the better comic strip films....I agree with everyone, it was the little moments such as Rik's inept General, or the shot where he spits on the Japanese Robbie Coltrane before being locked up again, shouting "Vote Labour"....and all the train ride escape stuff and the 4 blind commandos at the start were classic!
shareWatched it again tonight! It gets funnier each time I see it!