In The Loop - Brilliant

Malcolm Tucker is now my personal fuckin' hero. I really have to get this film.

And when you read about how BP is running operations down in Louisiana, then see this film for the explanation on how it's come to this.

Comments

[Mark]

Jamie McDonald is also quite a spectacle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzszTRCoj44

[Ray]

No. He doesn't use the full range of English swearwords; emphasises the old Saxon copulatory one far too much.Easy script to write, in that respect. The F word should be sanctified more. It is much overused, and has lost it's meaning.
When he asks what that bloke should do if he's told to fuck off... if that bloke had been me, I'd have replied by punching him in the nose, and deposited a new copy of the English (Oxford) Dictionary on his prostrate form.
The movie might be worth watching though. Depends if it's got a good story.

[AnonymousHoward]

He works his way through the full range of (Scottish) English insults. The film's based on the UK series, The Thick Of It. The character's based in part on the New Labour PR guru Alistair Campbell, (and, many years ago, author of a series of stories for the jazzmag 'Forum', under the psuedonym 'Riviera Gigolo', about an amorous bag pipe player).

He's not the only person this claim has been made about, but his staff allegedly referred to his meetings as the Vagina Monologues: he was the only person talking, and he was invariably calling his colleagues c*nts.

[TheCurtain]

For a strangely prescient view of big oil, suggest the Steven Seagal / Michael Caine film "On Deadly Ground" (1994). Michael Caine knowingly installs defective "Blow-Out Preventers" on his Alaskan oil rig to save time because the Natives will get his mineral rights if he doesn't produce. Come to think of it, didn't the "Blow-out Preventers" fail in our current situation? Hmmmm.

[Ray]

"He works his way through the full range of (Scottish) English insults."

That's quite a claim.