things to do before you are thirty - first do no harm

mukul and me we and saw ‘things to do before you are thirty’ last night at the hub - a film so unassuming you forget that you are watching it while you are in the theater. a british comedy that sources all the themes from the big hits of the past few years and tries and assembles them all in a story about a group of thirty something men who meet every sonday for a game of football. their respective love and sex lives come in the way as they try and play their 500^th and their last game in honor of their coach. very tacky in every way- beside the obvious pandering to all the audiences tendencies that made other small time films become big like ‘the full monty’, ‘bend it like beckham’ or ‘four wedding and a funeral’, there was no semblance of any kind of attempt at any original thought. instantly forgettable and annoyingly cloying. it did no harm. perhaps i should recommend it to k g. at the lecture in the av room today, as he showed us ways in which we can ‘first do no harm’, he played john lennons ‘imagine’. if i hear another wanna be do-gooder play that song over flashing images of starving children and nuclear holocaust- i will scream out in agony.