Wednesday, January 25, 2006

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 500th 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.

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