Comment on GUEST HOUSE PARADISO - UK Limited Edition
Eldritch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
RIP Rik. The cast of the movie is chock full of actors who went on to have pretty successful careers afterwards. Unfortunately I don’t think this movie helped. There are definitely some funny scenes Etc throughout. And more Ade and Rik is always good. But as a cohesive movie it doesn’t hold up. The race to the end is somewhat inexplicable. But it’s always a good Nostalgia watch
I watched it again just a couple of days ago as my wife had never seen it. We had just worked through the entire TV run and live shows 1, 2 and 3.
She thought this was better than anything that had come before.
Also, I think this was Pegg’s first film role.
I don’t know binge watching the original series May help. A lot of the skits in it were great. But it really felt more like it was a bunch of episodes sized skits tied together to me. Again that may just be my personal perception.
Honestly being in the US we largely missed Bottom. We got the young ones back in the early 80s thanks to MTV. Which I still have fond memories of. I subject people yearly to the Halloween episode with captain sensible and rat scabies. But honestly didn’t hear about Bottom till almost 2008? And paradisio much much later. LOL but thinking about all this now and it has me wanting to go see if I can find some better quality sources to re-experience it with. Bootleg DivX files in the early aughts we’re pretty low quality.
I’ve had quick look on YouTube, while the live shows are really easy to find (5 in total), you’ll have to sail the seven seas for the TV show. I guess the BBC are very protective.
I have them on DVD, but there were some 540p broadcast rips that looked really good. In case you didn’t know, three series, six episodes apiece.
Actually I heard it was more along the lines of not very forward looking with their licensing. In the UK all the content is easily available to stream generally. BBC iPlayer Etc. But outside of the Kingdom. It’s licensing hell. Britbox will have some here. Acorn some others. Dr who(post Sylvester) i think is on Disney + of all places. Classic who is streaming on Pluto 24/7. And huge swaths not being on any legitimate streaming service available here. Sometimes PBS will have Doc Martin, hold the sunset, or as time goes by. Nearly a decade ago Cartoon Network of all places had dark place for a short run and some of Noel fielding’s insanity. I think Boosh maybe on Hulu?
It’s a mess in no uncertain terms. Thankfully though. With all the confusion about licensing who what and where I haven’t heard much in the way of cease and desist letters or prosecution for those sailing the seven seas. I may or may not have a jelly fin server loaded with a few terabytes simply because it’s unstreamable anywhere else. Which going back to Simon Pegg reminds me I need to start and get through every season of spaced at some point
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It helps if you go in with the assumption that the entire movie is someone’s fever dream lol I still love it though and I’ll probably watch it again tonight now!
Eldritch@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That is certainly an accurate description of it I’ll give you that. Simon Pegg being hoisted by a nipple ring to the ceiling while asleep pretty well encapsulates it LOL