In the Loop
2009 Directed by Armando Iannucci
Synopsis
The fate of the world is on the line.
The US President and the UK Prime Minister are looking to launch a war in the Middle East. The plot follows government officials and advisers in their behind-the-scenes efforts either to promote the war or prevent it. Spinal Tap meets Strangelove. A satirical demolition of Whitehall and Washington: politically astute, hilarious and terrifyingly real.
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Part of Dastardly Difficult December: film nr.29
If dialogue was a realm, this film would be king.
If swearing was a sport, this film would be the Olympics.
If clever screenwriting was a brothel, this film would be a $5000 an hour prostitute.
This film has more fucks than a porno, more laughs than a canister of nitrous oxide and is wittier than the illegitimate love child of Winston Churchill and Oscar Wilde.
Malcolm Tucker is my new personal hero.
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Is In the Loop the best political satire of all time? Possibly. It's at least top two, right up there with Dr. Strangelove. I don't know how this film managed to escape my radar for so long, but I'm glad it's finally in my life. It's not only brilliantly written and realized, but hysterically funny and surprisingly dark. The epic swearing aside, this is one of the highest quality films shot docu-style I've seen in ages. Thank fuck for this fucking brilliant movie. I'll write a more detailed review when I watch it again. Tomorrow. It's that fucking good.
Fuckity bye. My new catchphrase, perhaps?
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I don't know how many times I've seen In the Loop, but I keep watching it with the hope that someday I will be able to channel Malcolm at will, to become a florid, teeming superhero of creative insults.
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"You know, I've come across a lot of psychos, but none as fucking boring as you. You are a real boring fuck. Sorry, sorry, I know you disapprove of swearing so I'll sort that out. You are a boring F** CUNT!"
Malcolm Tucker= My fucking hero.
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Film #8 of The December Project
Uh oh. There's been a castrofuck here. I finally found a flaw during my fourth watch of In the Loop and I have to admit it isn't the perfect film I thought it was! There's this scene in the beginning of the movie when Malcom Tucker and Toby enter an elevator both talking (basically Malcom uses the word fuck or some iteration seven times and Toby's talking about Syphillis) on their cell phones. Somehow, they both manage to have extended conversations without losing signal. EVERY time I enter an elevator, I lose signal... so I call bullshit.
Otherwise, this darkly comic political satire is perfect.
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Swearing as an art form.
Political farce as only we Brits can do and as I've somehow managed to ignore "The Thick of it" up to now. Well its time for me to finally dive in. Capaldi is as good as advertised and manages to outshine everyone in the film even Gandolfini. Tonnes of quotable lines and believable characters results in one of the best comedies I've seen in the past 5 years. Any of Ianucci's previous work I recommend as I'm a big fan of it all which makes my ignoring of The thick of it even more odd thinking about it. The influence the show has add on Government is something that has baffled me and is well worth reading about.
* insert hilarious tucker swearing quote* seriously there's too many.
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Ugh, I love love-hating James Gandolfini characters
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When "The Office" got rid of Michael Scott, there was a season or two of "oh shit, oh shit, what the fuck do we do, oh shit." If the creators of the American edition just watched "In the Loop," they would have learned to shove Peter Capaldi on screen and let him rant and rave. Told in the same third-person mockumentary style as Parks and Recreation and the former sitcom mentioned, the film examines the world of PR moments before America and the U.K. decide whether to take the Middle East to war.
The best part of this film is the rich dialogue. Luckily, there's Costco sized bundles of the thing just waiting to be eaten up. The film shoves…
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Watched as part of Cinebro's '100 Movies' Challenge
I think a lot of people got to Veep through watching this show, so maybe I can offer some kind of semi-fresh perspective on it as I was never a fan of The Thick Of It and I decided to watch In The Loop because I want more Veep in my life. Therefore, it was a great surprise to me when I saw Amy Brookheimer working on another Iannuci production. While she's not my favourite character it was great to have some connection to the film going in, as I get that Malcolm Tucker and Toby Wright were a lot of people's way in to the film.
But anyway, onto what I…
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¨Now I may not believe in that and you may not believe in that, but it makes for a useful hypocrisy¨
In the Loop is a very smart political satire about British and American involvement in the Middle East. The film has many laugh out loud moments and very memorable quotes; it is just beautifully written. Many people may wonder what led these two nations to invade Iraq and this is perhaps not the real reason, but it does touch our funny bone and it`s probably true that many political figures put themselves first and didn`t want to lose their position of power instead of focusing on the real issue at hand. Armando Ianucci, who is mostly known in the…
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Five stars because life without Malcoms quotes would never be the same!
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I accidentally ended up watching this twice today, I love it that much. It is a difficult film to follow at times and there are a lot of subtle plot and humor elements that I hadn't even noticed until this latest viewing. This is a sophisticated and satirical comedy based on my favorite TV series of all time: The Thick of It which follows the inner workings of modern British government. This is a fast paced film which consists almost entirely of frantic yelling, panicked actions and verbal abuse; or in a single word: government. As a warning: there is a lot of language in this film.
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I accidentally ended up watching this twice today, I love it that much. It is a difficult film to follow at times and there are a lot of subtle plot and humor elements that I hadn't even noticed until this latest viewing. This is a sophisticated and satirical comedy based on my favorite TV series of all time: The Thick of It which follows the inner workings of modern British government. This is a fast paced film which consists almost entirely of frantic yelling, panicked actions and verbal abuse; or in a single word: government. As a warning: there is a lot of language in this film.
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I've seen this film almost a dozen times now and it still makes me laugh. One of my favorite movies to show to people. Something I caught this time was recognizing just how many meetings there are in the film and marveling at the fact that not once does anybody actually learn anything at any of the meetings, except for where they can find more meetings. Wonderful madness.
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Spindoctors probably don't really talk like Malcolm Tucker, but I don't think Richard III ever said "Now the winter of your discontent made glorious summer by this son of York" either.