Withnail & I

Jeremy1012
Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
edited December 2007 in All Encompassing Trip
anyone a fan of this film? It was recommended to me buy several friends, one of whom assured me that I was almost identical in personality to Richard E Grant's character, Withnail. I watched it tonight and very much enjoyed it. It's a very british type of comedy but not in a traditional stiff upper lip kind of way. It's all about alcoholics and drinking lighter fluid and being a bum.
"I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
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  • rcs
    rcs Posts: 711
    Love this movie! It's been my favorite comedy for many, many years. Richard E. Grant is brilliant as Withnail.

    "I feel like a pig shat in my head." Best description of a hangover ever!
    E agora? Faz xixi na mão e deita fora!
  • pineapplesandwaves
    pineapplesandwaves Posts: 584
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    anyone a fan of this film? It was recommended to me buy several friends, one of whom assured me that I was almost identical in personality to Richard E Grant's character, Withnail. I watched it tonight and very much enjoyed it. It's a very british type of comedy but not in a traditional stiff upper lip kind of way. It's all about alcoholics and drinking lighter fluid and being a bum.
    If I were to assume that your description of the film is also a description of the character, Withnail, would that mean you're an alcoholic bum who drinks lighter fluid?
    No time to be void or save up on life. You got to spend it all.
  • Brain of J.Lo
    Brain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    anyone a fan of this film? It was recommended to me buy several friends, one of whom assured me that I was almost identical in personality to Richard E Grant's character, Withnail. I watched it tonight and very much enjoyed it. It's a very british type of comedy but not in a traditional stiff upper lip kind of way. It's all about alcoholics and drinking lighter fluid and being a bum.

    I have never seen it, but I used to have a friend (with whom I've lost touch) who just raved about it.

    I'll have to watch it. And I"ll have to see if I can locate my old friend, because I just sort of realized how much I miss her.
  • Byrnzie
    Byrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Great film. I recommend you watch it twice as It's easy to miss a lot in the first viewing.
    I enjoyed it much more the second time around. It mayalso be best appreciated drunk or stoned too.
    It has some of the funniest dialogue ever committed to film.
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    I'll Ride The Wave wrote:
    If I were to assume that your description of the film is also a description of the character, Withnail, would that mean you're an alcoholic bum who drinks lighter fluid?
    That would be a safe assumption to make :D but no, I think that my friend was suggesting that I, like Withnail, am a cynical, intelligent but pretentious, acerbic but likeable type person... which I guess is kind of accurate. I'm not as pretentious as Withnail though. I assure you that I have never drank lighter fluid ;)
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"

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