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FYI: Time Works Differently in London


For those of you who have not been to london the days there are a touch longer than you are used to. For example, 1 day is more than enough time to:

1. Have pillow talk with your girlfriend
2. Shower, shave, get dressed and have breakfast.
3. Walk to work!
4. Get things done around the office and talk to sassy secretary.
5. Chair major business meeting.
6. Shoot pool and have beers with the guys.
7. Wander town aimlessly looking for girlfriend.
8. Go take a train out into the country side.
9. Climb a mountain.
10. Make sexytime with girlfriend on top of mountain and cuddle afterwards.
11. Climb back down mountain and go to local pub.
12. Take train back to london.
13. Have a pizza and chat about life back in the flat.
14. Buy flowers and arrange major musical performance for full orchestra.
15. Take in a symphony.
16. Dinner and dancing at a swanky restaurant.
17. Catch death cab by 11pm.

If that seems like a full day to you remember that a London day is 39 hours long. And that's METRIC hours. By typical city standards that was a lazy Sunday.

"I've said jimmeny jillikers so many times the words have lost all meaning."

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watch the movie a little carefully pal...the time they wake up in bed is 8:10 !!! In fact, that is shown specifically.

Now lets see u try ;)

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Indeed they do wake up at 8:10. Plus you only allowed 45 minutes to talk to girlfriend,shower, shave, get dressed in a suit, & eat breakfast? It took 10 minutes to show all that ON FILM. Metric hours man, I'm telling you...

"I've said jimmeny jillikers so many times the words have lost all meaning."

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It's also pertinent to note that the "countryside" they visit to go climb said mountains is quite clearly meant to be that of whatshisnames home - oop north. It was filmed in Cumbria, and obviously so, but even if you made it a little further south of Cumbria you're still looking at several hours train ride...And I do mean several hours....pretty much an entire day spent on a train there and back, with maybe a quick fag break in the middle and you STILL wouldn't make it back to London for 11pm.

But, we movie watchers are a gullible bunch...flash us a bit of Jennifer Love-Hewitt's lady lumps and its 'Time? What time?"

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Is there even a train direct to Cumbria from London?

You would have to hop trains about 3 times to get close to where they were and straight off the local Cumbria train station have a taxi waiting to pick you up and take you as close to that mountain as possible

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LOL! I was beginning to wonder how they would ever make it to the concert when they were still cuddling under the blanket on the mountain....

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I was wondering the same thing, especially when they took the train up North (2-3 hrs each way), trekked up a mountain, found a 'perfect' empty cabin with working fire place, made love, trekked down the mountain.....

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I agree with you. But the movie, in fact, had also some good parts, that I think, could compensate the "DAY TIME EXTENSION"!
Other thing that bothered me was that part with the OPERA orchestra (for guys going to the opera - have you seen there any drum sets?! no! I know you didn't), I don't see how that part could happen - the opera public is very fancy & s..t and, as long as it concerns me, you can't put pop music, right after an opera show! they don't mix well together! do you share the same feeling too?

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ROFL!! I'm seriously laughing my head off!!! Thanks for that!

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Love the previous comments, as a musician and a Northener some bits were hilariously random!

The time scale is a whopper, the train ride - 6 hours each way at least and I commute in England so I know all about train delays! Also you missed off the ride on the London Eye, the slowest moving thing in London so you can stick another hour in there.

Then there's the implausible concert with the most talented instant arrangers in the most flexible orchestra known to man. I've already posted about how they couldn't just pull a full set of orchestra parts out of a melody line and chord symbols. And, they don't have kit drummers in classical concert orchestras or choir members who can wail gospel style (not as a general rule of thumb). Also the the audience would have legged it!!!!

Still I actually enjoyed the film, Paul Nicholls should be a much bigger star than he is and it's the only thing I've ever liked Jennifer Love Hewitt in!

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Ha Ha! Very true! You forgot to squeeze in the London Eye trip! I always love how flexible people's jobs are on film. Teacher buggers off to her friends gallery? City high flyer just takes the afternoon off to have heart to heart with his girlfriend? I wish!

Although come guys - we bought the Groundhog Day thing, so it's not really that much more of a stretch to buy into a 40 hour day (that's probably how the screenwriter pitched it!)

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It is more probablr that Nicholls would have pulled off the time travelling trick than he could have crammed all that into one day.

Hang on a minute.......that's it! He used time travel to cure Britain's *beep* railway!

Whoever posted that schedule that "proved" it would be possible.....i will give you a million yank dollars if you can manage it. I'll even let you start at 06:00.

Just a point to help you on the rail thingy......the fastest train to the Lake District doesn't stop there. You'd need to change at Preston (in which case you'd be mugged, raped and killed. Or die of the noxious stink emanating from therein) or Carlisle (in which case you would forget that hewitt nonentity and enjoy the wonders that wee Carlisle has to offer).









PS. To all denizens of Preston......i meant that.....your town is a cess-pit :-)

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Haha, I was thinking the same thing when I was watching it. I was like, man they did a lot in one day.

Malkatraz! Masheen!

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Yes they did a hell of a lot in one day. They also repeated the same day twice. Another thing about London you may not know about. Random time warps.

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Lol, I'll have to remember that next time I'm in London!

Malkatraz! Masheen!

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all movies alot happens in one day compared to real life... like the show "24"...

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This may be my favourite imdb thread, ever.

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