Straightest most conservative character I've ever seen in a movie. That dude was so real it was scary. Poor Steve, trying to give up vice, family and relationship problems, and he goes on a nature mission to get away from it all, and runs into that guy.
shareI think he was more of an ironic character, as he was doing exactly what Steve was doing to Rob just moments before.
shareI think he was more of an ironic character, as he was doing exactly what Steve was doing to Rob just moments before.
Almost. He was out-Steving Steve. I though it was a riot.
I would say my memory is not what it used to be. But I don't remember what my memory used to be.
It was himself as an old man.
shareI met someone like that at an organised river walk. He was very eccentric and possibly somewhere on the mild end of the autistic spectrum but I came away glad that we have people like him in this world.
shareMore people like that than you think...and growing because of cell phones.
For past decade i find myself trekking to a spot to enjoy view in solitude while a moron who shows up thinks differently and has to call 1-3 or more others on cell phone to proclaim their trek achievement. Serious!! What's becoming of this word?
Oh FMP!!! I bumped into one just yesterday. I was out doing some photography in the bush a round Adanimaby, and bumped into a fellow photographer. He was in his mid to late sixties, cue scene from The Trip.
shareHY Larious. no credit, so may have been a random, actual guy.
some funny bits in here.
beautiful scenery, too. didnt realize Britain had such big mountains.
SCALLOPS AGAIN ??
I thought he was a very important character. He gives the most important message in the movie. Acid rain is dissolving Britains limestone. Are there any other facts in the movie that rival this in importance. On and on about authors, poets and entertainment figures, but aside from the visuals of the food and country side what is the meat of the film? (One day soon I will go back to view the whole film just to see how many types of stonewalls, stone houses, cliffs, rocky streams etc are depicted, [there seemed to be a stone border on every road they took], and I want to see them all again. Such a beautiful country. Thank you coogan, brydon and winterbottom, you rock!!)
shareAcid rain is mostly myth. It has little to do with environmental damage.
"You didn't come into this life just to sit around on a dugout bench, did ya?"
LOL, I know! I'd eventually yell, "Please just shut the *beep* up!"
My sister had a boyfriend like that (but he wasn't old, about in his late 30's) & he'd pontificate about one subject after the next, completely monopolizing every conversation & barely stopping for a breath. Everyone just gave up on speaking when he was around, which was all the time!
She was with him for about 3 yrs. & I was scared to death he was in her life (and our family's) forever!
This was all quite awhile ago & by now he's probably in his early 50's. I can only imagine how much worse he's gotten, because they say irritating traits you had when younger are magnified as you get older.
Some people just love to hear their own voices & think they're the most fascinating people in any group.
"Sing until your throat hurts, dance until your legs hurt, act until you're William Hurt."
LOL, that was me in about 10-20 years. I regularly chat up strangers with (what I later realize) is trivial information about things that they probably don't care about, only to figure out too late that they DON'T care... oh, well...
I yam-what-I-yam...
"Trying is the first step towards failure" Homer Simpson
I personally think it was supposed to be Bill Bryson.
"You didn't come into this life just to sit around on a dugout bench, did ya?"