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Kilometre Zero, a review by Danae CassandraKilometre Zero Year of Release: 2005 Directed By: Hiner Saleem Starring: Nazmi Kirik, Eyam Ekrem, Belcim Bilgin, Ehmed Qeladizeyi Genre: Drama, War Overview:My Thoughts: Here we have a common road movie trope: two men from disparate backgrounds forced on a trip together. So often with that trope the two men come to understand and appreciate each other and become friends. It's actually refreshing, and more realistic, that here they do not. A few days does not relieve years of bigotry. Bechdel Test: Fail Overall: 3/5 (From March Around the World 2016 on April 7th, 2016) Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom
Plot: Roy and Moss toil in the squalid basement of a huge company, fielding IT help desk calls. Roy has a lousy attitude coupled with an eye for the ladies, while Moss is dressed by his mother and has an aerosol can of water clipped to his belt with which to spray his ear when it gets hot. Into their life of 'users', pizza, science fiction and firewalls comes middle manager Jen, a punky can-do career gal who doesn't know one end of a laptop from the other. Can she introduce real life to men who email the fire brigade in an emergency, who invent a psycho for an internet dating site and display sympathetic PMT symptoms once a month? 'The IT Crowd'. It's more than a way of life, it's a sitcom. IT Crowd 1.01 Yesterday's Jam Writer: Graham Linehan (Writer) Director: Graham Linehan Cast: Chris O'Dowd (Roy), Richard Ayoade (Moss), Katherine Parkinson (Jen), Chris Morris (Denholm), John Willie Hopkins (Postman), Nancy Lodder (Office Girl), Laura Pyper (Laura), Pete Deagle (Office Worker) A great geeky series. I watched it again with the l33t subtitles on. As a special feature, all episodes have l33t subtitles. But whereas most of the episodes simply replace normal lettering with l33t lettering in the subtitles, the pilot episode has special jokes thrown in here, like shell commands replacing dialog but actually meaning the same. A simple example for this subitle track is the following exchange: Jen listing her computer skill: Reading emails, sending emails, deleting emails. Gets subtitled as: pop3, smtp, M$ Exchange Rating: (From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on June 3rd, 2012) |