How to Lose Friends and Alienate People 2008
- Director: Robert B Weide
- Based on the book by Toby Young
- Cast: Simon Pegg, Kirsten Dunst, Megan Fox, Danny Huston, Gillian Anderson, Bill Patterson, Jeff Bridges, many cameos
- Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
- Simon Pegg – Terminal, Star Wars, Absolutely Anything, The World’s End, Paul, Hot Fuzz, Doctor Who, Shaun of the Dead24 Hour Party People
- Kirsten Dunst – Melancholia, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Mona Lisa’s Smile, Levity, Virgin Suicides, Little Women
- Danny Huston – The Professor, Wonder Woman, The Congress, The Conspirator, Edge of Darkness, X-Men Origins Wolverine, Children of Men, The Constant Gardener, The Aviator, 21 Grams
- Gillian Anderson – UFO, The Fall, Robot Overlords, Johnny English Reborn, Last King of Scotland, Bleak House, Tristram Shandy, The X Files
- Bill Patterson – Unforgotten, High-Rise, Doctor Who, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Re-Told, Kingdom of Heaven, Bright Young Things, Hilary & Jackie, Richard III, The Singing Detective
- Jeff Bridges – True Grit, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Sea Biscuit, The Big Lebowski, Fisher King, The Fabulous Baker Boys, King Kong, The Last Picture Show
- Why? Simon Pegg
- Seen: 17 October 2022
Sidney Young (Pegg) is a celebrity
correspondent and gets to hang out with all the stars.
It wasn’t always like that. A year ago,
he had to go to extremes just to crash award events and after parties. Like
smuggling in a pig, which actually gets him a job with a big magazine in New
York.
Sidney does his best to be obnoxious,
misogynistic, and arrogant by pretending to think he’s being suave, cool, witty
and sexy, knowing he turns everyone off.
It’s probably a spoof of the media
industry, the celebrity circus. It’s probably a true picture of the media
industry, the celebrity circus.
It’s all quite silly but it has its humorous, and its serious, moments. It’s always fun to see Simon Pegg, but Shaun of the Dead it isn’t.
3* of 5
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