The bittersweet nostalgic look back at our youths movie can be a tricky business. All too often these films miss the mark completely, becoming either fashion fetish or trite bullshit because the filmmakers refuses to look at their youth through the clearest possible lenses. The hope is that Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, writers and directors of Cemetery Junction, can avoid that. That hope is not terribly bolstered by the new trailer. The most egregious offender is the use of All The Young Dudes, a terrible on the nose short hand signifier that I hope is only used in the trailer and doesn’t really get prominent placement in the movie.
You can decide for yourself, as the trailer is embedded below.
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Ricky Gervais as blue-collar slob? That's new and different. Other than that, looks entirely uninteresting.
Fuck Ricky Gervais. Fuck him in his stupid ass.
did enjoy "all the young dudes" at the end of "the wackness"..fuck, thats a good movie
i love ricky gervais but this looks terrible. He should stick with tv.
Doesn't look too bad considering his recent output and at least RG doesn't look like a middle-aged lesbian in this one.
I feel stupid, but I honestly couldn't understand 80% of the dialogue in that trailer.
Looks good. Used to drive past Cemetary Junction everyday on way to work when I lived in Reading (which is even now, as the movie suggests, a boring provincial shithole). 'Window cleaning is like begging' line was quality though.
'begging' – I thought she said 'digging' which is both apt and more surreal.
Yeah, I had no clue what anyone in this trailer was saying. Something about bollocks up the lift into the telly what what bob's your uncle. Guv'nor.
I'm with yas, Yank Wanker…I thought it was just me…
I thought I heard 'digging' as well. Been watching season 7 of Shameless recently and even after following the Gallaghers through 6 full seasons I still can't believe these folks can possibly understand everything they say to each other.
weird add. A bunch of British people being all British and stuff, then the American sinister voice guy goes "CEMETARY JNCTIONS", like it's a friggin' Stephen King movie or something.
Glad I'm not the only one who couldn't understand what they were saying. That line the woman says at the end sounded like complete gibberish.This film is going to need subtitles.
I was going to ask a question about that particular version of "All the Young Dudes" but the internet is a beautiful thing. Also read that the working title of this film was "All The Young Dudes"
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