it as to be one of my favourites i never get fed up of watching it i laugh just as much eevry time i watch it and i love it more i guess with it being so realistic it's a dead funny film and well worth a watch

Yeah, that films a classic. Love it.

Havent seen it for years so ill have to give it a go again

It was a real favourite with me and my mates way back when..can you believe it we even watched it while we were babysitting too!!!

:hihi:

well ace film well worth buying it's on sale now at hmv for a fiver or just over i think

Its in my top 10 all time bad films not one good thing about it :hihi: except the end credits

I like it in a really gritty, depressing, northern kinda way!

I bought it for a sky diver on dvd too!

Very funny film......never fails to make me chuckle.

Quality movie... "Make your own F****** Tea" :lol:

It's a good film but it's sort of passed it sell by date. Theres much better british comedies around now.

I love it! :)

Its just one of them films you have to watch when you are younger eh.. especially in high school- everyone was talking about it and doing some of the quotes.

'Make Your Own ****ing Tea!' is my fave as well!

Love the film..

'It looks like a frozen sausage' :hihi:

LOL! Loving it!
Is it just me or was Sue hot back then.. eh, eh :)

Or is it just me.. and should I get me coat....

EDIT: Screengrabs coming soon.. give me 5 mins.

Originally posted by ANGELUS
Or is it just me.. and should I get me coat....


Which Coats yours ;)

I must admit I preferred the blonde :D

Sorry I meant the blonde one!! :)
Not the dark hairded one eughhhhhhh....

Just edited my post above---
Im working on the screengrabs now.. any faves people want to see in particular?

Another quick quote:

Sue: Is that all she's getting?
Bob (knackered): I thought I were great!
-Cue both girls pishing themselves-

http://xs45.xs.to/pics/05364/rita1.jpg
http://xs45.xs.to/pics/05364/rita2.jpg
http://xs45.xs.to/pics/05364/rita3.jpg
http://xs45.xs.to/pics/05364/rita4.jpg
http://xs45.xs.to/pics/05364/rita5.jpg
http://xs45.xs.to/pics/05364/rita6.jpg
http://xs45.xs.to/pics/05364/rita7.jpg
http://xs45.xs.to/pics/05364/rita8.jpg

Here are a few screen grabs from the film itself :)

After viewing the screenshots, I've decided NO, neither Rita nor Sue were hot back then :o

However, the film is still quality.
A timeless classic like Kes.

Originally posted by DaBouncer
After viewing the screenshots, I've decided NO, neither Rita nor Sue were hot back then :o

However, the film is still quality.
A timeless classic like Kes.

I was just thinking of Kes when you posted then.. I'll have to do some grabs of that as well.. fantastic films back in the day!

It's one of my faves as well!

Weren't Black Lace in it? Did they sing the Gang Bang song? I love that bit. Me and a mate I used to work with both loved that film, we'd watch it and then go to work the next day singing the gang bang song - needless to say we got some very funny looks :hihi:

Originally posted by banesmabes
It's one of my faves as well!

Weren't Black Lace in it? Did they sing the Gang Bang song? I love that bit. Me and a mate I used to work with both loved that film, we'd watch it and then go to work the next day singing the gang bang song - needless to say we got some very funny looks :hihi:

There you go:
http://xs45.xs.to/pics/05364/gang1.jpg
http://xs45.xs.to/pics/05364/gang2.jpg
http://xs45.xs.to/pics/05364/gang3.jpg

Just out of interest in pic 3- which one of Black Lace is now RIP?

Originally posted by ANGELUS
There you go:
http://xs45.xs.to/pics/05364/gang1.jpg
http://xs45.xs.to/pics/05364/gang2.jpg
http://xs45.xs.to/pics/05364/gang3.jpg

Just out of interest in pic 3- which one of Black Lace is now RIP?

Oh, I didn't know one was dead :(

I'll guess at the brunette.

What mighty mullets they had!

Originally posted by banesmabes
Oh, I didn't know one was dead :(

Smokie, (Alan Barton) died in a coach crash in Germany in 1995.

Picture here (http://www.smokie.co.uk/feature/alan/barton.asp)

:(

Yeah I think Rita, Sue and Bob Too is a classic! :lol:

Originally posted by Lou
Yeah I think Rita, Sue and Bob Too is a classic! :lol:

Yep, you got that right, Lou... Great film... Happy ending too! :D

I remember a guy who said, quite seriously, in the pub the night after watching it on tv... "That were a great film I seen last night, Rita, Sue & Bob Too... I'm gonna see if I can rent Rita, Sue & Bob One termorrer" (true!)

Originally posted by D2J
Love the film..

'It looks like a frozen sausage' :hihi:

haha! yeah that was hilarious!

I have always enjoyed the 'We're 'avin' a gang-bang' mass siulation of coitus from the rear on the dancefloor. This is not because it has a pleasing effect upon one's erectile tissue. On the contrary, the scene is squalid, depraved and unseemly. In other words, it perfectly symbolises the pathetic ugliness of working class culture and entertainment, with drink-sodden temptresses lewdly disporting and debasing themselves amongst pimply swains on heat. This is the land of ten pints, a kebab and 'birds' who are 'up fer it'. How I always hoot with laughter as they dance like lecherous apes.

Originally posted by timo
I have always enjoyed the 'We're 'avin' a gang-bang' mass siulation of coitus from the rear on the dancefloor. This is not because it has a pleasing effect upon one's erectile tissue. On the contrary, the scene is squalid, depraved and unseemly. In other words, it perfectly symbolises the pathetic ugliness of working class culture and entertainment, with drink-sodden temptresses lewdly disporting and debasing themselves amongst pimply swains on heat. This is the land of ten pints, a kebab and 'birds' who are 'up fer it'. How I always hoot with laughter as they dance like lecherous apes.

Oh, I feel sure that the peasant masses who occasionally indulge in such depravities that you describe so eloquently, would be pleased and gratified, were they to learn that one so exalted as yourself found their actions enjoyable... Although I would venture that, given the movements involved and the rhythm adhered to, the simulation could possibly better be described as that of 'coitus-interruptus' perhaps? :rolleyes:

:D yup, love it :D

Just found out recently (I'm a reet random convo with my little sister) that she'd seen it too a few years ago, the film is an absolute joy!

Pseudonym,
This, my friend, is neither the time nor place for discussing minor semantic discrepancies , i.e, 'coitus' or 'coitus interuptus'. The plain fact is, the rakehelly mass of ne'er-do-wells, painted whores, cut-purses and Merry Andrews are engaged in shameless acts of simulated sexual congress of various types. It would be an affront to modesty, and to the 'family' orientation of the forum, to describe some of the unnatural, ungodly acts depicted. Nevertheless, one cannot help but find the rough merriment and goatish couplings of these ludicrous clods highly risible. Greater civilisation and 'cultural capital' may be found amongst packs of Barbary Apes. The tragedy lies in the reality behind the fictional depiction of working class entertainment. The reality is much worse.

On a thread about 'Jerusalem' [General Chit-Chat], I have earlier suggested that 'the Birdy Song' should be adopted as the English national anthem, in view of the fact that the 'dumbing down' of English culture is well on the way. Re our national sport, we should forget about Football and Cricket and concentrate upon something which the English are really good at- urinating in the street. This skill, practiced openly, in public, may be witnessed in the evenings at any large drinking enclave in every large English city, for example, Newcastle's Bigg Market. We should therefore elevate Urination in Public to national sport status. As I say on the 'Jerusalem' thread, the spectacle of thousands of near-alchoholic Britons, openly urinating to 'the Birdy Song' is a fitting symbol of Blair's 'new', 'young', 'diverse' country.

Regards.

i think this is a marvellous film - very funny, very un PC and just generally a good laugh !!

the guy who plays sue's (i think) dad as the drunk is fantastic !!

*goes off to HMV to buy immediately*

Timo...
Please accept my most abject apologies... When you stated that: "I have always enjoyed the 'We're 'avin' a gang-bang' mass siulation of coitus from the rear on the dancefloor." I understood that you were announcing that you yourself derived enjoyment from participating in such deplorable activities... I have wronged you grievously in this instance!

Your inspired suggestion that the 'Birdy Song' should be adopted as the British national anthem however, is nothing short of genius and I have no hesitation whatsover in wholeheartedly endorsing it, it's eminently appropriate.

Replacing football and cricket with mass micturition as the national sport does, I feel, indicate a certain lack of forethought on your part however. It's difficult to imagine how achievement could be measured, not to mention scoring! Although I'm sure it would only be a matter of time before log-distance peeing, or high-peeing became an olympic event.

Mixed micturition would unfortunately present considerable problems, both anatomical and also carrying the risk of offending against the sex-discrimination act...


(Where's the 'tongue-in-cheek' smiley when you need it?)

Pseudonym,
There is nothing to apologise for, dear heart. I might well enjoy mass coupling, as depicted in the film. I am a sensualist by nature, and regarded as an expert lover in four Continents. As I said on another thread recently, my appetites are sated by my lissom, pouting wife and a harem of 'missee nicetime' Filipino servants. 'Oh master Timo!' they cry at moments of heightened emotion, 'you are all balls and no cannon'. Whatever can these giggling minxes mean?

Ah Timo, my friend, far be it from me to so cruelly shatter your idyllic illusions but Filipino servents can be very difficult to understand at times, particularly at times of heightened emotion I would imagine, as I'm sure you'll agree.

Bearing the aforementioned difficulty in mind, I suspect it highly likely that they were trying to say as gently as possible that you were not, as you understood it, a lover in continents, but an incontinent lover... Doubtless they didn't wish to offend you, in deference to your advanced years...

This would also explain exactly what the giggling minxes meant in your closing line perhaps?

Top Film! Hilarious!!!

Originally posted by Lee1979
i think this is a marvellous film - very funny, very un PC and just generally a good laugh !!

the guy who plays sue's (i think) dad as the drunk is fantastic !!

*goes off to HMV to buy immediately*

Sue's dad was played by Willy Ross - one of the best drunks ever on screen - it cracks me up just seeing him wandering about. He was a drunk in Our Friends In The North, too. But alas he's dead now. :(

There's so many funny scenes in that film, I must have seen it a ridiculous amount of times 'cause I know half the script by heart. I've even done a 'tour' round Bradford looking at all the scenes. :hihi:

What about Sue's mum:

"Mam! Can I have me cookery money? "

"What f***in cookery money? If that f***in teacher wants you to make f***in buns tell 'er to gi' yer t'money."

Originally posted by timo
Greater civilisation and 'cultural capital' may be found amongst packs of Barbary Apes.

That's 'Burberry Apes', surely?

what about the car , its a classic now days , when was the last time you saw a sd1 looking that nice , did i miss the point of this thread as i enjoyed it for the car too

Originally posted by hagueok
what about the car , its a classic now days , when was the last time you saw a sd1 looking that nice , did i miss the point of this thread as i enjoyed it for the car too

What was it again. A Ford Cortina or Rover...cant remember.:confused:

Have to agree - its a great film, always makes me laugh - love Sue's dad and think the way Sue and Rita walk is hilarious! I believe the council estate featured was based on where the author, Andrea Dunbar, grew up. Sadly she died quite young.

Originally posted by ianbrownfan
What was it again. A Ford Cortina or Rover...cant remember.:confused:
it was a red rover sd1 3,500cc se, if my memory still works right

I DO I DO I DOOO! Isn't it an 18 and i watched it at 12, brilliant.

Sue's drunken father always made me want to weep.

the "crazy" old neighbour who used to shout over the flat-balcony opposite sue's house used to irritate me and make me laugh at the same time.

Asif, her pakistani boyfriend was played by Kulvinder Ghir (actually a Kenyan Asian!) who went on to be one of the stars of the BBC comedy "Goodness Gracious Me".

The film was actually filmed on the Buttershaw Estate near Bradford, where the writer, Andrea Dunbar grew up/lived. A freind of mine lived on the street where Sue's house was set.

Andrea Dunbar died tragically young. She was Just 29 when she died of a brain haemmorhage, in 1990.

Asif, her pakistani boyfriend was played by Kulvinder Ghir (actually a Kenyan Asian!) ......

That would be "Aslam" and Kulvinder's ancestral home is in Pakistan.

Hilarious film...! not seen it for a few years but watched it lots when I was a teenager.. along with dirty dancing, pretty in pink, the breakfast club and desperately seeking susan.. over and over again... never got bored of them! :D

The film was actually filmed on the Buttershaw Estate near Bradford, where the writer, Andrea Dunbar grew up/lived. A freind of mine lived on the street where Sue's house was set.



Ruddy hell! I have a friend who lived there too! Her mam still lived in one of the flats. We went and did a Rita 'n' Sue tour one day - we even went to see Luna Cabs :D

Some greast clips of the film on Youtube.

Just watched this one-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J8p_h2gwJM

with tears of laughter streaming down my face:D:D:D:D


Don't watch if easily offended by swearing;)

i'd like to see it but seen the first film yet

Not seen it for a while now but, yes, it's a good, funny film.

Hugely overrated.

.

Andrea Dunbar died tragically young. She was Just 29 when she died of a brain haemmorhage, in 1990.

She was certainly a precocious talent. She began writing her first play at the age of 15, and it was showing in London when she was just 19! She wrote Rita, Sue & Bob Too at the age of just 21. She actually grew up and lived all her life on the Buttershaw estate, had three children by three different men, and was drinking heavily by the time of her death. Her life is worthy of a film itself.

An interesting article about her here: http://archive.thisisbradford.co.uk/1998/6/15/174311.html

Everyone likes that film!