Bad Tidings Starring Lee Mack
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SpeedBash

Original Poster:

2,710 posts

215 months

Tuesday 19th November 2024
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mikebradford

3,129 posts

173 months

Tuesday 19th November 2024
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Looks like it could be ok

droopsnoot

14,527 posts

270 months

Wednesday 20th November 2024
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Maybe, though the trailer does make it look a bit like a "Not Going Out" Christmas special.

chemistry

3,292 posts

137 months

Monday 23rd December 2024
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Watched the first 10 minutes…it was dire.

Challo

12,548 posts

183 months

Monday 23rd December 2024
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Looks like an Poundland version of Home Alone, with st jokes. Will give this a miss

C n C

3,908 posts

249 months

Monday 23rd December 2024
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Watched this yesterday.

If you were considering watching it, save yourself the 80 or so minutes it lasts, and don't bother.

I like both Lee Mack and Chris McCausland, but this low budget Home Alone parody didn't do either of them any favours. None of the other actors stood out particularly either, including the "baddies" who didn't seem very bad. What little action there was, seemed to be shot in very low light/the dark so you could hardly see what was going on.

Reviews on IMDB average at 5.7/10, but significant numbers rate it as a 9 or 10, and perhaps even more rate it as a 1 or 2.

I'd give it a 4 at best, but clearly there are people out there that do like it.

IMDB ratings spread:

willy wombat

1,126 posts

176 months

Monday 23rd December 2024
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Like one of the posters above, we gave it 10 minutes, decided it was dire and switched off.

paulw123

4,756 posts

218 months

Monday 23rd December 2024
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Watched it yesterday. Went in with very low expectations, especially as the advert didn't look particularly great. It wasn't as bad as I was expecting but was pretty poor.

Aside from the usual dimes during the summer whilst pretending it's Christmas, Lee Mack's character claimed to have lived there for many years dispite all the new build houses looking about 18months old at best.

davidexige

587 posts

234 months

Wednesday 25th December 2024
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Well to buck the trend, we watched this today and both enjoyed it, but perhaps we’re both easily pleased. Will watch this again next Christmas.

FiF

48,466 posts

279 months

Wednesday 25th December 2024
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Another set who binned it off quite early on. Neighbourhood watch meeting or thereabouts.

Squadrone Rosso

3,651 posts

175 months

Wednesday 25th December 2024
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I enjoyed it. Brain out festive fun. Got a bit home alone though but still funny smile

DavieW

945 posts

136 months

Thursday 23rd January 2025
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Late to the party with this one - it was pretty dire and more holes in the plot than swiss cheese.

Needed more of the devine Sarah Alexander yum


PinkTornado

2,129 posts

90 months

Thursday 23rd January 2025
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Yeah, we wanted to like this but it was pretty weak.

PistonBroker

2,704 posts

254 months

Thursday 23rd January 2025
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We didn't bother.

Love both Mack and McCausland. But the trailer made it look like a poor attempt at Deck The Halls with Matthew Broderick and Danny De Vito.

This thread hasn't persuaded me otherwise!