Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/06/25/hugh-grant-stars-in-a24-thriller-about-charming-but-deranged-man-who-forces-mormon-missionaries-into-basement-labyrinth.html
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Why that’s two evil labyrinth purveyors in a row, Hugh John Mungo Grant! (“Mungo”?)
(gormless trivia: the “A24” is taken from an Italian motorway)
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Just avoid Tomorrowland. (Not that I blame Grant for that one, it was just a badly written story.) n/m I was misremembering my Hughes.
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Great monologue at the end, though.
(Pretty sure it was Hugh Laurie.)
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Hugh Grant is that kind of actor who was, bafflingly, cast as a “charming” romantic lead before casting directors realised he actually came across as creepy and unsettling.
His performance as Jeremy Thorpe in A very English Scandal epitomises this creepy and unsettling nature.
Name your romantic comedy for how utterly charmless and unconvincing he was.
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Wait, are you thinking of Hugh Laurie?
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Ah yes, you’re right.
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I used to only conflate Rip Torn and Rip Taylor; now I notice it happens more often with similarly named people.
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If this new movie does not have Jarnathan then what are we even doing here?
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I will be honest here, if someone swapped out one Hugh for another partway through a movie I am not 100% sure I would notice.
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Seems like there should be a movie starring the two of them, playing the same person, but in different parts of the multiverse… It’d be a romantic, sci-fi comedy, of course… or probably more of a dramedy?
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Or maybe a movie where each one has a cameo playing the other.
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could work… but I think my multiverse rom-dramedy has some legs! 
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Dr. House and the Multiverse of Mickey Blue Eyes
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I was kinda shocked by how good this D&D movie was.
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I would like to think that a romcom would work where these two narcissistic British men fall in love with each other, because really they are self-involved and they are both basically the same person.
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How can you say that? One is Oxford and the other is Cambridge.
Could never mix them up.
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