Dave Gorman - America Unchained

Redhouse

Sorry about the spoilers. I'm new

*slaps himself*

Redhouse

Oh yeah, just thought of another one...he seemed to use his mobile (cell) phone quite a bit...wonder who that contract was with...AT&T? More money to 'The Man' methinks!!! Heh heh...

toasterman

Lol to be fair, it's hard to go with a locally owned phone company.

On that same note though, I mean his car he was driving was made by a big corporation.. Ford. If he wanted to go entirely small non-international companies, he should have driven it in an Ariel Atom or something else made by a small independent car company. It couldn't have broken down any more than his car did really, can it.
The camera they filmed it on was probably manufactured by some big corporation. Bound to be really.

I was quite surprised at how much it cost him overall.. I've wondered about travelling across America myself, but if it's gonna cost the best part of £5,000 - maybe have to save up a bit first.

Biggles

toasterman wrote: »

Gorman always finds ways to make something that could be dull, interesting.

Or, as I see it, he always makes something that sounds dull, dull.

Like his first (to my knowledge) appearance on our screens. Though he calls himself a 'comedian', that involved travelling the world looking for other people named Dave Gorman. How humorous was that? Er, not at all.

He's a guy who isn't funny doing things that aren't funny. This idea for a show (America Unchained) sounds as though it could have been interesting if done by someone with a bit of character.

Redhouse

Wasn't his final spend something like $8800? And he was there for about 5 weeks wasn't he? I reckon that's pretty darn good.

I'm pretty well travelled in the States but to be honest once you've driven along one strip of Highway with the ubiquitous McD's, Burger King, Wendys, Wal-Mart, Circle K etc etc etc it doesn't matter if you're in Utah or Illinois. I think Gormans idea had credibility but aside from the spur of the moment decision to visit places called 'Independence' it really lacked a point. Going 'unchained' seemed very tenuous and weak to me.

toasterman

I guess we'll have to agree to disagree there Biggles. I liked his thing of finding other people with the same name as him...because it seemed like such an odd thing to do, and was an idea that came out of a drunken night with his housemate.
Because it didn't involve a huge fancy set, flashy graphics, a band, or the word "celebrity" in it's title - just a basic idea, kept simple...and I thought it was funny.

As for unchained.. I've read up on it a little bit and it was never originally going to be a film.
He was just going to travel because he didn't get a chance to see anything on a tour he did. A production company approached him and wanted to make it a film, and he didn't like the idea.. felt he'd get treated differently by people if he had a camera crew and another car following him everywhere he went.. plus he'd have to get permission to film everywhere, etc.
I think they twisted his arm and he agreed so long as it was one person with a camera filming him, from the same vehicle.

boatman

When i was out in the states before christmas, there were car adverts on the radio proclaiming 'our car does 28miles to the gallon!', WOW!! Different world.