Brit flicks: the kite mark of shite

[8den]

Fair enough - I was just going by the list.
I liked Son Of Rambow, mittaged or not

Oh no it was woeful. I fell asleep half an hour in, and the forced myself to watch it again as I couldn't quite believe it.

But that's still a good haul for such a small cash-strapped industry.

Oh I agree; just a personal bug bear when Brits take credit for Irish success. Theres a very apt Brenda Fricker quote about it.

Interesting that a fair few of them are documentaries.

It's been a good few years for documentaries.


My tuppence worth on This is England, my problem isn't the improvisation I just found the way the film ended deeply unsatisfying.

 

[8den]

With Dead Man's Shoes, the storyline was as preposterous as the acting. But still, Bruce Willis would have made it work. So that was his mistake there - not hiring Bruce Willis.

Now see this I'll disagree on. Paddy Considine is fucking awesome. Excellent casting, and Bruce Willis against five guys in a Citroen 2CV4? Piss off that'd be idiotic.

 

[Hi-ASL]

Yeah, it was.

And I know people rave about Considine's performance. And I don't know why.

He was shite.

 

[Maggot]

I can't believe so many people are slagging off This is England. I really enjoyed it.

Other recent decent British films include:

Control
Notes on a scandal
Hot Fuzz
Son of Rambow
Football Factory

 

[butchersapron]

FF?

You're not kidding either are you?

 

[Hi-ASL]

I also enjoyed The Football Factory.

It's shite - but I enjoyed it.

I can't say the same about Meadows' output.

 

[Orang Utan]

Football Factory - ha!
There is one worse Brit film than that: Rise Of The Footballer

 

[Hi-ASL]

Green Street is worse. FF is Oscarworthy compared to Green Street. Or whatever it's called.

 

[Orang Utan]

Have you seen Footsoldier? I urge people to see it just so they can be appalled

 

[8den]

I also enjoyed The Football Factory.

It's shite - but I enjoyed it.

I can't say the same about Meadows' output.

Okaaaayyyyyyy you hear that gurgling sucking noise in the background, that's your credibility on this thread going down the drain. Anything Associated with Nick Love and Danny fucking Dyer is kack complete kack, it's not even cheesy I enjoyed it in a weirdly ironic way.

You do realise that Nick Love has basically taken Tintin, cast Danny fucking Dyer and remade the concept in the image of a cockney wideboy geezer.

Danny fucking Dyer is Tintin in the South London Estate.

Danny fucking Dyer is Tintin in the Chelsea football fans mystery.

Danny fucking Dyer is Tintin the wannabe Batman

Danny fucking Dyer is Tintin in the Costa Del Sol.

And I know people rave about Considine's performance. And I don't know why.

He was shite.

No it wasn't, he was insanely intense, and the relationship with the brother was excellent, and the scene where he demands to be killed to stop himself is astonishing.

 

[8den]

Green Street is worse. FF is Oscarworthy compared to Green Street. Or whatever it's called.

Thats hardly a ringing endorsement now is it? "Okay Football Factory is shite, but Green Streets is worse." Really?

As Orwell wrote "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face -- forever."

I say if you imagine that face belongs to Danny Dyer, that future looks positively utopian.

 

[electrogirl]

Have you seen Footsoldier? I urge people to see it just so they can be appalled

I quite enjoyed it.

 

[Hi-ASL]

I don't share your hatred of Danny Dyer. Yes, he's a useless twat - but I don't hate him.

So I didn't let him spoil my enjoyment of the Football Factory.

Rise of the Footsoldier was brutal and in bad taste, but otherwise ok.

 

[Maggot]

FF?

You're not kidding either are you?

I thought it was spot on. That is exactly how hooligans behave.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

A Room for Romeo Brass
Dead Man's Shoes
This is England

It's hard to describe the feeling you are left with after watching these films, such thought provocking, intriguing and shocking films that you will never forget. Will have to watch Meadow's other films but he's certainly one of the best directors to come out of Britain that's for sure.

Agreed, they are amazing films, especially the latter 2.

A bit less convinced by R4RB but still decent.

 

[butchersapron]

I thought it was spot on. That is exactly how hooligans behave.

You're off your fucking nut me old son, i'm gonna plunge you up just for that etc etc

Sorry, a shit film of walking cliches, cliches that didn't really exist in the book and so had to be produced by the director. An embarrasing mess that i would be ashamed to have been involved with.

 

[isitme]

My brother loves footsoldier

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

I can't believe so many people are slagging off This is England. I really enjoyed it.

That's because this is Urban...

 

[Orang Utan]

I thought it was spot on. That is exactly how hooligans behave.

What? Hit each other? Surely not?

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

My brother loves footsoldier

That was fucking wank. Just an endless sstream of violence. Only good bits were the west ham riots at the beginning and the E bit.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I'll sleep when I'm Dead
Sexy Beast
Gangster No 1
Last Orders
24 Hour Party People
28 days Later
Control
16 Years of Alcohol
The Prestige
Children of Men
Complete History of My Sexual Failures
8 1/2 Women
The End of the Affair
Wonderland
My Name is Joe
The General

All in the last 10 years - I'm not suggesting every one's a masterpiece of cinema, but there's interesting stuff happening, and it's not all Simon Pegg and Shane Meadows (who I do rate!).

 

[butchersapron]

There is a good film to be made about blokes hitting each other. It's not been done yet though.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

There is a good film to be made about blokes hitting each other. It's not been done yet though.

Giant Haystacks - The Movie?

 

[isitme]

That was fucking wank. Just an endless sstream of violence. Only good bits were the west ham riots at the beginning and the E bit.

some of the set pieces were quite good

it wasn't really a film, just a bunch of set pieces stuck together artlessly imo

 

[Hi-ASL]

There is a good film to be made about blokes hitting each other. It's not been done yet though.

Raging Bull? When We Were Kings?

 

[butchersapron]

Hooligan blokes.

 

[Hi-ASL]

Ah right.

 

[isitme]

I liked the bit in 'Clubbed to Death' when they were beating each other up, that was a very good romanticisation of blokes beating each other up

 

[Orang Utan]

The Firm I liked.

 

[Hi-ASL]

The Firm I liked.

Yeah, the end was a bit far-fetched, but it's probably the best of the lot. It stayed with me for some time after I first saw that.