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10-04-2019, 02:59 PM #1
The Gentlemen - New Guy Ritchie Film
Stumbled upon this trailer online yesterday and then saw it again on the Big Screen before Joker.
Kinda stoked not only because of the cast, but because it returns Ritchie to his London crime caper roots.
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10-04-2019, 03:04 PM #2
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10-04-2019, 03:16 PM #3
I revisited RockNRolla last year, a film which I was not terribly fond of when it came out in theaters. But I found that it had aged nicely, for-what-that's-worth.
I keep meaning to revisit Revolver, too (a film that I initially saw in London when it opened and really didn't know what to make of it; I remember stopping off in the lobby to take a post-film piss in the WC and two blokes who had also seen it, and also happend to be taking pisses at the same time as me refered to it as a "piss take", which was kind of appropriate since we were all taking pisses--needless to say, I had never heard that phrase before, so I had to look it up!).
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10-04-2019, 03:28 PM #4Registered User
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I really liked the Sherlock Holmes movie he did.
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10-04-2019, 03:30 PM #5
I didn't like either of those.
The first half of the first Sherlock Holmes movie was pretty good.
But he really never reached that same high again.
I thought the casting of this new film was a little lacking in imagination personally... "an English gangster movie you say... let's get that chick from Downton, we'll write in an Irishman for Colin Farrell and Hugh Grant now he's on a post Paddington2 career high.. oh and who was it that played Robin Hood in that other disaster I made recently"Last edited by PNWbrit; 10-04-2019 at 03:52 PM.
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10-04-2019, 03:38 PM #6
Bloke at The Guardian had some snark to issue about the casting:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/201...ew-mcconaugheyLast edited by dookey67; 10-10-2019 at 07:48 PM.
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10-07-2019, 09:44 AM #7
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10-07-2019, 09:52 AM #8
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10-09-2019, 12:50 PM #9
I'm curious to see the movie - because that genre has been enjoyable and theres not much out in movie land like it right now, but I can't get past how fucking horrible that trailer is. a plaided mashup of the trailers of lockstock/snatch/rocknrolla with two left feet.
snatch was the best of the bunch, followed by lock stock, but I don't think RocknRolla was horrible. better than yet another fucking superhero movie.
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10-09-2019, 01:07 PM #10
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10-09-2019, 02:13 PM #11
was definitely enjoyable but it came out years ago (Vaughan also produced lockstock & snatch). the trailer for the Gentlemen reminded me more of another Vaughan directed film - The Kingsmen (1st) - except Kingsmen blewup/played with a bunch of the brit crime/spy tropes, I'm not sure Ritchie can. afterall the clunkiest part of RocknRolla imo was the Roman Abramovitch soccer gangster of "new" London.
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10-09-2019, 02:34 PM #12
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10-10-2019, 03:59 PM #13
Since we are tossing out other modern Brit crime flix, here are some of my recommendations:
Gangster #1
The Limey
In Bruges
The Guard
Kill List
Sexy Beast
B. Monkey
Croupier
And of course there are always The Classics:
The Long Good Friday
Get Carter
Night and the City
Don't even get me started on the French crime films!
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10-10-2019, 04:31 PM #14
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10-10-2019, 06:13 PM #15Registered User
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.... and The Bank Job. Not quite the Gangsta of those already mentioned, but .....
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10-10-2019, 06:21 PM #16
Quite a few recs on this list that I have never seen and/or never heard of:
https://www.indiewire.com/2013/03/20...movies-100246/
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10-10-2019, 07:29 PM #17
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10-11-2019, 02:05 PM #18
shouldn't Trainspotting be on that best Indiewire Brit crime film sharticle? First I thought it was because they meant English and said British but they included shallow grave, that's nominally scottish. What about A Fish Called Wanda?
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10-11-2019, 05:47 PM #19Registered User
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Well now, fi y'all are going' all Wanda on us, Imma call out Sense and Sensibility
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01-24-2020, 10:07 AM #20
Mrs. Seano and I got tix for tonight.....Pretty stoked!
What we have here is an intelligence failure. You may be familiar with staring directly at that when shaving. .
-Ottime
One man can only push so many boulders up hills at one time.
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01-24-2020, 12:42 PM #21
This scene from Snatch got me into Massive Attack as well...
Need to watch that movie again.Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood.
http://tim-kirchoff.pixels.com/
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01-24-2020, 08:07 PM #22
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01-24-2020, 08:09 PM #23
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01-25-2020, 12:43 AM #24What we have here is an intelligence failure. You may be familiar with staring directly at that when shaving. .
-Ottime
One man can only push so many boulders up hills at one time.
-BMillsSkier
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01-25-2020, 10:11 PM #25
I work with quite a number of Brits and they use the "C" word rather casually and frequently (I quickly learned that if you are a "cunt" that's bad, but if you are a "good cunt" then you are cool).
But several years ago I tried an experiment with my London educated mate who had a lilting British accent. We were at a bar with a bunch of female co-workers. I said "cunt" amongst them and they all cringed and called me a douche. Then I went and got my British mate Alex, he came over and to the same group of women he said "cunt" in his lilting accent and they all swooned over him. I have always maintained that Brits, Aussies, and New Zealanders can get away with saying it, but us Yanks can't; our accent is just too harsh.
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