My wife normally doesn’t allow me to watch movies that she thinks I might find funny by myself. She says that the way I laugh and how my face turns various shades between purple and red, and the way that I sometimes wheeze and get out of breath, she’s terrified that I’ll just drop down dead!
It wouldn’t be too bad a way to go. I can think of many other ways that I do NOT want to go, so laughing myself to death seems to be fine, at least to me!
I absolutely loved Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. I watched that one completely by chance, late night and nothing better to do except for flicking the channels, then at 2am I caught part of it and fell in love with it.
Then, by another not too dissimilar chance I spotted Snatch and loved it even more! Now I’ve got both DVDs and still watch them from time to time.
Technically I think both films are beautifully crafted. Wonderful camera work, brilliant if skewed dialog with truck-loads of profanity, criminals with comic-book style names: brick-top, bullet, four-fingers, the head, and the rest. There’s hardly a moment in the movie where someone doesn’t get killed, burnt, gutted, or worse fed to the pigs.
The furious cuts, “cheap” wipes, really work to enhance the pace of the film altogether, fast and furious. Even the title sequence received a fantastic treatment, just that by itself is worth buying the DVD for.
The cast is well selected, Brad Pit as a gypsy is really good and funny, although I have to switch on the subtitles to understand what the hell he says.
I highly recommend this film to anyone who wants to watch something that is completely different from the general lovey-dovey, or super-human movies that abound today. This one most arguably is a “man movie.” Get it, buy it or rent it!
It’s 1:30am here and I’m watching it for the 15th time, but this time on the Movie Channel on TV!
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I’m a huge Guy Ritchie fan he’s a brilliant director and both his movies are on my favorite movies list since you loved both lock, stock and snatch you just HAVE to get a movie called the boondock saints too bad he’s not the director but it’s a GREAT movie, trust me you wont regret it. I just hope you check comments from time to time.
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Guy Ritchie – the absolute shame of it. An uncontested upper class twat with a mock cockney accent and a suspicious fixation on Vinne Jones. Mocknies? Hate them all: Ritchie, Jamie Oliver, Nigel Kennedy, Damon Albarn, Jah Wobble.
But the most shameful thing about Ritchie isn’t his films or accent – its that he’s Mr Madonna. Or maybe having to wake up next to her everyday indicates that there is some justice?
Guy, to use a mockneyism: “Sort it out, you mong.” Comprenez?