Dead Man's Shoes

Chirst almighty this movie scared the shit out of me.

me too, absolutely. the drug scene is terrifying.

At first I thought the drugs themselves were going to kill them, but I should have realized they (and I) were not going to get off that easy.

The guy who plays the head bad dude is some kind of amazing looking guy, isn't he? He almost looks Native American or something.

yeah he's good looking in a really scary way. in fact he looks a bit like my brother which makes it worse. i think he was a professional boxer just a few years ago.

http://www.garystretch.net

I like how it's a strange mix of social realism and semi-fantastical fable. I get a bit of a knot in my stomach just thinking about the drug scene.

http://www.garystretch.net/pimg.htm

link doesn't work but it should be a poster for the Gary Stretch VS Chris Eubank middleweight world championship fight.

the religious fable aspect of the final scenes, especially, should seem totally overwrought on paper and yet they flow on from the body of the story in a completely believable way. also the twist in the tale doesn't seem forced in any way - in fact it really works well if you watch the film for the second time. it seems so transparent second time round that i wondered why i didn't guess it initially.

I really can't imagine watching this a second time!!

Was it part improvised, does anyone know? A lot of the acting and dialogue is very naturalistic.

Doesn't this guy have a new film coming out about skinheads in the 80s?

Yeah, This is England. It's been out here for a couple of weeks, with generally very good reviews. I've been meaning to see it.

Guffaw:

Anachronisms: The learner car that Combo drives has a 2005 tax disc displayed on the windscreen.

yeah "This is England" - it's pretty good. he gets amazing performances again, but i felt like around 1/3rd of it didn't really work whereas i don't think DMSs puts a foot wrong.

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still, he gets major kudos for putting the early multicultural skinhead scene up on the big screen, finally.

sorry to post in bursts but there was an article in this month's Sight & Sound about the box office performance for This Is England which grossed more than his previous four movies combined, which is encouraging despite the fact that the film received an 18 certificate in the UK. the film really should have been seen by teenagers since it contains quite a powerful anti-racism message. interestingly, Bristol council overturned the BBFC's 18 certificate decision and made the film a 15 cert for that area. article here.

DMSs performed disappointingly at the box office but then went on to sell an impressive 100,000 units on DVD.

I saw a preview for this in front of My Summer of Love and then never heard about it again, I'll have to put it next on my my queue.

I agree with jed, though I think with This Is England the figure is more like 2/3 not working.

Dead Man's Shoes is horrible, brilliant, like nothing else. Nothing else British anyway.

Some of the "news" on that Gary Stretch fan site is an item from 2005 saying that MI6 have confirmed that he's in the running to be the next James Bond in Casino Royale!

OK, that was awful.

I'm sorry to hear it!

ok. how come?

Turgid in general, ridiculous musical interludes, awful cliche drug scene (it's funny when you do something silly in a comedy like Knocked Up, not so much when it's supposed to be scareeeeeey), never maintained any kind of tension.

i dont think anything in this movie was "supposed to be scareeeeeey"

i actually though it just was truly scary.

Just finished this... not scary like jed says or awful like milo says. Moderately intense overall...I liked the bad-trip scene. I'd give it a solid B, but no more. I'm kind of having a problem with Richard being a one-man wrecking crew until he suddenly stopped being one.

solid B is otm. could have done without one or two of the calexico + scenery segments. worth checking out for peeps with instant netflix.

thread reminded me of this song: "dead man's shoes wrapped 'round your feet"

(o the luck at finding an obscure Moonshake single on YouTube!)

er.. "dead man's shoes wrapped lead around your toes" lol memory

love love love this film

i wonder if perhaps milo didn't understand a lot of the dialogue. this movie was tense from start to finish.

Great film, Considine is brilliant, really convincing as a scarily tough guy. Meadows' feel for the English countryside is great too.

Considine is a great actor. watch this then 24 Hour Party People and be terrified of Rob Gretton.

http://www.geekologie.com/2010/06/air_methuselahs_the_worlds_old.php

http://www.geekologie.com/2010/06/10/old-shoe-is-old-2.jpg

Love this

Scary in a banal way like actual council estate thugs, maybe that's where it might not translate?

So funny as well

I love this movie.

council estate thug boss looks like George Michael

He's pure EastEnders panto looking

Shane Meadows terrible movies give me the same kind of defeated feeling as listening to Micheal Gove talk.

Like he never even made one good movie, they are all crushingly shit.