― the next grozart, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 11:49 (seventeen years ago) link
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― admrl, Tuesday, 1 May 2007 17:28 (seventeen years ago) link
Chirst almighty this movie scared the shit out of me.
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 17 June 2007 15:56 (seventeen years ago) link
me too, absolutely. the drug scene is terrifying.
― jed_, Sunday, 17 June 2007 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 17 June 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link
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
― jed_, Sunday, 17 June 2007 16:25 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― chap, Sunday, 17 June 2007 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.garystretch.net/pimg.htm
― jed_, Sunday, 17 June 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link
link doesn't work but it should be a poster for the Gary Stretch VS Chris Eubank middleweight world championship fight.
― jed_, Sunday, 17 June 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― jed_, Sunday, 17 June 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link
I really can't imagine watching this a second time!!
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 17 June 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link
Was it part improvised, does anyone know? A lot of the acting and dialogue is very naturalistic.
― chap, Sunday, 17 June 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Doesn't this guy have a new film coming out about skinheads in the 80s?
― Alex in SF, Sunday, 17 June 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― chap, Sunday, 17 June 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Guffaw:
Anachronisms: The learner car that Combo drives has a 2005 tax disc displayed on the windscreen.
― Alex in SF, Sunday, 17 June 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link
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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― jed_, Sunday, 17 June 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link
still, he gets major kudos for putting the early multicultural skinhead scene up on the big screen, finally.
― jed_, Sunday, 17 June 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― jed_, Sunday, 17 June 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― milo z, Sunday, 17 June 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Alba, Sunday, 17 June 2007 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link
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!
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 17 June 2007 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link
OK, that was awful.
― milo z, Sunday, 24 June 2007 05:33 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm sorry to hear it!
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 24 June 2007 12:52 (seventeen years ago) link
ok. how come?
― jed_, Sunday, 24 June 2007 15:32 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― milo z, Sunday, 24 June 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link
i dont think anything in this movie was "supposed to be scareeeeeey"
― ☪, Sunday, 24 June 2007 16:08 (seventeen years ago) link
i actually though it just was truly scary.
― jed_, Sunday, 24 June 2007 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link
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.
― Rock Hardy, Friday, 22 February 2008 20:57 (sixteen years ago) link
solid B is otm. could have done without one or two of the calexico + scenery segments. worth checking out for peeps with instant netflix.
― bnw, Sunday, 4 January 2009 06:14 (fifteen years ago) link
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!)
― Pain don't hurt. (Pillbox), Sunday, 4 January 2009 08:06 (fifteen years ago) link
er.. "dead man's shoes wrapped lead around your toes" lol memory
― Pain don't hurt. (Pillbox), Sunday, 4 January 2009 08:10 (fifteen years ago) link
love love love this film
― dugong.jpg (jabba hands), Sunday, 4 January 2009 08:34 (fifteen years ago) link
i wonder if perhaps milo didn't understand a lot of the dialogue. this movie was tense from start to finish.
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 4 January 2009 11:25 (fifteen years ago) link
Great film, Considine is brilliant, really convincing as a scarily tough guy. Meadows' feel for the English countryside is great too.
― Neil S, Sunday, 4 January 2009 11:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Considine is a great actor. watch this then 24 Hour Party People and be terrified of Rob Gretton.
― Not me I'm the Emotional Type (Ned Trifle II), Sunday, 4 January 2009 11:38 (fifteen years ago) link
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
― del griffith, Thursday, 10 June 2010 16:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Love this
Scary in a banal way like actual council estate thugs, maybe that's where it might not translate?
So funny as well
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 16 October 2017 21:56 (seven years ago) link
I love this movie.
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Monday, 16 October 2017 22:29 (seven years ago) link
council estate thug boss looks like George Michael
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Monday, 16 October 2017 22:30 (seven years ago) link
He's pure EastEnders panto looking
― Gary Synaesthesia (darraghmac), Monday, 16 October 2017 22:32 (seven years ago) link
Shane Meadows terrible movies give me the same kind of defeated feeling as listening to Micheal Gove talk.
― calzino, Monday, 16 October 2017 23:02 (seven years ago) link
Like he never even made one good movie, they are all crushingly shit.
― calzino, Monday, 16 October 2017 23:04 (seven years ago) link