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Movie Recommendation of the Week
17 years ago
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It's been a full three journals (well, two and a half) since I've gone and done some odd movie-related abuse on the journal system here. Ridiculous! So, without further adieu, here's the first installment of something that (like it or not) I'd like to make a regular thing: Relaxing Dragon's Movie Recommendation of the Week! *throws confetti*
Yeah, I used that bit before, but no one saw it, so it doesn't matter :P
It's all in the title. Every week I'll bring up a film (from any given genre or era), give it a little advertisement (possibly link to a video if I can find it), and hope that one of you goes out and watches it. Simple as that. And here we go...
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
A crime flick set in London in the late nineties, this was Guy Ritichie's directorial debut (and still his best work, in my opinion). The story follows four friends -Tom, Soap, Eddie, and Bacon- who, after a crooked card came with local mobster Hatchet Harry, end up owing him 500,000 pounds, to be paid back in a week or Harry starts chopping off their fingers, one by one.
As they try to figure out how to get the money, a group of thieves living next door plan a robbery of some laid back drug dealers, Harry's subordinate Barry the Baptist hires two idiots to steal some rare and expensive guns from an old house (which they promptly sell, thinking everything old is worthless), and Harry's debt collector Big Chris (god I love the names in this movie) tries to keep everyone in line. And that isn't even all the characters. Over the course of the movie, these little sub-plots weave in and out of one another, eventually meeting up in a rather ridiculous (but still awesome) way.
The movie is both a crime flick and a comedy. There's a good amount of humor to be found in how everyone kind of bumbles around, and some of the situations are just hilarious to watch (Big Chris' intro in a tanning salon is great stuff; watching him hammer out a guy for a variety of reasons, from an unpaid debt to using bad language in front of his son (Little Chris) is just awesome). The final climax of this movie is also one of the best I have ever seen, and one that will leave you a little dumbfounded (and definitely laughing).
The biggest flaw in this film is that it isn't very easy to access by Americans, and the reason for this is because everyone speaks very quickly in heavy cockney accents. Subtitles may be appropriate for the first time around, but once you get the hang of it all (may take you a viewing or two), a lot more jokes are going to become apparent.
It's a terrific movie, one that's great fun to watch, one you don;t need to think to hard about (it's a kinda smart film, but in a popcorn cinema kind of way) and certainly in my Top 5. Also, as a added bonus, this movie was the acting debut of Jason Stathom, and it's hard not to like him (and even if you're a naysayer, he does an excellent job in this movie).
For: Adults (lotta swearing, lotta violence, lot more swearing, a bit more violence, and a scene in a strip club)
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwg6.....eature=related
Yeah, I used that bit before, but no one saw it, so it doesn't matter :P
It's all in the title. Every week I'll bring up a film (from any given genre or era), give it a little advertisement (possibly link to a video if I can find it), and hope that one of you goes out and watches it. Simple as that. And here we go...
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
A crime flick set in London in the late nineties, this was Guy Ritichie's directorial debut (and still his best work, in my opinion). The story follows four friends -Tom, Soap, Eddie, and Bacon- who, after a crooked card came with local mobster Hatchet Harry, end up owing him 500,000 pounds, to be paid back in a week or Harry starts chopping off their fingers, one by one.
As they try to figure out how to get the money, a group of thieves living next door plan a robbery of some laid back drug dealers, Harry's subordinate Barry the Baptist hires two idiots to steal some rare and expensive guns from an old house (which they promptly sell, thinking everything old is worthless), and Harry's debt collector Big Chris (god I love the names in this movie) tries to keep everyone in line. And that isn't even all the characters. Over the course of the movie, these little sub-plots weave in and out of one another, eventually meeting up in a rather ridiculous (but still awesome) way.
The movie is both a crime flick and a comedy. There's a good amount of humor to be found in how everyone kind of bumbles around, and some of the situations are just hilarious to watch (Big Chris' intro in a tanning salon is great stuff; watching him hammer out a guy for a variety of reasons, from an unpaid debt to using bad language in front of his son (Little Chris) is just awesome). The final climax of this movie is also one of the best I have ever seen, and one that will leave you a little dumbfounded (and definitely laughing).
The biggest flaw in this film is that it isn't very easy to access by Americans, and the reason for this is because everyone speaks very quickly in heavy cockney accents. Subtitles may be appropriate for the first time around, but once you get the hang of it all (may take you a viewing or two), a lot more jokes are going to become apparent.
It's a terrific movie, one that's great fun to watch, one you don;t need to think to hard about (it's a kinda smart film, but in a popcorn cinema kind of way) and certainly in my Top 5. Also, as a added bonus, this movie was the acting debut of Jason Stathom, and it's hard not to like him (and even if you're a naysayer, he does an excellent job in this movie).
For: Adults (lotta swearing, lotta violence, lot more swearing, a bit more violence, and a scene in a strip club)
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwg6.....eature=related
