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Yawn factory would be more accurate.
Highly average preachy piece of completely none shocking dross. It played like a government endorsed anti hooliganism, anti drugs, anti booze docu-drama. We all know that these things can be (and in the case of hooliganism always is) bad, but we don't need it shoved down our throats in such a patronising shameless manner.
We all know gangster activity is generally a bad thing, but at least in films like Pulp Fiction, Lock Stock or Snatch, there is a decent story line to go with it. This garbage just went from one terrible 'action' scene to another, attempting to shock with its 'horrific' depiction of unbridled violence. Sorry, but I've seen worse violence in TV advertisements, and they were not nearly as righteous and patronising.
The attempt at depth with the lead character, with its spiritual and surreal undertones, were pathetic. By the end I was just hoping all the terribly portrayed characters would get killed, which didn't happen. Just one "twist" that has been seen in a hundred other decent films before this.
Not a good example of british film-making at all. A shame, as a few of the actors have displayed talent in better films. Avoid.
Highly average preachy piece of completely none shocking dross. It played like a government endorsed anti hooliganism, anti drugs, anti booze docu-drama. We all know that these things can be (and in the case of hooliganism always is) bad, but we don't need it shoved down our throats in such a patronising shameless manner.
We all know gangster activity is generally a bad thing, but at least in films like Pulp Fiction, Lock Stock or Snatch, there is a decent story line to go with it. This garbage just went from one terrible 'action' scene to another, attempting to shock with its 'horrific' depiction of unbridled violence. Sorry, but I've seen worse violence in TV advertisements, and they were not nearly as righteous and patronising.
The attempt at depth with the lead character, with its spiritual and surreal undertones, were pathetic. By the end I was just hoping all the terribly portrayed characters would get killed, which didn't happen. Just one "twist" that has been seen in a hundred other decent films before this.
Not a good example of british film-making at all. A shame, as a few of the actors have displayed talent in better films. Avoid.
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Yawn factory would be more accurate.
Highly average preachy piece of completely none shocking dross. It played like a government endorsed anti hooliganism, anti drugs, anti booze docu-drama. We all know that these things can be (and in the case of hooliganism always is) bad, but we don't need it shoved down our throats in such a patronising shameless manner.
We all know gangster activity is generally a bad thing, but at least in films like Pulp Fiction, Lock Stock or Snatch, there is a decent story line to go with it. This garbage just went from one terrible 'action' scene to another, attempting to shock with its 'horrific' depiction of unbridled violence. Sorry, but I've seen worse violence in TV advertisements, and they were not nearly as righteous and patronising.
The attempt at depth with the lead character, with its spiritual and surreal undertones, were pathetic. By the end I was just hoping all the terribly portrayed characters would get killed, which didn't happen. Just one "twist" that has been seen in a hundred other decent films before this.
Not a good example of british film-making at all. A shame, as a few of the actors have displayed talent in better films. Avoid.
Highly average preachy piece of completely none shocking dross. It played like a government endorsed anti hooliganism, anti drugs, anti booze docu-drama. We all know that these things can be (and in the case of hooliganism always is) bad, but we don't need it shoved down our throats in such a patronising shameless manner.
We all know gangster activity is generally a bad thing, but at least in films like Pulp Fiction, Lock Stock or Snatch, there is a decent story line to go with it. This garbage just went from one terrible 'action' scene to another, attempting to shock with its 'horrific' depiction of unbridled violence. Sorry, but I've seen worse violence in TV advertisements, and they were not nearly as righteous and patronising.
The attempt at depth with the lead character, with its spiritual and surreal undertones, were pathetic. By the end I was just hoping all the terribly portrayed characters would get killed, which didn't happen. Just one "twist" that has been seen in a hundred other decent films before this.
Not a good example of british film-making at all. A shame, as a few of the actors have displayed talent in better films. Avoid.
Yeah it's not lock stock or pulp fiction. It belongs with Scum, Face and other average movies.
It's pretty stupid but entertaining with characters ranging from chavs to super chavs.
The ending was a surprise considering it seemed to be building up to something obvious.
Romper stomper did the same sort of thing AGES ago and much better too.
Did you notice that it was funded by Rockstar?
A very strange movie. My brother loves it, especially the extras.
It's pretty stupid but entertaining with characters ranging from chavs to super chavs.
The ending was a surprise considering it seemed to be building up to something obvious.
Romper stomper did the same sort of thing AGES ago and much better too.
Did you notice that it was funded by Rockstar?
A very strange movie. My brother loves it, especially the extras.
Hedfix wrote:
> The ending was a surprise considering it seemed to be building up to
> something obvious.
yeah, i enjoyed that aspect of the movie.
if you overthnk it then you can read enough into the football factory to make it passable, but considering the audience it's aimed at, i can't see them overthinking anything except what angle to wear their hat at.
> Romper stomper did the same sort of thing AGES ago and much better
> too.
Romper Stomper is in the same kind of league. pretty innovative the first time you se it.. then it's a bit rubbish (not that i intend to watch the football factory a 2nd time to see if it's still average).
the best football violence movie ever is "I.D".
fact.
go watch that instead.
> The ending was a surprise considering it seemed to be building up to
> something obvious.
yeah, i enjoyed that aspect of the movie.
if you overthnk it then you can read enough into the football factory to make it passable, but considering the audience it's aimed at, i can't see them overthinking anything except what angle to wear their hat at.
> Romper stomper did the same sort of thing AGES ago and much better
> too.
Romper Stomper is in the same kind of league. pretty innovative the first time you se it.. then it's a bit rubbish (not that i intend to watch the football factory a 2nd time to see if it's still average).
the best football violence movie ever is "I.D".
fact.
go watch that instead.
Hedfix wrote:
> Yeah it's not lock stock or pulp fiction. It belongs with Scum, Face
> and other average movies.
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"Scum and other average movies"
And it was at this point I realised your judgement is wrong and your opinion invalid.
> Yeah it's not lock stock or pulp fiction. It belongs with Scum, Face
> and other average movies.
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"Scum and other average movies"
And it was at this point I realised your judgement is wrong and your opinion invalid.
Hey Hedfix; where's your tool?!
Scum is slightly below average, it was late.
It's the fact you rate dross like Lock, Stock as anything other than cokernee balls with 60% nicked from Long Good Friday, 20% nicked from Mean Streets and 10% nicked from Hard Eight.
Hedfix wrote:
> Scum is slightly below average, it was late.
Huh? 1977? I didn't realise there was a time limit on hard hitting borstal dramas.
> Scum is slightly below average, it was late.
Huh? 1977? I didn't realise there was a time limit on hard hitting borstal dramas.
I haven't seen any of those. My brother raved about Lock Stock and asked me to buy it many years back. I bough Event Horizon and 2 other cheaper movies instead. The hype still interested me so I finally saw it. It was stylish and funny: I enjoyed it as a break from the usual american gangster movies.
It was a movie, I enjoyed it.
Do I rate it highly? Not really. Was it entertaining? Yes. Was Football Factory anywhere near as entertaining? No.
Therefore Football Factory is 'no lock stock'.
It was a movie, I enjoyed it.
Do I rate it highly? Not really. Was it entertaining? Yes. Was Football Factory anywhere near as entertaining? No.
Therefore Football Factory is 'no lock stock'.
Pandaemonium wrote:
> Hedfix wrote:
> Scum is slightly below average, it was late.
>
> Huh? 1977? I didn't realise there was a time limit on hard hitting
> borstal dramas.
I was correcting what I'd written at, *checks*, just after 4 in the morning.
> Hedfix wrote:
> Scum is slightly below average, it was late.
>
> Huh? 1977? I didn't realise there was a time limit on hard hitting
> borstal dramas.
I was correcting what I'd written at, *checks*, just after 4 in the morning.
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