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"Sexy Beast"

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Wed 19/09/01 at 13:23
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Posts: 787
Watch this film you slack-jawed yokels.

"Guy Ritchie is cool, Snatch as top"
No. No no no no no no no no no
Sexy Beast is the single best Brit Crime Flick(tm) since..er..The Long Good Friday.

Ray "Shaaat it you caaaaaant" Winstone
Ben "Nice" Kingsley
Amanda "nude" Redman
Ian "Baggy Face" McShane

All these people are marvellous.
Winstone plays against type as a big loveable ex-con wanting to stay in the sun and enjoy his beautiful life and wife.
But Ben Kingsley shows up to get him for one more job.

Cliche?
Maybe, but Jonathan Glazer (Radiohead "Street Spirit" video director) creates pure cinema magic with this.
From the dream-sequence with an 8ft tall rabbit armed with an uzi to the opening of Ray Winstone almost being killed by a boulder...every single frame is perfect.

The script sings, just don't listen if you can't handle profanity on a level not seen since Glengarry Glen Ross.
Ben Kingsley is one of the meanest, most foul-mouthed nutters ever in any film.

Ever.

Surreal at times, brutally nasty at others and has one of the most original "heist" scenes ever.
Imagine the beginning of Heat, but underwater.
Please, if you think Guy Ritchie is the saviour of "Brit Crime Flick" (tm), then watch this and feel ashamed you ever thought mockney RADA monkeys could play cockney.

Just watch this for the sight of Ray Winstone in yellow swimming trunks cooling his nads with an ice-filled towel.
It's funnier than it sounds.

Forget every other imitator and rip-off of American Gangster flicks, watch this.

And Guy Ritchie?
Call Jonathan Glazer "Master", cos you just got owned.
Wed 19/09/01 at 20:08
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Posts: 23,216
I wonder if there is a film that I've seen that you haven't...

What about "Waxworks of terror", or something of a simular name, which has visual and audio warnings before the "extra gruesome bits"?

Which then turned out to be quite convincingly ungruesome, but made it even funnier.

Which reminds me of a excellent program that used to be on... Exploitica, I think it was called. They just re-run really, really old tv shows on it, adding little captions. Great stuff for drunken tiredness.
Wed 19/09/01 at 17:56
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"Infantalised Forums"
Posts: 23,089
On video to rent and DVD to rent or buy.

I thought SR might stock it, for a proper review but they don't.

I guess I AM the guy that went to watch it then.
Ah well, this is my film and nobody else is allowed to watch it.
Or if you do, I liked it first.

nyah nyah nyah
Wed 19/09/01 at 17:51
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Posts: 23,216
Cinema/video/dvd?

I really haven't a clue. I'm out of touch with tv/cinema/basically everything.
Wed 19/09/01 at 13:23
Regular
"Infantalised Forums"
Posts: 23,089
Watch this film you slack-jawed yokels.

"Guy Ritchie is cool, Snatch as top"
No. No no no no no no no no no
Sexy Beast is the single best Brit Crime Flick(tm) since..er..The Long Good Friday.

Ray "Shaaat it you caaaaaant" Winstone
Ben "Nice" Kingsley
Amanda "nude" Redman
Ian "Baggy Face" McShane

All these people are marvellous.
Winstone plays against type as a big loveable ex-con wanting to stay in the sun and enjoy his beautiful life and wife.
But Ben Kingsley shows up to get him for one more job.

Cliche?
Maybe, but Jonathan Glazer (Radiohead "Street Spirit" video director) creates pure cinema magic with this.
From the dream-sequence with an 8ft tall rabbit armed with an uzi to the opening of Ray Winstone almost being killed by a boulder...every single frame is perfect.

The script sings, just don't listen if you can't handle profanity on a level not seen since Glengarry Glen Ross.
Ben Kingsley is one of the meanest, most foul-mouthed nutters ever in any film.

Ever.

Surreal at times, brutally nasty at others and has one of the most original "heist" scenes ever.
Imagine the beginning of Heat, but underwater.
Please, if you think Guy Ritchie is the saviour of "Brit Crime Flick" (tm), then watch this and feel ashamed you ever thought mockney RADA monkeys could play cockney.

Just watch this for the sight of Ray Winstone in yellow swimming trunks cooling his nads with an ice-filled towel.
It's funnier than it sounds.

Forget every other imitator and rip-off of American Gangster flicks, watch this.

And Guy Ritchie?
Call Jonathan Glazer "Master", cos you just got owned.

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