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"Sexy Beast"

I *finally* got round to watching the highly-recommended (within these forums anyway) Sexy Beast on Box Office yesterday.

I gotta be honest, I thought this film was fantastic! I thought Ray Winstone's performance was good in this flick, along with Ben Kingsley's character, Don Logan, who did a very convincing job playing a complete psychopath whose every other word was an expletive. It kept me enthralled from start to finish. Now to get it on DVD...

A great film.

"Do you miss it Gar? What Britain? No, it’s grey, it’s miserable, every long-faced **** walking along moaning, it’s a ****hole."

Your Honour wrote:
> Long Good Friday is only out on VHS at the moment.

Ok, I don't want LGF on VHS, I can't even begin to think about buying another VHS tape regardless of the film.

>Sexy Beast is out on DVD at the moment, has been for a while.

I know SB has been out for a while because I read Goatboy's review in this forum a while ago, just wanted to know whether SR had it stocked or whether I should buy it from play247.com for £15?

Long Good Friday is only out on VHS at the moment.

Sexy Beast is out on DVD at the moment, has been for a while.

Have SR actually got this film in stock?

I've just put it in the search box and selected DVD for categories and the search engine said it had nothing of that kind.....weird!

According to play.com it's being re-released in May on DVD, so I'll wait until then and spend the time purging my mind of Bob Hoskins.

It's strange I also have an odd compulsion to type Phil Collins every time I think Bob Hoskins. And believe me, that is one psychological link that nobody wants...

Fair enough.

I just remember watching Long Good Friday with my dad and it blew me away.
Hoskins doesn't seem like he's acting tough, he just is.
A tough little cockney that you'd never mess with.

Maybe you're right, it was the first thing I saw him in, and he's always been Harold Shand to me.

hmm.. this is surreal. I had exactly the same argument with my English teacher, who started talking about the Long Good Friday. I don't know.. maybe it's a generation thing. I grew up on the Bob Hoskins of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?" and "Super Mario". When someone says Bob Hoskins I think Bob 'It's good to talk' Hoskins. I find it extremely difficult to find the man scary. I can see that it might have been different if I had actually seen the film without my mind having been tainted by his later works, but I've been brainwashed into thinking that Bob Hoskins is perennially uncool.

Michael Caine, however, can be a scary, scary man. In fact, I heard him on the radio this morning saying that the secret to playing a hard-man was not to blink for unusually long periods of time. I just find Caine a more suitable gangster film star then Hoskins. It's nothing against Hoskins acting ability, or even the quality of the film. "Get Carter" tips the balance for me because Michael Caine works for me.

I'll try watching the Long Good Friday again, but I think I'll probably still be haunted by those BT adverts...

Get Carter was ok, but in my opinion purely on the films I love to watch, The Long Good Friday has yet to be bettered.

Get Carter I enjoyed, don't get me wrong, but it's dated something fierce. There are some classic scenes and lines but it reeks of 70s Brit Cinema.

But The Long Good Friday...ah now that is watchable over and over again.
It's Bob Hoskins finest moment, and more than excuses the utter bilge he's done since then (24/7 not included).
It's well written, awesomely acted and believable.
And it supplied Guy Ritchie with his entire career.

So many familiar faces pop up in it, Pierce Brosnan's 1st role as "Gay Irish Hitman" with no lines, Gillian Taylforth, Charlie from Casualty.
It's just absolute perfection, faultless.
And I'm always, always repeating dialogue to myself and making all around me go "eh?"

"Lot of dignity in that, going out like a raspberry ripple"
"Oi, mind my grief!"

"Is that a gun H?"
"Don't be silly, Billy, would I come 'unting for you wiv me fingers?"

"I've gone into partnership wiv the Germans..yeah! Krauts! They know 'ow to get stuff done. I'm looking for someone with vitality, a touch of the Dunkirk spirit, someone that's contributed more to culture than an 'ot dog, know what I mean? I've 'eard of sleeping partners but you two are in a f----ing coma!Mafia? Hur hur, I've sh-t 'em"

And the final 5 mins, it's a close shot of Bob Hoskins in the back of a car. One continous shot of him realising what's going on and everything that's happened.
Some of the finest acting I've ever seen, and it's all done through expressions.

Nope, for me, Brit gangster films started with The Long Good Friday and have so far stopped with Sexy Beast.

Goatboy wrote:
> Best British gangster flick ever (apart from The Long Good
> Friday).

Get Carter?

Bleeders wrote:
One of my
> favourite moments was where Kingsley's character was talking to himself in the
> mirror.


Yep.
My personal Don moment was when he stormed back to the villa after leaving the airport, simmering in the car all the way and was just flying up the stairs "Whadyoufinkiam? Ay? Ay? Some kind of ----? I'll f-----ng bury you if you keep staring AT ME H!"

Most swearing in a film ever.
Most Ben Kingsley being mental ever.
Most Ray Winstone in yellow pants cooling his nads with ice ever.

Best British gangster flick ever (apart from The Long Good Friday).

Even Lovejoy was excellent.
Slowly but surely the word of Sexy Beast is spreading

Muaha. MUAHAHA!

Let's try again: Withnail and I was a dull monotone film, with rubbisdh acting from Paul McGann and even worse from Grant. I didn't find the homosexual inneuendos funny at all.