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Post by Patty Dawes on Aug 21, 2007 8:08:29 GMT
I'm with you DazzaB RFRB is my favourite, followed closely by TIE. I would actually put 24/7 next followed by DMS.
Not taking anything away from DMS, I love it. I just love the others even more.
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Post by anonlytwin on Aug 29, 2007 14:33:05 GMT
haha, i was borrowing your economy not making a direct retort to your choice Ry... haven't been on in ages and that cracked me up... if i'm wrong then i don't want to be right!! this is an impossible choice. its entirely dependent on which of RFRB. DMS and TIE i have watched last |
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Post by PatrickCoyle on Aug 29, 2007 14:35:44 GMT
For me, it's DMS first, then a tie for Romeo and England, then 24/7.
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Post by RydCook on Aug 29, 2007 18:54:19 GMT
haha, i was borrowing your economy not making a direct retort to your choice Ry...Kezz, read this and pleeeaase understand why i wanna change my username! |
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Post by fatself on Aug 29, 2007 21:44:51 GMT
DMS!
This Is England is brilliant for the social realism and sagacious response to the political leanings of that movement in that era...
but this documentation can't beat the sheer brutality and organic animosity that envelops Dead Mans Shoes. Its surrealist flourishes and characterization show it as a masterclass in the filmic form.
and yadda yadda yadda.
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Post by Morell™ on Aug 31, 2007 15:31:19 GMT
Whoa there. Stop. I think your all mistaken.
FACT: 'Small Time' is the greatest of them all.
Then ARFRB, DMS, TIE, 24/7
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Post by halfpint on Sept 2, 2007 23:49:48 GMT
DMS, just.
But you wouldn't believe what some bird was saying the other day. This australian girl at work was saying how she likes british films, i said 'oh yeah, like what?' She replied 'Green Street' i rolled my eyes and told her its shit. I haven't even seen it and i know its shit. It's obvious, Elijah Wood in a football hooligan film? Gimme a break!
But then she said she did watch a 'crap' british film recently but didn't know the name. She said it was a revenge film about two brothers and one hung himself, i immediately knew it was DMS, the audacity! Apparently it was 'boring' and nothing happens in it....what the fuck?!
Bloody aussies!
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Post by bigben on Sept 3, 2007 1:19:18 GMT
You've got to forgive her halfpint, she is after all an aussie and therefore could not be expected to understand subtlety or style, next time you see her give her a copy of Doom the movie, she has a chance of following that one.
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Post by jill on Sept 3, 2007 6:55:07 GMT
My brother took ages to discover Shane's films, but after watching DMS and loving it, he quickly bought RfRB and 24/7 too and likes both. When I was visiting him yesterday, we were talking about TIE. He was decidedly underwhelmed...'yeah, it was OK you know, not great, but OK.' Mind you he gave exactly the same review to London to Brighton, so I'll comfort myself by imagining that he was having seriously off-day when he went to the cinema. No accounting for taste eh?
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Post by pointblank on Sept 3, 2007 17:33:05 GMT
i am a huge,huge fan of the gary oldman film nil by mouth so for that reason (social realism) i will say TIE, BUT i loved the end of DMS and it is in my all time top 5...........
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Post by saffy on Sept 5, 2007 10:39:15 GMT
OOOh this is a hard one for me as DMS's was the first film that made me go "WOW" and to rush out and buy another Shane Meadows film which then led me to rush out and buy EVERY film I could find made by this special man.
Having seen This Is England twice now (one night after the other), I'm still undecided. The harshness of life in England in the early 80's, of Thatcher and all the rest well, that's the time I grew up too, so I have total empathy.
The hatred that comes over to us all from Combo in This Is England and of RIchards chatacter in Dead Man's Shoes, is frighteningly real and made me cry, both because they scared me as characters and also, because I felt sorry for them too. Shane's way of getting this over to us as viewers, is outstanding and I applaud him.
I think I to watch them both again.
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Post by fatself on Sept 5, 2007 11:18:14 GMT
The word ''social realism'' is being banded about in the media recently, and for that reason Shane and TIE keep being affiliated to the likes of Ken Loach and Mike Leigh.
minor similarites aside, there a world apart.
Love them all though.
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Post by lunatrix on Sept 9, 2007 18:12:40 GMT
Both very very different films, i respect each piece of film individually, to me i think 'Made In England' is more social realism / period and dead Mans Shoes is horror / thriller - dunno just my thoughts, but they are both fucking ace
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Post by Gareth on Sept 11, 2007 21:43:35 GMT
I think TIE's one thing DMS is another, it's impossible to compare them!
but Romeo Brass is sort of a mix of the two it's TIE type rites of passage in the beggining and then the second halfs more like deadmans shoes in a way
If I could only have one of shanes films on a desert island it'd probably have to be romeo brass luckily I'll probably never have to make that choice!
bring on Le Donk and King of the Gypsies to make the choice even harder!
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