I'm sober now
and on my PC, so I can now do justice to my favourite film.

It has been mentioned a few times before, but it deserves a write up. Dead Man's Shoes.

All of Shane Meadows's films are fantastic, but Dead Man's Shoes really struck a chord with me. The setting of the movie is so realistic and recognisable and the central character is a tremendous split personality played amazingly by Paddy Considine. The end of the film is so moving and yet so horrific, just awesome.

All the boxes are ticked.... hilariously funny, tender and yet often violent and stomach churning. And it all happens in a small town in the midlands, making it instantly believable.

If you haven't seen this film, it has the Baw__Bag seal of approval, you'll love it. It led me into more of Shane Meadows' films such as This Is England and A Room For Romeo Brass.... all of which are also fantastic, yet none quite so much as Dead Man's Shoes.

Get it watched, you'll like it :D
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Mon 21 Jul 2008, 15:24, 9 replies)

It's been mentioned earlier today but yes
bloody great film.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhYRM59eKro

cried all they way through
( buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Mon 21 Jul 2008, 15:39, closed)

UNBELIEVABLY
Great film. Yes yes yes one of my faves.

Considine is a legend.
(Waspard has your wank bank account details, Mon 21 Jul 2008, 15:41, closed)

One of two films
that made me cry. The other was the Land Before Time. I was 8.
( Raindance Work is inversely proportional to post-count, Mon 21 Jul 2008, 15:52, closed)

Yup
One of my fave films of all time and I only bloody saw it last year!
(Mr G to you , Fathead, Mon 21 Jul 2008, 16:36, closed)

I loved it
When I saw it, I couldn't sleep afterwards. I had the whole thing runnning through my mind- the thing that got to me most was the wtist, not the twist where you find out what happened to Anthony, but when you find out what Richard's motivation is.

I find it difficult to view it as a 'revenge' film, he's driven by guilt, so the only person he's getting revenge on is himslef. Does it count as vengeful retribution when it's to assuage personal guilt rather than right a wrong?

Considine and Kebbell were superb in that. Utterly, utterly believable at every level. Everybody I've made watch it (except for the lovely Mrs Dozer) has been struck dumb by its power.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Mon 21 Jul 2008, 20:28, closed)

I got hit on a personal level
at the end because it touched a raw nerve I never knew was there... a vaguely similar feeling to Richards. I had to leave the room at one point it was too hard to watch and it still gets me every time I watch it.

I've forced many people to watch it too lol and they all love it, so much so my DVD has gone missing :P
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Mon 21 Jul 2008, 20:47, closed)

Brother recommended DMS to me
Bloody good it is too, best film I've seen in ages.

I initially downloaded a dodgy DivX of it and watched it on my work laptop in a bar at Schiphol airport, with my headphones on. Wasn't expecting much, but I was crying by the end (this could also have been due to the amount of wine that I'd been drinking on expenses).

Liked it so much I ordered the DVD so that I could watch it again with my OH with subtitles (her first language is Spanish), but alas, you can only get an NTSC DVD version which seems as though an American has subtitled by ear, and I get the impression they hadn't understood much of the dialect because a lot of it is just utter nonsense and bears little resemblance to what they're actually saying on screen. The Spanish subtitler seemed to have used that as a basis for their own translation, so it reads like one of those really bad Babelfish translations.

So looks as though I'll have to do my own live translation, might have to pretend that I don't understand the dialect myself in the bit near the start where they're reading out of Razzle.
(trashbat, Tue 22 Jul 2008, 23:33, closed)

Hehe
Al-fresco :P
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Wed 23 Jul 2008, 2:16, closed)

It's from...
the byzantine period.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Wed 23 Jul 2008, 18:48, closed)