IIIIII'm forever blowing bubbles! Pretty bubble in the air! They fly so high, they reach the sky, and like my dreams they fade and die!
Elijah Wood plays a harvard student unfairly expelled for taking a cocaine wrap for the admission president's son 2 months before graduation. In his dispair, he goes to england, originally to see his sister, but due to getting mixed up with his brotehr in law, ends up getting involved with West Ham's "Green Street Elite".
This was a good movie. Good, but not great. The stumbles came from what seemed to me as a lack of a concept of a target audience. There's enough "this is life" there, but towards the end there a bit of "life lesson learned" themes. And honestly, I would have enjoyed the movie better without the narrative.
That said, it was very enjoyable. The action was VERY realistic, down to every fight just being a show of force, aggression, and tolerance to injury. The rivalry between Milwall and West Ham was kind of over the top in subject matter, but not unbelieveably so. Elijah Wood doesn't seem like he'd make a good hooligan, and in the end he only sort of does anyway, as every fight involves him getting the shit kicked out of him at first. That alone entertained me, especially the first few fights where he'd get taken down almost immediately and have to recover and dive back in.
The education about cockney rhyming slang and football hooliganism is more like a 101 refresher course than an in depth look, which is another place it got weird. The normal hipster types in the theatre didn't really get what was going on, and the people like me found that part of the exposition amusing at best...
I'll give it 6.5/10 stars. It's a good waste of 1 hour and 45 minutes, and I WILL buy the DVD, but it's not mind blowing or anything.
fun side-note:
One of my favorite bands, The Cockney Rejects, actually do the West Ham United song as an Oi! song, so I already knew the words. When the scene came where the bar starts singing it, and the guy goes "that's our team's song!", I sang along, and two peopel moved away from me like I was going to eat their children or something.
Elijah Wood plays a harvard student unfairly expelled for taking a cocaine wrap for the admission president's son 2 months before graduation. In his dispair, he goes to england, originally to see his sister, but due to getting mixed up with his brotehr in law, ends up getting involved with West Ham's "Green Street Elite".
This was a good movie. Good, but not great. The stumbles came from what seemed to me as a lack of a concept of a target audience. There's enough "this is life" there, but towards the end there a bit of "life lesson learned" themes. And honestly, I would have enjoyed the movie better without the narrative.
That said, it was very enjoyable. The action was VERY realistic, down to every fight just being a show of force, aggression, and tolerance to injury. The rivalry between Milwall and West Ham was kind of over the top in subject matter, but not unbelieveably so. Elijah Wood doesn't seem like he'd make a good hooligan, and in the end he only sort of does anyway, as every fight involves him getting the shit kicked out of him at first. That alone entertained me, especially the first few fights where he'd get taken down almost immediately and have to recover and dive back in.
The education about cockney rhyming slang and football hooliganism is more like a 101 refresher course than an in depth look, which is another place it got weird. The normal hipster types in the theatre didn't really get what was going on, and the people like me found that part of the exposition amusing at best...
I'll give it 6.5/10 stars. It's a good waste of 1 hour and 45 minutes, and I WILL buy the DVD, but it's not mind blowing or anything.
fun side-note:
One of my favorite bands, The Cockney Rejects, actually do the West Ham United song as an Oi! song, so I already knew the words. When the scene came where the bar starts singing it, and the guy goes "that's our team's song!", I sang along, and two peopel moved away from me like I was going to eat their children or something.
diamond:
thats a long journal entry.... im usually the one who moves away from ppl at the movies...lol i get very annoyed, but that all happens b4 the movie starts u can usually tell if someone is gonna be retarted n i allways be sure to sigh really loud but they never look like children eatter..... 
lol
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othello:
You have to see the movie to get it. It's basically a watered down FOTBALL FACTORY with an effeminate American college slob instead of an only slightly effeminate Brit chav.