yeah this is super fun imo
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 15 September 2011 04:48 (twelve years ago) link
ya Nick Frost was decently understated/hilarious iirc
― yuoowemeone, Thursday, 15 September 2011 04:48 (twelve years ago) link
There was a little discussion of this on some other thread somewhere, can't remember where
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 15 September 2011 04:49 (twelve years ago) link
here's armond's review
http://www.nypress.com/article-22688-attack-the-block.html
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 15 September 2011 04:52 (twelve years ago) link
This is finally in Portland. Organizing a screening run next week.
― Blind Diode Jefferson (kingfish), Thursday, 15 September 2011 05:04 (twelve years ago) link
Other thread was maybe 77.
Awesome soundtrack.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Thursday, 15 September 2011 05:09 (twelve years ago) link
i loved this but relating the kids to the aliens as the "other" seemed to muddle things a little. but yeah, one of my favorites of the year so far.
― Cosmo Vitelli, Thursday, 15 September 2011 09:42 (twelve years ago) link
Yup, loads of fun.
― Simon H., Thursday, 15 September 2011 12:39 (twelve years ago) link
^ nothing more to say really
― just sayin, Saturday, 17 September 2011 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
I want to say this film played one theater here for, like, half an hour.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 17 September 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
I was super bummed.
enjoyed this. much better kids/alien movie than Super 8.
― occam's hellraiser (latebloomer), Saturday, 17 September 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
Hmm, watching this now. Not getting much Carpenter/Hawks (though I see why someone might say that, siege-wise) nor Goonies, but I am getting a nice comic book vibe from this. And massive amounts of, um, "Critters."
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 17 September 2011 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
well, plot more than style of C/H, perhaps. I am unfamiliar w/ Critters and many comic books.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 17 September 2011 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, didn't detect really any Carpenter/Hawks overall.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Saturday, 17 September 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
But figured you were basically just using it to bait and ignored.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Saturday, 17 September 2011 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
jeezus
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 17 September 2011 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
this was terrific
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 17 September 2011 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
Eh, this was OK. Lots of low-budget shortcuts, with the monsters being the most ingenious work-around. A lot of it got kind of redundant, though I did like how easily these kids took out these giant all-teeth gorilla wolf beasts. The ending felt a little anti-climactic, but I had a good time overall. Love how age-approriate these little jerks were. Even when it's life or death they're compelled to fuck around and crack immature jokes.
Morbs, "Critters" isn't terribly good, but it was a smarter than it had to be cheap cross between E.T. and Gremlins, with these devious all-teeth space furballs laying siege to a little farm, intergalactic bounty hunters in pursuit.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 18 September 2011 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
Cosigning on the love here.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 19 September 2011 03:24 (twelve years ago) link
Critters 2 is probably even smarter, or at least more Gremlins 2-ian.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Monday, 19 September 2011 03:30 (twelve years ago) link
Kind of amazed that there was no British thread about this considering Joe Cornish is the sort of person UK ILX is generally all over. I suppose aliens rampaging round dark corridors translate pretty well. Is it doing well in the States?
This was pretty good, kind of came out a bit too early in Britain, had it emerged during or shortly after the riots it would've seemed incredibly pertinent politically. Middle class grime-listening comedy stoner brought the lols.
― Matt DC, Monday, 19 September 2011 09:24 (twelve years ago) link
It's grossed about $1 million in the US, $4M globally. I caught it at the end of about a 6-week run in NY, where it never played more than 1 or 2 theaters.
I also would probably have liked it more if it was subtitled.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Monday, 19 September 2011 11:49 (twelve years ago) link
I would have liked it better if it were subtitled in Esperanto. Indeed, everyone would have liked it better.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 19 September 2011 14:42 (twelve years ago) link
As far as I can tell it didn't play in DC save a couple weeks at an art house in July, but I DL'd it.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 19 September 2011 14:59 (twelve years ago) link
Always hated Adam and Joe and Nick Frost but was moved to watch this tonight and thought it was terrific!
― Stevie T, Monday, 19 September 2011 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
This was GREAT
― recent 2Pac news (admrl), Monday, 19 September 2011 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
WELCOME TO LONDON, MOTHERFUCKER
― recent 2Pac news (admrl), Monday, 19 September 2011 23:57 (twelve years ago) link
I'm gonna search but is this still playing in la
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:03 (twelve years ago) link
admrl
it is not, puff puff post
― recent 2Pac news (admrl), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 00:32 (twelve years ago) link
this movie was so funny and great. love how the stupid jokes never stopped and the action sequences were sick (like that kid says).
― symsymsym, Thursday, 22 September 2011 05:56 (twelve years ago) link
I only saw it a few days ago and already feel like watching it again. How can you hate a movie that just wants you to love it!!
― your girlfriend on facebook (admrl), Thursday, 22 September 2011 19:35 (twelve years ago) link
The "council tower" in the thread title always makes me laugh.
― your girlfriend on facebook (admrl), Thursday, 22 September 2011 19:45 (twelve years ago) link
Seeing this tonight
― Blind Diode Jefferson (kingfish), Thursday, 22 September 2011 19:54 (twelve years ago) link
It's fun, but seriously, keep expectations in check. It's sort of one note. But a fun note!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 September 2011 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
The "council tower" in the thread title always makes me laugh
surely you've noticed by now that we Yanks like to call a bloody tall building a tower
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 September 2011 20:09 (twelve years ago) link
"Hawks/Carpenter meets The Goonies" is pretty :\
― Beating up the Ritz (DavidM), Thursday, 22 September 2011 20:14 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah. Hawks and The Goonies aren't endorsements.
― michael assbender (Eric H.), Thursday, 22 September 2011 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
There's no Goonies in this at all. There is more Warriors. It's like Lil Warriors meets Critters.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 September 2011 20:35 (twelve years ago) link
I saw this at a really cool London theater with big comfy chairs & a beer/wine/food bar back in the spring, and I enjoyed myself at the movies more than I have in many, many years
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 22 September 2011 20:41 (twelve years ago) link
Eric, everyone but you knows that Hawks is great'
This film is significantly less stupid than The Warriors, whether that's a plus or not.
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 22 September 2011 20:44 (twelve years ago) link
the Warriors has it majorly beat for photography & sound design though and I don't care how bad you hate on the Warriors you are compelled by your love of film to admit that
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 22 September 2011 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
If anything, I didn't think "Block" was stupid enough.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 22 September 2011 21:32 (twelve years ago) link
I don't think you're stupid enough
― your girlfriend on facebook (admrl), Thursday, 22 September 2011 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry, I didn't mean any actual offense by that, it just felt fun to post it.
I will be running my genre-film thread titles past you persnickety c*nts in the future
also I've never watched the fucking Goonies, and AtB blows away every Carpenter I've seen except Starman
― incredibly middlebrow (Dr Morbius), Friday, 23 September 2011 01:20 (twelve years ago) link
Is that...challops?
I'm sorry, I still don't know how to use it right.
Anyway, pretty sure Attack The Block is great AND at least 2 or 3 John Carpenter films are as fun if not slightly more, and none of them are Starman.
Also don't be dumb, the Goonies is great. The Goonies is even better than Attack The Block, and if it was set in London instead of wherever it was set (which was where? I don't know) it would be even better.
― your girlfriend on facebook (admrl), Friday, 23 September 2011 01:25 (twelve years ago) link
If you've never seen the Goonies, why did you compare this to the Goonies in the thread title? And I'm hoping you're dead serious about this being better than any Carpenter save "Starman," when in fact it's better than every Carpenter save "Memoirs of an Invisible Man."
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 23 September 2011 02:27 (twelve years ago) link
"also I've never watched the fucking Goonies, and AtB blows away every Carpenter I've seen except Starman"
This is why no one in their right mind should care what you think about movies.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Friday, 23 September 2011 02:36 (twelve years ago) link
it really wasn't that good
― Number None, Sunday, 25 March 2012 05:57 (twelve years ago) link
i'd like to see you do better
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― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Sunday, 25 March 2012 05:59 (twelve years ago) link
I wanted it to be good
― Number None, Sunday, 25 March 2012 06:02 (twelve years ago) link
what were yr problems with it iyo
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 March 2012 06:17 (twelve years ago) link
tell them to my HAND
this was a great cool as hell little movie!!
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 March 2012 06:27 (twelve years ago) link
Not funny enough
― Number None, Sunday, 25 March 2012 06:38 (twelve years ago) link
like gold is "not shiny enough"
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Sunday, 25 March 2012 06:40 (twelve years ago) link
yeah. I have a feeling this probably worked better for mericans on some exoticism shit
― Number None, Sunday, 25 March 2012 06:46 (twelve years ago) link
thats prob true
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 March 2012 06:48 (twelve years ago) link
""south london"" = ""foreign projects"" etc
yee gods, it's a funny, exciting action flick about kids fighting monsters. location and culture are important to the film, therefore important to its appeal, i suppose, but that doesn't necessarily = "exoticism shit". it made more on its opening weekend in the UK than its entire US run.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Sunday, 25 March 2012 06:54 (twelve years ago) link
I'm glad it did well (Joe Cornish deserves it). I just didn't like it that much
― Number None, Sunday, 25 March 2012 06:59 (twelve years ago) link
It was excellent.
― polyphonic, Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:01 (twelve years ago) link
location and culture are important to the film, therefore important to its appeal, i suppose, but that doesn't necessarily = "exoticism shit". it made more on its opening weekend in the UK than its entire US run
i mean lets not play
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:02 (twelve years ago) link
you see surely how sentence two belies sentence once
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:03 (twelve years ago) link
*one
it did well, though not as well as it might've, largely because those to whom it effectively spoke were those who were prepared for a story for south london, that is to say, not vinton, iowa.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:05 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, but that doesn't mean that those mericans who did dig it were "on some exoticism shit". i just dislike that phrasing, which seems terribly loaded and disdainful.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:09 (twelve years ago) link
it's mildly surprising to me that this has an international audience at all, that kind of setting/humour doesn't usually travel well - can't think of any other instances
― lex pretend, Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:10 (twelve years ago) link
i mean i think the necessary converse (that it wasn't made for "vinton, iowa") means it was made for people prepared for a tale alien to their american experience (neither vinton, iowa nor ny, ny, so to speak), which this surely was in at least a couple of ways.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:12 (twelve years ago) link
and let met clarify when i say "made for a people prepared for a tale alien to their experience" that i just mean that a non-british audience imo is p clearly included in its storytelling
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:13 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, totally. might also appeal to americans with some familiarity with the world outside their front yard. i'd prefer to speak of the curious and/or open-minded than those "on some exoticism shit", which has p clear negative connotation.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:18 (twelve years ago) link
I was kind of being a dick with that phrasing. I just wanted it to be better!
― Number None, Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:22 (twelve years ago) link
i was kind of defending your wanting-to-be-a-dick
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:25 (twelve years ago) link
i don't know, i do that a lot lately, idk
okay, fine, i'm on some exoticism shit. you made me say it. i hope you're happy.
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:29 (twelve years ago) link
"exoticism shit" is so condescending to so many parties at once it's kind of amazing
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:30 (twelve years ago) link
like i said, i was being kind of a dick. What can i say, i'm drunk
― Number None, Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:33 (twelve years ago) link
domestically it did ok but doesnt seem to have done anything in the rest of eu, jp, aus etc
it ran for a few weeks here at least, without really having any promo or media attention. the following month Buxton sold out a five-night run of Bug btw!
― ┗|∵|┓ (sic), Sunday, 25 March 2012 07:35 (twelve years ago) link
Not really exoticism but some of the "street" dialogue might have sounded a little less like it was written by a middle-class white guy if you're in the US.
It was good, though. The kind of solid action / horror film Britain should be producing more of.
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Sunday, 25 March 2012 08:28 (twelve years ago) link
watched this last night, this was great fun. too bad it didn't get more than a superficial release in theaters here, I missed it entirely and never saw an ad for it.
― akm, Sunday, 25 March 2012 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
It did occur to me when comparing the film to Super 8 that I have no reason to assume Cornish has any more familiarity with 21st century council estate life than second-generation hollywooder JJ Abrams has with smalltown midwestern life. But at least Cornish is going out on a limb with something modern rather than faithfully regurgitating '80s Amblin fantasies.
― da croupier, Sunday, 25 March 2012 15:43 (twelve years ago) link
i knew somebody had to make that complaint to which i say
http://www.1065thearch.com/emedia/stl/4/434/43412.jpg
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Sunday, 25 March 2012 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
It did occur to me when comparing the film to Super 8 that I have no reason to assume Cornish has any more familiarity with 21st century council estate life than second-generation hollywooder JJ Abrams has with smalltown midwestern life.
main difference between the two is that attack the block actually worked
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Sunday, 25 March 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
ya tbh if the movie is awesome, "slang accuracy" is pretty low on my list of priorities
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Sunday, 25 March 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
ya tbh if the movie is awesome, "slang accuracy" is pretty low on my list of priorities --A Little Princess btw (s1ocki)
Otm
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 25 March 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
I thought the monsters were surprisingly effective too
― kinder, Sunday, 25 March 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
i liked that children were shown using and enjoying drugs
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Sunday, 25 March 2012 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
xxp, yeah it doesn't really detract from the film as an action movie but the lack of believable dialogue is kind of annoying at points and might have stopped the film connecting in a huge way with some of the target audience in the UK. It's by no means the worst offender for this, though.
― Une semaine de Bunty (ShariVari), Sunday, 25 March 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
was it a huge failure in council estates?
― Fozzy Osbourne (contenderizer), Sunday, 25 March 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Sunday, 25 March 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
dialogue is alright
'bruv' rather than BLUDDD was kinda a faux pas
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Sunday, 25 March 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
Watched this last night, liked it a lot.
When the credits came up discovered I went to school with one of the producers!
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 27 March 2012 13:19 (twelve years ago) link
Just saw this last night, terrific.
As a born (admittedly white, middle class and past 30) Londoner, the slang sounded fairly accurate to me.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 12:02 (twelve years ago) link
And the trustafarian guy trying to use the same lingo as the kids provided some of the biggest laughs for me, if only cos it was such a spot on observation of dudes like that.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 12:04 (twelve years ago) link
The fuck are they sayin
― dub job deems (darraghmac), Saturday, 13 July 2013 21:17 (ten years ago) link
innit
― BIG HOOS aka the denigrated boogeyman (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 13 July 2013 22:34 (ten years ago) link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2383689/Baboon-burglars-How-gang-kleptomaniac-monkeys-terrorises-estate-South-Africa-residents-scared-leave-house.html
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Saturday, 3 August 2013 13:33 (ten years ago) link
this looks fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TADKiHYj6RE
― FRE SHA VAC ADO (jed_), Wednesday, 17 October 2018 14:10 (five years ago) link