ATTACK THE BLOCK, Hawks/Carpenter meets The Goonies in a South London council tower

lot of people on imdb angry abt the glorification of youthful thugs who would be better shot by george zimmerman, iirc

it really wasn't that good

i'd like to see you do better

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I wanted it to be good

what were yr problems with it iyo

tell them to my HAND

this was a great cool as hell little movie!!

Not funny enough

like gold is "not shiny enough"

yeah. I have a feeling this probably worked better for mericans on some exoticism shit

thats prob true

""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.

I'm glad it did well (Joe Cornish deserves it). I just didn't like it that much

It was excellent.

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

you see surely how sentence two belies sentence once

*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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I was kind of being a dick with that phrasing. I just wanted it to be better!

i was kind of defending your wanting-to-be-a-dick

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.

"exoticism shit" is so condescending to so many parties at once it's kind of amazing

like i said, i was being kind of a dick. What can i say, i'm drunk

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!

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.

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.

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 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.

i knew somebody had to make that complaint to which i say

http://www.1065thearch.com/emedia/stl/4/434/43412.jpg

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

ya tbh if the movie is awesome, "slang accuracy" is pretty low on my list of priorities

ya tbh if the movie is awesome, "slang accuracy" is pretty low on my list of priorities
--A Little Princess btw (s1ocki)

Otm

I thought the monsters were surprisingly effective too

i liked that children were shown using and enjoying drugs

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.

was it a huge failure in council estates?

lol

dialogue is alright

'bruv' rather than BLUDDD was kinda a faux pas

Watched this last night, liked it a lot.

When the credits came up discovered I went to school with one of the producers!

Just saw this last night, terrific.

ya tbh if the movie is awesome, "slang accuracy" is pretty low on my list of priorities

As a born (admittedly white, middle class and past 30) Londoner, the slang sounded fairly accurate to me.

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.

The fuck are they sayin

innit

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2383689/Baboon-burglars-How-gang-kleptomaniac-monkeys-terrorises-estate-South-Africa-residents-scared-leave-house.html

this looks fun:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TADKiHYj6RE