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

"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