Equipoise, you’re over-promoting it. It’s a good movie with several good laughs, but it not the Greatest Thing Ever. (It ain’t no Sean of the Dead.)
Worth seeing, but if you go into this movie with through-the-ceiling expectations you’re going to be disappointed. IMHO
Just a bump to say that Attack The Block comes out on DVD in America tomorrow, Tuesday the 25th.
As far as over-promoting it, really? It’s hardly gotten any publicity at all. It hasn’t had any (or hardly any) press/billboards/newspaper-magazine-television ads or anything that your average Hollywood movie would take for granted. Barely anyone has even heard of it, let alone seen it. Its severely limited run around the country meant that most people will see it on DVD/streaming.
I can’t believe that MY love of the movie, and posting theaters it played in, is suddenly making it over hyped and over-promoted. That’s just…come on. I don’t even know what to say to that. Am I supposed to be mute (or muted) about a movie I love? I already am, most of the time. I’ve seen so many movies this year I deeply loved, and rarely mentioned them. This one is different because it’s just a good time, fun, and different. I’m compelled to put a bug into people’s ear about it. Those who might like it anyway.
I certainly don’t expect everybody to go gaga the way I have. Your reaction is perfectly great to me, good movie with several good laughs, that makes me happy. I said at the start that not everyone would like it. I’m fine with that too (unless the reason is bigotry and classism, those people can get eaten by alien gorilla wolf motherfuckers).
I just want people to know about it, there’s nothing wrong with that. My enthusiasm is my own, and anyone else’s who shares it.
And anyway, your hyperbole is worse than mine. I never said it was the Greatest Thing Ever. You want to talk about movies that are the Greatest Thing Ever we can talk in some other thread some other time about Brazil and Blade Runner and Citizen Kane and The Godfather and Days of Heaven and 2001 and Casablanca and Treasure of the Sierra Madre and on and on and on.
This is a fun little genre film, that makes me very happy, that makes me laugh, that makes me grin, that makes me want to watch it over and over because fun is addictive. Never said it was the Greatest Thing Ever. Sheesh.
I’m hardly in Cafe and even I’ve noticed your obsession with this movie. Id almost think you were on the payroll or something as frequently as you’ve injected it into threas around here.
Doesn’t really bother me or anything but it is very noticeable.
This is absolutely true. I saw this in the theater last month, not knowing anything about it, just that Equi couldn’t stop raving about it. It was just okay, but no great shakes. Nowhere near something like Shaun of the Dead. (More like Hot Fuzz level.)
It’s my own fault, but I’d advise people seeing it lower their expectations to “moderately charming.”
“Moderately charming” is a good description, I think.
I recently saw this movie mostly on Equipoise’s recommendation and quite enjoyed it. I thought it was a great alien attack movie, and agree that the actors did a great job.
I bet if I were more fluent in British slang I’d have liked it more.
Is it real slang, or slang invented for the characters in the movie? I’m a world away from the characters, so I honestly have no idea but I assumed it was the latter.
Favorite line: “No one is ever going to call you ‘Mayhem’ if you keep acting like such a pussy!”
Yes, real slang. If you don’t believe me, I’ll murk you.
Saw it last night on pay per view. Fun.
That’s nice, thanks for telling me.
I’m a Kansas farm girl, it’s about as far away from my upbringing as you can get, and it was fun for me trying to figure out the language. That’s not to say that I understood everything, but it all worked in context, and the more times I saw it, the more I understood. I think that it can be compared to A Clockwork Orange language-wise. Things make sense to the characters because that’s how they talk in their world. It’s for us to try and keep up. ACO is of course, way more complex but the gist is the same.
There are still bits I don’t understand, but when I get the DVD I’ll view the subtitles and see if those parts are cleared up for me. I come across explanations and definitions by accident all the time. Just today I found out that what a word, “wagwan,” meant.
Spoilers for near the end of the movie:
[spoiler]When the gang goes up to Ron’s weed room for the last time and Hi-Hatz is waiting there with his gun, as they walk in Hi-Hatz says “Wagwan Moses” and I found out today that wagwan means “What’s going on?”
The scene is part of this video. There are MAJOR spoilers so it shouldn’t be watched by anyone who hasn’t seen the movie.[/spoiler]
Great line - showed in trailers, so not giving anything away:
Okay then 
Watched this last night after being sucked in by the Equipose hype machine.
One of the most boring movies ever and this thread WAY over sold it. It was basically Monster Squad with swearing and annoying british street mumbling. Hardly a chuckle in the whole movie.
Disappointment.
It comes out in Australia next week, but I bought the Blu-Ray from the UK and just watched it.
Wow! That is one scary film, and really amazing performances from all involved! Outstanding!
One scene had completely incomprehensible slang, though.
I’ve just got this film on DVD, but turned it off after the first 10 minutes. Is the whole film about the kids in the gang? I can’t understand a word they’re saying. Are there people who really speak like that?
Stephen!
Just coming!
Watched it last week , really enjoyable. Like others I felt I could do with a small glossary of terms and lingo (which I remember Wayne’s World did for the VHS release in Europe)
You need help with the slang, I should be able to oblige. I teach teenage boys in Peckham.
I got sucked into Equipoise’s hype also and got this from Netflix. I quite enjoyed it.
Saw it last night. Loved it. I’m already a huge Cornish (and Buxton) fan and this didn’t disappoint.
Of course it’s real slang. Why would you assume it had been made up? A lot of the actors were cast from non-professional kids from the area.
On the subject of the slang I don’t think the movie would make any sense at all if you didn’t know that “bare” means both “very” and “a lot of”.
I loved how the posh white stoner (presumably an avatar of Joe Cornish) tries to speak in their dialect when the kids push past him into the elevator: “I pressed it already. Takin’ 'nuff time.” And later: “Actually I did this zoology module at uni. Primatology, mammology, all that shizzle. That thing in there don’t belong to no taxon I’ve ever studied.”
Just watched this, it was ok, not great. Definitely not on the same level as Saun of the Death and HotFuzz like the op claimed. Worked a lot better as an alien movie than a comedy.