I'm forever blowing bubbles, pretty bubbles in the air...

[roguem]

What Do The West Ham Fans Sing?
I'm forever blowing bubbles, pretty bubbles in the air,
They fly so high, nearly reach the sky,
Then like my dreams they fade and die,
Fortune's always hiding, I've looked everywhere,
I'm forever blowing bubbles, pretty bubbles in the air,
United! United!

Up your a**e, right up your a**e,
Stick the blue flag up your a**e,
From Stamford Bridge to Upton Park stick the blue flag up your a**e.

Oh East London, Oh East London, is wonderful,
is wonderful, oh East London is wonderful,
it's full of ****, ***** & West Ham oh East London is wonderful!

                   

Finally got to see ’Green Street Hooligans’ this evening. J

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I almost missed though; dozed off with the laptop in my lap. Woke up about half an hour before the movie started, so I freshened up a bit and ran out the door. The traffic was horrible, so I decided to walk down, actually made it down with a little time to spare. J

 

Got my ticket, and went in to the theatre… I was all alone! I was the only person in the room. I found a seat, and watched the commercials. After a while a guy came in, and even though it would have been kind of cool to have the whole room to myself I was kind of happy about it. A while later another guy came in, so then we were three.

 

This was about the time it dawned on me that I was kind of expecting to hate the movie and/or be bored out of my mind. I don’t like football, and therefore I don’t really get the hooligan thing.

 

So the lights go dark and the movie begins with a fight, which looked pretty damn bad. Not in a bad way, but in a ‘ouch, that has to hurt like hell’ way. Some moments later Elijah enters the screen and I do my best to hold in my fan girl squee.

Oh, a little bit of trivia! The guy who plays Jeremy Van Holden is Terence Jay who sings ‘One Blood’ on the score.

The starting credits come on the screen, and a bunch of hooligan looking guys come in to the theatre and sit down in the rows behind me. So I’m the only girl watching the hooligan movie, heh. If they we’re betting I was only there for the eye candy they were half right. J

 

But now for the movie; I really liked it. I’m not going all gaga over it, but it’s definitely ending up in my DVD collection. I think what I loved the most about it was the fact that a woman made this film. She took a serious subject and brought it to a media that would make the public have a think about it.

It’s raw and that just helps it along, there’s a lot of use of the hand-held camera, which might annoy some people, but I think it really worked. It gave the film kind of a documentary feel, and made it look more ‘real’.

It’s a brutal film, and it shows some pretty disturbing human behaviour. I did however kind of ‘get’ the hooligan thing after I saw it though. It’s about being part of something, a group, knowing that they’ll watch your back. I still wouldn’t recommend anybody to join up though.

I do however recommend that you go see the film!

 

I’m trying to be objective, but I think Elijah Wood did a great job as the outsider who’s welcomed in to this ‘new world’. There were also some good moment between him and Charlie Hunnam in the beginning where Charlie points out some English slang words and such, was a nice scene. Anyways, Elijah fit in, I never really thought much about it, and even though head-butting people isn’t what he usually does in his movies, he didn’t seem at all awkward during the fighting scenes. In fact, the moment when he decides to hit back is great! Just the look in his eye told me the other guy was going to be sorry.

 

Charlie Hunnam did a good job as well, I haven’t seen him in much, but this is the first hard ass I’ve seen him play. He’s torn between loyalty to his family and the hooligan gang, though he is first and foremost a hooligan.

 

It was a very good film, and I really hope you get a chance to see it.

 

Now for the fan girl bit of my review.

Elijah Wood looks very good in this film, there were times where he distracted me from what was really going on. The gritty look of the movie actually helped bring out his eyes, and when he had close-ups it was… well, I have no words, but it was good.

Whoever provided his wardrobe was smart, because he looks really good throughout the film. My fave is the ribbed sweater I posted pics of a while back.

There was one point in the movie where he has to hold on to Claire Forlani, and I just couldn’t take my eyes off his hands off his arms and hands in that scene. *swoon*

Now my quest for pictures begins, iconising is in the cards.

In short, if you are a rabid Elijah Wood fan, you’ll be able to sit through it just looking at him. ;)

Comments

[thepinkhobbit.livejournal.com]

I went to see it last night finally. My friend actually grew up West Ham (The Kings Head pub the Millwall fans were in was her local, pan the camera to the right we'd have seen her old house) and we loved it. We're just outside London and yeah we totally got the 'firm' thing and stuff as it does happen round here too. The fights are so brutal, I don't see how people have said she's glamourising Hooliganism? That was not glamorous! That was cringe worthy.

One problem was the thing about the cockney slang....because well the cockney ryhming slang is kinda not used anymore unless they're taking the micheal. but never mind was a funny all the same. And you kinda forget Charlie's cockney over the course of the film, not too convincing.

And I agree completely with the Elijah eyecandy. Stunning throughout!

[roguem.livejournal.com]

Wow, that must have been kind of bizarre for your friend then.
I don't get the people who say she's making it glamourous either, if anything it made me more aware of how bad it actually is.

We'll I'm not a UK native so I couldn't tell if the cockney sounded real or not. At least I understood what they said, heh.

I had not expected him to look that good. :)

[thepinkhobbit.livejournal.com]

It was. Specially as that's not actually in Millwall it's in Stratford and you don't have to go through a tunnel to get to Millwall. But all part of the drama. It's more funny than anything to spot places you always go being used for filming. The place when they're in Manchester is actually outside Fenchurch Street which I always use. And I'm kicking myself still that the day they filmed that I was in London but I went the different exit of the station so completely missed Elijah! lol

Well yeah if you couldn't understand them that'd be a bugger. lol

[roguem.livejournal.com]

They always change the landscape in films. That's what was so funny about 'Tom & Thomas'.. a little walk from Notting Hill to the Science Museum.. sure. lol.
Yeah, I saw some places in the film and was kicking myself because if I'd had known they were filming I could have gone to see.

Lol, I had to concentrate a bit in that first "fight" between Matt and Paul to get all the slang he was saying, but after that I pretty much got it all.

[thepinkhobbit.livejournal.com]

It's annoying isn't it. Just to think you were that close to at least seeing the set and stuff. It's always exciting to see things like that.

I know people tend to slip very easily into the London/Essex accent in understand it. I've got a very strong Essex accent at time and fast talking, and other parts of the country people haven't had a clue for a while. It's strange how much an accent can affect understand someone sometimes. lol

[roguem.livejournal.com]

I shouldn't really complain though, coz I have seen him.

It really is, around Norway the people in the north have a hard time understanding the people in the south, and vice-versa.

[thepinkhobbit.livejournal.com]

I met him at Collectormania, bu still would have been intresting to see a bit of how the filming on location like that goes.

[roguem.livejournal.com]

Collectormania? Hah, I was there too. Too late to get tickets for signing, but at least I got tickets to the talks. :)

[thepinkhobbit.livejournal.com]

Yeah, my friends and I had nowhere to stay so we stopped outside the centre from midnight after the talks. Minus temperatures, lovely secutiry though, brought us hot chocolate and took us inside early because I ended up getting really sick from the cold. lol Was great fun though and all the crew felt sorry for us so they made sure we all got tickets for our efforts. lol We were at the talks too, first in line, at least we would have been if people hadn't pushed infront of us and grabbed front row. We were second, but was a giggle. I loved the seats to that theatre. So big and comfy! great to watch the film in.

[roguem.livejournal.com]

Awww, well that would be worth getting a cold over.
I was wondering, did you go to the second Elijah/Sean talk or the first one. I went to the second one, and I managed to film it, but my battery died at the end, so I'm looking for anyone who might have caught a little of it on film... or just audio for that matter.
I sat kind of to the side on both talks, a way back, but still on the floor portion of the theratre.

[thepinkhobbit.livejournal.com]

First one I think it was. Can't remember. I didn't get anything reorded though I'm afraid. Didn't come prepaired as we didn't wanna lug stuff about that could get nicked while we were staying outside. Wish we could have gone to more talks but alas no money. lol

[roguem.livejournal.com]

Okay. Yeah, I totally understand going 'light' when you had to sleep outside.
:)