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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. ;)
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Date: 2005-09-22 03:35 am (UTC)I'm so glad you liked the film :) And you never know, mabye the boys were there secretly for the eye candy too ;)
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Date: 2005-09-22 09:57 am (UTC)I really liked it... was rather suprised that I liked it this much. But the truth is that non-Hollywood films are appealing to me much more the last few years.
Awww, hehe, I don't really think they expected girls to be there.
Hmmm, considering my jacket, they might have though I was a girl hooligan ;P
(That comment will make sense when you see the film)
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Date: 2005-09-23 08:12 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-23 10:19 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-23 10:21 am (UTC)Hehe, there's posters plastered all over the city, but doesn't seem to be enough. It ran for two weeks and now it's off... might still be running at some of the other cinema's though.
Kind of wanna see it again. Heh.
:D
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Date: 2005-09-23 02:02 pm (UTC)It was an AWESOME movie but yes, staring at Lij for too long of a time made my mind wander indeed and it's such great eye candy. ;)
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Date: 2005-09-23 02:41 pm (UTC)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!
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Date: 2005-09-23 03:47 pm (UTC)Turns out it's still showing at the cinema here.. am tempted to go again, hehe. I'm trying to get more people to see it. I recommended it to a guy the other day, and I heard yesterday that he and a couple of mates went to see it. :)
If the publicists don't do their job, we have to do it for them!
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Date: 2005-09-23 04:01 pm (UTC)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. :)
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Date: 2005-09-23 04:03 pm (UTC)Another reason to buy the DVD, so I can catch the stuff I missed while I was staring at Elijah.
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Date: 2005-09-23 04:37 pm (UTC)If I live to be 120, I will never understand why there has been so little interest in seeing this film.....for far too many reasons than I want to go into here and hog your LJ space.
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Date: 2005-09-23 06:52 pm (UTC)Lol, make my own posters and hand them out to people.
Happy he saw it, but they didn't like it much... they thought it glorified hooliganism.. weird.
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Date: 2005-09-23 07:05 pm (UTC)I agree, it's a very good film... though the guy I recommended it to didn't like it, at least the film got some more cash. Hehe.
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Date: 2005-09-23 07:49 pm (UTC)Well yeah if you couldn't understand them that'd be a bugger. lol
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Date: 2005-09-23 11:26 pm (UTC)And I have two relatives in Ohio who have said they'll go see it if it plays in Cleveland. There is no reason it shouldn't play in Cleveland. It's not LA or NYC, but it is a large city. However, the last I knew, Cleveland wasn't on their list of theaters.
I find the whole situation very demoralizing after our petition group worked so hard to help this film and talked it up almost non-stop.
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Date: 2005-09-24 01:50 am (UTC)i saw this film with yeuxdebleu and we agree it's a great film. not the best in the world, but for what it's worth, it's the best of it's genre. not that there's too many films about hooligans out there, but you know what i mean. ;-)
great review roguem. :)
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Date: 2005-09-24 03:45 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-24 03:47 am (UTC)http://www.livejournal.com/users/periantari/72276.html
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Date: 2005-09-24 04:42 am (UTC)Acting was well casted, everyone was an incredible actor!!!!
Umm I liked it a lot! =D
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Date: 2005-09-24 12:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-24 01:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-24 01:02 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-24 01:05 pm (UTC)Thank you, I also think it's the best of the genre... not that I've seen to many football movies, or movies about hooliganism. ;)
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Date: 2005-09-24 01:09 pm (UTC)I'll keep recommending it to people, this movie deserves to be seen!
It sucks when a movie you've really been looking forward to never makes it to a cinema near you.
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Date: 2005-09-24 01:15 pm (UTC)I don't understand that either, because I thought it looked so brutal, made me more happy I'm not into football.
Yes, I though so to. I was expecting him to beat the crap out of the guy, but the fact that he doesn't says so much.
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Date: 2005-09-24 01:19 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2005-09-24 11:34 pm (UTC)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
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Date: 2005-09-24 11:49 pm (UTC)Yeah, tell me about it. I live in the boonies of New Hampshire and very little of interest is shown anywhere near me. The theaters here are big on "family" movies.
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Date: 2005-09-25 03:32 pm (UTC)Exactly!
No, I can't really see it either, but it just goes to show that people are different.
No proble, that's exactly how I feel about it too.
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Date: 2005-09-25 03:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-25 03:42 pm (UTC)It really is, around Norway the people in the north have a hard time understanding the people in the south, and vice-versa.
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Date: 2005-09-25 06:05 pm (UTC)LOL Yeah, I'm thinking about throwing a pity party for myself because of that and the fact that I'm stuck with dial-up and no hope of broadband being available.....like ever! Wanna come to my party, roguem? And hey, want to be "friends"? I like your style. ;>))
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Date: 2005-09-25 08:25 pm (UTC)appropriately named in this country.
My report is in my LJ, but I'd just like to add this:
We were in a 12 screen theater, and we figured we'd
be the only ladies there...
Still, even though it was an avant premiere,
about 75 percent of the seats were occupied, and
we certainly weren't the only women there.
Still, I do think we were the only ones there that
had the Omg, slash Matt/Pete, Elijah/Charlie on their
minds...
It made watching it all the more enjoyable!
And now I'm looking forward to meeting yet some
more LJ friends for the first time, to enjoy
and squee.
Life is good!
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Date: 2005-09-25 11:32 pm (UTC)Likewise.
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Date: 2005-09-25 11:42 pm (UTC)Have fun at your second screening! :D
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Date: 2005-09-25 11:52 pm (UTC)Sure I'll come to your party. :)
:) Sure, we can be "friends"
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Date: 2005-09-25 11:52 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-26 12:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-26 09:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-26 09:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-26 02:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-09-29 12:34 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2005-10-02 03:08 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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