Dead Man's Shoes (2004) Two Filmmakers react! 1st Time Watching for MAJOR!!

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  • Well we got pelted with requests for this one. And man oh man am I happy about it. Although I had seen it once, I had pretty much forgotten this raw gem. I wont forget it again. Major of course has not seen this... Anyway Paddy Considine and Toby Kebbell Star in this breathtakingly powerful Shane Meadows film. Thanks for suggesting.
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  • @2old4gamez
    @2old4gamez Рік тому +107

    Somebody finally did it! This film is seriously overlooked by the UA-cam reviewing community. Thank you for shining a light on it.

    • @Tom-uv7ry
      @Tom-uv7ry Рік тому +8

      There's a few but not many .
      From what I've noticed it blows Americans minds a bit they are not used to social realism in their film industry.

    • @Pure-Luck447
      @Pure-Luck447 5 місяців тому

      Can anyone help me find a film, it was like a documentary film about an amateur film maker filmed in America, was like an 80s film but unsure now, I just remember it being grainy back water town some trees maybe Florida.... any ideas ???

    • @thesprawl2361
      @thesprawl2361 4 місяці тому +1

      @@Pure-Luck447 Are you maybe thinking of American Movie? Released in 1999. I've never seen it, but it's a documentary about an amateur filmmaker called Mark Borchardt trying to get a short-film made. It's meant to be very good so I keep seeing it recommended in lists.

    • @Pure-Luck447
      @Pure-Luck447 4 місяці тому

      You might be right I think it's the one 😮 thanks man. 🙏🏼

    • @thesprawl2361
      @thesprawl2361 4 місяці тому

      @@Pure-Luck447 YW

  • @themarra3293
    @themarra3293 4 місяці тому +21

    One of my favourite films. Richard is essentially taking out his own guilt for being embarrassed and ashamed of his own feelings towards his brother on the people who tortured his brother. They're all guilty of failing Anthony in one way or another

  • @leemcgillivray1902
    @leemcgillivray1902 3 місяці тому +56

    PADDY CONSIDINE SHOULD HAVE GOT AN OSCAR FOR THIS.OUTSTANDING.IT STILL MAKES ME CRY.ONELOVE, MANCHESTER, UK ✌️

    • @PROGAMING-yu5ef
      @PROGAMING-yu5ef 3 місяці тому +4

      A great performance, thanks paddy!

    • @tomaskelly-jq1my
      @tomaskelly-jq1my 2 місяці тому +2

      Totally agree and also Toby being his first movie!

  • @Itsahardknocklife9690
    @Itsahardknocklife9690 3 місяці тому +18

    Shane meadows’ films are quietly monumental

  • @timheavyable
    @timheavyable 3 місяці тому +15

    Chayne stoking is the breathing rhythm of a person who is dying.

  • @daved2352
    @daved2352 2 місяці тому +5

    Toby Kebbels performance as a person with learning disabilities is so good. I worked in care for people with learning disabilities and I can spot an actor pretending based on stereotypes a mile off and his performance is so real it's scary

  • @MegaGordyboy
    @MegaGordyboy Рік тому +32

    gary stretch who played the main bad guy was a very good british boxer.great film,never gets old.

    • @dancarter482
      @dancarter482 Рік тому +1

      Better actor than boxer!

    • @rossini55
      @rossini55 2 місяці тому

      Gary was not a bad boxer at all. Went 6 rounds with Chris Eubank. Nothing to be ashamed of.
      I reckon Gary Stretch would have made a great James Bond.

  • @clintbadlam4157
    @clintbadlam4157 3 місяці тому +11

    You can fuck around with a paratrooper but you can't fuck with a paratrooper.

  • @KingDomsKingdom85
    @KingDomsKingdom85 7 місяців тому +16

    One of the most powerful scenes in British film making is where they pull up in that comical Citroen 2CV, Paddys delivery of hatred blows me away every time i see it.

  • @TreVader1378
    @TreVader1378 Рік тому +23

    All of Shane Meadows films are powerful, and all essential viewing.

  • @BillyRubin81
    @BillyRubin81 3 місяці тому +16

    Hands down the best British film of all time. Great review guys.

    • @firstnamelastname-bu1xm
      @firstnamelastname-bu1xm 3 місяці тому +2

      mr beans holiday a close 2nd

    • @saphireplayz5171
      @saphireplayz5171 3 місяці тому

      Calm down, pal. Not even top 10.

    • @BillyRubin81
      @BillyRubin81 3 місяці тому

      @@saphireplayz5171 Which 10 films are better?

    • @saphireplayz5171
      @saphireplayz5171 3 місяці тому

      @BillyRubin81 Jesus, man.
      Chariots of fire, Ghandi, The last emperor, Oliver, Hamlet, slumdog millionaire, train spotting , with nail and i... I could go on.

    • @BillyRubin81
      @BillyRubin81 3 місяці тому

      @saphireplayz5171 Withnail & I, Trainspotting, Ghandi are all very good tbf. Chariots of Fire, Hamlet, The Last Emperor are full of fine acting and writing but wouldn't raise the pulse of a Guinea Pig. Very little rewatch value in any of them. Slumdog Millionaire is maudlin pish. If you think that's a great film I don't know what to say to you. Each to their own I suppose...

  • @WomanNextDoor
    @WomanNextDoor 9 місяців тому +12

    I've watched this film four times and I know I'll watch it again and again.
    Paddy Cosidine is such a versatile actor. I love him ❤

    • @cretekastos6903
      @cretekastos6903 9 місяців тому +3

      It's a masterpiece.

    • @luckyspurs
      @luckyspurs 10 днів тому

      When you see him as the utterly helpless Guardian journalist in Bourne Ultimately being dragged are Waterloo station by Matt Damon.

  • @tdurb0
    @tdurb0 10 місяців тому +6

    80+% of this film was improvised. That shows in the dialogue, and makes the film rise head and shoulders above 99% of films

  • @MegaDenni13
    @MegaDenni13 Рік тому +25

    It's one of those movies that stay with you, proving lots of money and fancy visuals aren't needed to get the point across. For us Brits we know people like this. They are around us all the time. I was a little annoyed that bad guy got it so easy in the end but really it's the man who was aware of everything that really is the worst. It's a real thoughtful movie with humour flung in too. Great review guys. Try 'nil by mouth' .

  • @pitmatix1457
    @pitmatix1457 Рік тому +10

    I love how this film picks it's setting as a small countryside town. Low level crooks who don't have that big city hardness about them. This would explain their reactions to some situations, someone getting shot or killed is not the sort of shit they are used to dealing with. In their area they are people you wouldn't fuck with but they are way out of the league of what they've brought down on themselves. If I remember Paddy's character is a "Para" as in Paratroop soldier. The Paras have a reputation for being a bit wild compared to other soldiers and they really picked with the wrong person's brother to piss off.

  • @Shoomer1988
    @Shoomer1988 Рік тому +11

    Directed by Shane Meadows - one of the UK's finest indie directors. His film 'This Is England' won Best Film at the British Independent Film Awards.

    • @melthebell33
      @melthebell33 Рік тому +1

      one of my all time favourite films...and TV shows

  • @Thewingkongexchange
    @Thewingkongexchange 2 місяці тому +2

    Love this film. "It's beyond words" as Paddy puts it.
    That scene where they square off on the kerbside is so tense, it's amazing.

  • @Mr_Incognito113
    @Mr_Incognito113 Рік тому +17

    This film came from a few ideas, one is ‘what if First Blood was set in Northern England’ and the director Shane Meadows and Paddy Considine reminisced about how back in their home towns there were people who had done unspeakable things but never paid for it and were still walking about the same towns with families now. It’s very dark but great performances, some good dialogue and scenes. A good introduction to Shane Meadows, his best film is aguably This Is England, a funny but emotionally powerful coming of age film against the backdrop of Thatcher’s 80s England. Must watch.

    • @AdamAndEmma2010
      @AdamAndEmma2010 10 місяців тому +2

      It's not Northern England though, it's The Midlands.

    • @Mr_Incognito113
      @Mr_Incognito113 10 місяців тому

      @@AdamAndEmma2010 isn’t it set in Derbyshire?

    • @BattleMatt
      @BattleMatt 5 місяців тому +2

      @@Mr_Incognito113 Derbyshire is the Midlands.

    • @Mr_Incognito113
      @Mr_Incognito113 5 місяців тому

      @@BattleMatt haha technically you’re correct I give you that. Geographically a lot of the county is in the North though ! and I’d say parts of it (Buxton, Glossop) are very close to Manchester and everyone there would probably consider themselves Northerners. SO, it can be both set in Derbyshire and be in Northern England ! 😀

  • @nathanburrows7066
    @nathanburrows7066 Рік тому +80

    This is England 👀

    • @tdurb0
      @tdurb0 10 місяців тому +2

      I like what you did there.
      And this is a perfect British film.
      A three word comment with a lot of depths of meaning! 👏🏻👏🏻

    • @MyKuL1990
      @MyKuL1990 10 місяців тому +2

      Same director that made this is England, Shane Meadows. 😎

    • @tdurb0
      @tdurb0 10 місяців тому +1

      @@MyKuL1990 The most under-rated British directors IMO

    • @MyKuL1990
      @MyKuL1990 10 місяців тому +1

      @tdurb0 yeah I wonder if he's gonna make ote else

    • @tdurb0
      @tdurb0 10 місяців тому

      @@MyKuL1990 You’d hope so. Romeo Brass, DMS, TIE film and series. And the Stone Roses one, which is also brilliant.
      Being from Derbyshire I like that he doesn’t look far from home when it comes to film settings/locations

  • @hypercc1
    @hypercc1 Рік тому +16

    I love this film and as I saw it Richard killed those guys because they were 100% culpable for his brothers death. Richard "sparing" the last guy wasn't actually mercy. He knew that he wasn't like those others so he couldn't justifiably kill him like those however he still needed to be punished. Richard had basically resigned himself to his own death so forced him to do it, essentially making that guy a murderer. Something he, as a family man and someone who was misguided previously but still tried to become someone else beyond those thugs, would have to carry with him for the rest of his life. Richard gave him torment.

    • @causerDAguv
      @causerDAguv 4 місяці тому +3

      Richard feels responsible for Anthony's death that's why he got him to kill him.

    • @amanred9337
      @amanred9337 3 місяці тому +2

      Great explanation. I never thought of the ending like that but that makes complete sense. I think it's also a case of him saying 'please just finish the job" because Richard couldn't had nothing to live for at this point. Dying was the only thing that gave him peace. But it's true that he could have just done it himself so making the other guy do had the added benefit of causing him with the same sense of guilt, torment and self disgust.

    • @rabid_si
      @rabid_si Місяць тому

      @@amanred9337 At the end, Richard is essentially accepting the guilt. His sin is exactly the same as Mark's; He did nothing. He left when he should have protected someone weaker.
      If Mark deserves death, then logically so does Richard. The film makes it pretty clear that Richard wasn't a "good" brother to Anthony. What Sonny says to Anthony is essentially true ("Your Brother left to get away from you.") as is Richard's admission at the end about how he felt about Anthony in life (a burden and an embarrassment). There are subtle clues peppered through the movie on a second watch, a lot said by what ISN'T said.
      It's a story about ordinary, everyday monsters. The ways we hurt each other with callous disregard and casual cruelty. And Richard is most definitely one of those monsters.

    • @amanred9337
      @amanred9337 Місяць тому

      @@rabid_si Perfectly summed up.. I cannot disagree with any of that. It's what makes this film so brilliant that all of the characters are flawed and human.

    • @markbaker5599
      @markbaker5599 11 днів тому

      The deleted scene with the final scene is epic

  • @markbrown4955
    @markbrown4955 2 місяці тому +1

    Just a truly brilliant piece of filmmaking a total gem and favourite of mine. Paddy Considine was just incredible.

  • @martinvalentine9228
    @martinvalentine9228 Рік тому +4

    A guy picks up a hitchhiker, hitchhiker says "thanks glad you picked me up, aren't you worried I could be some kind of serial killer? Driver replies "nah chances of 2 serial killers ending up in the same car on the same road is very unlikely!"

  • @Dave062YT
    @Dave062YT Місяць тому

    Poss the best British film ever .20 yrs old now and you can watch it in full here on youtube too .A work of genius

  • @matthewstroud4294
    @matthewstroud4294 Рік тому +7

    Very affecting film. Vengeance and guilt woven into a monstrous hero.
    Don't forget...............Get Carter!

  • @JonsTunes
    @JonsTunes Рік тому +17

    The first time watching this I never clocked that Anthony was a figment of his imagination and had already died. Paddy's character is truly frightening.

    • @octaviussludberry9016
      @octaviussludberry9016 Рік тому +3

      That's the point of the film.

    • @paulholla
      @paulholla Рік тому +1

      It was the second time that I watched it when I realised. Absolutely astonishing film.

    • @DJIdroneabout
      @DJIdroneabout Рік тому

      I seen it as his ghost that was haunting Richard

    • @luckyspurs
      @luckyspurs 10 днів тому

      Paddy Considine hating his brother before he died is the much bigger and more shocking twist.
      That absolutely punches you, when you see how he talks about him, after the comfort of all their endearing imagined scenes together. Also makes it way sadder; Toby Kebbell's own brother treated him almost as badly as some of the bad guys did and he never got to experience Paddy's redemption. He died with his brother being completely cold to him.

  • @PROGAMING-yu5ef
    @PROGAMING-yu5ef 3 місяці тому +4

    Thanks for reviewing one of my favourite films.

  • @tdurb0
    @tdurb0 10 місяців тому +5

    If a film leaves you sitting with your mouth open for half an hour after it’s finished, it’s a fkn GOOD film.
    Thanks for this upload guys. Have a sub 😊👍🏻

  • @KINGMONKEY1989
    @KINGMONKEY1989 4 місяці тому +2

    One of the best British movies ever. Its such a well told story and Paddy Considine is superb in it and the twist was done so well.

  • @tomaskelly-jq1my
    @tomaskelly-jq1my 2 місяці тому +1

    This film is outstanding. I can watch it over and over. All the actors play amazing parts especially Paddy Considine and Toby Kebbell. I've always been a fan of Paddy but this deserves more recognition and Toby in what was his first movie to play this part was superb. A powerful and heartbreaking movie!...Thanks to Paddy & Shane bringing it to us! 😊

  • @MarkLevett-z8x
    @MarkLevett-z8x 8 місяців тому +3

    Paddy Constantine in this was unreal. Really dark, i remember when i first watched it. I sat looking at the wall for an hour trying to process it really sad but brilliantly portrayed

  • @WatchMeMovie
    @WatchMeMovie Рік тому +6

    Thank you for reacting to this film. 'Tyrannosaur' Directed by Considine is another example of powerful acting

    • @Ray.Norrish
      @Ray.Norrish Рік тому +1

      Intense film. I will never watch it again, but that's an actual compliment. It hits hard.

    • @gingerbill128
      @gingerbill128 Рік тому

      definitely worth a watch.

    • @liamdunne8006
      @liamdunne8006 Рік тому +1

      Such a dark film but so compelling. Peter Mullin electrifying and terrifying as always

  • @markbaker5599
    @markbaker5599 11 днів тому

    Cheyne stoking is the final breathes you take before dying

  • @61shirley
    @61shirley 3 місяці тому +3

    I live 3 miles away from some of the locations in this movie.
    The first film called a room for Romeo is really good too

  • @HonestSonics
    @HonestSonics 7 місяців тому +4

    I just watched this again yesterday. In the final scene where Richard is imploring the guy to stab him and you get those quick shots of his interactions with the man's children, it's a horrific insight into how far gone Richard is. He begs for death because he knows the rage has consumed him, and if he remains alive there is no limit to what he might do to those connected to his brother's death. He is the devil asking the world to save itself from him.

    • @brandonshaw2120
      @brandonshaw2120 4 місяці тому +1

      Exactly. Most people seem to miss that. BY doing what he's done Richard has become a monster. Now he's afraid of himself and what he's capable of. The film alludes to him harming the children next. He knows he needs to be stopped, but he also makes the last fella suffer by forcing him to become a murderer.

  • @PainInTheS
    @PainInTheS Рік тому +9

    This damn movie breaks me every time I watch it
    .....very very underrated gem. In my top5 best movies ever!

    • @majormoviemadness9927
      @majormoviemadness9927  Рік тому +1

      Agree

    • @luckyspurs
      @luckyspurs 10 днів тому +1

      Especially finding out that none of the scenes of Paddy Considine's character treating Toby Kebbell's nicely were actually experienced by him.

  • @Stuart267
    @Stuart267 5 місяців тому +2

    *I had the same reaction when I first watched it. Its unique because its so damned bleak for a revenge film you usually root for the "hero" but there were no heroes in this film, Paddy nailed it as a man obviously suffering from trauma besides what happened to his brother, he was so brutal in his quest for revenge & realized he couldn't live with himself after what he'd become.*

    • @tdurb0
      @tdurb0 4 місяці тому

      He’s the baddest good guy, or the goodest bad guy. It’s perfect.
      “You’re fucking THERE mate”
      The fact that whole scene was pretty much all improvised is amazing

  • @wordsleydave
    @wordsleydave Рік тому +3

    Guys .... thank you very much for doing this reaction ... my favourite film ever. ,, it had a profound effect on me when I first seen it, and Shane Meadows is one of the best British Directors going. A Brilliant reaction !!!!!!

  • @steveis33
    @steveis33 3 місяці тому +2

    I couldn’t believe the main character was a comedian in real life🤷🏻‍♂️😮
    Really pulled off the military aggression 👍

  • @Shoomer1988
    @Shoomer1988 Рік тому +12

    British people would take a tea break in the middle of a nuclear war :D

    • @christian1294
      @christian1294 Рік тому +3

      Have you seen ‘Threads’? I think this actually happens

    • @andrewwilliamson5121
      @andrewwilliamson5121 Рік тому +1

      British tanks do have water boilers in them solely for making a brew, so you are 100% correct.

    • @stevenwilkins1625
      @stevenwilkins1625 3 місяці тому

      When the British landed on the beaches of Gallipoli during the First World War to help the Australians and New Zealand out .They put the kettle on and made cup's of tea for themselves on the beach which at the time pissed off a lot of Australians and New Zealanders .

  • @octaviussludberry9016
    @octaviussludberry9016 7 місяців тому +2

    We take tea-breaks whenever. We do it to alleviate tension, which is what they're feeling. Don't criticise us for it.

  • @patriciabennett7549
    @patriciabennett7549 3 місяці тому +1

    One of the best films ever made

  • @AzulinhoAzulinho
    @AzulinhoAzulinho Рік тому +8

    Wow, you guys do like to do unusual movies that A - I have seen and B - I've never seen anyone react to.
    Nice one chaps, keep it up!

  • @Justwalks
    @Justwalks Рік тому +9

    Since you lads are on a great trip of English cinema you should really watch "Kes" and "28 days later". Two of my favourite British films. Love your reactions boys!

    • @BaronVonGreenback1882
      @BaronVonGreenback1882 Рік тому +4

      I'll second Kes, superb film.

    • @LC-gs6qv
      @LC-gs6qv Рік тому +2

      Never seen 28 days later, but Kes is a classic 👍

    • @Jay-mi5dg
      @Jay-mi5dg 7 місяців тому +1

      28 days later is pretty much what made Cillian Murphy blow up… amazing Danny Boyle movie and the zombies are terrifying! You lads should definitely watch and review that.

  • @motelghost477
    @motelghost477 2 місяці тому +2

    The last guy, Mark wasn't as bad as the others. He got away from that horrible scene after Anthony's suicide and turned his life around.

  • @jeffreybarton1297
    @jeffreybarton1297 3 місяці тому +2

    I grew up in the Midlands in the UK, in a small village. There were a few families who behaved like the bad guys in this movie. Luckily I was too young to mingle with them, and I left the village when I was 17. The feeling of fear was always around these people, though. Me and my mates always had the good sense to avoid certain streets and keep our eyes peeled for trouble.

    • @amanred9337
      @amanred9337 3 місяці тому +2

      Lucky escape. Paddy said that him and Shane based the story on real people. Horrible to think that actually happens.

    • @jeffreybarton1297
      @jeffreybarton1297 3 місяці тому +1

      @@amanred9337 I sometimes wonder if it's the same now (I lived there back in the 80's). Probably even worse now.

  • @mrsiborg
    @mrsiborg Рік тому +1

    Thanks for taking our requests, I love this movie and your unique views on it.

  • @smogthehorse9409
    @smogthehorse9409 3 місяці тому +3

    Great movie with interesting music, my wife is from the area in Derbyshire where it's filmed, know it well. Low budget movies at its best.

  • @futureskeletons66669
    @futureskeletons66669 4 місяці тому +3

    Such a great film. I know of something similar that happened where I live, former friends of mine used to allow a mentally handicapped guy hang out with us so they could bully him. They didn't kill him, but he died of a brain tumor and they used his funeral to rewrite history, lying to his family about his relationship to 'us'. I just stopped hanging out with them. I didn't like the guy and only interracted with him if he spoke to me. I only wish I'd stopped sooner. This film has always stuck a chord with me, especially since Meadows said that this is a familiar story in towns all over the UK and maybe even the world.
    Some people are just not good people and I was afraid of being seen as having no friends. I should have had more courage.

  • @davidgreene805
    @davidgreene805 Рік тому +3

    Glad to see you got to this and liked it. A dark and powerful film indeed, and i think the 'no frills' you mention works great for it.

  • @teanosuger
    @teanosuger Рік тому +9

    If you want to check out a film Paddy wrote and directed then tyrannosaur is high on the list with Olivia colman Peter mullan and Eddie marsan.

  • @rogermorris9696
    @rogermorris9696 Рік тому +3

    The punch at 09:28 was so good and real looking as the actor Gary Stretch was a former pro boxer.

  • @paulchaplin73
    @paulchaplin73 3 місяці тому +4

    Tyrannosaur is another good movie. Directed by Paddy Considine. 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

    • @paulshepherd5649
      @paulshepherd5649 3 місяці тому

      Olivia Coleman too. she is so good in that film

  • @JonsTunes
    @JonsTunes Рік тому +2

    Living in the UK I'm quite happy hitching a lift or giving others one. Never encountered issues, on the contrary I've met some great people.

  • @kjd9634
    @kjd9634 11 місяців тому +1

    One of the best films of all time!!! Paddy Considine and Shane Meadows are legendary!

  • @BLINDTUBEMARES
    @BLINDTUBEMARES Рік тому +3

    The last man is left in the same place as Anthony. He ends up wearing the dead man's shoes

  • @muzzap21
    @muzzap21 3 місяці тому +4

    This is England and the following 3 series. MUST WATCH. 👌❤️

    • @donsmithered5623
      @donsmithered5623 3 місяці тому

      There’s a scene in that series’s that made me skip for the first and only time. The acting is SO good. I remember the 80s just about and the 90s well. The whole production is crazy good 🫡

  • @SuperRiddlers
    @SuperRiddlers Рік тому +7

    It is a total classic revenge film. He let's the least culpable character, who has moved away from the gangster lifestyle, and is now respectable with a family and kids deliver the final blow. He knows that it will ruin that blokes life forever so it is poetic revenge. Just brilliant from Shane & Paddy. For those not familiar, visit the rest of Shane Meadows catalogue. In particular This Is England. One of the greatest movies ever made

    • @davidsheriff9274
      @davidsheriff9274 8 місяців тому

      One thing though, I guess it's a little poetic license but Richard really had no way of knowing the specifics of what happened to Anthony, all the flashbacks were just for the viewers to know what happened, but the only thing Richard really knew were the rumors and gossip he was told by the people in town, I guess he learned enough to piece it together. I'm nitpicking a little, the movie is a classic, one of my favorites.

    • @goblinbollocks2838
      @goblinbollocks2838 4 місяці тому

      ​@@davidsheriff9274 them sort of fucked up things always come out though, they always end up speaking about them to people over the years and if youre Richard it'd only take one person you trust as reliable to say "this is the story I heard" off someone they trust as reliable. It wouldn't be hard to find out then corroborate the build up, them keeping Anthony round for their own amusement and giving him drugs, so then accepting that the story of what happened to him in the end went down as it did isn't going to be a stretch. Their parents or whoever was responsible for looking after Anthony would've seen a massive change in him for one. I'm sure the fella at the end when he's talking to his wife also says that Richard was their mate before he went away to the army so he knows what type of people they are too.
      There's more than this but three examples I can think of off the top of my head in my area of horrible shit happening is people locking people up and tying em up an torturing them. One of em was very much like this film actually except the fella was older and they were cuckooing his gaff but they tied him up and blew weed smoke in his face and beat him. This one I asked the lad to his face if that was true and he laughed and said it was and I told him he was a scumbag and left, so that's someone who's done something fucked up willing to and stupid enough to admit to it to essentially an acquaintance he'd knocked round with a few times. Another one a different much more serious group of people tied a fella up in his own gaff again and pulled his toenails out, and the last one which wasn't long ago and was some of the same people as the second, a man was tied up, imprisoned for days, forced to smoke crack and then had sexual stuff done to him among other torturing. That was common knowledge within days of it happening and the details everybody had were exactly what happened and it certainly wasn't the victim who put it about which means within days someone who was at least with the people doing it went and opened his mouth and said exactly what happened.
      The characters in this are divs who drink and do drugs, it would've come up. Then you've got the bird and the fella who regrets it. Yeah hes never told his wife before then but how many years have to have passed if in the flashbacks he's supposed to a young fella without the family and then he's married with lads of that age. It's reasonable to imagine him over the years having too much to drink and confiding in people, it's not unreasonable as well to imagine that closer to when it happened he had a very rough time with his part in it and would bring it up a lot and publically. I know we can't obviously know any of that but as you've highlighted we're left to draw our own conclusions on how Richard knew what happened so maybe some of what I've said makes it seem more plausible to you cos I hate when I love a film or TV programme but one element of it doesn't sit right with me.

    • @luckyspurs
      @luckyspurs 10 днів тому

      @@davidsheriff9274 You could argue that Richard is imagining the details of the abuse scenes, because in some ways it mirrors some of his own behaviour and feelings towards his brother.

  • @tomw588
    @tomw588 4 місяці тому +3

    Brilliant film. Other films to watch by Shane Meadows are ‘This is England’ and ‘A Room for Romeo Brass’.

  • @bronn732
    @bronn732 3 місяці тому +2

    I grew up round there. I lived 2 mins away from the road he was walking down at the start called flash lane.

  • @Gallo_1.6
    @Gallo_1.6 Рік тому +3

    late night there on the left?! how dare you go into a Consadine film and almost fall asleep!! xD

  • @jeancarloshernandezmartine7687
    @jeancarloshernandezmartine7687 10 місяців тому +2

    Paddy Considine always the toughest guy in films 🔥

  • @gavinmallett9331
    @gavinmallett9331 Рік тому +2

    Amazing movie, it hits as hard as any other movie Ive ever seen. The acting is next level, the camera work makes it so real, glad you guys enjoyed it, even though its a tough one to get through. Keep up the great work.

    • @uv77mc85
      @uv77mc85 10 місяців тому

      Theres a lot of humour in it too. The bad guys are so comical in their clown car.

  • @markleitch9932
    @markleitch9932 Рік тому +1

    shane meadows the director of this film is a legend love all his films this is england and the spin off tv series and a rare gem that more or less launched paddy considine acting career a room for romeo brass .

  • @bombheadbel
    @bombheadbel Рік тому +9

    This is England is another outstanding film by Shane Meadows. There's also a sequel TV series equally as good.
    Also, a little known 3 episode "mini series called the Virtues is extremely powerful with an outstanding performance bv Stephen Graham ( Tommy from Snatch )

    • @Tom-uv7ry
      @Tom-uv7ry Рік тому +1

      A room for Romeo Brass is another shane meadows Gem paddy considine plays a lunatic really well

    • @bwilson5401
      @bwilson5401 Рік тому

      Stephen Graham,also Al Capone in Boardwalk Empire and in Gangs of New York.

    • @davidsheriff9274
      @davidsheriff9274 8 місяців тому

      The Take is a fantastic British miniseries from England with Tom Hardy, check it out.

  • @cultureyeah3390
    @cultureyeah3390 Рік тому +3

    Proof that every film does not need to be over two hours long.

  • @johnw2019
    @johnw2019 Рік тому +1

    As an older brother, this is my all-time favourite movie

  • @KristianMcKenzie-gc8ej
    @KristianMcKenzie-gc8ej 3 місяці тому +2

    I drove down all the way from the Lake District to Matlock where it was filmed just to find all the locations,, I walked in that pub and it was just full of hells angels ,, so I bounced the fxxk out of there ,, then I went and found the barn where they were chilling ,, and the bus stop ,, great day out that homies

    • @rossini55
      @rossini55 2 місяці тому

      Yeah I've been to Matlock.

  • @w8m4n
    @w8m4n 3 місяці тому +3

    Brilliant movie.

  • @kizzkizz06
    @kizzkizz06 8 місяців тому +2

    When you clock his lil bro is dead the whole time, makes you feel a different kind of revenge and rage but also satisfaction from their fear knowing they’re gonna get dismantled psychologically 😂love this movie

  • @ajdesmond9545
    @ajdesmond9545 3 місяці тому +1

    Dead man running English film with 50 cent in

  • @bwilson5401
    @bwilson5401 Рік тому +2

    Can't remember if I commented on this.But the main bad guy is Gary Stretch who fought Chris Eubank for the WBO middleweight title.He also saved an American housewife from an attack when he was coming out of one of your stores.

  • @HidingFromDaylight
    @HidingFromDaylight Рік тому +1

    So happy this gem is getting some attention lately. Thanks mate!

  • @JRegGaming
    @JRegGaming Рік тому +3

    Yes, adding to the list of Shane meadows
    This is England
    And
    A Room for Romeo Brass

  • @paulsprouse7239
    @paulsprouse7239 3 місяці тому +3

    I've seen this film many times, just to point out a few finer points to the 2 sweet Americans who reviewed it and anyone incase ye missed it - this film was made on a shoe string budget by Shane meadows, the genius behind this is England, - England isn't all Downton Abbey and mansions - but that is the upper class, and films like dead man's shoes show what its like for the rest of us, especially in the North of England, set in a little town, probably round Manchester or Leeds because its non specific, and the message is one of the bleakness we live in, in these poor declined areas, along to do with tory governments and what happened in the 80s, Richard is in the forces, seems to allude to special forces, and his brother with learning difficulties was basically bullied and tortured by this gang - and that within itself is a commentary of your local estate small time drug dealer, a tale of poverty, and revenge, when he comes to kill the last man, he says - your a good mother, instantly realising he can't kill a father, so he must die instead as he's been on a serial killing spree anyway, its nuanced, he puts his head on the wall realising immediately he can't kill the last one left, there's also a cut back scene where Richard has been to Anthony's school and has set up a fun day of racing and such, who was that kid who kept showing his arse? Richard was a kind well virtued man, and the pain of what they did to his brother, and as he seems special forces, took them out with ease, its a downer tale and a master piece, Paddy Con is a great actor, he was brilliant in house of the dragon, dead man's shoes is a club classic, its almost like a super hero noir piece, on a separate note where he doses them with acid, the director Shane meadows kept them up for 2 days of no sleep to replicate the delirium, beauty in the bleakness

    • @rabid_si
      @rabid_si Місяць тому

      "Richard was a kind well virtued man"
      Going to take issue with this, because the film paints a VERY different picture. He was not a good Brother, and the ending is Richard accepting that fact. He has "become" a monster, but he wasn't innocent beforehand. He's just as culpable as Mark, since he did exactly the same thing. He did nothing, He left. When he weighed up protecting Anthony with his own needs and desires, he chose himself every time.

    • @paulsprouse7239
      @paulsprouse7239 Місяць тому

      @@rabid_si well that's down to your interpretation isnt it, because its a revenge film, - the notion of people loving their siblings, even though its HIGHLIGHTED in the film - 'he was a fucking norna', and he was an 'embarrassment', there's nothing to state he's left Anthony but for the fact we was in the armed forces, the was no purpose, and the battle within him of rage love and revenge when he finds out his vulnerable brother has been tortured, abused and killed in the most heinous way, he set out of the path of revenge, he was kind - as a Anthony said, he played football with kids in a special school, - they all wanted to hold your hand, - I didn't though Richard because I had you anyway, such a painful scene - that's not a virtue? Of love for children, character and world building? Why wasn't he innocent before hand? What has he done, he feels he might of abandoned his brother and says deep down he was ashamed, and ashamed of himself, so set out to slaughter those who did that to his kid bro, whether for right or wrong, he acted on his morals and principals - because for him, Richard, they deserved what they had coming, - where does it state or allude he chose himself everytime? He had his own life, in fact the flashback of playing with kids with additional needs contradicts that, - and also he clearly wanted away from that council estate bleak life, like lots of people who escape from their home lifes for something different, or better etc, watch the film again another 10 times and get back on me rab'si nesbit, peace ✌

  • @DaveyHotrod
    @DaveyHotrod Місяць тому

    All I will say is, it's a good thing I'm a more forgiving person than Richard. I was bullied brutally at Hambleton Primary School. One day I had to be kept indoors as there were 30 kids staging a sit-down protest to let me out so they could beat me up.That fucking hurts to this day.

  • @lukegrump
    @lukegrump Рік тому +2

    Hey, good reaction, and analysis. Probably a lot of people have already suggested this, but if your going down a Shane Meadows road, then This is England is the next step. Again enjoyed watching your take on Dead Mans Shoes, all the best.

  • @morganmackenzie7545
    @morganmackenzie7545 Рік тому +3

    This is England is by the same director. It's incredibly powerful. There is also 3, 3 episode This is England miniseries set 4 years apart each aswell. It would be great if you could check those out!

  • @chrisgoodman5712
    @chrisgoodman5712 Рік тому +2

    Tyrannosaur is an unbelievably good film but very dark. Worth a watch

  • @tdurb0
    @tdurb0 10 місяців тому +1

    Your reactions were totally my reaction every single time I watch it. Only difference is I always end up in tears near the end! And I’m 51 bald and ugly

  • @pfftpfftpfft
    @pfftpfftpfft 10 місяців тому +1

    I'm from England, grew up in the countryside. I've known people like that. This film killed me, was traumatised for a couple of days after
    Very powerful movie!

    • @majormoviemadness9927
      @majormoviemadness9927  10 місяців тому +1

      It packs a punch

    • @davidsheriff9274
      @davidsheriff9274 8 місяців тому +1

      I learned a new slang from Northern England from this movie. I learned that nanner is short for banana and it means someone who is mentally ill or mentally handicapped. And I always thought it was interesting that in England, men call each other the C word, and here in the states it's only used against women, and it's the atom bomb of insults, there's no going back after you call a woman that in the US.

  • @pairofpints
    @pairofpints Рік тому +1

    Superb. Great performance from Paddy.

  • @Rhyskendall8
    @Rhyskendall8 2 місяці тому +1

    I haven't seen this film in a while, but I seem to remember them only having the 1 bullet. I might be wrong though..

  • @miathemalinoisgsdx1320
    @miathemalinoisgsdx1320 Рік тому +2

    So glad you liked this film. It is one of my favourites but I know it slips under most people's radars. I have a special affection for it because it wa shot about 8 miles down the road from me in and around a Derbyshire town called Matlock. The final scenes were set at Riber Castle which isn't a real castle, it's a romanticised victorian mock castle that overlooks Matlock.
    Up until the early 90s there was a small zoo in the grounds that I went to many times as a kid in the 1970's and the old animal enclosures are where the dirty deed to Richard was played out. Rather than being documentary like I see it more as a fly on the wall experience because the dialogue delivery (and dialect) is quite authentic for the area, especially for typical working class lads. I can tell they are not local actors but I do sound a bit like them when im chatting with my mates so not a bad effort considering the location isn't really relevant to the film. I have to say, the script isnt typical of the location, Matlock is a really nice place.

    • @uv77mc85
      @uv77mc85 10 місяців тому +1

      Its a really beautiful place. Great idea to set a film there and what a film.

  • @nobodyepicz7538
    @nobodyepicz7538 8 місяців тому +1

    i watched this the first time when i was like 12 or 13. might not have been a fitting movie to watch at that ahe i knew that. its too heavy. but you understand it. its hard every time but still there is something in me thats wanna rewatch it every time. thanks

  • @darktrooper77
    @darktrooper77 Рік тому +2

    Excellent film, pleased you guys are reacting to it

  • @nickd.6365
    @nickd.6365 9 місяців тому +1

    A noir British masterpiece of a film. Thanks for such a thoughtful review.

    • @majormoviemadness9927
      @majormoviemadness9927  9 місяців тому +1

      It’s a wonderful film, but I don’t think I would call it noir. The style is almost documentarian

  • @Elnino09uk
    @Elnino09uk Рік тому +4

    The lad on the left looks out of it.

    • @majormoviemadness9927
      @majormoviemadness9927  Рік тому +2

      The lad on the left had a few between you me and the interwebs

    • @Elnino09uk
      @Elnino09uk Рік тому

      @@majormoviemadness9927 keep up the reactions, love the British reactions 👍

  • @PuckleCrisp
    @PuckleCrisp Рік тому +2

    A Field In England by Ben Wheatley. A psychedelic black and white folk horror set during the English civil war.

  • @tcc300892
    @tcc300892 Рік тому +3

    You two need to watch Kill List! I think you'll enjoy it.

  • @rosslonergan9022
    @rosslonergan9022 Рік тому +2

    Gangster No 1. You guys have, too.

  • @StephenDouthart-f8r
    @StephenDouthart-f8r 8 місяців тому +2

    Try Paddy's directoral debut Tyrannosaur! Talk about an emotional rollercoaster. Not a dinosaur in sight!

  • @Shaklemore
    @Shaklemore 4 місяці тому

    I love this film and I love the fact I live in the town it’s set in so for me I like to point out local landmarks.
    Fun fact the castle is called riber castle and used to be a zoo 🤷🏻‍♂️
    Great review guys!!

  • @shotgundorothy
    @shotgundorothy Рік тому +3

    I'm assuming 'This Is England' is on your list.

  • @stephenbingham1808
    @stephenbingham1808 6 місяців тому +1

    Great film

  • @direravendenial8947
    @direravendenial8947 Рік тому +1

    When Richard spray paints, the words Cheyne-Stoking is a reference to Cheyne-Stokes breathing is an abnormal pattern of breathing commonly seen as patients approach death. It is named for the physician's John Cheyne and William Stokes, who first described the pattern in the early 1800s.
    Patients who experience Cheyne-Stokes breathing will take several breaths followed by a long pause before regular breathing resumes. These cycles of breathing will become increasingly deeper and can be difficult for family members as they wait for the final breath to come. So in a way, it's a sinister physiological message to them that they are now on borrowed time, though I would hazard a guess that they do not know what it means. Really subtle and clever too, and the first really clear indication of Richard's intent too.

  • @bigchris80
    @bigchris80 11 місяців тому +1

    Definitely a film you have to watch twice. Top film👌👍

  • @gohumberto
    @gohumberto Рік тому +1

    Nobody knows what the protagonist did in the military. He may have come to realise that he has become a true monster, not back home, but abroad.
    Whatever his history, it's one hell of a movie.

  • @danielvenables8301
    @danielvenables8301 Рік тому +1

    I read about the making of the film. the main actor and the director was having tea exploring a film idea and making charactors. and the order of death was based on how strong the charactors were

  • @sammni
    @sammni Рік тому +2

    Cheyne stoking = breathing problems 6:43

  • @barukkazhad8998
    @barukkazhad8998 2 місяці тому

    Love this film ..did not see the twists coming