Yes!! A British delicacy of a movie. Would love it if you two did a British marathon of movies like: Dog Soldiers, Dog House, Kidulthood trilogy, Anuvahood, Rise of the Footsoldier, Mean Machine.
Lock Stock is a far better movie, but Snatch had Brad Pitt. It makes me a little salty that Snatch gets more recognition but I have to admit Brad killed it in that movie.
Park Street where it was filmed is next to Borough Mt, so you can visit the 'set'. Tom was suppposed to be played by someone overweight..but when Jason was cast they just left it in. Samoen Joes is The Royal Oak on Columbia Rd, other location used is Cheshire st just off Brick Lane.
Snatch was what introduced me to Guy Ritchie and I loved every moment. Anybody can love that film. This one is a bit slower-paced but still very fun. The invisible chick with the Bren was a great moment.
He's made some really solid films the last 10 years. The Gentleman, The Covenant, Ministry of ungentlemanly warfare. His Sherlock Holmes films were really good too
Guy Ritchie is one of those rare directors who has such a clear and distinct voice and vision to his films. Just like Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Wong Kar Wai and a precious few others, you KNOW when you're watching one of his films.
Agree...I just wish he makes less movies these days and working on them more. Because The Covenant was a very tasteless, average movie and Operation Fortune was actually pretty bad. I didn't like Aladdin neither, but I guess he needed that Disney money to make the Gentlemen. I love Ritchie and also Tarantino, but Tarantino takes his time to make his movie as perfect as possible. At Ritchie, I don't see that attitude.
Rock N Rolla and The Gentlemen are 2 other very good GR British crime movies. Rock N Rolla especially IMO. Slightly underrated possibly. UNCLE and his interpretation of Sherlock Holmes are also very enjoyable.
Yeah i completely agree with you about rock and rolla and the gentlemen . 2 great guy ritchie films . Rock and roll is about 5 years on from this and the gentleman is a more modern take on a guy ritchie film
Layer Cake is another good film, it's from Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass, Kingsman) who was a producer on this film and Snatch, and it's very much in the same style.
This movie and Snatch are almost like "what if Tarantino was British", and Vinnie Jones always plays the coolest roles. Aces to both! Perfect comedy of error flicks!
This film came out not long after I'd begun my first post-uni proper job as a sysadmin at a university computer dept. It took the student scene by storm, everyone was talking about it. Pretty sure I saw it at the cinema at least twice. I recommend "Crank" and indeed both Sherlock Holmes movies with RDJ (shame there hasn't been a third), they're not like the books but have their own GR style notes that I'm sure you;d both like.
I know it juvenile and very Bevis and Butthead...but I do chuckle every time they say Snatch... Another great, more recent, Guy Richie movie is The Gentleman (with Matthew McConaughey)
There is a great documentary called "Bounce" where they interview Lenny McLean, who plays Barry the Baptist in Lock Stock. He was a bouncer and has stories about how violent that life was. He was also a boxer, including an illegal bare-knuckle boxer; which seems like where Guy Richie got the idea for "Snatch". Unfortunately he died of cancer just before Lock Stock was released and the film is dedicated to him.
The cliff hanger ending is reminiscent of the end of the original Italian job with a young Michael Caine, a classic British heist comedy. The Sherlock films are excellent and may I also recommend The Gentleman.
Ha, I just realized Rob Brydon is in this :D Did not know him back when I watched this movie, probably more than 15 years ago. But seen a lot of Would I Lie To You on UA-cam over the last couple of years, so kind of funny to see his face pop up in a totally different context.
Prior to making this movie, Jason Statham actually sold fake jewelry from a little table on the streets of London. The sales pitch was the same one Statham actually used to fleece people.
This was Guy Ritchies's first film, followed a couple of years later by Snatch. He made another crime comedy recently--The Gentlemen which you guys should react to. Thank you for a great video.
At some point during this I wondered if the Schmitts have ever seen Lucky Number Slevin? Also, because you asked, yes I did like Guy Ritchie's two Sherlock Holmes movies back then when I watched them in the cinema. You'd probably enjoy them.
Just another little connection: the man relating the tale of Rory setting fire to the pub man is Danny John Jules; he plays The Cat in sci-fi-comedy series Red Dwarf. The actor playing Nick The Greek was a guest in an episode of Red Dwarf.
@@MarkTheMorose 🤣🤣 i love how weirdly specific they all are…and the fact Rimmer always gets them wrong! It’s such a funny, long running joke through the show!
I freaking LOVE this movie! I remember when it came out, there was a big push from the studios to make Nick Moran ("Ed" the card playing main character) the breakout "next big thing" actor. It went to his head, he got cocky, and kind of fizzled out and couldn't get another big starring role for a number of years. Lock Stock MADE Jason Statham, though! Dexter Fletcher (Soap), you should recognize as Sgt Martin in Band Of Brothers; he's also had a great career after Lock Stock, both acting and directing. He was producer on Bohemian Rhapsody, the Freddie Mercury/Queen pic, and was the director of Rocketman, the Elton John pic.
Soap (Dexter Fletcher) directed the film Bohemian Rhapsody. Both the Jasons, Alan Ford and Vinnie Jones are all in Snatch. Jason Flemyng plays one of the Travelers Alan Ford is of course Brick Top.
This one and RocknRolla are both underrated when it comes to reaction content. Snatch and The Gentlemen are gems, for sure, but I really like these two.
I like this better than Snatch, i feel like i am in the minority but me and my Dad used to watch this so much and quote it all the time and it became one of my favorite movies as a kid, i still quote it to this day! its amazing how it all ties together by the end :)
Barry the Baptist was played by Lennie McLean who was even more fearsome in real life than in the movie. He was a bare knuckle boxing champ who sadly passed away just before the film was released.
He was a deeply dangerous man on the booze to everyone around him. The story about him biting his mates throat out after a bender made it hard to look at him the same way in this film even though he does a great job. Apparently he'd go to his local pub and everyone would leave so he wouldn't be able to kick the shit out of them, it'd be just him and his wife dancing to the band and then he'd fight the band. He mellowed as he got older & quit drinking and apparently was hugely popular on set. I seem to remember reading somewhere that some of his underworld mates might have had something to do with the funding of this film.
There was a spin-off mini series of this called "Lock stock and four stolen hooves" that you would really enjoy. It's every bit as good as the film. (6 × 50 min episodes).
That was Alan Ford narrating the story. He was BrickTop in Snatch and he had a scene in this movie, but you may have missed him without the eyeglasses. Great Reaction!
@@chefskiss6179 He was a thug in "The Long Good Friday" with Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, a pre-007 Pierce Bronsan and a very young Dexter Fletcher (he played Soap here in "Stock").
@@Madbandit77yeah this movie some sort of mini reunion of two actors from Long Good Friday with P. H. Moriarty, that Alan Ford was part of 3 of the definitive movies of the genre is somewhat of a feat I reckon.
This was the precursor to Snatch so while its probably not as tight I do actually like it more because it's cool to see Guy Ritchies directorial debut and the progress he's made since
I don't know for sure but I always believed the ending to be a nod to the ending of the original 'Italian Job'... Michael Caine and crew have stolen the gold and escaped in the Mini's... The gold is loaded on to a bus and they all make their way back to England, the bus crashes and is 50/50 over a cliff, the gold is at one end, Caine and crew the other, and Caine says something like "Hang on lads, I've got an idea", the film ends... Maybe not but that was my assumption... 🙂
The characters are all perfectly played and most have gone on to further success. Sadly Steve Sweeney who played Plank recently passed away RIP, Rory Breaker was immense, he was once in Only Fools and Horses as well. Frank Harper who played the boss of Planks team plays a brilliant bad guy, he's also in Football Factory. Could talk about this fim and the actors for ever #Masterpiece
Fun fact: Yes, GR made himself a name with LSaTSB, which gave him the green light for Snatch. He initially had a similar small budget as for this movie. Brad Pitt was a huge fan of this movie and said he wanted to be in the next one, no matter what it was. So Guy just called him, told him what he was up to and also said he couldn't afford Brad Pitt in his movie. That's when Brad Pitt said he didn't care about the money. He ended up taking the SAME pay as Jason Statham, paid for his own flights and hotel and even helped cover production costs without being credited .... the rest is history and we are still fond of Mickeys love for "dags" and caravans.
I love the fact that they didn't think Pitt could pull off the Pikey verbiage. Many of his lines were not in the script but obviously they just let him say what he wanted because he was there for love.
Another fun fact. At least I think I heard it somewhere. There were early screenings in US for people connected to, probably, like a distributors/producers that would buy LSaTSB for US theaters or something. And one attendee of that screening was Tom Cruise. His presence at the screening brought a big animals from the producers companies and after his statement that it's one of the best movies he's ever seen, he basically started a bid-war among the companies and the movie was bough for much higher money than expected. I think I even saw an old photo of Tom Cruise + GR, so I hope it's not a complete fabrication.
Jason Staham's father was a real hawker and taught Jason how to do it. When Guy Ritchie found out about this, he decided Jason was perfect. And I think Staham is a much better actor than his career as an action star might suggest. He has a natural cheekiness!
I'm not saying Vinnie Jones is type-cast, but the scene where he slams the guy's head in the car door ....... that's exactly how he used to play football.
To best match the vibe of this and Snatch, I will echo others and highly recommend RocknRolla it has a fantastic cast. Also this was Statham's first acting role, 26:06 nice backflip, he had already been practicing martial arts in his youth
Another Guy Richie movie though not as acclaimed as 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' and 'Snatched' is 'RockNRolla' with Gerard Butler, Idris Elba, Mark Strong, Tandiwe Newton, Jeremy Piven, Ludacris, Tom Wilkinson and Toby Kebbell.
One of the things that that is hard for us in the US to get is the accents. The burglars have a northern England accent. The weed guys have an upper crust university accent. The others have various places in London accents.
REALLY hope you watch both French Connection 2 AND RocknRolla (2008) another Guy Ritchie with Tom Hardy, Idris Elba, Gerard Butler among others. utterly hilarious crime drama!
This must have been such a laugh to watch for you folks.All the Cockney and Scouse accents from the South&North of England.The slang,the rivalry,the hatred between criminals&dodgy people! Film looks great,top cast,crazy story,dynamic film making,awesome soundtrack.It's a great debut.🎥👌 Did you spot Sting?🎶☺️
For a similar theme, The Gentlemen is another Ritchie crime film set in the UK that's a fun watch. RocknRolla is another although it wasn't as big a 'hit'. For something different, I loved what he did with The Man from UNCLE. That was really entertaining.
For those outside the UK a ton = £100 and a monkey = £500, ton and monkey are Cockney rhyming slang if you need to know more. If you want other crime/drama films I recommend watching Ransom(1996), Air America(1990) or Payback(1999). A few newer Richie movies that I liked The Gentlemen (2019), Guy Ritchie's The Covenant(2023) and Wrath of Man(2021).
"If the milk turns out to be sour, I ain't the kinda p***y to drink it", is just /chef's kiss/ my favorite line. By the way, if you like Statham is comedic roles please check out 2015's "Spy" movie starring Melissa McCarthy & Jason Statham. But once you've watched the movie, watch the bloopers of it to see Statham deliver his lines. It's fantastic.
Oh and another comment since apparently nobody else has pointed it out so far: Eddie's "Dad" JD is famous singer _Sting_ from _The Police_ .... not his first role since he already starred in _Quadrophenia_ in 1979, _Dune_ in 1984 and _Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen_ in 1988 amongst many others.
I love everything about this movie. I don't know if it's an intentional homage or anything, but to me, the ending where we don't know if the shotguns fall into the river or not reminds me of the ending of the original Italian Job.
Thank you for doing my favorite movie definitely did it justice
I love that Vinnie Jones is slamming a guy's head in the car door, then that's what he's doing when he's introduced in Snatch.
"Bon jour"!!
They put a block of wood in the car door to represent the head and told Vinnie to go mad - apparently he terrified the entire crew!
Yes!! A British delicacy of a movie.
Would love it if you two did a British marathon of movies like: Dog Soldiers, Dog House, Kidulthood trilogy, Anuvahood, Rise of the Footsoldier, Mean Machine.
Everybody knows Snatch, but I love this movie even more.
It's a tough one, Snatch is so slick but I love the pacing of this film
Lock, stock easy clears for me, it’s so much tighter. Snatch was just more
Lock Stock is a far better movie, but Snatch had Brad Pitt. It makes me a little salty that Snatch gets more recognition but I have to admit Brad killed it in that movie.
Park Street where it was filmed is next to Borough Mt, so you can visit the 'set'. Tom was suppposed to be played by someone overweight..but when Jason was cast they just left it in. Samoen Joes is The Royal Oak on Columbia Rd, other location used is Cheshire st just off Brick Lane.
The clean cook was John Martin in, Band of Brothers.
Vinnie Jones hadn't even retired from football when he made this 😂
He had to get bailed out of lockup for beating up his neighbor on his first day of filming!
I did not know this fact. 🙂
Playing a thug in a film is pretty much the same as he was on the football pitch !!!
@@dnllrnt I would expect nothing less😂
he retired other players though 🤣🤣💀💀
Rock n Rolla...*chef's kiss* A must watch.
Guy Ritchie may not have a perfect filmography, but when he hits, he hits a home run. This was a hell of a debut ❤
Snatch was what introduced me to Guy Ritchie and I loved every moment. Anybody can love that film. This one is a bit slower-paced but still very fun. The invisible chick with the Bren was a great moment.
He's made some really solid films the last 10 years. The Gentleman, The Covenant, Ministry of ungentlemanly warfare. His Sherlock Holmes films were really good too
I consider him nearly as pivotal as Tarantino in re-defining cinema in the 90's and 00's.
He had some cool ideas in lock stock and snatch, but he reached a point of diminishing returns pretty quickly
He did for a long time. After the Gentlemen idk wtf happened.
The dad who owned the bar is the singer sting btw
The song from Zorba the Greek in that scene was great!
Fun fact- the arse ticklers con scheme was a con done in the 90s in the UK. Bloke made a fortune
Guy Ritchie is one of those rare directors who has such a clear and distinct voice and vision to his films. Just like Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Wong Kar Wai and a precious few others, you KNOW when you're watching one of his films.
Agree...I just wish he makes less movies these days and working on them more. Because The Covenant was a very tasteless, average movie and Operation Fortune was actually pretty bad. I didn't like Aladdin neither, but I guess he needed that Disney money to make the Gentlemen.
I love Ritchie and also Tarantino, but Tarantino takes his time to make his movie as perfect as possible. At Ritchie, I don't see that attitude.
To this day I still use "It's been emotional" as a farewell. Love this movie!
I still use "bonjour" instead of hello... :)
I'm glad to hear it's not just me then 😂
Ever since seeing this back in the 90s, "it's been emotional", has been my standard goodbye to my friends.
Great movie. I'm glad you guys enjoyed it. R.I.P Lenny Mclean (aka Barry the Baptist).
Rock N Rolla and The Gentlemen are 2 other very good GR British crime movies. Rock N Rolla especially IMO. Slightly underrated possibly. UNCLE and his interpretation of Sherlock Holmes are also very enjoyable.
Yeah i completely agree with you about rock and rolla and the gentlemen . 2 great guy ritchie films . Rock and roll is about 5 years on from this and the gentleman is a more modern take on a guy ritchie film
Layer Cake is another good film, it's from Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass, Kingsman) who was a producer on this film and Snatch, and it's very much in the same style.
This movie and Snatch are almost like "what if Tarantino was British", and Vinnie Jones always plays the coolest roles. Aces to both! Perfect comedy of error flicks!
Nothing makes my day like hearing Sam say "I LOVED that" about one of my favorite movies.
This film came out not long after I'd begun my first post-uni proper job as a sysadmin at a university computer dept. It took the student scene by storm, everyone was talking about it. Pretty sure I saw it at the cinema at least twice.
I recommend "Crank" and indeed both Sherlock Holmes movies with RDJ (shame there hasn't been a third), they're not like the books but have their own GR style notes that I'm sure you;d both like.
great soundtrack especially the zorba the greek sequence
I know it juvenile and very Bevis and Butthead...but I do chuckle every time they say Snatch...
Another great, more recent, Guy Richie movie is The Gentleman (with Matthew McConaughey)
There is a great documentary called "Bounce" where they interview Lenny McLean, who plays Barry the Baptist in Lock Stock. He was a bouncer and has stories about how violent that life was. He was also a boxer, including an illegal bare-knuckle boxer; which seems like where Guy Richie got the idea for "Snatch". Unfortunately he died of cancer just before Lock Stock was released and the film is dedicated to him.
The GUVNAR…
So glad that you guys got to this one!! :D
The cliff hanger ending is reminiscent of the end of the original Italian job with a young Michael Caine, a classic British heist comedy.
The Sherlock films are excellent and may I also recommend The Gentleman.
The glass table breaking was not scripted and an actual accident that was kept in the movie
Ha, I just realized Rob Brydon is in this :D
Did not know him back when I watched this movie, probably more than 15 years ago. But seen a lot of Would I Lie To You on UA-cam over the last couple of years, so kind of funny to see his face pop up in a totally different context.
Prior to making this movie, Jason Statham actually sold fake jewelry from a little table on the streets of London. The sales pitch was the same one Statham actually used to fleece people.
@@billbabcock1833 that's what you call "finessing."
when i was a youth, I was the person who said "i'll have one"...to get the ball rolling, in Oxford St,,,ahh...good times
@@scottpeters5959 Awesome!!!
This was Guy Ritchies's first film, followed a couple of years later by Snatch. He made another crime comedy recently--The Gentlemen which you guys should react to. Thank you for a great video.
At some point during this I wondered if the Schmitts have ever seen Lucky Number Slevin?
Also, because you asked, yes I did like Guy Ritchie's two Sherlock Holmes movies back then when I watched them in the cinema. You'd probably enjoy them.
I love watching you two. You always make my day better. Thanks.
35:50 Love Guy Ritchie films. "RocknRolla" also a classic really made me love the English kinda culture and soccer
The Shirlock ones are awesome, and his new film "The Gentlemen" Is basically a new snatch or two smoking barrels
Just another little connection: the man relating the tale of Rory setting fire to the pub man is Danny John Jules; he plays The Cat in sci-fi-comedy series Red Dwarf. The actor playing Nick The Greek was a guest in an episode of Red Dwarf.
Boys from the Dwarf
@@GIBBO4182 I hope never to break Space Corps Directive 1742.
@@MarkTheMorose 🤣🤣 i love how weirdly specific they all are…and the fact Rimmer always gets them wrong! It’s such a funny, long running joke through the show!
Such an awesome movie still, about 30 years down the line | Saw it at the cinema in my youth.
A very good reaction from you | Cheers (out of Sweden).
I freaking LOVE this movie! I remember when it came out, there was a big push from the studios to make Nick Moran ("Ed" the card playing main character) the breakout "next big thing" actor. It went to his head, he got cocky, and kind of fizzled out and couldn't get another big starring role for a number of years. Lock Stock MADE Jason Statham, though! Dexter Fletcher (Soap), you should recognize as Sgt Martin in Band Of Brothers; he's also had a great career after Lock Stock, both acting and directing. He was producer on Bohemian Rhapsody, the Freddie Mercury/Queen pic, and was the director of Rocketman, the Elton John pic.
RIP Steve Sweeney (Plank)
RIP Jake Abraham (Dean)
RIP Lenny Mclean (Barry the Baptist)
Still my favourite Richie film and it's not even close.
One of the movie greats, such a fantastic story
Soap (Dexter Fletcher) directed the film Bohemian Rhapsody. Both the Jasons, Alan Ford and Vinnie Jones are all in Snatch. Jason Flemyng plays one of the Travelers Alan Ford is of course Brick Top.
RocknRolla is my next favorite of Guy Ritchie's after this and Snatch!
Its about time somebody got around to this one!!!
Yes. Not enough people reacting to this one.
This one and RocknRolla are both underrated when it comes to reaction content. Snatch and The Gentlemen are gems, for sure, but I really like these two.
Cinepals did a reaction to this I believe.
@@ThePartisan13 Oh, that makes it enough.
@@wjrasmussen666 Why you gotta be like that?
As far as British gangster movies go - my favourite is 'Rise of the footsoldier,' which is based on a true story
I like this better than Snatch, i feel like i am in the minority but me and my Dad used to watch this so much and quote it all the time and it became one of my favorite movies as a kid, i still quote it to this day! its amazing how it all ties together by the end :)
As a Guy Ritchie fan, not gonna miss this! Btw the narration by Brick Top from Snatch :)
This movie is perfect. Hilarious and such a vibe lol
Fun fact: the narrator is Brick from Snatch lol.
Now you have to watch Revolver.
One of my favourite films ever. Insanely re-watchable, well written,fun and quotable.
I love this movie
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Yes that is Sting.
He helped finance the movie after reading the script, and Guy Richie gave him a minor role as a thank you.
It was Stings wife Trudi that really helped get this made
Barry the Baptist was played by Lennie McLean who was even more fearsome in real life than in the movie.
He was a bare knuckle boxing champ who sadly passed away just before the film was released.
He was a deeply dangerous man on the booze to everyone around him. The story about him biting his mates throat out after a bender made it hard to look at him the same way in this film even though he does a great job.
Apparently he'd go to his local pub and everyone would leave so he wouldn't be able to kick the shit out of them, it'd be just him and his wife dancing to the band and then he'd fight the band.
He mellowed as he got older & quit drinking and apparently was hugely popular on set. I seem to remember reading somewhere that some of his underworld mates might have had something to do with the funding of this film.
There was a spin-off mini series of this called
"Lock stock and four stolen hooves"
that you would really enjoy. It's every bit as good as the film.
(6 × 50 min episodes).
That was Alan Ford narrating the story. He was BrickTop in Snatch and he had a scene in this movie, but you may have missed him without the eyeglasses. Great Reaction!
Not bad really, guy starts out as a cabbie (in American Werewolf in London), tends bar in Lock Stock and rises to head of the underworld in Snatch! 😂
@@chefskiss6179 He was a thug in "The Long Good Friday" with Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, a pre-007 Pierce Bronsan and a very young Dexter Fletcher (he played Soap here in "Stock").
@@Madbandit77yeah this movie some sort of mini reunion of two actors from Long Good Friday with P. H. Moriarty, that Alan Ford was part of 3 of the definitive movies of the genre is somewhat of a feat I reckon.
Lenny McClean, (Barry the Baptist) has quite the amazing real life story. He was a real life BADASS!!!
This was the precursor to Snatch so while its probably not as tight I do actually like it more because it's cool to see Guy Ritchies directorial debut and the progress he's made since
I don't know for sure but I always believed the ending to be a nod to the ending of the original 'Italian Job'... Michael Caine and crew have stolen the gold and escaped in the Mini's... The gold is loaded on to a bus and they all make their way back to England, the bus crashes and is 50/50 over a cliff, the gold is at one end, Caine and crew the other, and Caine says something like "Hang on lads, I've got an idea", the film ends... Maybe not but that was my assumption... 🙂
The ending was a homage to The Italian Job (1969) ending.
The characters are all perfectly played and most have gone on to further success.
Sadly Steve Sweeney who played Plank recently passed away RIP, Rory Breaker was immense, he was once in Only Fools and Horses as well.
Frank Harper who played the boss of Planks team plays a brilliant bad guy, he's also in Football Factory.
Could talk about this fim and the actors for ever #Masterpiece
Lennox "The Shadow" Gilbey really went up in the world after holding up the Top Buy Supermarket.
RocknRolla (2008) please put on one of your world famous polls.
Fun fact: Yes, GR made himself a name with LSaTSB, which gave him the green light for Snatch. He initially had a similar small budget as for this movie. Brad Pitt was a huge fan of this movie and said he wanted to be in the next one, no matter what it was. So Guy just called him, told him what he was up to and also said he couldn't afford Brad Pitt in his movie. That's when Brad Pitt said he didn't care about the money. He ended up taking the SAME pay as Jason Statham, paid for his own flights and hotel and even helped cover production costs without being credited .... the rest is history and we are still fond of Mickeys love for "dags" and caravans.
I love Snatch. Pitt was perfect for Mickey.
Much respect to Brad Pitt. The man is a so noble.
@@v8matey Just don't ask his family.
I love the fact that they didn't think Pitt could pull off the Pikey verbiage. Many of his lines were not in the script but obviously they just let him say what he wanted because he was there for love.
Another fun fact. At least I think I heard it somewhere. There were early screenings in US for people connected to, probably, like a distributors/producers that would buy LSaTSB for US theaters or something. And one attendee of that screening was Tom Cruise. His presence at the screening brought a big animals from the producers companies and after his statement that it's one of the best movies he's ever seen, he basically started a bid-war among the companies and the movie was bough for much higher money than expected. I think I even saw an old photo of Tom Cruise + GR, so I hope it's not a complete fabrication.
Jason Staham's father was a real hawker and taught Jason how to do it. When Guy Ritchie found out about this, he decided Jason was perfect. And I think Staham is a much better actor than his career as an action star might suggest. He has a natural cheekiness!
I love this film.
This was mind blowing when it came out, love it. By the way, the narrator and bar man, is the brick top the pig feeding gangsta in snatch
I really love the ambiguous ending it's fun not knowing what actually happened 😂
I'm not saying Vinnie Jones is type-cast, but the scene where he slams the guy's head in the car door ....... that's exactly how he used to play football.
To best match the vibe of this and Snatch, I will echo others and highly recommend RocknRolla it has a fantastic cast. Also this was Statham's first acting role, 26:06 nice backflip, he had already been practicing martial arts in his youth
I love that movie I’ve been recommending Rocknrolla but know one has done it
Another Guy Richie movie though not as acclaimed as 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' and 'Snatched' is 'RockNRolla' with Gerard Butler, Idris Elba, Mark Strong, Tandiwe Newton, Jeremy Piven, Ludacris, Tom Wilkinson and Toby Kebbell.
I JUST LOVE THIS MOVIE SO MUCH! IT DESERVES SOOO MUCH MORE LOVE!
This movie has one of my favourite endings lol. I remember facepalming so hard and laughing the first time I watched it.
Some of the dialogue in this film is eternal. '' A little bit of pain never hurt anyone..''
Barry the Baptist was an actual real-life London villain, Lenny McLean.
One of the things that that is hard for us in the US to get is the accents. The burglars have a northern England accent. The weed guys have an upper crust university accent. The others have various places in London accents.
TBR’s new favourite movie 🍿
"Soap" directed the Queen and Elton John filmographies
REALLY hope you watch both French Connection 2 AND RocknRolla (2008) another Guy Ritchie with Tom Hardy, Idris Elba, Gerard Butler among others. utterly hilarious crime drama!
This must have been such a laugh to watch for you folks.All the Cockney and Scouse accents from the South&North of England.The slang,the rivalry,the hatred between criminals&dodgy people!
Film looks great,top cast,crazy story,dynamic film making,awesome soundtrack.It's a great debut.🎥👌
Did you spot Sting?🎶☺️
lock stockand 2 smoking barrels is a way better movie than snatch, in my oppinion, love it!
To use a gaming reference, Lock, Stock is the Alpha, Snatch is Beta test and The Gentleman is product release.
You guys would love Dead man’s shoes staring paddy Constantine.
one of the most underrated movies ever made
In my Top 50 All Time Movies 🏆
Excellent reaction, as ever 👏👏👏
Now you have to finish the ‘unofficial’ trilogy with *The Gentlemen* (movie) 👍
For a similar theme, The Gentlemen is another Ritchie crime film set in the UK that's a fun watch. RocknRolla is another although it wasn't as big a 'hit'. For something different, I loved what he did with The Man from UNCLE. That was really entertaining.
For those outside the UK a ton = £100 and a monkey = £500, ton and monkey are Cockney rhyming slang if you need to know more. If you want other crime/drama films I recommend watching Ransom(1996), Air America(1990) or Payback(1999). A few newer Richie movies that I liked The Gentlemen (2019), Guy Ritchie's The Covenant(2023) and Wrath of Man(2021).
Air America is one of my favourite movies of all time and I don’t think I’ve ever encountered anyone else who’s heard of it!
Terrific Movie. Great choice.👌👏
"If the milk turns out to be sour, I ain't the kinda p***y to drink it", is just /chef's kiss/ my favorite line.
By the way, if you like Statham is comedic roles please check out 2015's "Spy" movie starring Melissa McCarthy & Jason Statham. But once you've watched the movie, watch the bloopers of it to see Statham deliver his lines. It's fantastic.
Remember watching in the cinema at college / high school….. we selling hundreds of em … very nice , what they for ?
The Gentlemen is a great Guy Ritchie movie, defo recommend.
Oh and another comment since apparently nobody else has pointed it out so far: Eddie's "Dad" JD is famous singer _Sting_ from _The Police_ .... not his first role since he already starred in _Quadrophenia_ in 1979, _Dune_ in 1984 and _Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen_ in 1988 amongst many others.
I love everything about this movie. I don't know if it's an intentional homage or anything, but to me, the ending where we don't know if the shotguns fall into the river or not reminds me of the ending of the original Italian Job.
Definitely a homage
It's been emotional.
Welcome to jolly ol' England. This is how we all behave when nobodys looking.
So glad y’all enjoyed this, hopefully y’all can do RocknRolla in the future.
This is genius, pure genius!
The narrator is Brick Top from Snatch in case you didn't notice. :-)
You might enjoy Layer Cake, staring Daniel Craig. Kind has similar vibes to this and Snatch.
@@mattsfullbox Directed by Guy's producer Matt Vaughn. He is a bit too Guy Ritchie in Layer Cake but still good for a debut.
Maybe Gentlemen or Wraith of a Man next?
This is one of those films that’s highly underrated. It’s so ridiculously entertaining. This was a great pic for the week you two! 🤟🏽
This is my favourite movie of all time. You guys should watch The Gentlemen, also a Guy Ritchie movie and has similar feel to it.
One of my favorites. When I clicked, I was certain that you would love it. It was fun watching you dig it so much