'This Is England'

[coventrygull]

There were loads of skins in the 80's and even the 90's don't see many around now.

 

[Dandyman]

More dandy highwaymen than you could shake a stick at...

 

[Meade's Ball]

Yeah i was pretty excited about This Is England. I do like Meadows, an ordinary guy telling stories, but his films have tended heavily toward remakes. Some work and some don't. But none, that i have seen, really offer a permanent depth.
I saw ...England last week and saw it as a children's film. Not a bad thing, at all, but in narrative terms everything is momentary and disappears without substance. Little crosses over or is given enough time to make a viewer really hurt.
The opening 45 minutes of humour and childish relationships are well worth it. Quite funny and seemingly poignant for a certain age-group. But from then on the realism, a genre it tries to present in some way, departs with the inauthentic, sudden horifics delivered by two huge brutes.
I left a bit unmoved when characters both good and bad failed to develop, to have a history or future worth noting.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Yes I saw that and looking forward to it but haven't been to the pictures for ages.

Might see if next door neighbour can download it from wherever he gets these up to date films.

Isn't that illegal Peter

 

[coventrygull]

Will it be better than "Made In Britain"

 

[wehatepalace]

Will it be better than "Made In Britain"

Made in Britain was quality Anyone know where I can errr umm download it from *cough*

 

[Mr deez]

Just finished watching it, a decent film, liked it - 8.

Plus for those downloaders, the quality of the one thats out there is pretty decent (allegedly)

 

[Dandyman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny1a7JLdh04

For a wee preview.

 

[Rangdo]

but haven't been to the pictures for ages.

Thats clear from the fact that you're still calling it "the pictures"

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Thats clear from the fact that you're still calling it "the pictures"

Anybody else remember the cinema in North Street that occupied the building where Burger King now is? well into the eighties, the manager used to come out on stage in a dinner jacket and dickie bow and introduce the film

 

[Beach Hut]

Isn't that illegal Peter

Nope as I will not be the one doing the download

 

[London Calling]

Being reviwed on BBC at the mo......looks scary "in a neathendral violent way", I recognise the estate it was shot in in Nottingham.

 

[clapham_gull]

Nope as I will not be the one doing the download

But technically as a recipient of said download..

 

[Springal]

But technically as a recipient of said download..

not illegal unless you are distributing.

Yea I downloaded a DVDR of it already and its a good film - recommend you go see!

 

[CHAPPERS]

I still think the film-maker got this most basic of details absurdly wrong. .

I'm not an EXPERT on the matter or anything but considering it's pretty autobiographical and that Meadow's is a quality film-maker I can't see that he'd have got too much wrong.

 

[Questions]

I got punched in the face at the age of 12 by a skinhead outside the bowling alley in Worthing for wearing a tank top.


Served me right really because it was an awlful top.

 

[readingstockport]

I must indeed have missed them mate. Last active memory I have of skins was them turning on Jimmy Pursey, and shortly after that they started turning up en masse at Madness gigs. Mind you, there's been a lot of brain-cells destroyed since them there days, else maybe my mind refuses to accept the eighties completely. Maybe under deep hypnosis it would all come flooding back...

I clearly recall an upstarts gig at the George Robey in about 86 where there was the usual mixture of punk upstarts fans, socialist skins and facist skins. Kicking off big time everywhere both in the gig and all over Finsbury Park all night. Serious trouble going on there.

They were definately around in the 80's and highly active. Ian Stuart didn't die until 1993.

Incidentally, what site did people download the film from? Purely for research purposes of course

 

[Clothes Peg]

This film doesn't seem to be listed at my local Welsh cinema

 

[Lush]

I can see where Tom is coming from. If you take the bands that Goodfella mentions in the first post on this thread - well Geno was released in 1980 - and by 1982 Dexy's had moved on to their frankly dreadful Come On Eileen/Too Rye Ay phase. The Specials didn't release a single after 1981 except as Specials AKA.

Certainly as far as I was concerned, ska was over by 1982.