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The Deer Hunter (1978)
One of THE most overrated films...
Awful gung-ho (which reaches its absolute nadir in the first russiam roulette scene)racist rubbish dressed up as a "message film".
And that side of its bad enough but then you have to add the illogicality and inaccuracy which pervades the film. A group of 35 year old men suddenly deciding to sign up for Vietnam and then amazingly ending up serving together over there. The fact that the steel town scenes and especially the wedding would have taken place around 1967-69 but every one's dressed in late 70s fashions has late 70s haircuts. I know there's such a thing as artistic licence but this goes way beyond that and surely this type of film needs realism and accuracy to make it work.
Ironically I liked the first few minutes of them working at the steelworks and knocking-off into the half light - very atmospheric and well done but from then on in - what a waste of time.
Awaydays (2009)
Oh dear oh dear...
I've seen some rubbish in my time but this just about plumbs the depths - to be honest it started to veer into so-bad-it's-good territory and me and my friends were having a good little chuckle by the end. Where do you start when it comes to pointing out the weak-points - the wimpy teenagers beating up proper thirty-something geezers, the completely mismatched music (80s football hooligans ditching the jazz-funk or later acid house and listening to Joy Division!), the camp bloke who wouldn't have lasted a second, the accents (which even I a non-Scouser know are laughable)....it goes on and on...The fact that such rubbish even got made tells you more about the right-on nature of parts of the British media than anything else
Rise of the Footsoldier (2007)
Best British Gangster Film By A Mile
Gritty, well-acted, intelligently put together, generally authentic looking and the violence is horrible but that's what's needed to show the viewer just how unpleasant people like this and the violence they mete out is.It's the Hollywood type sanitised violence that should be criticised - one thing this film does is show how unglamourous violent crime is. Problem is a lot of the poor marks given to this film by both the critics and the public are because such people live cosy little middle class lives where luckily for them they've remained firmly insulated from the nasty world portrayed in this film and like to think it doesn't exist.