your nominations please….

love,honour and obey

Err, Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels.

well lock stock is the only one ive seen, years ago. theres been loads since so im thinking what to look out for.people always rave about fight club? im not into full on violence and have to say i didnt really like reseroir dogs years ago (alto i do rate pulp fiction)
im thinking more geeeeezzzzers and action and a few laughs too….

Rise of the foot soldier

Starts off with the football hooligans stuff but then develops into a full on british gangster fest

Get Carter

end of thread 😉

Do you still read Loaded magazine and listen to Ocean Colour Scene?

Snatch Wars.

Warning, contains swearing.

boardin bob,
no, but two babies came along and i am only now getting back in touch
with the world after finnally getting out of the baby bubble.

Gomorra

51st State.

boardin bob,
no, but two babies came along and i am only now getting back in touch
with the world after finnally getting out of the baby bubble.

I'm only jesting.

Lock Stock's good but it's been tarnished by glut of pisspoor copycat films in the nineties.

Sexy Beast, cracking film.

Snatch was pretty entertaining, esp Brad Pitt. Can't really remember many of the others tbh, they all blend into one.

Cass is pretty good, though not really the same kind of thing.

Oh yeah Sexy Beast is good – again a bit different.

Usually the copycats were from Guy Ritchie too… A shame that.

51st state is not bad, but it's not really a gritty, darkly humerous film in the same vein. I'd go for something more like Sexy Beast, or Maybe Gangster Number 1.

Both have a ton of good actors and are worth a watch.

Didn't enjoy Rock n Rolla, was dissappointing

layer Cake

Gangster No1

Sexy beast

Long good friday…..bob hoskins/helen mirren……
Get carter
Sexy Beast
the cook, the thief his wife and her lover

lock stock is a poor attempt at a film poor characters poor acting poor story poor direction and spawned minions of nethanderal loving mockneys. all the above are true films with often Shakespearen qualities.

As Stoner says, or The Long Good Friday. Neither short on entertainment or snappy quotes but both have a bit more fibre than recent efforts.

Vondally, spooky. 🙂

Sexy Beast doesn't really go anywhere, but Ben Kingsley makes it worth a watch.

organic355 – Member
Rise of the foot soldier

Starts off with the football hooligans stuff but then develops into a full on british gangster fest

We have a winner!

However Football Factory is also a good film! love Gangster films 😆

Vondally I like all the films you mentioned as 'proper films', however I enjoyed Lock Stock… and Snatch – for fairly mindless entertainment they were pretty well done and watchable imo. Some of the imitations are not however…

Layer Cake

Layer Cake. A genuinely good british gangster film.

And Sexy Beast just so you've experienced the unrivalled terror of Don Logan.

snatch is great for brad pitt moments……lock stock, sorry not even for mindless entertainment.it is like sticking needles in ones eyes….sorry i really do not like lock but all have the right to their view. 😀

on a slightly similiar theme
Bronson…..stand out performance
the escapist…solid prison drama
dead mens shoes…..great film

Not quite Gangster as such, but fantastic gritty English film with criminals…

Scum.

Other than that, Snatch every time for me. Genuinely witty yet very dark. Lock Stock was a bit tosh I thought and Layer Cake was pretty average for the genre.

Get Carter, Long good Friday, Sexy Beast.

Everything else just references them anyway.

Avoid anything with Danny Dyer in it.

51st state is not bad, but it's not really a gritty, darkly humerous film in the same vein. I'd go for something more like Sexy Beast, or Maybe Gangster Number 1.

51st State is an enjoyable film yeah, but no real substance to it.

Layer Cake is DARK! In a good way…

Rock'n'rolla is a good effort from Guy Ritchie, perhaps won't quite have the longevity of Lock Stock, but it's a good film nonetheless.

Nobody has mentioned Revolver (another Ritchie film) yet… Does everyone else hate it as much as the critics did? I really liked it… It's not easy to follow, you have to be paying attention the whole time (compared to all his other films which are pretty easy to follow), but it's another DARK film… Very sinister! My fave character in it is the Hitman, "Sorder"… Totally emotionless!

And of course when it comes to gangster films, Tarrantinos first 2 efforts, Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction will always be up there amongst the best IMO. Remember watching Reservoir Dogs for the first time, when I was probably only about 14, and found the torture scene quite disturbing!

Jackie Brown is tarrantinos best film imho

Face.

Robert Carlysle was in it, Lena Headley too.

Realistic, bitter-sweet, honest, under-rated…

I was going to say Layer Cake until The Long Good Friday was mentioned. I love the last scene when Bob Hoskins has been captured his face in those final couple of minutes is brilliant, best acting ever.

I'd forgotten "Face", good shout.

"Love, Honour and Obey" hasn't been mentioned. I can't recall whether that's because it was terrible or not, I seem to remember it being worth a watch. 🙂

I thought The Business was a cracker.

And so is Carly "the moll."

http://www.availableimages.com/celebs/c/georgina-chapman/pictures-business-the_pph_15.html

Some brilliant lines in this film

(Not verbatim but you'll get my drift

Knock at door.

Sammy opens door

Sammy says "anybody order a c++t? – Cos there's one 'ere on the doorstep."

Ho ho.

DS

Avoid anything with Danny Dyer in it.

+1, although I enjoyed 'the business' for other reasons 😉

Anyway, I enjoyed American gangster immensely, I love layer cake apart from the crap ending (the alternative ending was even worse), but as for slating Sexy beast all I can say is…

No, no no no no no. No, no no no no no, not this fuc…. etc
That and the dirty DD line featuring Persil, genius!

Clubbed is worth a watch.

Jackie Brown is tarrantinos best film imho

A man of taste.

Avoid anything with Danny Dyer in it.

Or the real deal. An absolute f*cking weapon 😳

As Stoner said. End of Thread!!!

Get Carter.

2 post was end of!

Long Good Friday.
Sexy Beast-Purely for MR Kingsley.