I‘m not a big fan of Guy Ritchie. I know the director by name but I’ve only seen one of his films from beginning to end and to boot, it wasn’t even a good one but rather last year’s Revolver (our review). At some point I tried to watch both Snatch. and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, which happens to be one of my sister’s favourites, but I couldn’t get into either of them.
Then came word that he’d be heading back to gangsters and bad guys (he got away from that?) with the upcoming RocknRolla and I must admit, I wasn’t all that excited mostly because I haven’t bought into the greatness of Richie but the cast, which includes Gerard Butler, Tom Wilkinson, Thandie Newton and Jeremy Piven, certainly caught my attention.
The first trailer for the film has hit the web and I have to say, I’m not particularly impressed by the movie itself though I do love the animated bits. But who am I kidding? I’ll be there to watch Butler.
RocknRolla opens on October 31st.
Trailer is tucked under the seat!
Marina, see “Snatch” and “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels;” your opinion of Ritchie may change. Revolver was tough to swallow. The other two are great fun. Plus you’re a fan of Statham and Pitt so…
I am firmly with Andrew – those two movies (Snatch and Lock, Stock) are FANTASTIC. And I am one of the few who really liked Revolver. I think the trailer looks great (nice to see The Wire’s Idris “Stringer” Elba make an appearance:)), although I fear it might cOme off as just a slightly more serious version of his two other similar films. Yet again Snatch was very similar to Lock, Stock and that worked, so we’ll see.
Wilkinson as a full fledged bad ass. I’m there.
Wow, hard to believe you couldn’t like Snatch and Lock, Stock. Those are two of my favorite movies EVER, and the fact that he has another one coming out makes me flip for joy.
Yeah, not quite sure why I couldn’t get into them the first time Mike. Maybe the wrong time or something because I love some of those actors and these high-octane flicks are right up my alley but the first time I tried either of those, I simply couldn’t get past the language. Not sure why. I’ll definitely be giving them another go-round. Maybe it’ll be more successful on the second attempt.