Guy Ritchie has been on a roll recently. And you add Jake Gyllenhaal as the main actor? Coune me in.
Film Guy Ritchie's The Covenant.
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Guy Ritchie has been on a roll recently. And you add Jake Gyllenhaal as the main actor? Coune me in.
Any relation to Matt Ritchie?
I'm not your guy, Ritchie
He has?
Aladdin and The Gentlemen were really good. There was a blip with Wrath of Man, but Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre looks decent. That's quite solid inside 3 years considering how long it took Guy Ritchie to make another commercially successful movie after Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows.
No. Andy
He's been on a roll down the embankment and into the pissy canal water forever.
fecks me off that his name is in the title for some reason. Makes me think it'll be shit.
Other than that the film looks a bit generic compared to his other films. Probs worth a watch.
Other than that the film looks a bit generic compared to his other films. Probs worth a watch.
Lock stock and snatch are still two of the great British films. I’ve not liked much he’s done when he’s strayed out of that crime comedy wheelhouse though.
I always enjoy Guy Ritchie movies. Don’t care what anyone says. And I think this looks great.
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Lock Stock and Snatch are both very good at doing their own shtick(Stereotype English comedy)which many have failed to recreate. Having a unique style even if it’s shite, is still more than the vast majority of directors.
Everything afterwards has been very meh, he recently directed the Will Smith Aladdin film.
Everything afterwards has been very meh, he recently directed the Will Smith Aladdin film.
Fair play to Guy for taking a chance on this. One would expect this sort of thing from Clint Eastwood.
Aladdin was a horror show. The Gentleman was a cartoon, albeit a really fun and enjoyable one.
He’s an odd director. I still can’t work out whether he’s any good, or I just enjoy some of his movies. He’s very creative, but it’s generally a bit shock and awe with zero nuance.
Anyway, we will see how this one pans out. However, I have a feeling I will really enjoy this this movie because it touches a theme that came back to the surface around the time when Kabul fell: Afghan interpreters and the many risks they (and their families) took to help the West against the Taliban for 2 decades.
Looks awful, Ritchie hasn't done a good movie since Sherlock Holmes #1
Jake Gyllenhaal is a terrible actor and an equally boring person. If he’s the lead role you know this film is in trouble right away.
Guy Ritchie has done anything relevant since Snatch?
I loved Lock stock and Snatch like everyone else and watched them loads back in the day. I can never finish a rewatch these days though. I guess I just don’t really enjoy his movies as much anymore.
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Saw an interview by Jake Tapper with Jake Gyllenhaal and Dar Salim on CNN yesterday. Salim's own personal experience in Danish military service really came in handy for the role of the interpreter Ahmed.
Sounds like complete shit.
If he isn't playing an Afghan interpreter, then he is a coward.
I really liked the gentleman, but that felt like a film more within Richie's wheelhouse, the more he goes outside the kinda slick, stylish gangster genre, with almost cartoonist characters in it, the more mixed the results tend to be.
Not really no. He didn’t kick on from those Snatch days of being the British Tarantino. I tuned out from him after that pretentious Revolver movie he made, where he tried hard to be Snatch fused with Memento-like storytelling and some David Lynch-like visuals.
Operation fortune was better than I thought but nothing amazing. Wrath of man was shit.
I’m surprised people hold any good will for Ritchie at all. He hasn’t made anything good since Snatch, and that was decades ago. I completely gave up on him for that Sherlock Holmes abomination, so maybe he’s suddenly morphed into a beautiful butterfly filmmaker, but I doubt it.
Did you not enjoy The Gentlemen? I thought that was a return to form of sorts for him.
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This is getting good reviews
The Gentlemen was great.
I hated what he did with Sherlock Holmes so much that I promised myself I'd never put myself through one of his films again. But I would ask someone who saw, for instance, Rock N Rolla, how it was, and no one ever said anything good about his later films.
EDIT: he's not the only one. There are a lot of filmmakers out there who I will skip. Every time I've been suckered into watching a film by a person whose work I despise (e.g. Spike Lee, Spielberg, Tarantino) because "the new one is so good you'll love it", and invariably whatever it was I hated about the person's style is turned up to 11.
May be worth breaking that promise to watch The Gentlemen. Dead good.
You promise you won't pull the football away from me as I try to kick it this time?
Promise.
Just watched this and thought it was very good.
The Gentleman was top class!
Have to disagree with this. Did you see him in Southpaw? He’s a great actor.
No but he’s Lionel’s brother.