Just, and I mean just, finished watching Green Street Hooligans. I'm on an indie kick right now, which might be because i'm a little stressed, but just read the bloody review...
This movie out fights fightclub, out crashes crash, or even out richies Guy Richie (sidenote: I hate madonna's fake accent). This movie feels like Train Spotting, but it's more manly than that, and you don't want to shoot up afterwards, instead you want to sing pub cheers, get into a fight, save your family, and do it all in time to grab a pint.
The story is simple: Boy goes to Harvard, Boy gets kicked out of harvard from loser roomate who hid coke in boy's closet, boy takes fall to avoid embarassment of roomates prestigeous family, and he's off to england. It's here where the cliche sebatical, or "break" as american's call it begins.
Matt, the boy played by Elija Wood, is the perfect wus (and I hate to say that I empathize). He's never gotten into a fight, let alone into a brawl. He escapes to London to visit his sister (the girl from Mallrats), who's escaped to live with her Brittish husband after her mother died. The husband's brother babysits Matt and brings him into the world of Football Firms. Matt soon joins the GSE, or Green Street Hooligans, and a few twists later we are at some of the bloodiest fight scenes since braveheart and a great family conflict.
I hate to say it, but it's the raw footage of the choregraphed (?) fights that makes this an awesome flick. The blood flows so much, that you cheer when you should be wincing, and wince when you should be cheering, and a certain bottly to the throat will make anybody feel pain. This is definately a movie for guys (I pity any guy who tries to make any woman watch this). It's rough, but one of the grittiest "boy grows up due to foreign circumstances" movies I'm seen in a while.
Also, these Firms are real...
"bloody" real. Check out
this BBC documentary.
By the way, the title is from the song they sing.... watch the movie...
