Frodo Goes Apeshit.

[Certex]

Green Street Hooligans. English football (soccer to you Yanks) casuals. How utterly tedious. This is only the latest in a series of films about these kind of worthless braindead arseholes, who are the reason that English football fans are hated in Europe and sometimes get banned from appearing at these game when they are played outside England. Casuals are generally racist shaven-headed drink-and-drug-drowned white trash who still want to believe that 'Engerland' (sic) is the ruler of the world and not some repressed little backwater and thus go fighting people from other countries (over something as worthless as fucking football - it's absolutely incredible) to prove Britannia rules the waves. Tedious cunts, and this will no doubt be an ill-informed, tedious cunt of a film, made with wee Frodo in it to introduce an American box office element to this worthless unexplored-by-Yanks violent 'sporting' subculture.

Hooray.

G.

[Zen]

Wooah, someone's a little cranky!!!

So far every review I have read, including right here on FT, has been very positive.

Of course maybe this has to do with the fact that these are all North Americans being exposed to this type of sub-culture (I expect hooliganism qualifies as a sub-culture) for the first time.

This is probably the same reason why alot of North Americans like Little Britain as well (cause really, is this show funny, at all?).

Anyhoo...I for one am going to catch this flick and judge it on it's own merits.
There is always an allure to watching films about subcultures we are not familiar with, doubly so if the subculture centres around something illicit or naughty (hence the popularity of gangster films).

Besides, I want to see Frodo kick the shit out of someone. :D

[Certex]

Guess you've never had casuals smash up your town or come up to your country from England and smash up your cities, eh? Fuck these braindead cunts and their worthless sub-'culture'.

G.

[Seedy Edgewick]

We actually have people like this in the States; we just don't legitimize them with a "subculture."

I've seen plenty of "reality video" shows (like Cops) that present footage of a post-game riot, usually sparked by the WINNING team's fans. Businesses get looted and trashed, cars get overturned and set ablaze, and the riot police in full gear -- lucite shields, helmets, batons -- march down the street in an impenetrable wall, forcing the "revelers" out of the area to be dispersed.

We do have labels for these sorts: asshole, stupid drunk fucker, waste of skin, etc. Oh, and more often than not, such a riot is sparked by a college football (that's "American football" to you non-Yanks*) game. Yes, the institute of higher learning demonstrates the lowest of human behavior.

If irony was edible, I'd be Jabba the Hutt.

*We luv ya, G!

[El Duderino Diablo]

It's like a Montreal hockey riot.

[Zen]

Guess you've never had casuals smash up your town or come up to your country from England and smash up your cities, eh? Fuck these braindead cunts and their worthless sub-'culture'.

G.

Actually no, you're right, I haven't. That's why I have been trying to set up a Hooligan Exchange Program. There will be two types of exchanges. HEP A and HEP B will involve the hooligans being sent back to where they came from eventually. There is a possibility for a HEP C exchange as well, where they will stick around and eventually kick the shit out of our livers entirely.

(Sorry for bad communicable disease humour)

Anyways, we'd in turn send England some of our finest rabble.

[eyeresist]

The English football hooligans are notable for their organisation and preplanning. Rather than committing spontaneous loutery (ITAW?) they plan routes, times and weapons. So it doesn't directly compare with what we see on COPS. The forethought makes it worse.

[Pete Vonder Haar]

It's like a Montreal hockey riot.

Oh please. When was the last time Canadiens fans had a reason to riot for anything?

[El Duderino Diablo]

True enough but the two French-Canadian dudes next door had a hell of a sissy boy slap fight the other night.

[Certex]

being a journalism student in the film et al, this actually sounds like a rip-off of a book by an American journalist called Bill Buford, who wrote a book called Among The Thugs a few years ago. He lived and fought amongst some English casuals, and got the shit kicked out of him. Wonder if he'll get a royalty check...

G.

[eyeresist]

I also saw a doco about a British journalist going undercover with white supremacist football fans, so it's probably a story whose time has come.

[Bopper]

I actually really enjoyed this movie a lot, but yeah, I've never been affected by hooliganism. And I thought it was funny seeing Elijah Wood act violent (so much that it had me laughing in theaters and at home after I bought it), that was the last thing I expected, I mean, look at him! He did do a good job of it though, so that's good. But yeah, this was the first bad review I've seen. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion though, so yeah.

[friedegg]

I was sold on Elijah Wood. I mean with the exception of like Sin City, you never see Elijah Wood in a violent role, so Green Street Hooligans was a surprise. I'm just extremely surprised that Claire Forlani is in it as well. And Charlie Hunnam, does anybody remember him? The "hooligan" isn't necessarily a sub-culture, its just obsession at its most extreme, always fun to watch.

[SomeonesCranky]

Um...personally, i liked Green Street Hooligans. I live in America, but i watch movies to be entertained, and i WAS, so thats all that matters to me :) Matter-of-fact, i pre-ordered the DVD and picked it up on the 13th of June when it came out. I liked Green Street Hooligans that much. I loved the violence and the story and i would definitely recommend this film to anyone who wants to be entertained :)

[zoopii]

the story is so good. and the message of standing up for yourself is one that a lot of people ahve to take to heart. i love this movie, and i'm sooooo glad that i bought it last week. before that, i never even heard about it. I was just at the local movie store and I saw that elijah wood was in it, so I asked the clerk and he said it was an amazing movie. He said that the acting, story, message, fights, everything was just really well done and I have to agree, he was right.

[truepictures]

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