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Green Street, aka Hooligans, aka Green Street Hooligans

Sat Oct 8th 08:36:04 2005

Watched Green Street. Tis a good film. I only get to see a film I can rate as anything more than pig faeces once every decade, so it's a welcome change.
It's not watered down much and it isn't explained every step of the way for an international audience which makes it all the better.

It stars Elijah Wood but he does a pretty good job of it. One thing:



He has the body of a 4 year old.
Seriously, MUTATION.

I understand completely why he was chosen for Lord of the Rings now.

We were in this pub which has a strange feeling to it. When you walk in it's like walking into somebody's house uninvited. It's a real regular type of pub, but we went to it because it has the cheapest pool table in a 45-mile radius.

While there the Sunderland V West Ham game was on, with a group of 20 guys or so watching. Strangely enough I was talking about Green Street when West Ham scored, these guys all jumped up shouting. Shit. They're all wearing jeans, a jumper and caps. The uniform. I'm in a firm's pub. Green Street is based on West Ham's firm. I'm in a West Ham firm pub.

I bought 2 pints of coke which I was told was £1.20 each, we got charged £2.20 each. I decided to let it go in this situation.

I also remember the pub was burnt down in an arson attack about 5 years or so ago in which the owner died. We drink our cokes and leave..


Later we go to the cinema to see Revolver.
Now, I'm still on a self-imposed ban from the cinema. Actually it's not completely self-imposed. I got banned about 6 months ago for taking a ceiling tile off in the bathroom and got escorted off by security. It was actually my friend that did it (we were drunk) but they have the staff rotation of McDonalds so it never stuck.

A friend bought my ticket so I decided to let it ride this time.

Revolver is terrible. It tries to be too clever and it just doesn't work. At the end I just wanted to leave but I'm self-conscious when it comes to eating in the cinema so I was on 1 crisp per 10 minutes so I stayed to finish them off. At the end, or near the end, the screen just goes blank, and no one knows if that's actually the end or not, I couldn't be bothered to wait to find out so we just left.

Don't go see it. Don't even bother downloading it, waste of bandwidth.