Green Street Hooligans
This entry was posted on 10/11/2006 11:11 AM and is filed under Movies.
Watched Green Street Hooligans last night.
An unnoticed movie about soccer hooligans in Britain. I enjoyed it. It was sort of like if Fight Club was a nationalized team sport . Can't tell you how entertaining it was to watch Elijah Wood 1) take a punch and 2)throw a punch...
Plus Lloyd!
I don't know his name and I don't feel like looking it up, but the kid who played LLoyd, the Hot Brit in the too soon cancelled show, Undeclared, played the leader of the "firm" that adopts a Yank (Wood). Lloyd does a good job being tough, intimidating and not just a two dimensional thug. Plus, he shaved his head, bulked up and looks gooooood.
Elijah Wood was good. I totally bought him as an Ivy league pussy who had to go to England to learn how to be tough.
There's a scene toward the end when Claire Forlani, who plays Wood's sister and looks old enough to be his mother, shows up at the scene of a rumble and of course she's attacked. I soooo wanted her to pull a piece and say "Yanks fight with guns, you knob!" but I didn't write the script. So naturally she just stood there, screaming inaffectually while waiting to be rescued by little brother Elijah.
If I were ever in a situation where I had to be rescued by tiny little Elijah Wood, there had better be a ring of power involved.
It always bothers me when women in movies put themselves in harms way for no other reason than plot convenience. It also bothers me when there's fighting involved and all they do is scream. For crying out loud, girl, pick up a board and start swinging!
Last weekend, MJ told me about a time she was in a dance club several years ago and a guy lifted her skirt. Did she scream, wait to be rescued or slap him across the face? No.
She broke his nose.
That's what I'm talking about. There should be a movie about her.
Anyway, if you're in the mood for a silly movie about idiots with lots of gratuitous violence and none of the dull parts that marred A History of Violence, try Green Street Hooligans.
