Snatch was what introduced me to Guy Ritchie and I loved every moment. Anybody can love that film. This one is a bit slower-paced but still very fun. The invisible chick with the Bren was a great moment.
He's made some really solid films the last 10 years. The Gentleman, The Covenant, Ministry of ungentlemanly warfare. His Sherlock Holmes films were really good too
Fun fact: Yes, GR made himself a name with LSaTSB, which gave him the green light for Snatch. He initially had a similar small budget as for this movie. Brad Pitt was a huge fan of this movie and said he wanted to be in the next one, no matter what it was. So Guy just called him, told him what he was up to and also said he couldn't afford Brad Pitt in his movie. That's when Brad Pitt said he didn't care about the money. He ended up taking the SAME pay as Jason Statham, paid for his own flights and hotel and even helped cover production costs without being credited .... the rest is history and we are still fond of Mickeys love for "dags" and caravans.
I love the fact that they didn't think Pitt could pull off the Pikey verbiage. Many of his lines were not in the script but obviously they just let him say what he wanted because he was there for love.
Another fun fact. At least I think I heard it somewhere. There were early screenings in US for people connected to, probably, like a distributors/producers that would buy LSaTSB for US theaters or something. And one attendee of that screening was Tom Cruise. His presence at the screening brought a big animals from the producers companies and after his statement that it's one of the best movies he's ever seen, he basically started a bid-war among the companies and the movie was bough for much higher money than expected. I think I even saw an old photo of Tom Cruise + GR, so I hope it's not a complete fabrication.
Rock N Rolla and The Gentlemen are 2 other very good GR British crime movies. Rock N Rolla especially IMO. Slightly underrated possibly. UNCLE and his interpretation of Sherlock Holmes are also very enjoyable.
Yeah i completely agree with you about rock and rolla and the gentlemen . 2 great guy ritchie films . Rock and roll is about 5 years on from this and the gentleman is a more modern take on a guy ritchie film
Lock Stock is a far better movie, but Snatch had Brad Pitt. It makes me a little salty that Snatch gets more recognition but I have to admit Brad killed it in that movie.
YES!! This is Guy Ritchie's directorial debut and Jason Statham's feature film debut! It's one of the funniest heist movies that always goes terribly wrong with hilarious results at the end. There was a 7 part TV series based on the movie that was released in 2000
Prior to making this movie, Jason Statham actually sold fake jewelry from a little table on the streets of London. The sales pitch was the same one Statham actually used to fleece people.
Guy Ritchie is one of those rare directors who has such a clear and distinct voice and vision to his films. Just like Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Wong Kar Wai and a precious few others, you KNOW when you're watching one of his films.
Agree...I just wish he makes less movies these days and working on them more. Because The Covenant was a very tasteless, average movie and Operation Fortune was actually pretty bad. I didn't like Aladdin neither, but I guess he needed that Disney money to make the Gentlemen. I love Ritchie and also Tarantino, but Tarantino takes his time to make his movie as perfect as possible. At Ritchie, I don't see that attitude.
I'm glad it's back after the copyright claim, it's such a fun reaction. Daniel is so excited and giddy in the later half, and both of you just can't stop smiling!
There is a great documentary called "Bounce" where they interview Lenny McLean, who plays Barry the Baptist in Lock Stock. He was a bouncer and has stories about how violent that life was. He was also a boxer, including an illegal bare-knuckle boxer; which seems like where Guy Richie got the idea for "Snatch". Unfortunately he died of cancer just before Lock Stock was released and the film is dedicated to him.
0:57 "correct me if I'm wrong..... Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels came before Snatch..... I think the success of this allowed him to do Snatch....." yes, and the success of Snatch allowed him to do Madonna.
I'm not saying Vinnie Jones is type-cast, but the scene where he slams the guy's head in the car door ....... that's exactly how he used to play football.
I love everything about this movie. I don't know if it's an intentional homage or anything, but to me, the ending where we don't know if the shotguns fall into the river or not reminds me of the ending of the original Italian Job.
Just another little connection: the man relating the tale of Rory setting fire to the pub man is Danny John Jules; he plays The Cat in sci-fi-comedy series Red Dwarf. The actor playing Nick The Greek was a guest in an episode of Red Dwarf.
@@MarkTheMorose 🤣🤣 i love how weirdly specific they all are…and the fact Rimmer always gets them wrong! It’s such a funny, long running joke through the show!
One of my distant relatives was in this film. Tanya the women dealing the cards is Vera Day who was also married to Terry O'Neill. My uncle was married to her daughter and I even had a signed copy of the film on VHS. Wish I still had it because this has become one of my favourite films.
Barry the Baptist was played by Lennie McLean who was even more fearsome in real life than in the movie. He was a bare knuckle boxing champ who sadly passed away just before the film was released.
He was a deeply dangerous man on the booze to everyone around him. The story about him biting his mates throat out after a bender made it hard to look at him the same way in this film even though he does a great job. Apparently he'd go to his local pub and everyone would leave so he wouldn't be able to kick the shit out of them, it'd be just him and his wife dancing to the band and then he'd fight the band. He mellowed as he got older & quit drinking and apparently was hugely popular on set. I seem to remember reading somewhere that some of his underworld mates might have had something to do with the funding of this film.
The Sherlock movies are actually pretty good. They definitely are NOT accurate to the books but they are a very interesting take on the character and the setting. I particularly like the second movie because of how well it handled a very important secondary character from the books. Definitely worth a watch.
Yeah, I enjoyed them, too. The Jeremy Brett tv series is still my favourite adaptation of the books, but Downey Jr. did a great job with a new take on the character.
@@Rocket1377Jeremy Brett isn't Jeremy Brett in the Sherlock TV series. He Is Sherlock Holmes and no one comes close because everyone just plays Holmes. They do it well, but...
That was Alan Ford narrating the story. He was BrickTop in Snatch and he had a scene in this movie, but you may have missed him without the eyeglasses. Great Reaction!
@@chefskiss6179 He was a thug in "The Long Good Friday" with Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, a pre-007 Pierce Bronsan and a very young Dexter Fletcher (he played Soap here in "Stock").
@@Madbandit77yeah this movie some sort of mini reunion of two actors from Long Good Friday with P. H. Moriarty, that Alan Ford was part of 3 of the definitive movies of the genre is somewhat of a feat I reckon.
This one and RocknRolla are both underrated when it comes to reaction content. Snatch and The Gentlemen are gems, for sure, but I really like these two.
I love how intervened the story arcs are yet somehow make sense and i never lost the thread who does what why. Many other movies have issues with this despite many boring expositions. And the actors were perfect the camera shots were perfect just a perfect 10/10 movie.
LOVED this watchalong with you both, been waiting for you two to get to this one! What I loved when I first saw it in theatres was all the juggling of different classes/layers/demographics of people, and all the camaraderie within them. I thought it was a one-off, but the fact that Guy Ritchie continued with this, juggling classes and camaraderie, throughout the rest of his career has just been a treat. PLEASE try Rock'N'Rolla next. Man From Uncle and his two Sherlock films are also pretty sweet if you ever have a spy/espionage/detective/tv-to-film poll. And yeah, Guy had an initial script he wrote, when he got funding for the flick he knew he had too much. When he made Snatch he went back and was able to use up the rest of what he had written about other character.
The cage scene will always be one of my most fave scenes in film. The dialogue is just soo funny from start to finish. "Couldn't you have brought something a bit more practical?" Absolute gem of a film.
This was Jason Statham's (as well as Guy Ritchie's) first film. Snatch was each their second. Jason Statham started off as a diver and competed for Britain at the Commonwealth Games before then becoming a sports model, which is when he met Guy Ritchie. Ritchie cast him in Lock Stock after hearing he'd also spent time selling stolen goods on the black market. It was only after his two Guy Ritchie outings that certain directors in Hollywood realised he'd make a good action star.
Apparently it's weird how I find this film and Snatch to be the funniest films of all time. Jim Carey taping his face up is funny, Robin Williams doing his thing is funny. However the situational humor and diolage in these Ritchie films cannot be matched.
Ok! So, it’s not Guy Ritchie but his old production partner, Matthew Vaughn, in his directorial debut put out this incredible film called Layer Cake. It’s an underground gem that many don’t seem to know about starring Daniel Craig. Most, myself included, say it’s the movie that got him the Bond roles. Layer Cake is a masterpiece somewhat in the same vein as Ritchie’s Lock, Stock & Snatch. With your guys’ reach on this channel, you’d be putting so many people onto what I could easily see becoming top of their favorites list, yourselves included.
This is my fave film of his. I just love the progression of the story, the twists and turns, as well as the characters. Got me started on loving Ritchie movies
"What the fu*k do we know about antiques? We rob post offices, and steal cars"...never before have two Liverpudlian "Scallies been better portrayed...🤣🤣
I saw this at the one theater in the Kansas City Metro that was playing it. Two friends and I traveled 30 minutes to see it, and it was only the three of us and two other guys in the theater. Got to talking with them before the film started, and they had driven several hours from Iowa. One theater in KC and one in St. Louis was playing it and KC was slightly closer to them. After this, we had to see Snatch as soon as it came out. I'm very happy you two enjoyed this and Snatch as much as I did.
Yes!! A British delicacy of a movie. Would love it if you two did a British marathon of movies like: Dog Soldiers, Dog House, Kidulthood trilogy, Anuvahood, Rise of the Footsoldier, Mean Machine.
The ending of Lock Stock is what I call a DIY (Do It Yourself) ending. It is whatever you want it to be. Great movie and a quite different style at the time.
I think you'll enjoy the Sherlock films, they're not bad. The Gentleman is fantastic, and as long as you avoid his movie with Madonna, most of his films have something interesting going on to lesser and greater extents.
The stoner girl shooting a machine gun in a slow-motion is one of the coolest scenes, immediately followed by a funniest scene of the bearded guy falling from the ceiling to the couch in the same slow motion.
_"RocknRolla"_ is a great Guy Ritchie movie in the same genre, but the one you _really_ have to watch is _"The Gentlemen",_ a bigger budget English gangster movie starring Matthew McConaughey and Hugh Grant, it is outstanding!
I don't know for sure but I always believed the ending to be a nod to the ending of the original 'Italian Job'... Michael Caine and crew have stolen the gold and escaped in the Mini's... The gold is loaded on to a bus and they all make their way back to England, the bus crashes and is 50/50 over a cliff, the gold is at one end, Caine and crew the other, and Caine says something like "Hang on lads, I've got an idea", the film ends... Maybe not but that was my assumption... 🙂
Park Street where it was filmed is next to Borough Mt, so you can visit the 'set'. Tom was suppposed to be played by someone overweight..but when Jason was cast they just left it in. Samoen Joes is The Royal Oak on Columbia Rd, other location used is Cheshire st just off Brick Lane.
At some point during this I wondered if the Schmitts have ever seen Lucky Number Slevin? Also, because you asked, yes I did like Guy Ritchie's two Sherlock Holmes movies back then when I watched them in the cinema. You'd probably enjoy them.
2:00 before Jason Statham decided to get into acting and professional diving (he competed for England in 1990 Commonwealth Games), he worked on a market stall. He was also grew up alongside with Vinnie Jones.
The end , it's reference to the 1960s movie, the Italian job , Michael Caine, a group of British criminals go to Italy to steal gold from the mafia during a world Cup soccer game in Italy, the film ends on a cliffhanger, literally, . Its a classic with lots of quotes , they did a terrible American remake with Mark Wahlberg Whether or not the get the gold or guns in this case is up to your imagination,
To best match the vibe of this and Snatch, I will echo others and highly recommend RocknRolla it has a fantastic cast. Also this was Statham's first acting role, 26:06 nice backflip, he had already been practicing martial arts in his youth
What's wild is that this film wouldn't have made it across the pond and attracted the attention it did if it hadn't have been for Tom Cruise, of all people. Tom saw a screening of it as a favour to a friend who was working on the film and was struggling to get US distribution. Tom loved it, told the execs in the room that they need to it up, otherwise they're just idiots. So they did, rest is history. There's quite a lot of fun behind-the-scenes trivia, too. Almost every actor has a criminal record; most of them grew up and worked in the East End; most weren't even professional actors; Vinnie Jones had just got out of police custody the day before filming because he beat the piss out of his neighbour; Statham's first acting role, but was a street vendor for some time, like he portrays at the start - as mentioned in the comments; Vinnie's first acting role too, scared the shit out of the cast and crew when filming Dog's car door murder scene though; Dexter Fletcher (Soap the chef) was the most experienced on set - he's been acting since he was a child - so ended up coaching a lot of the cast; and when Ed forgets to bring the guns to the robbery it's because the prop supervisor forgot to bring the props to the set, so Ritchie worked around that. Ritchie also wrote the ending on the back of a pack of cigarettes, after the original ending didn't do too well in test screenings.
The cook is Dexter Fletcher who is also a director, his most recent movie was Apples ‘ghosted’, he was also a child actor and who had a staring role in the family movie ‘Bugsy Malone’ with a very young Jodie Foster and if you’ve not seen it then you should. Great movie
Ha, I just realized Rob Brydon is in this :D Did not know him back when I watched this movie, probably more than 15 years ago. But seen a lot of Would I Lie To You on RU-vid over the last couple of years, so kind of funny to see his face pop up in a totally different context.
Guy Ritchie has many awesome movies. RocknRolla with Gerard Butler from 300. The Gentlemen with Matthew McConaughey. The Gentlemen tv series that is on Netflix now. Wrath of Man with Jason Statham. The Covenant with Jake Gyllenhaal. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare with Henry Cavill. The Man from U.N.C.L.E with Henry Cavill.
This may be Ritchie's first, but it's also my favorite. More in this vein: Layer Cake Rock 'n' Rolla The Gentlemen Sexy Beast The Bank Job Legend (more of a biopic, but still good Brit gangster)
I got really excited when this reaction popped up. I just knew you'd love this. You should watch Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes, with Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law.
I freaking LOVE this movie! I remember when it came out, there was a big push from the studios to make Nick Moran ("Ed" the card playing main character) the breakout "next big thing" actor. It went to his head, he got cocky, and kind of fizzled out and couldn't get another big starring role for a number of years. Lock Stock MADE Jason Statham, though! Dexter Fletcher (Soap), you should recognize as Sgt Martin in Band Of Brothers; he's also had a great career after Lock Stock, both acting and directing. He was producer on Bohemian Rhapsody, the Freddie Mercury/Queen pic, and was the director of Rocketman, the Elton John pic.
So happy you did this one, hell of a debut movie, easy to see why they gave him a pile of money to make his next movie 'Snatch'. Hard to believe it'd be years till he hit gold again but he did and you've got plenty of good movies of his to go at. Love to see you do 'The Gentlemen' (both film and TV series), 'Wrath of Man' & 'The Covenant' especially. Also they did a short TV series of Lock, Stock.. that was good fun too. Thanks for the reaction, it was fantastic.
Layer Cake is another good film, it's from Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass, Kingsman) who was a producer on this film and Snatch, and it's very much in the same style.
For those outside the UK a ton = £100 and a monkey = £500, ton and monkey are Cockney rhyming slang if you need to know more. If you want other crime/drama films I recommend watching Ransom(1996), Air America(1990) or Payback(1999). A few newer Richie movies that I liked The Gentlemen (2019), Guy Ritchie's The Covenant(2023) and Wrath of Man(2021).
You saw the clean chef guy before, he was Sergeant Johnny Martin in Easy Company in 'Band of Brothers'. The slow motion machine gun scene in this is maybe my favorite machine green scene that I have ever seen.
The cliff hanger ending is reminiscent of the end of the original Italian job with a young Michael Caine, a classic British heist comedy. The Sherlock films are excellent and may I also recommend The Gentleman.
Budget was so low for this Guy debut, the only "Trailer" on "set" was an old small beat up caravan everyone shared to brew a cup of tea or have a quick nap in! And apparently Vinnie Jones made his job to keep everyone in check and make sure they kept the caravan tidy n clean! No-one argued! 😂
Fun fact. First scene, where Jason Statham sells fake Rolex watches on the street, is actually somewhat true!)) Jason Statham was not an actor before that movie, he was actually selling fake Rolex watches on the street, and Guy Ritchie saw him do that, and was very impressed and offered him that part in the movie. So all Jason had to do on camera, in that opening scene, is just play himself))) But that movie made him a superstar, actor, as we know Jason Statham now! Also, let's not forget, that Jason was also a professional diver. I mean sports diver, like jumping off a trampline to a swimming pool. I believe he was actually on national team Great Britain. He was that good. Also, that is why he is THAT RIPPED.
