I don't like British films

I thought Snatch was a heap of dung.

When the best acting comes from Mike Reid you are in trouble.

It was like some 18 year old doing a film making course at Uni had been let loose on their own with the camera.

Dreadful.

Amongst British films for me you can count the Ealing Comedies, My Beautiful Launderette, The Long Good Friday, Get Carter, Local Hero, Chariots of Fire, Kes (a true classic), Holy Grail/Life of Brian and the recent Son of Rambow amongst others. All excellent films which couldn't have been made by US 'coroporate' film makers (if they tried they'd ruin them).

I try to avoid the American 'cookie cutter' type of film (glitz, 'glamour', extreme storylines, uneccesary love interest etc) that roll off the production line.

There are many fine films from the US but a large number of lazy ones.
 
I have to admit that I'm not particularly a fan of British films either. I did like Shaun Of The Dead, but I hate all those so called 'gritty' films, which actually show a horrifying and depressing portrait of this country. And I've never been a fan of 'worthy' films either!
 
I reallly dont like British Films at all apart from some exceptions such as Shaun of the Dead, 28 Days Later etc. There just the same thing over and over with usually unexciting things happening coming to an anti climax.
 
There are loaRAB of good British films, but unfortunately, they are slightly harder to find if you're not a movie buff, or in the know. You'll have to skim through low budget stinkers, independent flops, and soulless Guy Ritchie imitations. There are some gems though.

Some of my favourites include -

This is England
Dead mans shoes
A room for Romeo Brass
Gangster no. 1
Sexy Beast
The Krays
Goodbye Charlie Bright
The Business
Outlaw
The Football factory
The parole officer
Clubbed
Essex boys
Kidulthood
Is Harry on the boat
Rise of the foot soldier
Kevin and Perry go large
Human Traffic
Snatch

And many more.....
 
In The Loop is as good as any American films in the cinemas currently.

Really, the stereotyping of British films as costume dramas, gritty Northern kitchen sink stuff, or laddish gangster films, is unhelpful. The Full Monty, for example, was cited in French film buRAB' bible Cahiers du Cinema as an example of how British cinema handled working-class issues. It's just the British who seem to see only the stereotypes and not the skill and imagination that goes into making what are often very good and successful films.
 
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