four lions

no one posted the trailer yet

[youtubehd]yGk2TojOd-4[/youtubehd]

trailer has been posted

  On 6/7/2010 at 9:24 PM, Obel said:

  On 6/7/2010 at 9:23 PM, zazen said:

This is a great film, really well scripted, funny but also insightful ... the bombers are made up of two bullies (of different sorts) and three easily led types, and I guess that must be how it works in practice.

 

Felt very sorry for poor Fessel

 

And I like how it balances the ridiculous and the dramatic. The scene where the chap says goodbye to his wife was really well done.

 

Less Morris-shocking than I thought it would be - which makes sense cos I think he directed rather than wrote it.

 

He did write it, but with another guy whose name I forget. It's basically his idea though.

ah yeah, http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1341167/fullcredits#writers

  Quote

Writing credits

(in alphabetical order)

Jesse Armstrong writer

Sam Bain writer

Simon Blackwell additional writing

Christopher Morris writer

Armstrong and Bain have also written for Peep Show and the Mitchell and Webb stuff

I can't believe no one has registered puffinparty.com yet. Get to it!

When I said another guy, naturally I meant three guys!

Armstrong and Bain are peep show. no?

still haven't seen this.....

FUCK MINI BABY BELLS!!!

This has to be one of the funniest films i have seen in a long time, Chris Morris has done good with this one, and i shall defo be buying it on dvd when its out.

My mate went to see it and said he didnt really like it. And he was really looking forward to it. People even left the theatre, which he nor I have ever seen happen.

  On 6/7/2010 at 11:28 PM, chassis said:

My mate went to see it and said he didnt really like it. And he was really looking forward to it. People even left the theatre, which he nor I have ever seen happen.

I went to a 9pm showing in Manchester on a Tuesday and there was a good 50+ people in there (pretty good for an independent film) all laughing out loud, so many great one liners in the film, although watching the trailer after, seems most are in the trailer....

  On 6/7/2010 at 11:33 PM, blackdust said:

  On 6/7/2010 at 11:28 PM, chassis said:

My mate went to see it and said he didnt really like it. And he was really looking forward to it. People even left the theatre, which he nor I have ever seen happen.

 

 

I went to a 9pm showing in Manchester on a Tuesday and there was a good 50+ people in there (pretty good for an independent film) all laughing out loud, so many great one liners in the film, although watching the trailer after, seems most are in the trailer....

This is why I never watch trailers, and I'm glad I didn't before seeing Four Lions. It even ruins

The surprise about that bit is what makes it funny for fucks sake!

I got these in the mail (for free !) a few weeks ago ...

  On 8/13/2010 at 10:46 AM, mcbpete said:

I got these in the mail (for free !) a few weeks ago ...

 

 

did you get those because you contributed to the funding of the film?

Well I promised to fund it, but they ended up getting funding by a proper production company anyway so it didn't cost me nuffink - it was very nice of Mr. Morris to put all that effort in hand writing different messages on every card

  On 8/13/2010 at 2:18 PM, mcbpete said:

Well I promised to fund it, but they ended up getting funding by a proper production company anyway so it didn't cost me nuffink - it was very nice of Mr. Morris to put all that effort in hand writing different messages on every card

that is very very cool. he didn't happen to mention in the package anywhere when the DVD will be out?

Both the Blu Ray and DVD are out on the 30th, so only a couple more weeks to wait !

ffs its not even for sale in the US. this is BULLSHIT

  On 8/13/2010 at 6:59 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

ffs its not even for sale in the US. this is BULLSHIT

it's not even for sale here yet. be patient.

sure sure. i bet in the snooty old UK you puffs can preorder it and get a free poster too.

I just saw this tonight at BAM in Brooklyn.

Little did i know, Chris Morris was there to give an introduction and Q & A.

The movie was awesome and he was hilarious in person.

Everyone needs to see this movie.

It opens in NYC on the 5th. I'm not sure where else it is opening.

this film was unfunny as shit. turned off after 20 minutes.

i though it was the best written britsh comdey i've seen in years, the punjabi bit are even funnier so i'm told

it also hits the nail on the head regarding al-quida hysteria, dumb ass religious fanatics and incompetent police without taking the piss out of islam

Most of the criticism ive heard leveled at it seems to be that the terrorists were to stupid to be believable. Any of the ground level terrorits ive ever known where really fucking stupid, the Elim church is full of morons with missing body parts that theyve blown off themselves.

Any religious fundie has to be a fucking moron.

I hear part of an interview w/Chris Morris about this on NPR last weekend - interestingly, he said that much of the movie was based on ACTUAL, real world situations where the sort of bumbling antics presented in the movie really took place. The clip they played (and, I confess, haven't seen any of the movie) was the crew discussing the blowing up of a mosque to raise sympathies for their cause (one guy starts talking about how that's like getting into a prizefight and deciding to start punching yourself in the face). He said that the dialogue was taken, verbatim, from MI-5 surveillance.

It's Chris Morris, so I frankly take anything he says as being potentially a fucking w/the media pisstake, but it sounds like there is a ton of real-world basis for this shit.

At the Q&A, he was talking a lot about that kind of thing.

He apparently did a shit-to of research on the subject and gave over a dozen examples of the stupidest things terrorists had done.

Many of these didn't make it into the film but were hysterical.

He was talking about some wire-tap he had heard where the terrorists got into an serious argument over who was cooler, Osama Bin Laden or Johnny Depp.