The Shouting Men, on general release in March, cert: Tbc
The attitudes of football fans have come a long way since the 1970s. British cinema has been slow to recognise this, however, and to this day delivers a constant spirit-sapping stream of fraudulently glamorous bovver movies – usually starring Danny Dyer strutting around like Liam Gallagher with an inflamed coccyx – which depict firms engaging in nawty rumbles, pwopah tear-ups, and the occasional pinging of some nonce. It's a flagrant insult to the intelligence: few other groups are trapped in a similar celluloid timewarp. Do policemen still sport handlebar moustaches? Do office workers hanker after the keys to the executive washroom? Has Hugh Grant recently been asked to look up his leading lady's skirt like a latter-day Robin Askwith?
The Shouting Men is a first serious tilt at trying to drag the football fan flick into the 21st century. The tale of...
The attitudes of football fans have come a long way since the 1970s. British cinema has been slow to recognise this, however, and to this day delivers a constant spirit-sapping stream of fraudulently glamorous bovver movies – usually starring Danny Dyer strutting around like Liam Gallagher with an inflamed coccyx – which depict firms engaging in nawty rumbles, pwopah tear-ups, and the occasional pinging of some nonce. It's a flagrant insult to the intelligence: few other groups are trapped in a similar celluloid timewarp. Do policemen still sport handlebar moustaches? Do office workers hanker after the keys to the executive washroom? Has Hugh Grant recently been asked to look up his leading lady's skirt like a latter-day Robin Askwith?
The Shouting Men is a first serious tilt at trying to drag the football fan flick into the 21st century. The tale of...
- 2/22/2010
- by Scott Murray
- The Guardian - Film News
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