Laughable!
Little boys playing Gangstas!
0 out of 10!
Its not real you muppet its a film, like any other on the big screen. It a good job your comment don't count for much because because if you were any critic you would have had more informed comments to make. Everyone on that production worked hard for little or nothing. Support young British film effort rather than looking starry eyed at the American market who dont fart without expecting a house, car, two dogs and a string of plastic implanted women or wide arsed men in return.
RWTN if a future cult film and considering the budget it looks great on the big screen, the action was approached with passion, the stunts, fights and camera work were the work of many not one. It easier to criticise than to give even mild praise for what was trying to be acheived.
I expect you'll come back with some yout mentality reposte which is cool as I don't get wrapped up in that sort of thing.
Another thing I was in the film, did difficult stunts and choreographed aswell as performed the fight in the kitchen at the yardie raid, slag it off if you like I was also Mailer in 28 Days Later (The Chained up infected soldier) This of films and tv shows I've been in as a recognised character goes on so I know my business and your comment which you are entitled to were a waste of your internet time and don't help the british film industry.
You tell em Marv!
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To Pa101....were you involved onthe film at all? I only ask this because all your comments seem as if you take it so personally if people don't say it's the greatest brit flick ever, which it certainly ain't!! It's a good, enjoyable film that is more Long Good Friday than, say, Four Weddings, but that's it! It'll make good money on DVD, not sure about at the box office, but, hey, people are entitled to their opinions, so let them have them. If you're attached to the film in some way, you'll make some dough, these people posting their comments won't, and that's what it's all about, so why sweat it?
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And there's more! -
"From its opening scene - an arsenal of handguns gloatingly fetishised - this London gangsta flick offers a warped hymn to unregenerate criminality. Unlike Saul Dibb's Bullet Boy, which investigated black-on-black gun crime with purpose and poignancy, director Julian Gilbey and co-writer William Gilbey use their flimsy revenge scenario as an excuse for macho posturing, nonstop use of the c-word and deafening gunplay. By the end, the trail of carnage looks more like it's from the streets of Johannesburg or Detroit than our own capital".
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2006-04-21T00:00:01 http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/film/reviews/article359018.ece
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the film is crap. i couldnt care less if the actors did it free or whatever- the film is crap
shareGood point & try explaining it to half the brain-drained-monkeys in this forum...
Regardless what anyone says: these kind of films are SO damaging to the Brit film industry or any film industry. They acknowledge and re-enforce dreadful stereotypes & continue the U.K. indie tradition that its OK not to thoroughly script research or character develop in movies.
Can't wait for the director's next golden raspberry....
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This is getting funny now- the DIRECTOR going online to slap down a crtiic. Wow! Now I've seen everything!!!
I've heard about this Rise Of The Foot Soldiers you're putting together, and I understand it's about the Essex range Rover murders 10 years ago. Wasn't that already done in Essex Boys, that DYER film with Sean Bean and Alex Kingston?
And with some of the cast you've gt on it, well, I for one won't be rushing out to buy a ticket!
These gangster flicks are all we seem to be able to do in this country, with period costume films and sh*tty Hugh Grant movies! RWTN was an alright sort of film, but in my opinion I thought it was rushed into the cinemas a bit too quickly- you can see the difference in quality in some of the scenes, but it was OK though. Some of the critic comments you've posted are a bit over generous, but fair play to you Julian!
I doubt it is actually the director singing his own praises on this forum, mostly likely some bored IMDB member having a laugh. If the real 'Julian Gilbey' director is reading all these posts and he had any sense, he wouldn't even bother to put his foot in it like such a dumb-ass...
The Rise of the Foot Soldier? I feel a big YAWN coming on already...why not do something more creative with all that cash you're about to spend on it and either go on a script writing course or give it to charity.
Thats my $1 worth.
No, it is the director because he confirms this on another stream somewhere, again ranting at this malcomxmanz or whatever he calls himself. It's pretty bad form for the director to go on here and get into debates with people slagging his movie off- it shows desperation. He should just forget about this guy and focus on his Rise Of The Foot Soldiers, cos if every director whose film was targeted and slagged on IMDB was to respond, the entire world wide internet would crash!!!!
sharethis film is an awful representation of London...
It is an awful representation of culture...
it is made by two middle class white kids not from London...
Cult Film written all over it? --- to pretentiously design you film to be 'cult' by exploiting a minority culture, is a bit wrong.....who would your cult be? gun-crime fetishists?
Deliberately trying to coin the phrase 'blaxploitation' is a sickening concept....why would u want to do that? i can imagine a homage to such films by a black director...but a demi-posh white dude is speaking above their station here....in an misguided attempt to claim cult status
i'm sure the soundtrack is ace..from what i heard of it so far...if u like that style of music..Support the music sure....
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As for it winning 'raindance'.....they claim to represent and nuture independent film in UK...but are very very selective based on how much money u give them...much true independent film is over-looked...
a lower tier style of nepotism:
Laughable, thats what all your comments are. You seem to enjoy giving Rollin With The Nines as much bad publicity as possible, by digging up a handful of bad reviews and keep going on about them. There are mixed reviews for every film thats ever been made and you just seem to keep droning on about how bad the film is. Who really cares what you and your mates think? The films doing very well its won an award and its been nominated for other awards and a week after the film was released it had an imdb rating of 165 which in itself is pretty impressive. Well said Mr.Gilbey in response, you obviously hit a nerve with this moron. Just sit back and watch what happens to the film over the next 12 months and I would put money on it that you will be shocked and probably quite upset at how well its going to do! Ask anyone who knows anything about movies and they will tell you its got cult movie written all over it, maybe you need to go to specsavers and get your eyes tested and while your at it get your brain scanned at Rampton mental hospital then maybe they will beable to tell you whats wrong with you.
shareI went to see the film Rollin on the Nines on Saturday and I was horrified. The film is so rubbish and I would advise anyone not to waste your money. The film is all about gangs, drugs, sex, violence and represents black people in an awful way. The characters and the story line are unrealistic. The only good part of the film is the end, how could black people show such negative representations of themselves? I don't understand how this film was able to be shown in the cinema. Also the acting is appalling. The film was so bad I had to walk out of the cinema and ask for my money back. Totally rubbish film. Please, Please don't waste your money!!
shareit got kicked out after a week didnt it?
shareI heard the U.K. release barely made a week's run - even in the smaller cinemas. I suppose that this could be considered an achievement even for this standard of filmmaking........
i thought it was okay for wat it is like i mean it doesnt exactly say epic film its like kidulthood its gonna have its own audience
shareWas about ready to erase this movie from my mind until i saw the second post in this thread..
Its not real you muppet its a film, like any other on the big screen. It a good job your comment don't count for much because because if you were any critic you would have had more informed comments to make. Everyone on that production worked hard for little or nothing. Support young British film effort rather than looking starry eyed at the American market who dont fart without expecting a house, car, two dogs and a string of plastic implanted women or wide arsed men in return.
RWTN if a future cult film and considering the budget it looks great on the big screen, the action was approached with passion, the stunts, fights and camera work were the work of many not one. It easier to criticise than to give even mild praise for what was trying to be acheived.
I expect you'll come back with some yout mentality reposte which is cool as I don't get wrapped up in that sort of thing.
Another thing I was in the film, did difficult stunts and choreographed aswell as performed the fight in the kitchen at the yardie raid, slag it off if you like I was also Mailer in 28 Days Later (The Chained up infected soldier) This of films and tv shows I've been in as a recognised character goes on so I know my business and your comment which you are entitled to were a waste of your internet time and don't help the british film industry.
You know the British Film industry ain't doing that bad and it really isn't doing bad enough that we have to lie to ourselves and others about a *beep* film that was made on our side of the pond.
For all your "support us and *beep* american movies" stuff did you at least give the writer and director a hint of that "screw the yanks" attitude? because in all honesty i've lived in London all my life and i'd love to know in which alternate reality this movie is based, if this script was played out in i don't know...south central L.A? it might have been slightly less ridiculos but its set in London and anyone from London watching this film will see it like i did, the excrement of a wannabe gangstas mind trying to make our streets into something they're not. The CID for example do not carry firearms and most probably the biggest goof in this entire film, the Metropolitan police DO NOT have the rank of Captain, in an American police structure sure they have that, but over here the rank the writters were looking for but couldn't be bothered to research is Superintendent, amazing how they *beep* that up with a former cast member of the Bill on set as well.
For the acting it was mostly crap, a lot of people looked like they were trying to act like actors rather than their character and the few actors who actually had some ability (Jason Flemyng, Billy Murray, Robbie Gee) really just did a good job of highlighting how bad everyone else is.
I'm not actually going to rip on every single aspect of the movie because i can't really fault most of it but to me there are three things a film has to have to be great, a script, a cast, a soundtrack. Everything else you can just take or leave, this movie didn't have a script it barely had half a real cast and the soundtrack.....i don't know, if you like garage then its might be your thing personally i can't stand it.
Last words from me, if your going to shout about people not supporting British Film makers then at least give us a british film to defend becuase it looks to me like whoever wrote this thing did so while watching NYPD Blue and listening to NWA. share
You obviously don't know the hidden side of London then. I'm from London, have many many black friends in different "ghetto" borroughs. This film was good. It wasn't 100 percent accurate, but it was pretty close. Just because middle class whites like yourself never come into contact with the drugs and gun underworld, plese don't assume they don't exist in the UK. They do. The Yardies run the ganja and crack trades in London actually.
shareHuh how's about that, just checked this post by mistake and i noticed the reply is from 2007 not 2006 so sorry about the late reply but *beep* dude you cant just go whipping comments into conversations that have already happened.
Okay first up, you don't know anything about me so you really aren't in a position to make sweeping generalisations like "middle class whites like yourself". I could push this point further but i still can't get my head around the irony of...
This film was good. It wasn't 100 percent accurate, but it was pretty close. Just because middle class whites like yourself never come into contact with the drugs and gun underworld
Have a guess what race the writer and the director of this movie is? yup thats right 2 middle class white boys who by their own admission know jack and *beep* about so called "ghetto" life.
Now two things i can gather from you, i know that your not black so odds on your most probably white and i can tell you don't live in an area you would consider "ghetto" which by your own standards would probably make you middle class.
This film is not factual by any stretch of the imagination, yes there are drugs and guns in London like in every other city in every part of the world the only unique thing about London lifestyle is how *beep* expensive it is to live here. I could go on, but can't be arsed considering you'll probably never notice this and if you do i probably wouldn't see your reply.
Shame you posted about a year later, could of been a good row there, middle class white boy says film written by middle class white boys is pretty accurate and anyone who disagrees doesn't know *beep* because they're a middle class white boy.
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hey pyrofanatic, i too grew up in london, and the outer boroughs are like this, i used to have many friends who earned their living this way, also for those who think there isnt a lot of gun crime in the uk, think again, the london jails contain hundreds of prisoners from london all charged with drugs and gun crime, i personnaly met young dudes in there with bullet holes in them, the most memorable was a man of 24 who had been shot 4 times, so for me personally i thought the film was quite good, yeah it was a bit jazzed up for the screen, but not a bad portrayal of the urban black areas.
we have all seen better and all seen a lot worse, considering the tiny budget i thought they did ok, all in all, a good movie in my book.
id probably give this movie a 6/10, with a larger budget it could have been better.
For *beep* sake! Will everyone stop cryin about this film at the end of the day it's just a film, and was a cracking effort. For one the acting and characters were not unrealistic at all, this is a decent film for anyone who has, for one thing, a sense of humour, secondly, enjoys a good plot, and most importantly has a certain level of understanding and knowledge of the culture in certain u.k. minority areas. Also it is not stereotyping all black people, the story was just following the lives of the ones in gangs from the streets, which I think was achieved quite well.
Some of the people writing these posts obviously have no frame of reference on which to be basing their opinions and negative criticisms anyway. Bottom line is basically certain people might hate on the film only because they are not familiar with different aspects of the film such as the language, character types or their situations, and these kind of people simply don't 'get it'. So please will everyone stop whining especially all you americans who have no concept of u.k. life to start with.
malcomxmanz - this film doesn't intend to be a representation of all black people in Britain - get over it! If you want to see realism, watch The Bill or something. Some bad acting and errors, but I thought it was an entertaining film.
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The Daily Mirror, The Sun, VICE, Maxim, NUTS, Hotdog etc etc etc.
These are some of the most illiterate & base-level publications of the modern age! Are you trying to praise this film....or otherwise?
The Daily Mirror, The Sun, VICE, Maxim, NUTS, Hotdog etc etc etc.
These are some of the most illiterate & base-level publications of the modern age! Are you trying to praise this film....or otherwise?
If memory serves me correctly that guy is the writer or director of this thing...i think. share
This actually got good reviews?
I can't begin to describe how crap I thought it was.
The over-acting was just unbearable and the hard man routines were nothing short of pathetic.
The worst thing about it was the rediculously wooden performance by Naomi Taylor (who's character was raped then 2 days later she's boning the bloke from Only Fools, yet another reason to add to the plethora of reasons not to see this muck).
Fair enough if you like it, but I thought it was total durge and I wish I'd never bothered renting it out.
too bloody right mate! lol!
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