Movie: Attack the Block

[wideawakewesley]

Let's get it out of the way up top...DO NOT BELIEVE THE HYPE!

I'm a Brit, I love our movies, but Attack the Block is being overhyped to hell and back by the geek press in America. I caught it a couple of weeks back and reviewed it with my fellow co-hosts on Media Pulp, and while we all enjoyed it to varying degrees, it is NOT the second coming of the Goonies or anything like the kind of awesomeness they're comparing it to imo.

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...lp/id438893292
http://www.mediapulp.co.uk

Slashfilm did some free screenings the other day and are printing feedback from attendees. All of which is positive and most of which is gushingly so. Please take into account these people just saw a free movie and are trying to get their comments onto a HUGE movie website when reading the following:

http://www.slashfilm.com/early-buzz-...-attack-block/

All that being said, please see the movie when it's eventually released in the US. It's a fun movie and I'd be suprised if you didn't enjoy it, but go in with lower expectations than "it's the next Goonies...but with gore".

You have been warned.

[tsmith15]

I have low expectations going into it (if i get the chance to see it in cinemas) because the premise is awful and overdone, but few British movies make it overseas and most of them I end up enjoying. And I really didn't like what slashfilm did on twitter/the site, tooting their own horn by only highlighting peoples positive comments.

I hate Goonies anyway.

[blacksymbiote]

Originally Posted by tsmith15

I hate Goonies anyway.

I have never seen this said before, but I can't say I disagree. I never saw Goonies as a kid, and when I finally did see it I was well into my teens. Whatever magic it holds over kids and then their minds as they grow up totally didn't hold up on me. I didn't think it was anything special, but I've never seen or met or heard someone who said what you just said. Kinda blown away a little bit.

[moeez]

I won't be expecting Shaun of the Dead (man, who knew that movie at the time would be the benchmark for horror comedies?!), like Mark Kermode said, but I love the idea of chavs using their street wits against aliens. The novelty alone, and Nick Frost, is too much to resist, and not many british geek movies.

[wideawakewesley]

Originally Posted by moeez

I won't be expecting Shaun of the Dead (man, who knew that movie at the time would be the benchmark for horror comedies?!), like Mark Kermode said, but I love the idea of chavs using their street wits against aliens. The novelty alone, and Nick Frost, is too much to resist, and not many british geek movies.

If they were chavs it might have worked. These boys are just hoodlums..

[wideawakewesley]

As much as I've said, don't believe the hype. The movie is now out stateside, so have a listen to our review, then go and make up your own mind. It's worth your $ and as I mentioned above, I'll be surprised if you don't have a good time, just go in with lower expectations than Slashfilm would like you to have.

[phairus]

So I drove to Chicago to go see it yesterday and I have to say that I enjoyed it. I didn't get the Goonies feel, it felt more like Super 8, but more intense and out there at moments.

Overall I enjoyed it and am recommending it to people to check out if they can see it.

[rokov]

I finally got around to seeing it and maybe it's because I didn't go in expecting it to be Goonies (or any other movie for that matter), but I completely agree with all of the hype. It was absolutely, flawlessly brilliant. Great comedy, great action and great scares. This is the kind of movie that Carpenter should have been making all along and it is easily be best of this summer's movies that I've seen.

[wideawakewesley]

I'm glad so many people are enjoying it, although I'm still surprised by comments like "It was absolutely, flawlessly brilliant", because I just don't see a film of that quality. I do plan on watching it again though, so maybe it'll blow me away on second viewing or maybe it just plays better to non-UK audiences...or maybe I'm just plain wrong

[rokov]

Or it may just be a matter of personal taste. I'm in a similar (albeit more extreme) situation with Black Swan. Everyone else seems to think that it's amazing, but IMO it's one of the worst movies that I've ever seen.