Is out on DVD today... at bloody last! it seems like for ever since i saw it at the cinema,
If you havent already seen it then i suggest you do...
It is an excellent british movie which IMO is even better than lock stock and snatch!
available at a woolworths or HMV near you!
CheeRS
Phil

 

Absolutely Fucking fantastic film

My fav of last year

this imo is a PROPER english gangster film, as good if not better then Snatch + Lock Stock!

 

better than Lockstock and Snatch?!?!??! ARE YOU ON FOOOKING CRACK

Its ok but I thought the best thing about LockStock and Snatch was that as well as the great acting and superb story lines was that they were VERY VERY funny!!!

Layer Cake is good, Sienna Miller is SOOOOOO FIT!!!

but its sooooo unfunny... its like watching Lockstock but with all the gags taken out!

 

Smit, sort me a copy!

 

its available on Bittorrent too

 

agree with porkie, no way was it better than ls & snatch!

+ the lead actor was a ring piece

 

Lock Stock is funny as fuck

Will prob get myself a copy of Layercake though

 

Have to disagree with u Porkie, think layer cake is far better, and far more intelligent

 

lol.... lock stock, snatch - awesome films, but u could see whats coming imo - Layer cake had some nice twists, and was very cool without trying

 

I agree with Rick, lock stock and snatch are cool but it's always a case of they have the bag/diamond, lost it, got it, lost it etc where i think layer cake is a more intelligent and gets you thinking more.


Martin

 

But by all accounts he plays a mean game of badmington





Martin

 

Snatch and Lock Stock were leagues ahead imo

Layer Cake was average I felt

 

Thought it was BIG HAIRY PANTS!!! i hated it boring snatch was excellent

 

Its well worth watching. Sienna Miller is SEXY

Of course films are down to personal taste.... and people have their own opinions BUT you only have to look at the Critical acclaim lavished on both lock stock and Snatch to know they were something special in most peoples eyes!!! Legendary films...

Layer cake??? errrr did ok for a few weeks at the British box office and thats about it!

I think originally Guy Ritchie was going to do Layer cake wasn't he?? but turned it down? Sure I read that somewhere...

 

@ Rudey

Ok don't believe me... here are C4 reviews of the three films

LAYER CAKE
As pure Friday night entertainment, Layer Cake won't leave you screaming for your money back. But as an entry into the once great sub-genre that was the British gangster film, it's of minor interest.

Verdict
Straining to deliver a more adult gangster film than Guy Ritchie has managed, Vaughn never achieves anything more than superficial story overburdened with plot. As a result, Layer Cake is like a stylised episode of 'Minder'.


LOCKSTOCK
Cockney crime caper that sees four likely-lads running fowl of hit man Vinnie Jones. A brash, brutal Brit-flick, ripe with hip, slang-rich banter, super-stylised snap-focus trickery, and a deliriously twisted plot that literally leaves you hanging

When it first came out, this was rapturously received by critics as a British gangster flick to rival Tarantino, although director Ritchie claimed it owed far more to The Long Good Friday. It's got the wit of Tarantino, but avoids his violent excesses and works more towards the miserablist sensibilities of a London soap opera.

There are a thousand plot twists, but the story is that a group of tyro crooks owe money they don't have to a pornographer, but when they hear their next door neighbours planning a raid on a group of dope growers, they decide to hijack the heist.

It's a slickly edited movie with no real stand-out performances (in fact some of the London accents are well dodgy), but the presence of soccer hardman Vinnie Jones - making his surprisingly effective acting debut - dragged the punters in while the fast-paced, entertaining direction and belly-laugh ending kept them happy.

Verdict
Slick, fast-talking mockney gangster movie that gave the world Vinnie Jones, Guy Ritchie and a briefly fashionable style of editing. Cool Britannia's riposte to Tarantino.

SNATCH
It's heists, bareknuckle boxers, scary gangsters and the familiar bumbling London petty criminals in the second offering from the man who is to blame for kicking off the 90s lad mag crime caper

Guy Ritchie's Snatch is to his smash East End crime debut Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels what Robert Rodriguez's Desperado was to his own first effort, El Mariachi. In other words, a slick reworking of the same ideas, with a heftier budget and Hollywood star to boot.

With Lock, Stock... numerous two-dimensional mockneys double-crossed each other for the sake of two antique shot-guns; in Snatch, it's a diamond, smuggled into London by Frankie Four-Fingers (Del Toro). And like its predecessor, Snatch's plot mechanics are initiated when its antihero (in this case Statham's boxing promoter, Turkish) finds himself in debt to a local ganglord (played by Ford, with wonderful menace). This time because his boxer (a gypsy bare-knuckle fighter played by Pitt) refuses to play ball and throw a fight.

Once again set in a mythical and masculine East End (where there are few women or policemen), we even have Vinnie Jones, nutter-for-hire, returning to do some more damage with a car-door. That's not to say Snatch is a bad film. It certainly eclipses the recent crop of sub-standard Lock, Stock... imitators. For what it's worth, Ritchie's stuff is enjoyable at face level, like a good anecdote you might hear down the pub. But you're unlikely to remember much in the morning. Of the ensemble, only Pitt truly shows his class, delivering an amusing yet emotive performance amongst a group of actors who - at best - are pandering to laddish culture.

 

Lee you are right Yes - Guy Richie did turn it down! He worked with Matthew Vaughn on both lock Stock and Snatch. So Matthew Vaughn directed it himself (first film he's directed) when Guy turned it down...! Did a proper job mind for his 1st time directing! imo

 

Layer Cake is a FANTASTIC film, got everything you want in a good ol` brit gangster flick,

BUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It doesnt fall in to the "classic" bracket like Lock Stok,and Snatch!!!!

Pete...

 

Lock Stock gets my vote of the 3 just cos u can see the Guv'nor - the late, great, Lenny McLean

 

WELL SAID

 

You just have to lok at the cast for each of the 3 films..

Jason Stathem was made for life after lock stock,and Vinny Jones placed himself on the map.

And the "Lets sort the buyers from the spyers,the needy from the greedy,and the 1s who trust me,from the 1`s who dont" & the cockney slang that goes on about Rory Breaker,is just PURE GENIOUS!!!!!

Pete...

 

All three films are

 

Jusrt watched L4YER CAKE

Was a very very good film in its own right
I dont think it can even be compaired with Lock stock/Snatch as they are both VERY different imho

Oh, and Range Rovers Rock (Would still sell all my cars for an RS6 Estate though )

 

Gotta love the yellow Range Rover

 

It would suit AJ though.

 

fookin ace film loved the new order kylie remix when there in the club...

 

Layer Cake.

Sienna Miller - slummmph

 

went and bought it last night. not that great. slightly clever plot twists but nothing that amazed me.

for those who say its better than lock stock or snatch


Sienna Miller

 

It's never better than Lock Stock.

I thought Snatch was good but in order, they clearly are Lock Stock, Snatch, and then LayerCake.

However, it'd be rude not to own it - especially with Sienna

 

Rich, you say that but they didnt fucking think to put hundreds of sexy photos of her in the nude in the photo gallery on extra features did they

and I reckon I agree with you with your order of preference

 

Layer Cake is a great film.

IMO its better than lock stock but snatch has a high comedy value

I wanna get me some of those Super E's

 

Did like Layer Cake and will probably buy it, but no way was it better than Snatch, let alone Lock Stock!

Both of those were funny as fuck!

 

Rick, S2Martin, Cabrio Turbo.... it seems that you guys are in the minority here

 

Sorry I just remember the best line ever from lockstock

"And 'arry proceded to beat him to death with a 12 inch black rubber cock"

 

i cant remember it exactly but I like

If you hold anything back, i'll kill ya; if you bend the truth or I think your bending the truth, i'll kill ya, infact nick, your gona have to work very hard just to stay alive. now do you understand everything I've just said to ya?.....good BECAUSE IF YA DONT.......I'LL KILL YA"

 

Quality