Four Lions

[Bob The Skutter]

I've just got home from seeing Chris Morris's new film. A story about a group of wannabe jihadists and their plans for martyrdom.

I thought it was brilliantly funny. Anybody else seen it?

 

[Starkers]

I saw it last week, thought it was brilliant. Very funny and quite thought provoking. A good indicator of the kinds of people who probably do become suicide bombers. The men with clear mental health problems manipulated by others, the angry white fanatic, the kid who thinks it's somehow cool and, scariest of all, the normal, westernised family man whose wife and child are all behind him.

"Is a wookie a bear?"

 

[Deckerd]

A recently published research found that the mentality of wannabe bombers is much more like football hooligans than righteous religious folk. The combination of ignorance, bigotry and suggestibility to violence is exactly the same.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

I saw it last week, thought it was brilliant. Very funny and quite thought provoking. A good indicator of the kinds of people who probably do become suicide bombers. The men with clear mental health problems manipulated by others, the angry white fanatic, the kid who thinks it's somehow cool and, scariest of all, the normal, westernised family man whose wife and child are all behind him.

"Is a wookie a bear?"

"They definitely shot the right man, but it was the wrong man who exploded."

 

[Starkers]

A recently published research found that the mentality of wannabe bombers is much more like football hooligans than righteous religious folk. The combination of ignorance, bigotry and suggestibility to violence is exactly the same.

Yes, and interestingly the most devout and 'radical' Muslim in the film is also the most peaceful, and at least one of the bombers fits the criteria you state. I think a lot are also those with diminsihed capacity who are led into it by people more able and who'd never have the guts to strap a bomb to themselves.

I saw it last week, thought it was brilliant. Very funny and quite thought provoking. A good indicator of the kinds of people who probably do become suicide bombers. The men with clear mental health problems manipulated by others, the angry white fanatic, the kid who thinks it's somehow cool and, scariest of all, the normal, westernised family man whose wife and child are all behind him.

"Is a wookie a bear?"

"They definitely shot the right man, but it was the wrong man who exploded."

"We're not going to blow up a mosque!"

 

[Bob The Skutter]

It's definitely a film that deserves to be seen, I want to go see it a second time.

"Yeah, Fuck Mini-Babybel!"

 

[stoneroses]

I am so busy but I will catch it on Bluray i guess.
Chris Morris is one of the best people in Comedy in the last twenty years.

 

[Hugo Rune]

I am so busy but I will catch it on Bluray i guess.
Chris Morris is one of the best people in Comedy in the last twenty years.

Indeed. In fact it is a crying shame that the utterly misguided backlash to the his paedophilia Brass Eye Special (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-lroPLKs58) forced him out of the public eye (well he did make Nathan Barley, but how many people even saw it...?!)

If nothing else it appears that Morris has lost none of his balls given the subject matter here, and more importantly lost none of the ability to make an audience think as they laugh and cringe.

I've not had the chance to see Four Lions yet (too busy sadly) but I'm glad to see that middle-england has been busy sharpening its pitchforks and rekindling their torches, because it wouldn't be a Chris Morris adventure without a little witch-hunting!


Hugo - Is he a martyr or is he a Jalfrezi?

 

[WillsBabe]

Indeed. In fact it is a crying shame that the utterly misguided backlash to the his paedophilia Brass Eye Special (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-lroPLKs58) forced him out of the public eye

Amazing piece of television and social commentary.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Indeed. In fact it is a crying shame that the utterly misguided backlash to the his paedophilia Brass Eye Special (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-lroPLKs58) forced him out of the public eye

Amazing piece of television and social commentary.

The shame is that real news and current affairs shows are starting to resemble The Day Today and Brass Eye.

 

[Ethros]

Saw this yesterday. It was exactly what I expected; pretty shit.

Now I love Chris Morris. Day Today, Brass Eye, Jam, Nathan Barley etc, love them all.

But the words "British", "film" and "comedy" always ring alarm bells for me. I don't what it is but they just hardly ever work. This was no different. For me anyway it just wasn't very funny. Yeah there were a few chuckles and jokes, but for the most part I was just sat there bored; I actually started flicking through the cinema magazine at one point. And when a comedy film isn't funny it becomes 100% redundant.
I'd never watch it again, and of the 18 odd films I've seen at the cinema so far in 2010 this was easily the worst.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Couldn't disagree more. I thought it was brilliant, and I'd say it was one of the better films I've seen this year. I wouldn't mind seeing it again at the cinema actually.

 

[Starkers]

^Yup, laughed my arse off most of the way through. In constrast saw Hot Tub Time MAchine tonight which, a few chuckles aside, was pretty bad.

 

[Bob The Skutter]

^Yup, laughed my arse off most of the way through. In constrast saw Hot Tub Time MAchine tonight which, a few chuckles aside, was pretty bad.

I didn't mind Hot Tub Time Machine, but it was very obvious comedy.

 

[Pingfah]

Saw this last night. Very good, and a very affecting film. I came out of the cinema feeling totally depressed despite the fact that I had spent the last 90 minutes laughing my ass off.

 

[Starkers]

Yeah that about sums up my reaction. Close to being my favourite film of the year so far.