The Reel Rejects - SNATCH (2000) MOVIE REVIEW! First Time Watching!!

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Starting point is 00:01:07 Homelander and snatched my wife and killed me, play son. Womp, womp. Maybe we'll see a baby, Carl Urban. Who knows? Let's get into this thing. Roll the bumper. That's good. That's great.

Starting point is 00:01:26 Eggaright, definitely. I'm sure this guy, Ritchie isn't the only person to, like, invent those smash, zoom, you know, transition elements. But, like, you can definitely see where Edgar Wright's pulling some of those from. Definitely. Oh, well, guys. Oh, boy. What a ride.

Starting point is 00:01:44 Wow. We. What an adventure. Wow. Ewan Bremner. There you go. Scottish. Squatish.

Starting point is 00:01:52 A little bit of everybody from the surrounding area in here. My God. What a, what a saga. How are you feeling? I feel good. I'm feeling good. I felt like that was definitely a ride. You feel life affirmed?

Starting point is 00:02:08 I feel affirmed in life. I feel full. I feel experienced. I feel fully experienced by the world that is snatch. You've been experienced Jimmy Hendricks style. I've been experienced Jimmy Hendrick style. This was fun. This was a fun.

Starting point is 00:02:25 I don't want to say topsy trivia. That's not the right word. But it was a lot of moving pieces. It was quirky. It was funny. All the performances are really good. And, yeah, I definitely see the other influences of films for sure. It's nice to see Mr. Guy Ritchie in his early days doing what he does with his...

Starting point is 00:02:45 The way he films and his element love his... The way he shoots, his out-of-order scenes that kind of keep you on your toes to the order of events. And it was a good time. It was a great time. Johnny Boy, what did you think of it? blast as well and this is another one of those movies that like again i remember vividly when this was coming out i had clipped the poster out of the paper and put it in my notebook i thought brad pitt looks so cool i like like fight club was the same thing but slightly different where it's like you know

Starting point is 00:03:16 you see this trailer for snatch and and you hear brad pitt say some one of those lines there one of those like ridiculous you know pikey accent lines and you're like i don't know what's happening but this looks awesome and so yeah having all these years to kind of you know just sit with the concept of you know this movie and early guy richie this this lived up to the hype for me i mean it's it's fun because you know again i've seen more of guy richie's recent stuff and i've seen a lot of stuff that borrows from his style like his style as of this movie in particular and i assume probably uh clint that's right diamond uh some of these music cues man too have been like, I remember kids in our film studies classes and stuff,

Starting point is 00:04:01 we're like using these kinds of these music cues for stuff. Like, this is, yeah, hugely influential for the time, or at least, you know, the rise of Guy Ritchie. And I haven't seen Lockstock either, but just to behold, yeah, the element that made him what he is is fascinating, partly because, you know, watching this, I was like, this is really fun, it's rough and tumble. It's got all the crime pulp and bone crunching quality that you want.

Starting point is 00:04:28 But it's also, yeah, like kind of madcap, and in a way, you know, like you must have Tarantino and Guy Ritchie probably sort of on the rise at a similar time. And this definitely felt like it was of that moment in time, like, you know, in the coming out of the 90s into the early 2000s where, yeah, like cinema is undergoing something of a new reinvention. and yeah the way that we do like semi non-linear stories and ensemble pieces and unreliable narration and you know the real collision of techniques and stuff is really fun to watch

Starting point is 00:05:08 and yeah like this almost reminded me of something like a reservoir dog like there's a Tarantinoishness in that it's all about watching like you know crime go wrong or the plan go completely awry except whereas in a tarantinoishness You know, movie, I feel like that often leads to, uh, like there's humor. It's weird. It's like these strike me as being cut of similar cloth, but uniquely distinct to their own, you know, sides of the ocean, sides of just cinematic experience. Because yeah, like a Tarantino movie and like a reservoir dog gets tense and it gets serious and it gets harsh in an uncomfortable way. Whereas this was, there were moments of violence and there are moments of, you know, the violence is pretty tame, though. It's.

Starting point is 00:05:53 So as what they actually showed? In terms of, yeah, what they actually give you, it's like, you know, you think about, like, there's no ear scene in this movie or anything like that. But, you know, it still has. It's still effective, though. Yeah, like, they feel cut of a similar cloth, but this feels way more, like, boisterous and comedically oriented in that, like, you can tell that there's a lot of humor happening behind the camera and in the editing and in the choices and stuff. And I feel like one of the fun differences here is that, you know, in a Tarantino movie, you often have it, not to just only ride this comparison, but in a Tarantino movie, you have characters who always speak distinctly and who have, you know, very unique points of view and preferences and stuff like that. And this certainly has that quality, but I feel like you're also kind of steeped further into the, like, wacky happenstance of things and, like, half the characters aren't as complex. as they think they are like you know a lot of characters who think themselves a lot smarter and more capable than they actually are and so you you get this fun sort of comedy of errors and i feel like this movie has an interesting like i liked that you had the pikees because they do represent this kind of fringe you know nomadic group that has its completely own set of rules and its own little world and even again especially through brad pitt like the super exaggerated

Starting point is 00:07:18 accent that's so thick you've got to like get an interpreter which which i expected to be more lost during this movie especially with no subtitles than i actually was um but yeah this had like a fun peripheral magic to me where it's like yeah it has all that again grounded uh crime you know story nature uh that various other movies have but just like the the rhythm and the quirkiness of the characters and you know again the editing choices and things like that just seemed like you know the the ironic humor was always you know kind of one of the main elements throughout i feel like there's a certain sense of like you're watching a bunch of it's subverting i guess the the trope of a lot of crime movies where you are just watching yeah people who do know what they're doing and

Starting point is 00:08:11 who are just actual badasses and here it's like you've got people undercutting moments by like You know, you've got different colloquialisms. You've got, you know, Dennis Farina's in from New York, and he's also like... That bit was great. Yeah. I'm going back and boy. Oh, God. Yeah, and then that's a more overt, like, comedic editing choice, but it is sort of like,

Starting point is 00:08:31 it's just business as usual for this guy. And, like, the place you start versus the place that you end and, like, all the different characters and the interweaving circumstances, and you start with this robbery that feels so distinct and they're all dressed like, you know, kind of stereotypical rabbis, which is another one of those, crime movie motifs is like, oh, let's get into some kind of eccentric costume to, you know, obviously throw off our trail. There's so many moving

Starting point is 00:08:55 pieces always, and there's always the, uh, the voiceover kind of keeping us in the loop of what was going on. I don't remember. What happened about Beniso do Toro? He's just dead. He's just in the trunk there. He's at the trunk at the very end. They're just like, you've got a guy with his arm cut off in the boot, you know? That's right. And he's such a big actor, certainly. And I, even at the time, I feel like

Starting point is 00:09:15 his star was pretty high. And so, like, That's another fun subversion is he's here doing his thing, being a character, doing a crazy accent, and then he, you know, dies pretty early on. And it's all, you know, just because of, again, they play into the weaknesses of that character. And, yeah, like, there are these elements that feel, like, disparate in a way, but they are all somehow connected. You know, you've got this, these rigged boxing matches that are also related to this diamond heist that is also related to these various, like, inter-gang. conflicts and stuff and like I definitely would like to go back and watch it again just to like keep track of

Starting point is 00:09:53 things. I think it was a movie it's definitely like plot over character but I feel like the characters in which we saw they are memorable in how they were presented but yeah I will say for me it was like it was a lot to keep up with in the beginning

Starting point is 00:10:09 I was like okay there's this and we got these moving parts I feel like this is a movie I definitely want to watch again but yeah I definitely enjoyed the ride and how stylized it was Yeah, yeah. And like, I mean, it's weird because for, it's like for Guy Ritchie, I know that he, to go back to the Tarantino comparison, like he hasn't maintained the status and reverence certainly over time that a Tarantino maybe has. And it is interesting to look at the style of this because this is something that is so unique and distinct and that so many people have ripped off and copied and homaged since then. And I'm sure this is also, like I'm sure there's got to be Tony Scott in here as well because a lot of, of, again, those, you know, kinetic shots or split screens that are doing, you know, like, the split screens will change size and zoom, depending on, like, the choreography of who's talking when and, you know, certain words, or there'll be a freeze frame, and every character

Starting point is 00:11:01 gets a title card, and like, yeah, there's, there's a lot of whizbang, and there's a lot of stuff happening, and it feels rough, but it also feels really composed and stylized and fun, and it has a uniquely sort of cockney spirit about it. And I feel like, too, I would, I guess, imagine that maybe something like Lockstock and Two Smoking Barrels, his previous movie to this, I believe, is probably more UK-centric, whereas here you've got sort of a collision of, yeah, you've got your various UK crime guys on the lower and higher levels, but you've also got these Irish, you know, whatever the Pikes are, you know, sort of semi-Irish, but not quite nomads and stuff. But then you've got, yeah, Dennis Farina in New York, you've got these, you know, Jews. You've got, you know, this Russian guy who I believe is, you know, basically playing a similar character in the first John Wick movie, which is also like largely involving a dog. And the way that the dogs kind of factor in as this sort of like silly motif that ultimately then, like, as they are given this dog as like part of the deal and they're chasing around like, well, I'm fighting

Starting point is 00:12:09 for, you know, we came here to get a caravan. Well, now I'm fighting to get a caravan myself. and like just all the flip-flopping details and stuff. And then finally at the end, the dog has swallowed the, you know, diamond and, you know, leads ultimately to Statham and Stephen Graham's salvation. Just, yeah, it's like how the convoluted nature of how we get from point A to point B is really fun. And it has, again, all that crime pulp. But in a way that is like really rhythmic and it's not that it's not harsh, but it's like it's enjoyable and fun in a different way

Starting point is 00:12:45 than a lot of other like upbeat crime movies. Do you think you could give this movie like a one-sentence synopsis from somewhere like what's this movie about? Oh, Jesus Christ. I feel like with something like this, it's hard. Yeah, absolutely. I mean, several, I don't know where to begin.

Starting point is 00:13:06 A diamond heist goes awry causing several warring crimes. organizations to figure that shit out. I don't know. I don't know. That's good. I can agree with that. Yeah, and I don't know. Like, I liked the interweaving of all the different circumstances and stuff.

Starting point is 00:13:29 And even if I would be like, wait a minute, what's this again? How does this directly relate to here? It all still felt like it's one of those movies that, yeah, like you've got a lot of accents flying. You've got a lot of details flying. And especially on a movie like this, even if you don't have a camera. camera pointed at you, I feel like it is one of those where you're probably going to finish and go, okay, I definitely want to see that again to like collect and like truly organize everything, but the experience and the fun and, you know, the pulp of it all still hits, you know.

Starting point is 00:13:58 And the needle drops are great. Like this as a soundtrack that even if you haven't seen the movie, I feel like you have felt the effects of a soundtrack like this. And yeah, it makes me curious to see more of Guy Ritchie's stuff both as he's, you know, transitioned into being more of a director for hire, you know, for certain studio things where, you know, you see how much of his style peaks through versus the things that are more directly on his turf where he can go hog wild with that. And it is interesting because I can imagine Guy Ritchie being in a unique position where he has such a distinct flavor. And yet, you know, how do you keep that from getting stale? How do you do you do your thing? I feel like every now and again he'll go back and make a crime movie. He's like rock and rolla with Jerry. Gerard Butler, and there are other movies that are sort of in this vein for him. Even The Gentleman, I think, was like an ensemble crime movie that people seem to like. So, like, I'm sure he's evolved it since then.

Starting point is 00:14:52 But I can also kind of see how his career has been, just, I don't know, I feel like he has had some bumps in the road to figure out. And, yeah, like. 74, okay. Yeah, yeah, okay, so this was 2,000. Here's the logline for you. unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookmakers, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewelers, fight to track down a priceless stolen diamonds. Okay. I cannot imagine, like, what this script must have taken to assemble, you know.

Starting point is 00:15:30 Just like what... Did this get a snatch two? I do not believe it did. I can't imagine it would have. but yeah yeah this this this was definitely a piece this was definitely something and i mean again especially coming up during this time growing up in the time when this was coming out and and you know getting the itch for film studies and filmmaking and you know let's pick up a camera and do something like this is definitely the kind of thing that inspired uh so many young folks to go grab a camera

Starting point is 00:16:02 and come up with some wacky dialogue and and too i mean it is the kind of thing that you do have to be on top of your game for because it's easy to make a version of this movie that would be obnoxious and not very good. Like I bet it was probably like something like this comes across very rhythmic and somewhat effortless and there's a quality to a lot of the acting and the banter where it's, you know, it feels like everybody's kind of doing it off the cuff in the room. I bet there was probably at least a fair amount of like, yeah, you can improv it. You know, you can make these dynamics real.

Starting point is 00:16:32 But yeah, somehow manages not to fall apart, which is more important. impressive, I think, from the outside than you might think at first glance. But we got some trivia here. You got any other stray thoughts on the cinema experience itself before we read a couple facts? No, it was a ride, you know. It was a complex plot with some interesting characters. And yeah, it's definitely what I want to see again, for sure. Very fun, very interesting.

Starting point is 00:16:59 Good names on everybody. Great names. Great names. When Guy Ritchie told Brad Pitt he would be playing a boxer. Pitt became concerned because he had just finished shooting fight club and did not want to play the same type of role again. Pitt took the role anyway because he wanted to work with Guy Ritchie so badly. Oh, please. Because Brad Pitt, who was a big fan of Lockstock and two smoking barrels from a couple years prior,

Starting point is 00:17:22 he actually approached Guy Ritchie and asked for a role in this film when Guy Ritchie found out. Pitt couldn't master a London accent. He gave him the role of Mickey the Gypsy. And I mean, wow, because if you couldn't get the London accent, which actually I could see, like, I guess it makes sense that you would, you have to be, it's weird, you have to be on top of that accent, that crazy, thick Irish thing he's doing. It seemed well attuned against other actors who really are that,

Starting point is 00:17:55 and I'm sure it probably helped, you know, hanging around people who really do know that accent or, you know, have grown up with that accent. The fact that they were able to have him be like, have this unintelligible accent, and be part of his character because Brad Pitt didn't know how to do the specific accent he wanted

Starting point is 00:18:10 only added to him as a character. Yeah, I mean, he killed it. Like, he does, that too could go really wrong. That too could be like, oh, what is this awful accent he's doing? And yet the comedy of the like, what the hell is this guy saying? Like, it reads really nicely. And I think, yeah, it's like Brad Pitt,

Starting point is 00:18:28 obviously you're going to think Fight Club because they're bare knuckle boxing. But, yeah, the spirit of the character helps to kind of take you out of that mode, which I think is good because he's such a little imp, he's such a sprite throughout this. Brad Pitt's character and indecipherable speech

Starting point is 00:18:45 was inspired by many critics' complaints about the accents of characters in lockstock and two smoking barrels. Guy Ritchie decided to counter-criticism by creating a character that not only couldn't be understood by the audience but that also couldn't be understood by the characters in the movie.

Starting point is 00:19:01 And it's, again, it's fun because it works both ways. If you don't want to try that hard to decipher it, it still works, I think. And if you do want to decipher it, you can pretty much pick out what he's saying. But I do think that's really funny. And they did, that just reminds me of that SNL sketch they did

Starting point is 00:19:16 that's literally just like a trailer for a Guy Ritchie movie and everyone's just talking all the head and then like eventually it devolves into like no one's actually saying words. They're just, don't you go round around the railroad? And they're just saying

Starting point is 00:19:33 Oh, it's great. It's very funny. I think it was, I mean, rest in peace, Russell Brand, you know. Wait, what? He's not dead, but, you know, he's. I was like, I didn't hear about this. Not the best guy, but it was, I think, an episode he had been hosting, so he was the guest. And thus, his accent, you know, I think probably partly inspired them to be like, you know, you would have been in a guy, Richie joint 10, 15 years ago.

Starting point is 00:20:00 So we'll do that. Every mistake that Saul Vincent and Tyrone make were inspired by various. late night TV shows about real life crimes got horribly wrong and that stuff too I think was very fun about this and I loved watching the three of them because they are three characters where especially I think Saul it was the guy from Walking Dead like he comes across like he knows what he's doing and is very competent and then it slowly yeah it comes to reveal itself that like they're all three kind of on the same level like Tyrone at one point seems like he's going to be the most competent and he kind of is but uh yeah even that

Starting point is 00:20:35 Like, all that stuff needs to be hammered out in, like, the greater scheme of the script. Otherwise, it's going to feel contrived. And, like, the script is telling you where these mistakes and foibles need to go. And it felt really natural the way all this was just becoming a bigger and bigger mess. So, again, just props to the, you know, writing and, uh, and rehearsal process. When Vinnie and Saul are sitting outside Bricktops, bookies about to give him the diamond, the man that approaches the car is not really bullet toothed Tony. It was a look alike.

Starting point is 00:21:03 Vinnie Jones didn't show up for shooting. that day because he was in jail for fighting the night before. I thought that guy looked different because when Vinnie Jones shows back up, I was like, oh, that's right. Vinny Jones. Wait, what? What's going on? Oh, my God. And, too, I'm sure I mixed up a lot of the names

Starting point is 00:21:19 here because everyone's got like an interesting name and half of them end in Y. The producers couldn't afford extras for the boxing badge scenes. Whenever a camera angle changed, the extras had to move to create the impression of a crowded house and to move around. That's fun.

Starting point is 00:21:35 According to the DVD commentary, Bo, the dog, was very difficult to work with during the car scene with Vincent Saul and Tyrone. The dog was actually attacking Lenny James. And James was actually bitten in the crotch by the dog. Didn't suffer any serious injury. The dog was replaced after that incident. Damn. It's funny. I thought Brad Pitt would wind up with the dog at the end just because of the poster.

Starting point is 00:21:59 But apparently, look at Lenny James actually hit himself in the private parts with the shotgun while blasting a hole in the wall. at the bookies, but continued the scene and the footage was used in the film. I feel like, yeah, doesn't he, like, double over and, like, grab his fellas? I feel like, yeah, that's, I love when stuff like that makes it in. The role of Brick Top was originally

Starting point is 00:22:19 offered to Sean Connery, who liked the script and was curious to see locked up stock in two-spoken barrels, so producer Matthew Vaughn hastily arranged a screening for him on extreme short notice. Connery duly turned up and watched the film before emerging with a judgment, this is a good film.

Starting point is 00:22:35 he said, and in a stage whisper, you're not going to be able to afford me. Cue Allen Ford, damn. I mean, I could imagine Sean Connery would be really cool, but the guy, Alan Ford, I assume, who played Bricktop, was truly perfect for that role. Nearly every death in the movie takes place off screen. That's a fun detail to go back and look at.

Starting point is 00:23:02 As he was playing a particularly scummy, character Brad Pitt made a point of rarely washing during the film's production. That has made a resurgence in recent years, I feel like. People will not be showering, yeah. Heard a few actors be like, hey, man, hey, Jill and Hall, hey, hey, Patinson, go take a bath. They don't, wait, they don't bathe either? I think that might have changed in recent times of people finding out and being like, what? But I've heard, it's been in the public discourse.

Starting point is 00:23:35 at some point. Wash your ass people. To keep things in order during production director Guy Ritchie introduced a system of fines on set. There were fines for mobile phones ringing, arriving late,

Starting point is 00:23:45 taking naps during shooting, being cheeky, being unfunny, and or moaning and complaining. One staff member was even charged for laying the craft service table run out of coffee cuts. God damn. Good collie.

Starting point is 00:23:58 Well, damn. Not bad. Here's the last one. On the DVD commentary, Guy Ritchie mentions beating a Brazilian man who told him that the most hated people in his country are animal abusers, particularly dogs. Ritchie was inspired to add a scene of bricktop,

Starting point is 00:24:12 prodding a dog to provoke a fight, highlighting what a monstrous individual he is. It's true. That's true. True, that. Oh, goodness. Hey, gang, we did it. We did some quintessential British crime today.

Starting point is 00:24:28 Leave us your thoughts on Snatch. Should we check out any other Guy Ritchie's famous films? and, hey, did you understand everything Brad Pitt was saying? You know, leave us your thoughts and recommend any other, you know, non-guy-Ritchie British crime movies that you think are particularly choice. And we'll catch you on the next one, aren't we, Aaron? Yes, we will. That's right. Be well, stay safe, and stay subscribe to the channel, lay the like,

Starting point is 00:24:53 and the notification bell and I'll catch on the next one. There's anyone I want to do a bare-nuckle boxing match with It would be Andrew Hayes. And again, a ring fight, Andrew Hayes. You know why? Because he's short, and I could just push him.

Starting point is 00:25:11 Yeah, that's right. You just hold him at arm's length. It's just right there. Yeah. Oh, Andrew would be a perfect character in like a guy richie boxing type of. Yeah, yeah, because he would seem like not intimidating at first.

Starting point is 00:25:24 Yeah. But then he would pose everybody down. Yeah, he'd go for the knees. He would punch everybody right. The hips. Oh, Andrew Hayes is totally a nuts much. He's a nut punch. Yeah, you get that vibe from him.

Starting point is 00:25:35 He's not a guy who goes for the body. He goes for the nuts. Yeah, he's called Andy Nuts. And honestly, Andrew nut punching is like totally overlooked. Yeah, it's a totally viable combat technique. It's a valid combat technique. And you should get points for that. When you want to survive, hit the nuts.

Starting point is 00:25:52 You see all these fights happen all the time on, like, Twitter. And I see these like fist fights. I'm like, why does no one go for the crunch? Fight done. Like, you go for the crunch. You're paralyzed if you get someone in the crunch. Yeah, and down for the count. That's a great thing, Andrew.

Starting point is 00:26:06 Your head height reaches the average person's crotch. That's right. You're not able to like just speedbag on it, man. And you fight. The problem is, Andrew, when you're fighting, you're going for the body. You're going for the head. Come on. But, dude, you got to, like, jump on a trampoline to do that, all right?

Starting point is 00:26:20 Nut up. Oh, just get them right in the crotch every single time. Embrace the crotch punch. Embrate, well, yeah, embrace the crotch punch, absolutely. Snatch. Snatch. He's got a nut punch, the size of a fist. It's just.

Starting point is 00:26:34 You know,

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