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Leo Enticknap
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From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 02-10-2004 05:31 PM
quote: Vinnie Jones, who plays a small role as a soccer hooligan...
...and has been doing so since time began. I grew up in Wimbledon, a suburb 10 miles south-west of London which is better known for its annual tennis tournament than for soccer. In the mid-late '80s the Wimbledon soccer team rose within a few years from being a nowhere semi-professional outfit to winning the FA Cup (roughly speaking, British soccer's equivalent of the Superbowl) in 1988. It was in many ways a genuine 'rags to riches' story helped by a combination of sheer good luck, the fact that big money from cable and satellite TV hadn't taken over soccer by that stage... and Jones, then Wimbledon's key player, who notoriously operated on the basis that when the referee isn't looking, anything goes.
When Wimbledon gradually started sinking back into anonymity in the mid-'90s, Jones had established a TV and film persona as the archetypal soccer yob, and I guess the rest was history. If he'd stayed in soccer rather than turning his attention to the media I guess it's quite likely that no-one would ever have heard of him within a few years...
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Evans A Criswell
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From: Huntsville, AL, USA
Registered: Mar 2000
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posted 03-01-2004 10:05 AM
Attendance: 2004/02/29 19:20, Regal River Oaks Cinema 8, Decatur, AL, Auditorium 3, Flat
I enjoyed this movie, but I didn't feel that it came close to measuring up to previous comedies of this type, such as Road Trip, or the American Pie movies. As some of you have said, there were many scenes that were just so unrealistic that they couldn't be believed.
In fact, the whole premise of the movie is unbelievable. But still, some scenes were really funny.
The movie did terrible business last night, with just 4 people in the auditorium, including me. This theatre had two showings of Passion of the Christ, which were all selling out. I figured the spillover would help the attendance of the other movies, but it didn't.
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