It isn’t often that I watch movies in English with subtitles.  The accent needs to be pretty thick for me to give up on my own powers of comprehension.

I don’t actually need to watch Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels with subtitles.  Not anymore.  Those first couple of times watching the film were pretty challenging, though.

I don’t know what to make of Guy Ritchie, honestly.  This film and Snatch are an awful lot of fun.  I like his Sherlock Holmes films.  But I just don’t feel like he produces great movies.  Fun movies, sure, but fairly slight.

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