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Snatch
2000 · Film · 103 min
Directed by Guy Ritchie
Unscrupulous boxing promoters, violent bookies, a Russian gangster, incompetent amateur robbers, and supposedly Jewish jewellers fight to track down a priceless stolen diamond.
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The movie "Snatch"
https://youtu.be/_Yvmg4wcfzY?is=paeV1wjPaF2c6WZB
I remembered the dialogue from the movie Snatch:
T: What's happening with this sausages, Charlie? C: 2 minutes, Turkish. -- 5 Minutes later --- T: How long for the sausages? C: 5 minutes, Turkish. T: It was 2 minutes, 5 minutes ago. I don't know why I remembered it. Is it AI, or self driving cars, or both. Huh.
The Wind Rises. I love everything about it. Beautiful soundtrack, fun sound design, and a fascinating treatment of various topics from the ethics of engineering to the miracle of flight. The end scene completely wrecks me every time.
The Downfall is one of the best movies about being on the losing side of a war. It’s impressively accurate, and the acting is outstanding.
When I don’t know who I’m watching the movie with, I recommend Snatch or Amélie.
I can't believe I'm not seeing any Guy Ritchie anywhere. Particularly Snatch, but Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels too.
And almost anything with Brad Pitt. Lots of votes for Fight Club, but what about Legends of the Fall, A River Runs Through It, 12 Monkeys, or Cool World?
And now that I'm thinking about it, Dances With Wolves. Lonesome Dove TV miniseries. Braveheart. The Departed. Lots more, I'm sure.
For convenience, I asked ChatGPT to create this table, which summarizes how many times each movie has been mentioned in this conversation so far. It got a few counts wrong (as usual), but it still gives a good sense of the frequency. I hope it can be useful to someone:
| Movie | Number of Mentions | |-------------------------------------------|---------------------| | The Matrix | 9 | | Lord of the Rings Trilogy | 8 | | Pulp Fiction | 8 | | Alien | 7 | | Fight Club | 7 | | Ghostbusters | 6 | | Die Hard | 5 | | Back to the Future | 5 | | Inception | 5 | | Star Wars Trilogy (original) | 5 | | Groundhog Day | 5 | | Terminator 1 & 2 | 5 | | Jurassic Park | 4 | | The Thing | 4 | | The Fifth Element | 4 | | Monty Python and the Holy Grail | 4 | | Ghost in the Shell | 4 | | Interstellar | 4 | | Casablanca | 3 | | Office Space | 3 | | Shawshank Redemption | 3 | | The Godfather Trilogy | 3 | | The Blues Brothers | 3 | | Blade Runner | 3 | | Mad Max: Fury Road | 3 | | Unforgiven | 3 | | Total Recall (1990) | 3 | | The Crow | 3 | | The Princess Bride | 3 | | Akira | 3 | | The Big Lebowski | 3 | | Guardians of the Galaxy | 3 | | American Psycho | 3 | | Indiana Jones Trilogy | 3 | | Kiki’s Delivery Service | 2 | | Ratatouille | 2 | | A Clockwork Orange | 2 | | Mission Impossible (various) | 2 | | Casino Royale | 2 | | Skyfall | 2 | | Ferris Bueller's Day Off | 2 | | Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan | 2 | | Apocalypse Now | 2 | | The Shining | 2 | | Groundhog Day | 2 | | Donnie Darko | 2 | | Dune (2021) | 2 | | Gladiator | 2 | | Predator | 2 | | Seven/Se7en | 2 | | The Dark Knight | 2 | | Snatch | 2 | | Prometheus | 2 | | Schindler’s List | 2 | | The Wolf of Wall Street | 2 | | Dr. Strangelove | 2 | | Silence of the Lambs | 2 | | Kill Bill | 2 | | Real Genius | 2 | | Top Secret! | 2 | | Tenet | 2 | | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy | 2 | | The Adjustment Bureau | 2 | | The Expanse | 2 | | Pulp Fiction | 2 |
I saw this when it first came out.
A London cockney attempting poorly to do an American accent is what put me off.
He just cannot do an American accent.
He plays a good cockney tough guy.
I liked Jason Statham in Snatch and Lock stock and two smoking barrels.
He has tried in a few films now and failed dismally.
I can give you two examples
A family member spent years at college and university studying for an aerospace B2 engineering degree.
He failed the final module, failed his degree and was left with £40,000 student debt.
Most people would have given up at this point but not him.
He worked at McD's, local refuse collection sites and signed on at a job adviser and took any job that was offered.
In the meantime he went back to college to study other things, all the while pestering large airline companies for a job. he was finally offered an apprenticeship at British airways.
How did he do this? Perseverance and minerals?
I left school with no qualifications in 1974. I played truant for the last 2 years of school.
At 16 I got a job at a local garage cleaning the mechanics tools, sweeping up, making tea and being a general gofer (go for this and go for that).
One day the general manager asked me if I would like to train as a car mechanic. He said he would teach me everything he knew about cars. Lucky for me he was an F1 mechanic so I had a great teacher.
I then applied for an apprenticeship at Jaguar/Daimler. Low and behold I only got it.
I became a vehicle technician
I had always been interested in Psychology even when I was a teenager. Although I had no formal education I did love reading books. It does help being an introvert.
So, when I was 33 years old I went back to college to do an access to higher education in psychology to give me the most basic qualifications to prepare myself for university.
Six or so years later I had a masters degree in Integrative Psychotherapy.
From an oily rag to a psychotherapist.
How did I do that? Perseverance, minerals and believing in me.
Minerals = from the film "Snatch"
If an uneducated, lower socio-economic, working class guy like me, can traverse all the barriers in life to achieve what I wanted, then anyone can do it.
Unfortunately, you should know scientific fact, that from nature, people divided to three groups:
1. Tech/scientific people (mathematics/physics/etc).
2. Art people (extraordinary good with texts and/or graphics/drawing).
3. Cognitive people or entrepreneurs (Tommy from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snatch_(film)
In your age you should already see hints, where are you mostly talent, and could choose appropriate way (yes, all ways divided to three largest groups, anywhere need tech personnel, arts and managers, but all these three learn different way).
Heres cockney gangster 'Bricktop' from the Guy Richie movie Snatch, talking about birdwatching https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRRrlrMDAd-a2sn1d81lTKA
I think they're quoting the movie Snatch
Even Hollywood masterpieces with high critical acclaim are trying to make money. I don't think you're actually saying anything. I don't have super highbrow movie tastes so independent artsy films bore me. I like action movies, run and gun. Things like Snatch or Bullet Train and only companies like Disney and Sony are making those.
Clearly you haven't watched the movie 'Snatch'.
GTA 6 - Britain, cast of players from Snatch (movie), and one star cops being unarmed, would be a fun game tho.
It wouldn't be it was/is a fad? In the 2000s there was literally a zombie movie coming out every week it seemed. In the UK there was load of movies about the UK "underworld" e.g. Football Hooligans, Drug Dealers, Gangstars and Illegal fights (Layer Cake, Snatch, Rock and Rolla, Green Street, Football factory, The Business and my favourite Sexy Beast).
There is generally a new film genre that does really well and people copy it chasing the money as people tend to want more initially until it is played out.
And to quote from Snatch:
> You should never underestimate the predictability of stupidity.
Such a fun film.
Also included in the movie Snatch. Big black dildos were used...
For the hard of hearing, non-native speakers who are used to subtitles from non-dubbed movies, etc. etc. I suppose.
I do know that, as a non-native English speaker, I've always appreciated having English subtitles for English-speaking films. It helps immensely if you miss a word, there's a little too much mumbling, or whatever. One of the best (in both ways) examples being the movie Snatch.
How.
Free Market good? Free Speech good?
So why can't I pay someone to help me spread the word about how good my product is?
> A bit like how we can and do have democracies while severely restricting political campaign funding.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. I do not believe any democracy has actually limited political campaign funding. There have been limits, but they have all had loopholes that have made them completely ineffective.
> Scientists provide information. They do not enforce anything
But, it's scientifically proven that if I only do business with science-based companies, that the products and services I get are better and safer. I therefore boycott all other businesses.
Then, scientists absolutely do enforce everything.
> And comparing who is best at making goods and services.
Actually, no, that's economics. And economics say the best solution is the free market. Not a body of decision makers. Because each person measures their own utility. People can provide evidence and opinions. But each person makes their own decisions.
There's no accounting for taste.
Which movie is scientifically proven to be the most enjoyable by people who like Quentin Tarantino movies, but hate Oliver Stone movies?
Oh, scientists hadn't even gotten to review Snatch yet. If only some advertiser enticed me into giving it a try, I would find out that my opinions change over time in unpredictable and unique ways, that no science board could ever predict.
> some people no longer deserve to live. (Other societies in history have sterilized people). Yes, of course we would want those decisions to be based on science
Science is a tool. Lies, damned lies, and statistics. Science is not humanistic, any more than Capitalism is. That's why science must be regulated. Otherwise, we'd be cloning people with no brains, so we can harvest their organs. We'd instantly kill everyone with an un-treatable infectious disease, because the good of the many outweigh the good of the few or the one. We'd set up a surveillance state to enforce our laws, because it's scientifically proved to be the best way to enforce laws.
Opinions and ethics are human factors you are not accounting for.
A good friend of mine _wink_ has been a pirate since the golden age of IRC. I, uh He, always said he'd pay for digital content when they made distribution digital. And when they did, I was happy to start paying for it. I was happy to have every King of the Hill on someone else's hard drive finally.
Then the price for playing by the rules kept going up and up. Meanwhile there was less and less, and less, I cared to see. I can't even think of the last movie I actually itched to see. Maybe I've gotten old and don't have time to search for diamonds in the rough, but I don't see any more movies like Oh Brother Where Art Thou or Fight Club or Snatch that I can't get tired of.
They can't cry poverty when every time Adam Sandler squeezes one out it makes $75 million. I know creative accounting makes it seem like they break even, but I call BS on that. If companies besides Pixar would actually pay for writing that moves people, their wallets would come with them.
I usually dislike any color grading over an entire movie. I recently re-watched Snatch and its heavy green cast felt so obnoxious and ugly.
Taking this a step further:
1. Use Facebook Connect to create a library of things that you own. e.g. DVDs, tools.
2. Suggest Collections/activities that arise out of your social network: "Amy, Jon and you have all the Star Wars movies among you: Time for a Star Wars Marathon? David and Emma would be interested in joining(based on interests)!", or "Joanna and you have all the things needed to go camping".
3. Profit model: Suggest things to buy on Amazon that "completes" the collection: e.g. "If one of the three of you bought "Snatch", then you would have all the movies by Guy Ritchie"
This requires data mining for list generation (see Google Sets), Facebook APIs / Opengraph, location apis, and Amazon APIs, and has a money side to it.
[i hereby release this idea under the "buy me a beer if you use it" license]