Has anybody watched brassed off, the story of the miners and struggle to keep the pit open, but the brass band had been going for 100 years and the band leader(Pete Postlewaite) thought the band was more important than life it self, one of the best films I have ever seen
2006-07-06 09:26:32 · 16 answers · asked by peter_bain2003 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
basketball please watch it
2006-07-06 09:29:36 · update #1
its a british sad, funny gritty film, it also has 10 stars and can be obtained through amazon, I am a bloke and a tear came from my eye
2006-07-06 09:33:43 · update #2
Kevin, I did hate brass bands untill watching this film....although wouldn't play if I had a deep purple cd
2006-07-06 09:35:06 · update #3
other actors Ewan Mcgreggor, Tara fitzgerald wow she is gorgeous
2006-07-06 09:38:48 · update #4
The sad thing is the UK do not make many good films and when they do nobody hears about it
2006-07-06 09:40:04 · update #5
Great movie, loved it. I came from a South Wales mining community and grew up during the 70s and 80s, so films like Brassed Off and Billy Elliot have that extra resonance for me, in that I remember how life really was for people back then. The panic, the escape, the turning on each other as everything that had always worked before came up against Thatcher's indomitable need to win. The bit of Brassed Off that really kills me is Stephen Tomkinson's suicide attempt after being labelled a scab. Heart-wrenching stuff.
Thing is, with movies like The Full Monty and Billy Elliot, you can pretty much translate them across the pond - guys in times of desperate hardship looking to find a way to make ends meet, young lad has artistic talent that struggles to find expression in hard town...but Brassed Off is that little bit more contextually demanding - unless you understand the background of the Winter of Discontent and Thatcher's Britain, it very well might lose a level of its poignancy. Maybe...
2006-07-06 11:35:13 · answer #1 · answered by mdfalco71 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yep great film if your like me ,hate brass band music but lived through the struggle of the Thatcher years
2006-07-06 16:33:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes a while ago, my father recommended it (Unusual for my father.) Very British and very well acted.
Brassed Off
Billy Elliot
The Full Monty
Peters Friends
The Commitments
Films that would only really appeal to the British, films which tend to get buried under the avalanche of Hollywood blockbusters..
2006-07-06 16:53:16 · answer #3 · answered by Norman Bates 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love that film it makes you laugh and it makes you cry. It also reflects the hard times the miners had under Maggie Thatcher. Closing the mines and putting communities on the scrapheap. She was a cruel woman and the miners were lied to.
2006-07-06 19:36:18 · answer #4 · answered by butterfly55freedom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought it was an excellent film,there should b many more films like this.Iv seen it 6 times and it still makes me laf n smile its gr8!
2006-07-06 17:36:50 · answer #5 · answered by lisalukejodie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Totally agree with KevinH it is a fantastic film and well worth watching
2006-07-06 17:43:49 · answer #6 · answered by cazzcull 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes I've watched it - loved the it in the Cod Father when Ewan Mcgregor smiles at her
2006-07-06 17:18:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well said it's a great film,
2006-07-06 18:07:18 · answer #8 · answered by joanne 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've heard of it and have not watched it, but if you say it is good maybe it shoulod be worth checkin out, I will add it to my Netflix list-thnks
2006-07-06 16:31:03 · answer #9 · answered by Wheels 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good film strong characterisation true nor then grit
2006-07-06 16:34:04 · answer #10 · answered by ALAN O 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋