Rock-N-Rolla

Brian Baldwin — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:47:37 +0000

A few days ago I was eating lunch with my buddy Cam when we decided that I’d go over to his house tonight to play some Wii and watch a movie. At the time I was feeling great and said, “ok why not..?” Well yesterday I woke up with a sore throat and a headache (and today wasn’t faring any better), so I didn’t quite know how I was going to break it to him that I might just come home and take care of myself instead of going over and having beers. Queue todays lunch conversation. Everything is going swell, the table is set to tell him, and then he asks wide-eyed, “So you still coming over tonight?!” I didn’t really have the guts to say ‘no’, so I chickened out and said, “I dunno man, we’ll see how I feel.” *Blank stare beaming back at me* Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwkward…. So I buckled and said that I’d come over regardless (not till he mentioned that he’d been planning his week around it).

After a bomb taco dinner prepped by Cam’s fiance, we wrangled over a few games in the Wii Sports lineup. I can’t say that I’m crazy about the tennis game, but bowling and golf are BOMB! I feel like I could buy a Wii, and exclusively play either of those two games and feel like I got my moneys worth. It’s almost as if a few drunk MIT students were imagineering a superdigi drinking game, only to realize they’d developed the most involved gaming console to date. So after getting blown out at tennis, and scoring a 190 at bowling, we decided to mix a few cockatoos and watch the movie Rock N Rolla.

I’ll admit, I was a little skeptical of Guy Richie’s mojo after the mega-bomb Swept Away and the much-too-introspective Revolver, but I’m a super fan so I thought I’d give it a chance… Damn, that movie is SIIIIIIIIICK *Diggles voice*!!!!!!! If you can imagine taking the crafty villains and punchy storytelling of Snatch, and mix it with Pulp Fiction’s attention to dialogue, you’ve got Rock N Rolla. I highly recommend seeing it to anyone who A) has seen Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels or Snatch, and wants a third installment. Or B) anyone who’s looking for a beginning to end thriller and can put up with only understanding about 3 out of every 4 words.

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Rock-N-Rolla