Some people don't like Layer cake?

Or is that a fark, too cool to admit they like it thing?

gopher321: Hey, I liked it too.

New film, London Boulevard, just released is similar. Colin Farrell is in it. Not bad, a good time waster but not as good as Layer Cake. Sort of a Scarface ripoff.

I've heard a good deal about the film, and I've read the novel it's based on. The end of the novel was a huge letdown, and as best I can tell the movie follows the same route, albeit a bit less atrociously. Pass, thanks.

Loved Layer Cake though, even the end. Especially the end, actually, because I think that's probably the most honest ending you could get when it comes to a "crime" movie: not overtly a downer, but not all sunshine and roses either.

Subby loves "Layer Cake," there I said it, it's out there

Um, is this a thing, hating on Layer Cake? I will not.

It's a fantastic movie. Great direction, paced really well (tense) throughout most of it, phenomenal editing, perfectly cast lead.

Plus...

/hot like Sienna


/just my opinion, man

The only Vaughn films I've seen are Stardust and X-Men: First Class. Both were pretty awesome, excluding the revamped makeup design for Beast.

liam76: Some people don't like Layer cake?

Or is that a fark, too cool to admit they like it thing?


Thanks for taking care of that question for me. (Well, both of them, I guess.)

Yep, this stuff is pretty tasty.

FerneJohn: The only Vaughn films I've seen are Stardust and X-Men: First Class. Both were pretty awesome, excluding the revamped makeup design for Beast.

X-Men First Class wasn't as over the top awesome as I was hoping it to be. Some moments that they didn't quite keep out of cheesy territory, and January Jones, while looking fantastic in those outfits, was just comically bad. Embarrassing for her and whoever cast her. New choice, please.

Still, it was pretty darn good, best comic book movie I've seen in awhile.

FerneJohn: The only Vaughn films I've seen are Stardust and X-Men: First Class. Both were pretty awesome, excluding the revamped makeup design for Beast.

Stardust is proof that anything Matthew Vaughn touches is golden. That film was far better than the premise would have suggested.

liam76: Some people don't like Layer cake?

Or is that a fark, too cool to admit they like it thing?

I'm not sure what's not to like about it, and it isn't even particularly popular so the insecure twits on here shouldn't be hating. I loved it... best use of "Ordinary World" anyone could ever think up.

He's a sellout after doing that horrible x-man movie

/layer cake was awesome

//kick ass was pretty good

When did people suggest that Layer Cake was in any way a bad film? Paranoid subby is paranoid.

Anyway, I like Layer Cake. It's preferable to Layer Death.

Who didn't like Layer Cake?

Subby, I hope you are in the majority on that because, seriously, what's not to like about that movie?

tricycleracer: Who didn't like Layer Cake?

I thought it was kind of boring, drug on in some places. I didn't hate it, but I wouldn't really recommend it.

Barbigazi: Gay called...







Yeah... if "gay" is on the phone, I'm pretty sure he's looking for you.

I liked Layer Cake.

RantCasey: tricycleracer: Who didn't like Layer Cake?

I thought it was kind of boring, drug on in some places. I didn't hate it, but I wouldn't really recommend it.

You're not subby.

Good to see so much love for one of my favorite movies.

GungFu: When did people suggest that Layer Cake was in any way a bad film? Paranoid subby is paranoid.

Anyway, I like Layer Cake. It's preferable to Layer Death.

I'll have the Layer Chicken, then.

My only complaint with Stardust is that I would have liked to have seen something a little more faithful to the original book - granted it would have probably been a touch too dark for general audiences and would have tanked financially but I think it would have made a better film.

People who didn't like Layer Cake enjoyed Vince Vaughn Films, however, which explaineds a lot.

Add me to the list of people who loved Layer Cake. But I love British crime movies in general.

X-Men first class was tough for me to watch because I grew up with X-Men comics. Taking minor mutant characters and giving them top billing didnt really mesh, and I think I had an open mind. I will attest that they got a young adult Mags right, but Mystique as anything but ruthless is ridiculous. ANYONE but January Jones for Emma Frost (Tahyna Tozzi would have been much better). She was trying to be cold, but she came off really boring.

The way humans are portrayed in the movie is ridiculous as well-like bumbling idiots. Humans have people like Stryker, Bolliver Trask SHIELD and even Reed RIchards who are well aware of mutants and the threat they pose from the very beginning of their existence. Thats more a script problem than Vaugnn's...but still. Anything was better than that shiatty X3 though.

I like Layer Cake very much but the ending ...

torr5962: X-Men first class was tough for me to watch because I grew up with X-Men comics. Taking minor mutant characters and giving them top billing didnt really mesh, and I think I had an open mind. I will attest that they got a young adult Mags right, but Mystique as anything but ruthless is ridiculous. ANYONE but January Jones for Emma Frost (Tahyna Tozzi would have been much better). She was trying to be cold, but she came off really boring.

The way humans are portrayed in the movie is ridiculous as well-like bumbling idiots. Humans have people like Stryker, Bolliver Trask SHIELD and even Reed RIchards who are well aware of mutants and the threat they pose from the very beginning of their existence. Thats more a script problem than Vaugnn's...but still. Anything was better than that shiatty X3 though.

I thought it did a great job of showing how Mystique came to be as ruthless as she would later become. The humans, likewise, seemed pretty believable. Reacting with fear, mockery and contempt, etc. to the discovery of mutants.

Plus, the villain was pretty awesome and Magneto's relationship to both him and to Professor X played out great.

Never saw the movie. This is primarily because "Layer Cake" is the goddamn stupidest name for an action movie in the history of western civilization.

Cargo: Never saw the movie. This is primarily because "Layer Cake" is the goddamn stupidest name for an action movie in the history of western civilization.

It was an action movie?

Seth'n'Spectrum: FerneJohn: The only Vaughn films I've seen are Stardust and X-Men: First Class. Both were pretty awesome, excluding the revamped makeup design for Beast.

Stardust is proof that anything Matthew Vaughn touches is golden. That film was far better than the premise would have suggested.

It was definitely a good movie, but some of the changes to make it more Hollywood-friendly fell a little flat for me compared to the original book (I actually bought the Vertigo comics release, which combined the prose of the novel with some great illustrations by Charles Vess). I actually liked how in the original when the witch caught up with the star it, she found she could no longer take her heart because it belonged to someone else. The movie also felt a bit hollow without the bittersweet coda detailing how the star outlived her human love and was left missing both him and her sisters. It felt more like a traditional fairytale that way rather than a Disneyfied version.

entropic_existence: Add me to the list of people who loved Layer Cake. But I love British crime movies in general.

You should check out "The End: British Gangsters". It's pretty damn cool and you can see where all the characters from "Snatch" and "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" came from.

Life's so good I can taste it in Daniel Craig's spit.

I wish.

Cargo: Never saw the movie. This is primarily because "Layer Cake" is the goddamn stupidest name for an action movie in the history of western civilization.

If you had watched the movie, you'd understand the title. Sometimes, that's how titles work.

/and "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever" is the stupidest name for an action movie. Still not the worst in the history of western civilization.

Layer Cake is totally the film that got Daniel Craig the Bond role.

Fact.

Smiert Spionam: Layer Cake is totally the film that got Daniel Craig the Bond role.

Fact.


/hotlinked

Layer Cake is the most recently release movie on my list of "I'll stop whatever else I'm doing to watch it if it's on."

Cargo: Never saw the movie. This is primarily because "Layer Cake" is the goddamn stupidest name for an action movie in the history of western civilization.

It wasn't an action movie...

Mr. Chainsaw: Stardust is the only one of his I haven't seen, but judging by the consensus in this thread, I'll check it out.

It's great, one of the few fantasy movies that manages to capture that "Princess Bride" feel.

Gunther: Mr. Chainsaw: Stardust is the only one of his I haven't seen, but judging by the consensus in this thread, I'll check it out.

It's great, one of the few fantasy movies that manages to capture that "Princess Bride" feel.

And Robert DeNiro easily steals the show.