This could have been an after-school special on why racism = bad, if not for the curb checks, tits, and anal rape.

I'd watch this movie remade with muppets, though.

I watched this film but I still can't tell what it's about. The message was so vague and confusing. I don't know if I can get behind movies like this that don't tell me in explicit terms what they're about. I don't want to have to bother thinking about stuff.

not crap. not the best movie in the world...but i can excuse the simplistic "omfg racists are evil!" stuff, in exchange for great photographic style and excellent performances. who new that baby john conner, the cop from up in smoke, and the wife from vacation were such good actors? even with the simplistic moralizing i still found edward norton's character to be suitably scary.

the myths about the director are pretty great as well. apparently a legendary douche who managed to attain 'unemployable' status due to his ego and temper.

in the "racistskinheadsarebad" film genre thunderdome, i'd say romper stomper is on par, but this is england trumps them both. this is england is incredible.

I think that if the film ended right after the skinheads beat the black guys in basketball, American History X would have been a mind blowing short film.


skinheads all jumping up and down in slow motion.


ed norton, hangiing from the rim like a swasktika'd woody harrelson.

backboard shattered.

ball crushed into the asphalt.

deflated.


[fade]

Ed Norton is sexy.


oops...did I say that out loud?

nihil wrote:Ed Norton is sexy.


oops...did I say that out loud?

Would.











...Uhm, whoops, that's Rachel Maddow. Still...would.

They tried to make ultra-hot Beverly D'Angelo look like shit, but it is impossible.

Your proof of Beverly D'Angelo hotness, she is gone.

i thought it was ok until i saw the believer

I remember, before seeing this movie, somebody saying 'there was a brutal rape scene in that movie'

Then I saw it, and though the rape scene looked like a Tom of Finland fantasy.

Sorry to be an asshole but I couldn't stop laughing.

Then again, that was most of this movie.

Fuggit, The Believer is Crap to. I waffle for Ryan Gosling's charisma whenever he rants in the movie, but everything else seems like a backdrop for that. Not quite as unintenionally hilarious as AHX, but Jesus...that just ain't saying a whole lot.