Comments on: RocknRolla Too English For Warner Bros

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 02:34:11 +0000

I'm American, I loved it. So did all twenty of the people I've seen it with. So, Warner Bros. must be smokin' crack.

By: Alvin Jankowski

Alvin Jankowski — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:53:37 +0000

This movie was far from weak. One of the best I have seen this year.

By: Marg

Marg — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 03:18:57 +0000

I'm very dismayed to read this news. Give the US movie going public more credit for wanting to see smart, funny and clever films. What's out right now is trash and I'll save my money for movies that appeal to me instead of adolescent boys. Adolescent boys don't have the money us discerning movie goers do. I hope Warner's will reconsider or Joel Silver can find another distributor willing to put the money into this wonderful film. I'm really looking forward to it!

By: nplove

nplove — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:43:42 +0000

I live in a small-ish town and unfortunately, see the effects of this kind of thinking all the time, from the films (usually independents, art, and “too British”) that arrive…and vanish after one week, to the nonsensical flicks that hang around for months that draw in the kind of crowd that has nothing better to do but talk during the show and jump from theater to theater. If this is the thinking that WB has, then I'd have to drive 300+ miles to LA just to catch this intelligent, witty crime caper. Shame.

By: Susan F.

Susan F. — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:27:35 +0000

Warner is being very foolish. Don't they know what a cult hit “Snatch” is? This movie deserves wide distribution. I know I'm going to be very disappointed if it's not playing near me. My whole family is looking forward to seeing it.

By: Susan F.

Susan F. — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:27:35 +0000

By: Polotics

Polotics — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:50:48 +0000

All the bad movies Warner Bros puts out and they can not get behind, what looks like a cleaver film. There must be something else going on here. Warner says the film is too Britsh for Americans (yet right!). I think Guy or someone conneted with the film is not playing ball with Warner Bros. HOLLYWOOD POLOTICS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: jane m

jane m — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:12:02 +0000

I am a huge fan of British film and love the crime genre especially Ritchie's very clever funny capers. I will be very disappointed if RocknRolla is not released in my city . Warners is looking like a bunch of maroons if they don't promote this film in a big way.

By: Sally Tomato

Sally Tomato — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:32:41 +0000

As a fan of Alan Horn, his usually savy business decisions and his involvement in the “green” movement, I was sorely disappointed in his statement that RockNRolla was “very English.” Of course it is very English! It is a Guy Ritchie comedy with all of it's intelligent dialogue, quirky characters and British wit. What the devil did he expect?

I am glad Silver is out shopping this and hope he gets some response and that the American public (which is made up of representatives from all the nations in the world) is not so bland to only appreciate homegrown products or blockbusters geared to a 16 year old mentality.

Come on Mr. Horn, Ritchie and the wonderful cast he has assembled for this movie deserve better treatment and American audiences deserve a little more credit for world centric taste when it comes to films. We have been the richer for having watched such fare as Three Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually, Snatch, Lock Stock. and Three………., The Bank Job, The English Patient, etc. to name just a very few.
Sure I have listed different genre, but they were all very British films and we loved them.

By: Diane

Diane — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:22:56 +0000

This is insanity worthy of a Guy Ritchie movie plot. Action films make money. Crime films make money. Too English? Absurd. Jason Stratham films make money in the U.S.. Asian actioners make money in the U.S. Plenty of “English” films have blown away the box office in America. Not to mention the American actors in the cast (Jeremy Piven and Chris “Ludacris” Bridges) or that Tom Wilkinson has won Academy Awards and has played American characters. Thandie Newton is gorgeous and talented. Gerard Butler has a huge fan following and is a proven money-maker. There's something more to this story that we just don't know yet.