Rise of the Foot Soldier 2007 - MTV HD

[SS427 Camaro]

Extreme Extended Edition - Anyone else watching this ?

[soad]

Think I’ve seen a normal version not that long ago. Craig Fairbrass can be menacing on the screen.

[biggbn]

soad said:

Think I’ve seen a normal version not that long ago. Craig Fairbrass can be menacing on the screen.

His range of ery is matched by few....

[heisthegaffer]

Brilliant films. CF is excellent in them as is Terry Stone.

How different is the extended film?

[The Gauge]

Love the RofFS series. Not sure if I have seen the Extreme version, but it's currently on MTV HD again on Friday 11pm and is available on Paramount+

[Bas Jaski]

I saw the extended version years ago. The ''original'' release is far, far better. Extended version makes it a mess.

[LARK F1 GTR]

heisthegaffer said:

Brilliant films. CF is excellent in them as is Terry Stone.

How different is the extended film?

From memory it has an extra couple of scenes. One scene has someone in a car swearing (at Carlton I think it is) so he gets out and beats the bloke up) I think!

I think there's an extra scene with the torturing too.

[nuyorican]

I have a lot of interest in the source material.

Can't decide on ROTF though. They're a bit of a mess, but I'm not sure if they're supposed to be funny. Are they a parody of the genre?

The first one for example was boring for the first half of the film about Carlton Leach, and then was good in the second half with Stone and Fairbrass. Was it a reference to a football match? Game of two half's.. Plus the entire segment with the Turkish gang should've been left on the editing room floor.

I'll always watch them when they're on the telly because I'm interested in the essex boys thing, but they seem to get progressively more ludicrous and hammy, and as I said, I'm left feeling confused whether it's intentional. There's flashes of quality, but overall, they're all over the place. A disorienting effect

[paulw123]

The ROTFS films are a guilty pleasure of mine. Fairbrass and stone are great in them, though Carlton's character can be a bit moody.

[biggbn]

For me, the original Essex Boys was decent, the Foot Soldier films watchable caricatures with performances by phone that the characters wear like comfy cardigans!!

[DjSki]

I thought Guy Ritchie films were bad (apart from The Gentlemen which is reasonable) then I saw one of these abominations.

Whole new level of fake geezer awfulness.