Did You See the flick Layer Cake?

[Rockvillejoe]

a sleeper. but fantastic.
check it out on demand.
daniel craig and other fantastic british actors.
great storylines.

[Brad_Rush]

Fun movie. I haven't seen it in a while; I'll have to re-watch it.

[IamFogHat]

It's good, but I feel like it needs a rewatch. I'm worried when I do I will find it coming together 'too neatly' but I hope it holds up on repeat watch.

[Rockvillejoe]

For me its one of those movies where you start reciting the lines before they do. Plus everytime I watch it, I pick up more nuance of what they are saying. Craig is easy to understand, but Duke and some of those other Cockney characters are tough to understand the first viewing.

Jimmy: "Details, details......who said that?

"Sir Winston Churchill?"

no,

"Me, James Lionel Price"

Plus, I love the despicable British characters. The Brits play elegance the best, and they play the dregs of the earth the best.

[Rockvillejoe]

and the opening soliloqy:

When I was born, the world was a far simpler place. It was all just cops and robbers.
Always remember that one day all this drug monkey business will be legal. They won't leave it to people like me... not when they finally figure out how much money is to be made - not millions, fucking billions. Recreational Drugs PLC - giving the people what they want... Good times today, stupor tomorrow. But this is now, so until prohibition ends make hay while the sun shines.
I mean, it's like selling anything: washing machines, handmade shoes, blow jobs. As long as you don't take the piss, people will always come back for more.
Life is so fucking good, I can taste it in my spit.
I'm not a gangster, I'm a businessman whose commodity happens to be cocaine.
But as some roman general once said: If you seek peace, plan for war.
My name? If you knew that, you'd be as clever as me.

I love this movie

[Rockvillejoe]

okay, okay one more:

the big wig, the brit godfather, eddie temple, (Michael Gambon):

"You're born, you take shit. You get out in the world, you take more shit. You climb a little higher, you take less shit. Till one day you're up in the rarefied atmosphere and you've forgotten what shit even looks like. Welcome to the layer cake son.
England. Typical. Even drug dealers don't work weekends
Opera Tonight. The damnation of Faust. Man sells his soul to the devil. All ends in tears, these arrangements usually do.
The art of good business is being a good middleman.
I've checked you out, son. You're a smart lad. But you keep very, very bad company"

and the soundtrack! they spent a ton of cash on this flick. don't even remember it in the theaters.