>>>>>>>>>>>>In his professional career he scored 2,544 points - which I believe is more than have been scored in the entire history of soccer ;-)
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>>>>>>>>>>>How many points is counted each time some of those gladiators jumps head-first into the mudd by the end line?
>>>>>>>>>>>9 points ? But then when they actually score, (pass it through 6 times bigger goal) they count it much less.
>>>>>>>>>>>Go figure.
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>>>>>>>>>>>I just never got it. Guy runs as if he just stollen loaf of brown bread, and now whole willage is after him.
>>>>>>>>>>>Then he nails it behind aut line. What is so interesting about that ??
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>>>>>>>>>>>Real footbal (I mean played by foot) is artform comparing to that {vbg}
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>>>>>>>>>>One of the things I haven't figured out about real football, a.k.a. soccer, is why the guy who just scored a goal runs away from his teammates.
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>>>>>>>>>Well, since they can't congratulate him by patting him on the ass - as in real, manly, American football - he might fear the kicks ...
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>>>>>>>>Famous photo of English footballer Vinnie Jones, who later went into acting:
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http://weirdpicturearchive.com/pics/vinniejones.php>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I assume the outrage was because he used his hands ;-)
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>>>>>>>Just checked him out in IMDB and see he has had quite the film career as well, including The Midnight Meat Train (gay porn?) and Garfield: a Tale of Two Kitties.
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>>>>>>Opinion is divided on this one but personally I liked "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels" a lot.
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>>>>>I really liked that movie. Odd, but kind of fun. Guy Ritchie, no?
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>>>>Yes, Guy Ritchie. It was the first movie that gained him attention in the U.S.
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>>>>I have watched it 10 times or more and it still never fails to perk me up. It has terrific visual style, which Ritchie's critics dismiss as an artifact of his background as a music video director. Personally I like the splashy visual shots like the no-nonsense poker dealer dealing cards in an early shot. But there's more to it than that. Every time I watch it the characters reappear as fondly remembered relatives who are part of your extended, occasionally chaotic, family. Vinnie plays a character named Big Chris, an enforcer for a minor London racket boss named Hatchet Harry. The interaction between Big Chris and Little Chris -- "his son and heir" according to the sardonic narrator -- is priceless.
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>>>>Here's another movie recommendation I would make to anyone, not just you: "Chungking Express". It has just been rereleased by Criterion.
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>>>How about "Snatch" - another ritchie, with V Jones and Brad Pitt as the unintelligible gypsy fist-fighter, and, of course, the ubiquitous Jason Statham. Hilarious.
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>>Sure. I didn't like it as much as Lock, Stock but it was entertaining. The DVD has one audio option I have never seen anywhere else. In addition to turning subtitles on or off, or setting the language, there is an option to display subtitles only when Pitt's character speaks.
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>>Jason Statham has quite the career going at the moment. Women can't seem to get enough of him. It must be because he's bald ;-)
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>Aye. I'd no idea how many US films he'd done but recently there were 1/2 per week of films I'd never heard of. Trouble is, in them he's an American, and he attempts this lousy US accent, which ends up sounding like a cockney who's trying to make himself understood in the US.
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>he always plays a hard and brooding man (and a brilliant car-chase driver). I must admit that although he didn't exhibit much in the way of martial arts in the Ritchie films he's very impressive at it in the US films. I don't know if he started life as a karateka or has just learned the moves for his films.
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>As to his being a slap-head - although thinning on top it IS shaved, and I think he could sport an average head of hair for man of his age.
He's only 36, you know.
I don't know, could be. My impression is he did the same thing Michael Jordan did -- shaved it once he saw where things were "headed."
The only U.S. movie I have seen him in is "The Italian Job." The "Transporter" series is the one that has really packed them in.
