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7/15 #3

The Waterboy (1998)
When bayou simpleton Bobby Boucher (Sandler) loses what he considers to be his crack post as the waterboy for the reigning college football champs and moves on to pour refreshment for the maligned Mud Dogs of a rival school. His foolish grin and persistent lisp make him the .... of jokes until the down-on-his-luck Mud Dog coach (Winkler) discovers that letting out his pent up aggression works wonders on the football field. Soon he is drafted to the team, enrolled in college classes, stealing the heart of a tomboy girl (Balk), and winning games for a rejuvinated team--all to the dismay of poor, long-suffering Mama Boucher (Bates). Typical football schtick adds nothing new to either the sports comedy genre or the breadth of Sandler's acting. Audiences didn't seem to mind, as box office grosses surpassed $150 million.

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7/16 #3

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Young petty-criminal friends Tom (Fleming), Soap (Fletcher), Eddy (Moran), and Bacon (Statham) pool their funds in an attempt to rip-off East End gang boss Hatchett Harry (Moriarty) in a high-stakes poker game. But card shark Eddy doesn't know the game is fixed, and their 100 thousand pounds soon becomes a half-million pound debt. They have until the end of the week to pay up--or they lose their fingers and the bar owned by Eddy's father (Sting, whose wife, Trudie Styler, co-executive produced the film). Fortunately, Eddy's flat has thin walls, and the men discover that their drug-dealer neighbors are planning to rob their suppliers--to the tune of two million pounds. Hmmm...hit the suppliers first and use the money to pay back Harry? Oh, if only it were that simple! A Byzantine-plotted, slapstick-violent crime drama from debut writer-director Guy Ritchie, borrowing freely from the works of Quentin Tarantino, Peter Boyle, and John Woo. Convoluted and sometimes linguistically challenging (the Cockney becomes so thick that subtitles are needed), "Lock, Stock" nevertheless delivers what many Tarantino imitators lack: Fun. Ritchie based the film on his debut short "The Hard Case" (30 min.).

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