Word: snatch
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Strange day. Strange because it's raining in Los Angeles. Strange because the word snatch has started appearing on bus-stop benches all over town. Strange because you're sitting here in the Four Seasons Hotel bar with Madonna's husband, and suddenly the former Mr. Madonna walks...
...Ritchie's at it again. His new movie is Snatch, which is why we're seeing the borderline-obscene bus-stop ads. (Snatch is, of course, an innocuous verb, but--sorry, Grandma--it also moonlights as slang for female genitalia.) As in Lock, Stock, writer-director Ritchie returns to the mean streets of London where high-octane lowlifes compete in fixed fights and diamond heists. This time Ritchie brings along Brad Pitt as a quick-talking, bareknuckle-boxing Gypsy. Pitt was such a fan of Ritchie's work that he took a pay cut to join Benicio Del Toro...
Like Lock, Stock, it also stars Vinnie Jones and Jason Statham and has lots of gunplay. It's not exactly an endorsement of the filmmaker's versatility--the jury's still out on whether Ritchie's talent can ever measure up to his matrimonial fame--but Snatch's whiz-bang style does indicate that its director is more than a "toyboy...
...seems unreal, an instrument of the plot. When he cries, he’s positively painful to watch. And when he shouts at Jamal to “Punch the keys, for God’s sake!” as he types, it’s a meaningless snatch of adrenaline meant to look snazzy in his Oscar nomination clip...
...DANIEL CONNER, ALONG WITH OTHERS, PATENTED A TRAP CALLED THE CLAWS. UNLUCKY RODENTS WERE ENTICED TO JUMP UP AND SNATCH A MORSEL OVERHEAD. THOSE WHO DID WERE SUMMARILY DISPATCHED...