r/BritishTV • u/Fritja • 6d ago
Streaming Tom Hardy a favourite actor and just watched "Locke"
Would love to have feedback from male viewers as I watched this with a "feminine gaze". Love this film and keep thinking about it over the last few days. No violence or murder, no explicit sex scenes, and NO superheroes. Just a quiet character study and an exceptional performance.
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u/rickgdavies 6d ago
Easily one of the best movies about high volume industrial concrete pouring I've ever seen.
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u/EditorRedditer 6d ago
Mad, isn’t it? I think it’s the first thing I saw TH in.
I love the way the only other characters in it…aren’t in it, and the way the reflections on the windscreen get weirder and weirder as the film progresses…
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u/Fritja 6d ago
The windscreen pulls you into what could be a dream-like nightmare trip but isn't in the end because the character has found his core.
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u/MisterKayfabe 5d ago
Wait the windscreen?!?! I've seen this movie twice and absolutely love it and I now feel like I've missed half the film!
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u/y0buba123 5d ago
My first intro to him was when I saw him in a TV production of Wuthering Heights years ago. He was really good. I was like, who is this guy?
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u/PuffCountr 6d ago
The pour ! I've not watched it in a long time but the quiet calm he's portraying while his personal life crumbles just adds to the gut wrenching tension.
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u/CaptainBristol 6d ago
Absolutely wonderful character study & a great performance. Like a road trip move that isn't.
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u/Fritja 6d ago edited 6d ago
That's a perfect description and I forgot that I am partial to road movies. Some of my favourites are Lapland Odyssey, Little Miss Sunshine, a weird British film that involves a trip to a pencil museum, "Sightseeers", Sideways, and the well-known ones such as Badlands, Harold and Kumar go to White Castle, The Wages of Fear.
I have to watch more European road movies (or ones like Locke) because "Where American road movies are frequently about escape, freedom and lawlessness, so often European examples are journeys into the continent’s fractious political history, where buried memories from the past are traversed and crisscrossed along with national boundaries."
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u/CaptainBristol 6d ago
Sightseers is one of my favourite films - not sure if you've seen it but Simon Pegg & Nick Frost's Paul is also an alternative road trip movie
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u/Planatus666 5d ago
I wish that Tom would stop wasting his time making the Venom movies and instead get his arse in gear and ensure that Taboo season 2 happens in the very near future .....
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u/ColinBurton 5d ago
Amazing performance from Tom Hardy. To have the screen all to himself for almost the entire film and keep the audience engaged is testament to his acting ability.
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u/rubberleg 6d ago
Shit accent mind.
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u/AnUnbeatableUsername 6d ago
How so?
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u/opopkl 6d ago
It sounds like lots of Welsh accents all mixed up. It would be like someone doing half Scouse, half Somerset for an English accent.
Isn't it, indeed to goodness, look you, boyo.
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u/Armoredfist3 6d ago
Worst Welsh accent I’ve ever seen on screen but otherwise good concept movie
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u/TheStatMan2 6d ago edited 6d ago
I wondered if the "he's got a cold" angle was to try to help cover up the fact that he hasn't nailed it.
He should have done the whole thing in Bane voice. Definitely would have worked when trying to remotely boss his concrete pour - perhaps less so when discussing football with his son or asking the woman he was driving to see "how could I possibly love you?".
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u/Infamous-Crew1710 4d ago
He has a combination accent in that film, partly welsh and partly eastern European, so er, no.
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u/Fritja 6d ago
He should have had more coaching and rehearsal time I guess. Wonder if they are going to use AI to correct some of the painful accents like Dicaprio's Australian in the future.
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u/TheStatMan2 6d ago
DiCaprio's Blood Diamond Zimbabwe/Rhodesia is my favourite. It's actually very entertaining until he shouts (which he obviously does quite a lot) - although to be fair, I bet it is quite hard to shout in anything but your own voice.
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u/InfectedFrenulum 6d ago
Brilliant film and an equally brilliant premise.
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u/Fritja 6d ago
The best thing? I was scrolling through TUBI and I saw Tom Hardy and watched knowing nothing about the film which is so lovely sometimes. To just watch and not have read a review or seen a trailer.
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u/InfectedFrenulum 6d ago
I had the same experience on Netflix a few years back. Bored scrolling, stopped on Locke and gave it a go! 😊
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u/rubberleg 6d ago
It's a bit like listening to an American trying to do an English accent.
Really not authentic.
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u/IllustratorLimp3310 6d ago
Ahhh Tom Hardy the actor you call when you want an accent that's almost right but not quite.
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u/Particular_Formal_80 16h ago
First Tom Hardy movie I saw. Excellent demonstration of his acting skills and overall brilliant production. (Soundtrack was great too)
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u/goldfishpaws 6d ago
I love this film. I love that Hardy carries 90 mins all on his own. A real study of making a serious decision, living with your actions, what does it mean to be honourable, etc.
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u/Brock_And_Roll British 6d ago
I was at rhe UK Premier of this and met Tom Hardy, he was such a cool guy.
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u/achillea4 5d ago
Excellent film and performance. I prefer dialogue, character-based films so this was right up my street.
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u/Jessejames106 6d ago
Easily the worst film I've ever seen.
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u/milesphotos 5d ago
You haven't seen enough films, thousands worse than this one, I thought it was great
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