Gene Hunt - "Surrounded by Armed Bastards!"

[DarkRising022]

hahaa i saw life on mars us though id give it ago the first line i heard in it was your surrounded by armed Bastards and deiced that life on mars us is shit.... no offense like but....

[MiniVanillaWafers]

...I'm gonna get a lot of hate for this, but hey. My opinions are my own and I'm free to say them, so...

I like the US Gene Hunt much better. :L He seems more...'dirty, bad-guy cop' to me than the UK Gene.

New York accents > British accents. Just for the record. Haha.

[TriviumAscendancy1]

@MiniVanillaWafers personally i prefer the UK Gene lol :) but your opinion is your opinion and i'm not gonna give you hate for it! fuck all the people that do. :)

[TheCartoonman5]

theyre should be more coppers like gene hunt no chav would sneeze without his permission

[JediLarko89]

What song is it when they barge in?

[cpj93070]

when that music starts, "i fought the law" by the clash should appear great song.

[AbhiB]

when police were real men as opposed to the ass kissing bitches of the spineless english public and muslim terrorists

[Heneruuree]

@AbhiB Well, people do have rights for a reasons. It's to prevent coppers and the public from assuming they're guilty until proved to be as such or otherwise. Nowadays, police have to be so much more consciencious of what they do because their every move can become viral on the internet so long as some rubber-necker has a mobile phone with a camera. Any officer can be condemned for behaviour deemed dodgy, and their superiors are under massive pressure to do something about it. Just sayin', mate.

[TheCROZZER]

~One of the best shows the BBC has produced or whatever !!

[Studmanafier]

Love this scene

[TheNeonrose02]

lol i remeber that scenery from a diff episode wid the defo guy and the robbers where the cleaner gt shot

[lizichell2]

The US version is BLASPHEMY

[charger19691]

I'm American as well, and I love Life On Mars UK, an incredible group of fine actors and one of the best police dramas ever. The US version had potential, but ABC just didn't stand behind the show. The BBC version is vastly superior in every way!!!

[ThePredation]

I'm an American who first saw LoM while I was living in England and it's vastly superior to the American version. Mainly because of Philip Glenister. And the grand Manchester accents.

[southernwestern]

what is it with americans that they CANNOT watch anything made outside the US, not even when it was made in their own language?!

[Londa1027]

@southernwestern lol. americans speak americana. 

[wolflover552]

dont move your surrounded by armed bastards XD

[juliusyeung0330]

suround by armed bastards!

he's such a legend

[Londa1027]

doesnt gene say this exact same line during the first ep of ashes to ashes?

[chorltonlad]

@Londa1027: Probably. In AtoA they recycled - er, I mean "made reference to" - a lot  of LoM gems.

[Londa1027]

@chorltonlad that's why these shows are bloody brilliant

[john3000931]

Are detectives allowed handguns in the UK? :0

[TheNeverNevermore]

@john3000931 T.V detectives are allowed what ever they might need at any given time. Besides, maybe they were in the 70's.

[thebritish25]

@john3000931 Now you need someone to hold your hand with a lot of restrictions and specialised tranning bollocks but things where less strict in the 70s and 80s these restrictions came into play late 90s early 20th

[MarineAqua45]

@john3000931 Yes they are.If you saw The Sweeney,with John Thaw,they carried handguns,when they went on duty,as they got them from the gunsafes.The same for the early series of The Bill,where revolvers were booked out from the gun safe,only if the station superintendant authorised it.An officer of Inspector or higher issues each officer a pistol with two lots of ammo.Nowdays armed response units have replaced pistol-carrying authorised Firearms Officers,except for specialists at head-quarters.

[theemporour]

0:41- end =funny , good and i loved it

[misterbonzai08]

If anyone clicks 'dislike' they will be surrounded by 95 armed bastards.

[ShunsuiHitsugaya]

@misterbonzai08 Don't forgot Gene Hunt too.

[jamo0007]

anyone else notice on the container next to them it said alone when sam says it? Life on mars is riddled with things like that :D

the ending of ashes to ashes was so weird as well :S but explained a lot

[Triplesod]

@jamo0007 It says "Malone", the name of the person they are hunting and the owner of the industrial estate they are on. They are Malone's crates.

[PSXDubai12]

the US version sucked, nothing was funny, it was boring, and the Ending just sealed the entre suckage, I'd stick with the original BBC UK version. Its superior by far.

[caseyliveknight]

Ashes to ashes and life on mars are the best things on tv, by far. The uk make great tv

[cbak12sg]

I wonder how many viewers will get the Softly Softly/Z Cars references.

[Triplesod]

@cbak12sg Double joke too. They just mention Nipper of the Yard searching Ronnie Biggs but it was actually Nipper who first said "softly, softly, catchee monkey"

[mrmoviemanic]

what is the name of the sound at 0:42

[BiteSizeGuitar]

@mrmoviemanic a song called "Bird of Prey" by the band Uriah Heep I believe

[ProudToBeNerdy]

I'm havin 'oops.

[straydoggio]

I love this scene - but I know if I'd been in that position as Sam, I'd accidentally alert the hard-men inside by having no idea how to open that door.

[playfulpaul1985]

i like it that sam says " are you deaf" lol

[theemporour]

put yer ands up

[Melville10]

I loved Series 1. I'm American and I didn't bother with the crappy U.S. version. Series 2 comes out this Nov.---can't wait!

[ColonelJadeCurtiss]

Yeah, the American verison of this show only lasted one season. Not suprising since it can't hold a candle to the British version.

[ProudToBeNerdy]

d'you like ashes to ashes? people keep calling it a "spinoff", but i think it's just sa good (if not better) than LOM.

[Melville10]

I haven't seen Ashes. I live in the USA and netflix still hasn't released it for rent. I just finished up season 4 of BBC's Spooks which is called MI-5 in the USA because were too sensitive.

[blargd]

@ProudToBeNerdy Spinoff doesn't always mean bad, look at Frasier for example

[Triplesod]

@ProudToBeNerdy I don't think you know what "spinoff" means. It is a spin off.

[ProudToBeNerdy]

@Triplesod I'd call it a "sequel" - a spinoff, in my experience, expands and extends the storylines of characters who were secondary in the original series - like Doctor Who and Torchwood. A2A extended the storylines of most of the main characters from LOM - ergo, sequel.

[MartinJWillett]

@Triplesod No, a spin-off would be taking two characters from the first show and having a quite different show with a different theme or feel, e.g. Torchwood is a spin-off as it only took one character and had a very different feel. Mork and Mindy was a spin-off from Happy Days, it shifted a secondary character to another city and a different era. This is clearly a sequel as it takes several characters and relationships and it follows on preserving and relying on the old series as backstory.

[Triplesod]

@MartinJWillett OK. I'll take your word for it and consider myself told and educated.

Thanks.

[Tzimnewman3]

@Melville10 How is the American version?

[Melville10]

@Tzimnewman3 Never watched it because the trailers looked awful. I like Harvey Keital and Gretchen Mol but this was mucked up from the word go. Another awful American version of a british tv show.....and there are a lot of them (e.g. Touching Evil with Jeff Donovan, Coupling).

[Tzimnewman3]

@Melville10 I agree. I think the BBC know how to blend reality, history, fun and fiction into one whereas the American one looks like another action cop series which looks like it came of the same production floor as NYPD Blue.

[Melville10]

@Tzimnewman3 Odd you mention NYPD Blue. I just saw a a great old Gene Hackman film, The Package (1989), that co-stars Dennis Franz (Sipowicz) and Joanna Cassidy. Today we don't have great films like that but instead we are drowning in an ocean of prequels, sequels, remakes, and comic book movies. Most of the films in my netflix queue are older films (e.g. Gorky Park, Guns of Navarone, Death Hunt). I find myself going to the movie theater less and less.

[Tzimnewman3]

@Melville10 No your right, they simply don't make films like that anymore which is a shame. Much like you I can not find a single film I could watch in the movie theater. It seems the way forward for these directors is to copy from other sources rather then creating something new and unique.

[Melville10]

@Tzimnewman3 Just saw iron man 2....wait to rent it. Not as good as the first one. I guess they'll remake the franchise in 15 yrs time : ) Truthfully, only reason I rented Star Trek was to see Domenican beauty Zoe Saldana.

[jazzymcjazzster]

@Melville10 I didn't bother with it either...it wasn't the same lol

[lookatwig]

@Melville10 Good on you!!

[pugilistofpower]

What's the music playing at the end?

[bulguregg]

Bird of prey - Uriah Heep

[pugilistofpower]

Thankyou!

[PieDelhi]

Best scene ever! Guf is a genius, a evil, farting and drinking genius, but still a genius!

[bmxridershiz]

0:41 lmao

[AvaTom182]

gene hunt is a legend!!

[KakashiTorchwood]

Right on!

[darthdude1016]

is gene wearing jeans

[jbrian80]

Judging the way the cloth reacted with the movement, its too soft for a jeans.

[thedudecalledpj]

This version....is Priceless =D

[elfyn2k7mixes]

us is shit lol gene is the best noone does it like Phil Glenister

[BethPhoenixFan]

Glenister is Hunt, his performances as Hunt made the character!

[bmxridershiz]

i so agree with your statement.

[tkambhoney2007]

The best of the best! I've just watched a clip of the US version of the same line and no doubt about it UK Gene Hunt beats the US hands down!

[TiNYTiM6791]

UK GENE > US GENE. by far.

[kasanatheangel]

UK is the original, US is a plain rip off.

[TiNYTiM6791]

exactly. US is so shit.

[thedudecalledpj]

To right, i hate the u s version

[Applemask]

@TiNYTiM6791 Colm Meaney's a damn good choice, but they will never beat the original.

[UltimateSilver750]

How many great lines does Gene have? Whoever comes up with them is a genius.

[TheLoneRebelFighter]

i love sams deep "are you deaf."

[grottbags76]

oooooo i love him

[rebe1angel]

Absolute classic!!!lol