YMMV / Green Street

• Broken Aesop: The film tries to convey the message that you need to know when to stand your ground and when to run away. Perhaps it does, but every bit as apparent is that violence is frequently an easy way to solve one’s problems.
• Memetic Mutation: The brawling scene is widely used in Men Discussing Things meme.
• Moral Event Horizon: If Tommy doesn't cross it the first time he's introduced by viciously smashin' an innocent man's head on a table just because his girlfriend won't be quiet he surely does it when he injures Steve with a broken bottle after assaulting the GSE's pub and setting it on fire. And the fact that he lost his son cause the GSE doesn't make him sympathetic at all as he's also responsible for this for having him involved in the first place.
• Moment of Awesome: Pete spitting blood at Tommy (who's brought out a telescoping baton, the cheating bastard) in pure defiance, attempting to fight back and then two minutes later sacrificing himself to get Matt and Shannon out of harm's way.
• Esoteric Happy Ending: Matt makes it back to America and plans to clear his name and expose Jeremy for being the one with the drugs. Unfortunately, Pete is killed by Tommy, Steve is critically injured in hospital and his wife Shannon is forced to leave him for her own safety and head back to America and takes the baby with her.
• Narm:
  • Charlie Hunnam's attempt at a cockney accent for Pete Dunham's character is just laughably bad, and he ends up sounding more like an australian or a south african, resulting in unintentional comedy for many.
  • The scene where Tommy decides to bash up a guy's head on the table repeatedly for not telling his girlfriend to keep quiet in the restaurant is supposed to show us how psychotic Tommy is, however it's so out of nowhere and unprovoked that it borders on being quite comical.
• Questionable Casting: Casting Charlie Hunnam (A Geordie) to play Pete Dunham (A Cockney) was clearly a bad idea, since Charlie can't even do a Cockney accent properly, and it shows. Even fans of the movie can't help but agree that this is a glaring flaw.
• Tear Jerker: Pete's death at the end of the film, along with the scene where his brother, Steve, breaks down after being informed about it.
• The Scrappy:
  • Bovver is not well-liked by fans for his unnecessarily hostile treatment of Matt for being american, and for spitefully betraying the GSE by telling Tommy the whereabouts of Steve, resulting in Tommy stabbing Steve in the neck with a glass bottle and being sent to hospital. While the film doesn't portray his behavior in a positive light, and even attempts to give him several Pet the Dog moments and an Everyone Has Standards moment where he tries to stop Tommy from beating up an innocent man in the restaurant, many fans feel that's not enough to mitigate his unsavory behavior. His name is also hard to take seriously (who the hell nicknames themselves as Bovver?).
  • Matt's sister, Shannon, who is also Steve's wife, has also received a lot of backlash for always crying in every scene she's in, and for deciding to leave Steve near the end after being injured by Tommy and put in hospital, which just comes across as callous, even it is for her own safety, and many have accused her of indirectly causing Pete's death by interfering with the fight near the end.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: The final fight is set to an original song that is most definitely not "Brothers in Arms" by Dire Straits. Nope.

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