Lock Stock and Snatch are big cult favorites here. I recall them being on TV all the time when I was growing up. I guess I'd say the combo of laddish profane non-PC humor, violence and tricky plotting hit the audience at the right time, and still holds a special appeal, especially since no one else is doing this particular kind of movie this way. Then Ritchie got a second wind with his blockbuster career and retained just enough of his sensibility for people to show up to them, in part, because of his name. And when he made a throwback to those early classics in The Gentlemen, it both promised a good time *and* hit the nostalgia spot.