Irish Films (1 Viewer)

[Cormcolash]

Just saw this film 'When Brendan met Trudy', and it's fuckin hilarious. Plus it has Cyril McDuff in it which is amazing. He is an awful eegit. So this inspired the Irish film thread.

I would like to start by mentioning that 'Intermission' is amazing in fact, whilst 'Accelerator' is totally amazing but more in a completely ridiculous way. Please feel free to continue the thread by discussing amazing Irish films. Also films made or filmed in Ireland are acceptable.

 

[Alan Remorse]

when i was 7 i visited the set of braveheart. i was amazed.

 

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

The Nodry darkman / secret agent / evil dead-ish movie 'The Eliminator' is one o'my faves - dunno if anyone remembers it. the irish times were very supportive of it about 100 years ago (i was still in secondary school..) and i saw it a couple of times in the IFC (back when it was a centre and not an institute). It was done by these 2 cousins or brothers. ended up in college with their cousin. one of em went on to do a short with ardal o'hanlon which i never saw, that's the last i heard o'em.
looking forward to seeing 'Dead Meat' - zombie movie by the guy who directed 'the brain eater', produced by the horrorthon guys. myself, fancy g and george mcflea spent a day doing zombie voice over stuff for it a few months back.

saw a pretty unintentionally funny oirish drugs movie called 'Flick' on the bwox the other night, made me laugh before i fell asleep.
"Dey want a nine barrr for a samplleee"
.....and saw that other similar movie with the tycho brahe or plague monkeys or something doing the music. i wish one of my bands was the soundtrack to teenage rape

i remember ending up at a test screening for this brit movie which was half filmed here called 'Peaches' (scenes shot in the palace and sharpesville haha) - it was awful but much better than going to lectures. they gave us sheets of paper to answer questions and write comments. i hope they took my suggestions of 'show the guys hat more often' and 'even more sketchy paedo vibes from the main characters' seriously. saw it in a video shop once, never bothered.

andrew

 

[Latex lizzie]

"Zardos" with sean connery-I loved the floating stone head.

 

[swingkid]

LAST OF THE HIGH KINGS is deadly

"It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie, caught between acne and adulthood, has just completed his final exams in school. Convinced he will fail, he survives the summer organising a beach party, having lustful thoughts about two girls he believes are unobtainable and fending off the advances from a visiting American family friend, all whilst coping with his oddball family"

"Set in Dublin 1977, this is a coming-of-age film about a teenage boy waiting for his final school exam results. However, since he is convinced that they will be terrible, leading to an emotional outburst from his parents, he decides to have a good time while he still can. Naturally this also means seducing the most gorgeous girl in the school... "



HONEYMOONERS is pretty bad

 

[zebra heart attack]

when i was 7 i visited the set of braveheart. i was amazed.

i was an extra in this and if you get the superbit dvd version im sure you can zoom in and see the back of my head.

the makeup room conisted of a bucket of muck which you had to smear over your body. great fun when your twelve!!

 

[Goodbye]

Eat the Peach... One of the best movie's ever made...*


















*this could be a lie

 

[Latex lizzie]

I'll help with that statment.It is a lie.Eat the peach was depressing no? set in a bog about a wall of death yes? funny ha ha for about ten mins.Shdes of depression a la "lamb"? god there was a movie.

 

[sarah]

Just saw this film 'When Brendan met Trudy', and it's fuckin hilarious. Plus it has Cyril McDuff in it which is amazing. He is an awful eegit. So this inspired the Irish film thread.

Gaah hated when Brendan met Trudy I am generally not a lover of romantic
comedys though.

But on the subject of Irish films though did anyone see that short
film called the Wager or the bet or something.
I saw it by accident really late at night ages ago on Network two (late at night being
about 11.30) it had that kid with the red hair from the butcher boy
in it and was only about 10 or 15 mins long.

 

[billygannon]

My mate Dara was mad into Christina Ricci at the time this movie was made. For about two weeks he went along to the film set every day.

He didn't meet Christina, but struck up a friendship with Jared Leto. Jared is a nice fella.

LAST OF THE HIGH KINGS is deadly

"It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie, caught between acne and adulthood, has just completed his final exams in school. Convinced he will fail, he survives the summer organising a beach party, having lustful thoughts about two girls he believes are unobtainable and fending off the advances from a visiting American family friend, all whilst coping with his oddball family"

"Set in Dublin 1977, this is a coming-of-age film about a teenage boy waiting for his final school exam results. However, since he is convinced that they will be terrible, leading to an emotional outburst from his parents, he decides to have a good time while he still can. Naturally this also means seducing the most gorgeous girl in the school... "



HONEYMOONERS is pretty bad

 

[krystal]

I went down is pretty daycent

my parents were extras in guilttttrrripppp, a shite film by gerry stembridge

only saw intermission the other night - why was kelly mcdonald allowed to be in this film? She is a fucking terrible actress, wooden to the maxXx and incapable of doing any accent except her own.

spin de bottle is quite poor too, but has it's moments - approx 2.

 

[Dixer]

The Nodry darkman / secret agent / evil dead-ish movie 'The Eliminator' is one o'my faves - dunno if anyone remembers it. the irish times were very supportive of it about 100 years ago (i was still in secondary school..) and i saw it a couple of times in the IFC (back when it was a centre and not an institute). It was done by these 2 cousins or brothers. ended up in college with their cousin. one of em went on to do a short with ardal o'hanlon which i never saw, that's the last i heard o'em.

Enda Hughes did the Eliminator, and 'Flying Saucer Rock N' Roll" (O'Hanlon). Also did a funny short called "Doom on the Battleship Potemkin" or something like that and one of those RTE Godot shorts. WHat happened to this guy? Probably chillin' on Venice beach, CA. or some shit.

 

[Ed]

Some of this movie was made in ireland, it may in fact be an irish movie:

I've never seen it though, despite the fact that i'm in it(just as an extra though)

 

[krystal]

Enda Hughes did the Eliminator, and 'Flying Saucer Rock N' Roll" (O'Hanlon). Also did a funny short called "Doom on the Battleship Potemkin" or something like that and one of those RTE Godot shorts. WHat happened to this guy? Probably chillin' on Venice beach, CA. or some shit.

what's the zombie film with the hurley players called??

 

[Ed]

the brain eater

 

[krystal]

the brain eater

Oh yes
VG.

 

[Alan Remorse]

i was an extra in this and if you get the superbit dvd version im sure you can zoom in and see the back of my head.

the makeup room conisted of a bucket of muck which you had to smear over your body. great fun when your twelve!!

a guy i know was an extra in war of the buttons, so when you look at that scene when all the lads are charging bollock naked, thats him. Brilliant.

 

[sarah]

what's the zombie film with the hurley players called??

That can only be brilliant, can one obtain it in the laser place
does anyone know?

 

[Super Dexta]

a guy i know was an extra in war of the buttons, so when you look at that scene when all the lads are charging bollock naked, thats him. Brilliant.

everyone from cork either knows someone who was in war of the buttons, or was in it themselves. fact. lots of it was filmed around where i'm from.


saw intermission the other night and thought it had its ups and downs -deirdre mckane was WOEFUL, some of the script was absolutely awful aswell. nice camera work though. overall not a fan though.

 

[Cormcolash]

Look, all you need to focus on in Intermission is Colm Meaney. He is amazing.