Moods For Mallards
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It's grand over here on the southside.
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We have the other stories. Ondine, Zonad, Kisses, Once, Pyjama Girls etc.
We have the bollocks - Leap Year and The Matchmaker and their ilk.
But Dublin is a particularly violent city.
We're as mad about drugs as we are about gargle and it's led to an explosion in crime and fearless criminals.
People get shot and stabbed all the time. Random beatings for no reason are commonplace.
Spend some time in the courts and witness there's an entire generation that do not give a fuck about society or the law, for whom crime and drugs is a way of life. They are evolving and adapting to the system.
The Gards can't even begin to handle it and aren't particulalry arsed anyway, nor is there any political will except when it comes to cash-in-transit.
That's the city I live in and it's my experience of Dublin. A violent, miserable place.
I'm honestly kinda surprised there aren't more stories about it.
I saw Savage tonight and thought it was very strong.
Not a perfect film but it felt real. Great job from Muldowney and Healy.
I think someone should make a movie about working class Subbuteo enthusiasm in the old days, where halfway thorugh the kid gets kidnapped by Aliens and comes back to earth as an adult to save Ireland from the Brits
I agree with the general sentiment, Irish films do seem to conform to a certain few archetypes. There aren't that many Irish movies that aren't specifically commenting on Ireland in some way. Not sure if this is necessarily a bad thing but it is a thing.
i dunno, i think you've got a bee in your bonnet about something that's not actually an issue...there are loads of irish films that aren't about Being Oirish or Aren't Dubliners Gas or whatever
i dunno, i think you've got a bee in your bonnet about something that's not actually an issue...there are loads of irish films that aren't about Being Oirish or Aren't Dubliners Gas or whatever
The Guard (2011)
An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality is teamed up with an uptight FBI agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring.
well look at the irish film board site then, or do some googling...it doesn't sound like you've actually made much effort to pay attention to irish films before giving out about them.If there are what are they ? Postys link to IMDB really didn't prove anything for me to be honest. mostly they were shorts IRA related, a biopic about James Connolly some awful sounding romantic comedies and one called the Guard
Die Hard with an accent
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