RTE pull Virgin Suicides

lukin · 01-04-2005 9:36pm #1

The Virgin Suicides was supposed to be on RTE2 now (9.30) but "in a change to our adverised schedule" they are showing The Distinguished Gentleman (pile of crap) instead.
I can only assume it's because of events in the Vatican.Is this political correctness gone mad or what?
I've never seen the movie and was looking forward to seeing it.
Tossers.

p~b · 01-04-2005 9:37pm

its on tv 3

p~b · 01-04-2005 9:38pm

sorry my mistake its not

JBoyle4eva · 01-04-2005 9:44pm

Well, generally, Ireland is a Chatolic majority country and the people of RTÉ probably felt that they needed to respect the dying Pope and to avoid any political.social backlash tomorrow.

Big Ears · 01-04-2005 9:52pm

lukin wrote:

Is this political correctness gone mad or what?
Tosser.

what.

Indeed you are .

Elmo · 01-04-2005 10:04pm

The Virgin Suicides was supposed to be on RTE2 now (9.30) but "in a change to our adverised schedule" they are showing The Distinguished Gentleman (pile of crap) instead.

I don't know I thought The Distinguished Gentleman was quite good. IMO.

RTÉ pull movies all the time for no reason. It may have nothing to do with the pope dying.

Winters · 01-04-2005 10:08pm

Was looking forward to watching this tonight

*shakes fist at RTÉ

Ms Beanbag · 01-04-2005 10:14pm

yeah, so was I!

OLDYELLAR · 01-04-2005 10:16pm

yea why they pull it , it looked better than the usual tripe they show , although van wilder was fantastic!!

p~b · 01-04-2005 10:16pm

they should of cancelled the late late show instead

OLDYELLAR · 01-04-2005 10:17pm

yea give that robot pat kenny the night off

is_that_so · 01-04-2005 10:18pm

p~b wrote:

they should of cancelled the late late show instead

Now, now that's just petulant.

. RTE have had more experience of dealing with famous people dying. It'll be on another night on even in your local Xtravision

OLDYELLAR · 01-04-2005 10:20pm

my god i always thought tv3 were bad but there stunt of saying the pope is dead , bad! bloody RTE and there not showing the film i want to see.

Vokes · 01-04-2005 10:32pm

The Virgin Suicides was supposed to be on RTE2 now (9.30) but "in a change to our adverised schedule" they are showing The Distinguished Gentleman (pile of crap) instead.

Why? What's The Virgin Suicides about exactly??

pwd · 01-04-2005 10:39pm

They're showing "the Pope must die" on Sky

OLDYELLAR · 01-04-2005 10:44pm

oh my god thats such bad taste

Danno · 01-04-2005 10:49pm

Virgin Suicides is a CRAP film.

is_that_so · 01-04-2005 10:51pm

pwd wrote:

They're showing "the Pope must die" on Sky

We still on April 1st ?

pwd · 01-04-2005 10:54pm

yeah. Tomkorrow the pope will say "gotcha!"

smiley_knees · 01-04-2005 10:59pm

I just figured it was an April Fool type thing. They did it last year and screwed up the movies. Tres annoying. I wanted to watch it too but ended up with Jawbreaker...
The book is better anyways... More depressing

po0k · 01-04-2005 10:59pm

JBoyle4eva wrote:

Well, generally, Ireland is a Chatolic majority country and the people of RTÉ probably felt that they needed to respect the dying Pope and to avoid any political.social backlash tomorrow.

Fúck them.

Cake Fiend · 01-04-2005 11:07pm

Danno wrote:

Virgin Suicides is a CRAP film.

You have CRAP taste in films.

Cabaal · 02-04-2005 12:08am

p~b wrote:

they should of cancelled the late late show instead

With any other system people can vote with their money...but with a TV License us poor bastards havn;t a chance

They'll never cancel the Late Late show, remember the poor grannies that get their TV License for free like it so much

OLDYELLAR · 02-04-2005 12:17am

Marty Wheelan should be hosting the late late show anyway hes way more lively than robot kenny :rolleyes:

dearg_doom · 02-04-2005 2:41am

SyxPak wrote:

Fúck them.

wow... that has to be the least ignorant post I've ever read:rolleyes:

Mossy Monk · 02-04-2005 10:25am

thank god they cancelled it. i forgot to set it to record

hopefully they show it again soon

Scarinae · 02-04-2005 12:00pm

SofaKing wrote:

Why? What's The Virgin Suicides about exactly??

I'm not sure what it's about exactly because I haven't seen it *grumbles* But I know it's about five sisters who have scarily strict oppressive parents. One of them commits suicide and the parents get really protective, gradually isolating them from the outside world. It's told from the point of view of a group of teenage boys who are obsessed with them.
Or something.
That movie they put on instead was crap. I had to turn it off and watch a video instead.

OLDYELLAR · 02-04-2005 12:39pm

yea i thought it looked kinda cool , I heard someone on about it before an i was looking forward to watching it , between RTE beings twats in general and tv3 announcing the pope is dead , it just proves how lucky we are to be privileged enough to pay tv licenses for this crap :rolleyes:

ro1798 · 02-04-2005 12:47pm

honestly is is a great film, the soundtrack was done by air
if u get the chance rent this film it is a classic

ronan

Enii · 02-04-2005 1:19pm

On the Teletext there was a message saying the schedule was liable to change. maybe they pulled Virgin suicides and put on the piece of crap (distinguished gentleman) in case they had to interrupt the film with breaking news (passing of the pope), they might show the Virgin suicides in the future.

OLDYELLAR · 02-04-2005 1:21pm

ah tv3 covered that angle well ,instead of interrupting their programmes they announced he was dead while he was still alive

Scarinae · 02-04-2005 2:29pm

OLDYELLAR wrote:

ah tv3 covered that angle well ,instead of interrupting their programmes they announced he was dead while he was still alive

Hahaha... So true

Pigman II · 02-04-2005 2:45pm

Virgin Suicides is a great album but not much of a movie I'm afraid.

On a slightly related point GuestHouseParadiso is on tommorow night.

OLDYELLAR · 02-04-2005 3:16pm

At least My Marty Wheelan on fair city dream was`nt crushed by RTE

Wheels · 02-04-2005 4:38pm

I'd say they got rid of becuase of your one in America dying last week and all the woo haa there was over the assisted suicide thing?

HomesickAlien · 02-04-2005 4:46pm

anyone remember when rte put on die hard 2 a couple of months after 9/11?

now you'd think they would have pulled that but not this but there ya go... :rolleyes:

OLDYELLAR · 02-04-2005 4:47pm

ah but die hard 2 is a fantastic film!!!

Pigman II · 02-04-2005 5:00pm

I remember them pulling a film after 9/11 but for some reason I seemed remember 'The Rock' being the film in question that got pulled?

(perhaps this is just a giant conspiracy against the Coppola family

)

radiospan · 02-04-2005 5:05pm

Pigman II wrote:

I remember them pulling a film after 9/11 but for some reason I seemed remember 'The Rock' being the film in question that got pulled?

(perhaps this is just a giant conspiracy against the Coppola family )

I think it was BBC that pulled The Rock.

monkeyfudge · 02-04-2005 5:06pm

I remember trying to watch The Simpsons on Sky after Diana died.

For weeks they had almost every episode cut to bits. Any car chases or referenece to Diana and the Royal family were just edited out.

Like the episode where Homer wants to get the free trampoline and he runs lots of people off the road trying to get there, they cut all that.

OLDYELLAR · 02-04-2005 5:16pm

Oh my god that was one of the best episodes!!

Winters · 02-04-2005 6:46pm

Wheels wrote:

I'd say they got rid of becuase of your one in America dying last week and all the woo haa there was over the assisted suicide thing?

I'm assuming you never saw the South Park that was on that day. The whole episode was about Kenny who was now a vegatable and living off a feeding tube. Cartman was trying to get his feeding tube removed [mostly as he wanted his PSP] and Kyle/Stan were fighting against his feeding tube being removed.

They didnt pull that, why bother pulling a Film that was on a day or two later

Fúcking RTÉ.

OLDYELLAR · 02-04-2005 6:48pm

the reason is rte are complete muppets id say!

simu · 03-04-2005 12:34am

A silly reason to pull the film if the pope's death was the reason.

The ad for it really annoyed me though - "Doctor, you've obviously never been a 13 year old girl". What 13 year old comes out with that sort of thing ffs!?

OLDYELLAR · 03-04-2005 12:57am

That was funny , I was A slow developer dont remember bein 13

beardedchicken · 03-04-2005 2:30am

monkeyfudge wrote:

I remember trying to watch The Simpsons on Sky after Diana died. For weeks they had almost every episode cut to bits

very true. although it's for a similar reason that i haven't seen one of my favourite episodes in four years. in spite of repeating virtually every episode by now, they haven't shown the episode where barney drives homer's car to new york and parks it at the world trade centre and it gets clamped. for obvious reasons they've never repeated that since 9/11, but it's an absolute classic, it's got steve grubowski, the snooty woman on the elevator, and my hero, the khlav kalash guy.

eeeew, i'll take a crab juice.....

Mossy Monk · 03-04-2005 9:45am

the PC brigade really are marvellous. cut that, you might offend someone over there is East Timor

solo1 · 03-04-2005 1:36pm

I was sitting in front of the television with my wife when they told us. Bastards. Only a half-hour previously on RTE 1 they advertised it. Something must have happened in that half-hour.

DS · 05-04-2005 2:00am

beardedchicken wrote:

for obvious reasons they've never repeated that since 9/11

I've seen it at least twice since 9/11. And I'm sure it was after 9/11 because I remember noticing the towers and what have you. Great episode though.

moshpit77 · 13-04-2005 9:49pm

Virgin Suicides has been rescheduled and is now on this coming weekend afaik

was very pissed off when it was pulled too but luckily the local dvd shop had it in stock

Pigman II · 14-04-2005 9:52am

If anyone's interested ...

FILM: The Virgin Suicides
Channel: RTÉ 2
Date: Saturday 16th April 2005
Time: 21:00 to 22:45 (starting in 2 days)
Duration: 1 hour and 45 minutes.
Following the suicide of their youngest sister, the surviving daughters of the Lisbons descend into a deep state of mourning and a near obsession with death. Meanwhile, a group of neighbourhood boys becomes obsessed with watching the girls as they go through this difficult time.
Director: Sofia Coppola
Starring: James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, Michael Paré, Scott Glenn
(Premiere, 2000, 15, 4 Star)

(wouldn't bother tho. Typical piece of Sofia Coppola toss, tbh)

RTE pull Virgin Suicides

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