A Film With Me In It

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Has anyone seen this latest homemade blockbuster starring Dylan Moran and Mark Doherty? What did anyone think?
I thought it was absolutely brilliant - so good in fact that I immediately gave it a spot in my top 3 films along with Wall-E and The Shawshank Redemption.
Dylan Moran was brilliant in the role and Mark Doherty (brother of David O'Doherty - who also has a part in the film) really made a name for himself as actor and director with this film.
The entire thing was shot in six weeks, so I wasn't sure what to expect, but the finished result speaks for itself. Definitely go see it.

fated2pretend

+ 1

Absolutely amazing film. Loved every minute. Destined to be a classic comedy!

Nolanger

Don't be fooled by the above posts this movie is sh**e. Silly story about accidental deaths and a coverup all set in a flat. Like something from the people who did The Roaring Twenties.

MementoMori

I was looking forward to this a lot - was expecting something decent considering Dylan Moran, Mark O'Doherty and David O'Doherty were all in the cast. Sadly it was pretty average. The performances were ok but the main problem was that the script which was very poor. Definately not a classic by any manner of means, but not Roaring Twenties bad either.

Also it bears a shares a number of elements to the film Dead Bodies from 2003, which I found very strange considering that the Irish Film Board were involved with both.

ccosgrave

I thought it was pretty entertaining. It's definitely worth a watch, but I wouldn't be too pushed about seeing it again. Maybe it was just the farfetched plot, but there was always something that held me back from loving it, something I couldn't put my finger on.

anonymous_joe

I really liked it.

I'd have a few complaints, but they didn't really stop me enjoying it, once I realised what kind of film I was watching and got into the right frame of mind.

AnonoBoy

MementoMori wrote: »

Also it bears a shares a number of elements to the film Dead Bodies from 2003, which I found very strange considering that the Irish Film Board were involved with both.

Only real elements it shares with Dead Bodies are the eh.... dead bodies. Dead Bodies was a thrillerish type of thing that didn't work - A Film With Me In It is black comedy.

It works to a degree I think but I can see why people don't like it. And it is by no means anywhere near the **** standard of The Roaring Twenties.

RealEstateKing

I absolutely love everything Dylan Moran does, so was going to go and see this no matter what the reviews said about it.

Wow what a dissappointment. What a truly awful, unoriginal and tedious script. The only funny line in the entire movie is at the beginning, when Dylan Moran is in Alcoholics Anonymous, after that its is the usual thing: Three people die one after the other in ridiculous circumstances (that the movie is aware they are ridiculous doesnt help) , and our heroes try and cover it up. It all unfolds from there with a tedious inevitibility.

Even though the 3 consecutive deaths are total farce, the movie doesnt have the wit to understand, that this means it needs a fast paced, humour-laced movie to go with such a ridiculous premise (As in, say "Shaun of The Dead") - instead it crawls along, with no humour, little action and acres of glacial silence yawning between its predictable events.

Obviously they are going to have to bump off a few extra people to keep their secret and obviously the movie is going to end with them turning their experience into a movie: And , um, thats exactly what happens, without a single bit of wit or humour to sweeten it's leaden progress towards this foregone conclusion.

It reminded me of a student movie: The sort you write when you're in first year of you Film course in Dun Laoghaire and have no real ideas: You can imagine the writers thinking: "Um whattya say we write about two loseryish arts students, like you and me, who live in Rathmines, like you and me, who are trying to write a script, like you and me, and who drink too much, like you and me." And that's exactly what they did. Only they didnt do it on Mini-DV in their basement in Rathmines: They somehow managed to get given huge amounts of money to it in somebody elses basement in Rathmines.

And all this with the colossal comic talent of Dylan Moran nowhere in evidence: Like hiring Jimi Hendrix to play at your wedding and insisting he stick to ballads, Moran shuffles through the film like Bernard Black in a strait-jacket. Well what else is he to do? There's no funny lines for him to deliver.

In any other country in the World a script like this would not even get read, never mind funded: This should be mouldering on a student hard drive in DIT, not shown in cinemas for people to see. Its depressing: Sure , Ireland is a small country and cannot be expected to come up with as many original films as a larger country like the U.K. , but this shouldnt have even gotten past the first post. The whole thing positively reeks of Irish half-arsed-ness: "Ah, sure we''l finish up the script tonight and then go on the razz. It'll be grand."

Nolanger

RealEstateKing wrote: »

Sure , Ireland is a small country and cannot be expected to come up with as many original films as a larger country like the U.K. ,

Denmark?

EamonnKeane

Pretty good, but it suffers from that awful meta cleverness (OMG we're making a film and living the film at the same time!) at points. The girlfriend was that generic unsympathetic bitchy character and her death made it just too ridiculous. Not awful though, holds the attention. Final scene should've been cut off much earlier, no need to hit us over the head with it.

MementoMori

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Only real elements it shares with Dead Bodies are the eh.... dead bodies. Dead Bodies was a thrillerish type of thing that didn't work - A Film With Me In It is black comedy.

It works to a degree I think but I can see why people don't like it. And it is by no means anywhere near the **** standard of The Roaring Twenties.

The lead character breaks up with his girlfriend who ends up dying accidentally in their shared apartment in a Georgian Style house in the Dublin suburbs and disposes of the body in secret in the Wicklow mountains.

Which film am I talking about? Could easily be either. I'm not saying they are identical but I just found it odd how many elements they shared considering how few feature films the IFB are involved in which go on general release.

I agree with you about the differences in tone - A Film with Me in It is a black comedy with aspects of a thriller in it while you could easily say that Dead Bodies is a thriller with aspects of black comedy in it.

the flananator

Its quite a good film, original plot with some genuinely laugh out loud moments, however I think on the whole its been given too much praise just because its an Irish movie; its alright, but far from a classic.

Nolanger

It's the kind of movie that should have been made back in the '80s around the time of Withnail and I. There was a certain smugness about it - as if they were trying to be clever and no-one would notice where they stole all their ideas from.

BroomBurner

Went to see this last night, though it wasn't first choice of film. Hadn't heard anything about it so was pleasantly surprised although some parts were just really hard to watch. Inside, you're just screaming at the characters to do something. Also, for some reason, some nob in the audience was laughing at really inappropriate parts of the film (I know accidents are funny, but laughing at

the brother being killed by the lampshade

was a bit sick and weird).

unreggd

Saw this last night, was brilliant!

But it was a bit of a rip of Big Nothing with Simon Pegg & David Schwimmer

BroomBurner wrote:

I know accidents are funny, but laughing at

the brother being killed by the lampshade

was a bit sick and weird).

Yeah, a loada D4 retards wouldnt stop laughin, I was close to kickin them in the back of the head

lostexpectation

anybody sick of horrors?

Nolanger

lostexpectation wrote: »

anybody sick of horrors?

Anyone remember the early '90s when nobody liked horror movies? It was a rare event to see a horror film in cinemas. Then Scream came out and the ball started rolling.

tread_softly

i saw it tonight and was not impressed.

a guy fell down the stairs of the cinema halfway through the film and that entertained me a million times more than what was on the screen.

Dont be at yourself

Saw it yet yesterday, thought it was better than average. It's refreshing to see a comedy movie without a moral message or a soppy love story.

The humour is very understated, but I laughed out loud on several occasions. Dylan Moran steals the show. He has some real screen presence!

bigjigwig77

I liked it a lot. Not one of my favourite films of all time but I think it'll become a good DVD to throw on with mates and a few joints.

Fringe

I saw it today. I quite liked it. The storyline was entertaining. There were funny parts to it but it's not the best as a comedy. It was definitely annoying though when people started laughing at the most inappropriate times.

senordingdong

anonymous_joe wrote: »

I really liked it.

I'd have a few complaints, but they didn't really stop me enjoying it, once I realised what kind of film I was watching and got into the right frame of mind.

This one is bang on for me.
The first half hour or so didn't really set the tone, I thought it was just going to be some miserable film about a bloke who was dealt a tough hand in life, with a disabled brother, a swine of a best mate and a whinney g/f.

But once the ball started rolling I found it really enjoyable, and as was said already, it was nice to see a movie that didn't need a moral message or soppy love story....or even a sex scene.