Favourite Irish Film

Crotchety

What's yours?

It might be anything from Taffin to Inside I'm Dancing. This will be interesting. :pac:

marbar

i have a few i guess. hard to look past commitments, the snapper

but i went down has been my most recent fav

rednik

Intermission. I went down as well pure class.

liah

My knowledge of Irish cinema is limited, to be fair.. I've seen Intermission, The Van, Garage, The Commitments, Breakfast on Pluto, The Wind That Shakes the Barley, was Hunger Irish produced? I think that's about it really. Loved them all though.

Oh, saw Plague Town too but that was absolute shíte of the worst sort.

Karl Hungus

I Went Down.

seanybiker

Crush proof followed closely by I went down.

Adam and Paul is the worse Irish film ever made. Complete shiote

Crotchety

seanybiker wrote: »

Adam and Paul is the worse Irish film ever made. Complete shiote

I thought it was funny enough now. :pac:

DingDong

Karl Hungus wrote: »

I Went Down.

My all time favourite Irish film too, Brendan Gleeson is great in it . When I saw the thread title its the first film that jumped into my head
I actually like Adam and Paul ,
Others worth a mention
The General
Inside I'm dancing
Michael Collins


Never Seen Crush proof must check it out

m83

Fatal Deviation :pac:

Awesome username btw op!

Tomas911

Intermission all the way aslong as you don't count braveheart, lol

eagle eye

My left foot
The Commitments
The Snapper
In Bruge
The Long Good Friday
The Field
The Crying Game
Ryan's Daughter
The Quiet Man
In the name of the Father

Shryke

From what I've seen I'd say The Commitments.

Nolanger

Quackser Fortune has a Cousin in the Bronx - yes I know you've never seen it

2fivers

I have. It's not one of my favourites, cos I dont like Gene Wilder.

I'll stick with I went Down.

razorblunt

Inside I'm Dancing, Wind That Shakes The Barley and Intermission, would be my top 3 in no particular order!

phelixoflaherty

Adam and Paul was top notch. Funniest I've seen in years

overexcitedaj

phelixoflaherty wrote: »

Adam and Paul was top notch. Funniest I've seen in years

yeah brilliant flick. But the commitments has to be by far the best. Just watched it there and its still as fantastic as i remembered

Carroller

Song For A Raggy Boy

cashback

If In Bruges can be counted as Irish, that'd be my favourite. Otherwise The Commitments.

Still have yet to see I Went Down.

MikeC101

I Went Down.

Not just my favourite Irish film, but one of my top ten of any film.

Can't believel it didn't get a DVD release here!

Crotchety

Man about Dog.

"He did a shit in me van"

JP Liz

The Snapper

I never tire of watching and laughing at it

JP Liz

Also Intermission very funny

JP Liz

intermission

Am I the only one who thought that Man About Dog was easily one of the worst films ever made? I managed about half an hour before going back to playing Far Cry. I Went Down is a great film, well I remember it beign a great film but having seen Paddy Breatnach's out put since I'm not so sure. He has to be one of the most talentless hacks working in the industry.

Shrooms is a woeful film and his recent Red Mist is even worse, so bad that it took me nearly a week to watch it. Still he's better than Brendan Foley but that's not saying much.

Nolanger

Breathnach is a joke but let's be honest - he doesn't have much competition here!

Dozen Wicked Words

Definitely I Went Down. Have it on Video but have nothing to play it on. Still keeping it though, it doesn't eat anything.

dazzerb

Kings - one of the better ones recently IMO. (assuming you consider Kings an Irish movie (I would). "Once" is also another superb film.

tricky D

Not favourites as such, but 2 quirky, enjoyable, you might like/worth a look if you can find them films.

The Miracle (1991) and After Midnight (1990). Not the greatest quality, but....

Nolanger

Nolanger wrote: »

Breathnach is a joke but let's be honest - he doesn't have much competition here!

I had some hope for David Caffery after the brilliant Grand Theft Parsons and entertaining Divorcing Jack but he seems content to direct episodes of the dreadful Raw for RTE.


Thaddeus O'Sullivan is one Irish film maker that I still have hope for. His upcomign Into the Storm looks like it could be entertaining and could possibly make up for Ordinary Decent Criminal.

devereaux17

Accelerator

krudler

devereaux17 wrote: »

Accelerator

Awful movie, isnt the race for €200 or something? probably twice the movies budget:D

I Went Down is pretty much the only great Irish movie, The Field and My Left Foot are quite good too, some odd choices for Irish movies on here, The Long Good Friday?how is that an Irish movie?

Wouldnt really class Inside I'm Dancing as Irish either, made with mostly UK money and not one of the main leads is Irish aside from Brenda Fricker, if we're inlcuding stuff that was mostly shot in Ireland then we may as well include Saving Private Ryan, King Arthur and Braveheart

Sir Gallagher

DingDong wrote: »

My all time favourite Irish film too, Brendan Gleeson is great in it . When I saw the thread title its the first film that jumped into my head
I actually like Adam and Paul ,
Others worth a mention
The General
Inside I'm dancing
Michael Collins


Never Seen Crush proof must check it out

Don't, it's an awful film.

Crotchety

Crush Proof - Lethal film.

A bunch of scum in Dublin riding horses. :pac:

Nolanger

and one of its male scummers gets raped by a posh b*tch holding a shotgun -in a stable!

TriceMarie

INTERMISSION would have to be my top favourite!!!!:D:D:D:p:p
So many hillarious quotes,
so many times have my friends&me quote them,
so many times have they provided us with comic relief:p

Valmont

Intermission, Accelerator, Adam and Paul, and Michael Collins. I really liked A Film With Me In It too.

Crotchety

Veronica Guerin + Mickybo and Me

OP how many favourite Irish films can you have?

Crotchety

As many as you like I suppose.

♫

♫ wrote: »

As many as you like I suppose.

You can't just keep listing films when the mood suits. You have to explain why you like it and technically you can only have one favourite.

These threads are slowly killing the film forum, lazy first post followed by people just listing what ever film pops to mind. It's not interesting if people don't discuss why they prefer one film over another.

Crotchety

Nah. You can have many favourites.

♫

♫ wrote: »

Nah. You can have many favourites.

That you can but you did'nt ask for peoples favourites did you.

My only complaint with your thread is that you can't just copy and paste film titles, you need to say why you enjoy a certain film.

For example you posted these two awhile back Veronica Guerin + Mickybo and Me and didn't give a reason for liking either one.

Crotchety

Veronica Guerin - Factual stuff is interesting!

Mickybo and Me was funny.

lisaface

♫ wrote: »

What's yours?

It might be anything from Taffin to Inside I'm Dancing. This will be interesting. :pac:

"The Wind That Shakes The Barley"

Probably a common one used, (I haven't gone through peoples responses yet.. I'm being ignorant). It riles the f*ck outta me, to the point where I cannot tolerate being around ANY British person.

The part where they tear his nails out, makes me sick. I have to look away, and cover my ears like a scared lil child, it's just, yuck, not for me. It's brilliant acting, but that scene just, naa.

I remember the first time I saw it, an ex of mine told me he heard good reviews and I'd never seen or heard anything of it, and actually thought it was about barley lol. He's English, lol I just kept coming out with "F'n b*sta*ds" and whatnot. He had to leave the room.

I cannot bare to be around any british person (family/friend/ect) for a period of 2hours after watching it. However, it's still one of my top 5 favourite films lol.

lisaface

lisaface wrote: »

"The Wind That Shakes The Barley"

Probably a common one used, (I haven't gone through peoples responses yet.. I'm being ignorant). It riles the f*ck outta me, to the point where I cannot tolerate being around ANY British person.

The part where they tear his nails out, makes me sick. I have to look away, and cover my ears like a scared lil child, it's just, yuck, not for me. It's brilliant acting, but that scene just, naa.

I remember the first time I saw it, an ex of mine told me he heard good reviews and I'd never seen or heard anything of it, and actually thought it was about barley lol. He's English, lol I just kept coming out with "F'n b*sta*ds" and whatnot. He had to leave the room.

I cannot bare to be around any british person (family/friend/ect) for a period of 2hours after watching it. However, it's still one of my top 5 favourite films lol.

You have to be kidding. You sriously base your opinion of English people on a film which isn't even an Irish film. It was a Irish-UK-Italian-German-Spanish co-production and one of the most biased films ever made.

I spent the entire duration wanting to leave the cinema and the only reason I did'nt was because my Uncle had paid for me to go. While everyone else seemed in floods of tears I was laughing my ass off at just how dreadful it was. The torture scene was ludicrous, they ask him one of two questions and then it's straight to the torture and the cut back to the other priosners. The dialogue in that scene was disgracful, Random bloke: "Do you know him? Cillian Murphy: "Ara bejesus he's me brother". And then what not a single mention of them being brothers until the shocking ending.

I could go on and on about the film and I'm sure like many others you willa ccuse me of being antiIrish or ashamed of my country. I'm neither, I jsut realise that the past is the past and to judge people on the actions of others is a completely retarded viewpoint. Can you imagine if people judged all German people on the actions of Hitler.

lisaface

Deleted User wrote: »

You have to be kidding. You sriously base your opinion of English people on a film which isn't even an Irish film. It was a Irish-UK-Italian-German-Spanish co-production and one of the most biased films ever made.

I spent the entire duration wanting to leave the cinema and the only reason I did'nt was because my Uncle had paid for me to go. While everyone else seemed in floods of tears I was laughing my ass off at just how dreadful it was. The torture scene was ludicrous, they ask him one of two questions and then it's straight to the torture and the cut back to the other priosners. The dialogue in that scene was disgracful, Random bloke: "Do you know him? Cillian Murphy: "Ara bejesus he's me brother". And then what not a single mention of them being brothers until the shocking ending.

I could go on and on about the film and I'm sure like many others you willa ccuse me of being antiIrish or ashamed of my country. I'm neither, I jsut realise that the past is the past and to judge people on the actions of others is a completely retarded viewpoint. Can you imagine if people judged all German people on the actions of Hitler.

I respect that the above is your opinion on the film. However, opinions are like arseholes everybody has one, but to me yours isn't worthy. I never once said I base my feelings towards British people (as i did say british people many times and not single out the english, way to go and catching that one) on this film.

Um...HELLOOO you seem to fail on the bits i threw in like; at that time my bf was English, yes if i strongly hated the english so much why would i date an english guy?? lol.

I have no issues with the british (english/scottish/welsh/northern irish = britain :O i know!!!) I am a decent person , i judge people on their personalities or how they treat me. I do not judge them on their nationality. This film does rile me though, it angers me , I can't explain why,but it does.

BTW Dude, the opening poster asked for our favourite film(s). All you seem to be doing is having ago at people who respond. If you don't agree so be it, don't attack back, ever think of just taking what someone has said and leaving it at that?!?

I went back through the thread and you have just attacked and attacked, it's like i'm thinking wtf is he gaining from this!? apart from having your sproutings heard

Oh and the comparison is **** dude, seriously how can you compare one mans actions against a nation trying to invade every f*cking country possible??

"Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam"

lisaface

lisaface wrote: »

I respect that the above is your opinion on the film. However, opinions are like arseholes everybody has one, but to me yours isn't worthy. I never once said I base my feelings towards British people (as i did say british people many times and not single out the english, way to go and catching that one) on this film.

You said and I quote

I cannot bare to be around any british person (family/friend/ect) for a period of 2hours after watching it.

Obviously the film does colour how you view British people.

lisaface wrote: »

Um...HELLOOO you seem to fail on the bits i threw in like; at that time my bf was English, yes if i strongly hated the english so much why would i date an english guy?? lol.

I quote you once more

I remember the first time I saw it, an ex of mine told me he heard good reviews and I'd never seen or heard anything of it, and actually thought it was about barley lol. He's English, lol I just kept coming out with "F'n b*sta*ds" and whatnot. He had to leave the room.

Your anti English sentiments were so strong that your English bf had to leave the room. Says a lot about the way you view the English people.

lisaface wrote: »

I have no issues with the british (english/scottish/welsh/northern irish = britain :O i know!!!) I am a decent person , i judge people on their personalities or how they treat me. I do not judge them on their nationality. This film does rile me though, it angers me , I can't explain why,but it does.

Again this is the complete opposite of what you said earlier when you siad you can't be around an British person after watching the film. I have seen numerous films on some of the worlds greatest atrocities and never have I changed the way I view a race or refuse to be near them for a few hours after.

lisaface wrote: »

BTW Dude, the opening poster asked for our favourite film(s). All you seem to be doing is having ago at people who respond. If you don't agree so be it, don't attack back, ever think of just taking what someone has said and leaving it at that?!?

I went back through the thread and you have just attacked and attacked, it's like i'm thinking wtf is he gaining from this!? apart from having your sproutings heard

I had a go at no one. I only asked the op to tell us why he liked a film to create some debate and dialogue. It's what makes this such an interesting site.

If you bothered to read my posts you would see that I mention that I remember I Went Down as being a brilliant film and impling that it was my favourite Irish film.

This site is one where people can voice their opinion and engage in debate with other people. I voiced my opinion and as you can see people responded to my post. My second post in the form was to highlight two Irish directors who are capeable of making great Irish directors who are sadly overlooked.

I'm not argueing this anymore with you as it will only derail the thread. Oh and before I go my opinion is worth quite a lot and many seasoned posters here will testify to that.

lisaface wrote: »

Oh and the comparison is **** dude, seriously how can you compare one mans actions against a nation trying to invade every f*cking country possible??

How is the comparison not appropriate? Are you saying that Hitler acted alone without the support of the German people and army? I used Hitler as a comparison as his troops are responsible for some of the greatest atrocities of the 20th centuary. I know one girl whose grandfather sent hundreds of Jews to their deaths in the camps. He was a horrible evil man but I don't judge her based on that and the time we watched Schindler's List with other friends no one looked or thought of her differently.

Daelus

Bit of a guilty pleasure for me would be Kirsten Sheridan's Disco Pigs. I can see that in many ways it's not a great film, but I just really enjoyed it. I thought Cillian Murphy was very good in it. And it's nice to see an Irish film that isn't about "oh the drudgery of rural life" or 1916.

My favourite Irish film at the moment though is Perry Ogden's Pavee Lackeen. It's such an unsentimental view of travellers in Dublin and for that I applaud it. I watched the trailer used to market it and it's the complete opposite; heavy orchestral music and choice lines misrepresented to make it seem like a tragic and emotional film. There is emotion in the film, but it's done in a very real way. I was actually really irritated by the trailer, it was such a hack job. But I suppose maybe it'd get the audiences watching.
The film is great, anyway. One of my favourite films, nevermind Irish films.

purple_hatstand

eagle eye wrote: »

My left foot
The Commitments
The Snapper
In Bruge
The Long Good Friday
The Field
The Crying Game
Ryan's Daughter
The Quiet Man
In the name of the Father

We need a clear definition of what constitutes an Irish film. I would not consider either 'The Long Good Friday' or 'In Bruges' as Irish films although I can see where some confusion might arise with regards the latter. As for LGF, I'm confused as to its appearance here at all.

FWIW, I really liked the emotional honesty of both 'Garage' and 'Pavee Lackeen'.

Crotchety

They can be considered Irish if they have a few actors like In Bruge or were filmed here with a few actors. Not filmed here with a whole Chinese cast!