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Actually enjoying a movie on RTE1

  • 24-04-2010 11:18pm
    #1
    ifconfig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 880 ✭✭✭


    Belatedly watching "Sideways" on RTE 1
    Recommended to me by a friend about 6yrs ago.
    One of those films I kept meant to rent at Xtravision but never got around to.
    Very watchable and atmospheric.

    Good way to wind down a week.

    One slightly OT observation..
    In France last year I noticed they somehow ban commercials during screenings of movies on TV. They compress all the ads into a single break at the start and end of movie. Ad breaks completely screw up the continuity of the movie.
    The French have some class and culture and can show us a thing or too....
    <rant over>
    <still enjoying the movie despite w@nky adverts on Quinn and Renault electric cars> that are microcosm of the times we are in...


Comments

  • #2
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    Watching it as well.
    I don't think RTE can be commended for showing a good movie.
    They didn't make the movie, they are just showing it.

    I don't watch ads, I just switch over and watch something else for 5 minutes.
    Could I get a barely legal?....
    No, actually, sorry, the new one.
    Classic. :D


  • #3
    ifconfig
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 880 ✭✭✭ifconfig


    where did that quote come from LOL :D ---- that wasn't me.
    Funny though !


  • #4
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    ifconfig wrote: »
    where did that quote come from LOL :D ---- that wasn't me.
    Funny though !

    I was quoting the film.
    Miles goes into a shop to buy stuff and then asks the guy for a porno mag.

    The new magazine though.


  • #5
    WalterMitty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,582 ✭✭✭WalterMitty


    sky +/pause it and watch it without watching ads. i have ntl but you can pause at the start of a fil for say 15 minutes and then press play and fast forward the ads.


  • #6
    K-9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,311 ✭✭✭✭K-9


    Even better film with a nice bottle of Pinot!

    Mad Men's Don Draper : What you call love was invented by guys like me, to sell nylons.



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  • #7
    TMH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 66 ✭✭TMH


    Hank_Jones wrote: »
    I don't think RTE can be commended for showing a good movie.

    You're right there. The other week they played Capote, a great Oscar-winner, at midnight. They insist on constantly repeating action movie tripe in the prime time slots.

    I'm assuming that they're assuming that we're all arse-rooting, hand-sniffing idiots who can't handle a proper movie but just sit there and go 'oooh' , 'ahhh' at the flashing lights and explosions.

    Give us some f*cking credit.

    PostScript(!): Sideways is a great movie, never understood why Thomas Haden Church hasn't been in more movies, he's hilarious.


  • #8
    Richard Dower
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21,634 ✭✭✭✭Richard Dower


    I liked the fat chick getting banged in the movie....i'd do her!


  • #9
    NormanNicetouch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 408 ✭✭NormanNicetouch


    It doesn't make you a bad person. I once watched a movie on BBC and quite liked it. I don't feel any less Irish for having done so. These things happen.


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