The Iron lady

applehunter

Movie previews all over the TV.

Newspapers today headlining concessions over the Hunger Strikers.

Is there a link?

Sky King

Here ya go

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher

Kevin Duffy

Good timing by the film's producers, but that's part of their job rather than something sinister.

blatantrereg

Sky King wrote: »

Here ya go



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher

A pun

AnonoBoy

I heard the whole hunger strike thing was just done as really really advance publicity for this film.

Dotrel

I'm sick of these Marvel superhero movies.

minidazzler

Lady? Her...pah, don't make me laugh.

Senna

Dotrel wrote: »

I'm sick of these Marvel superhero movies.

Worst Franchise EVER.

WindSock

Dotrel wrote: »

I'm sick of these Marvel superhero movies.

But her iron curtains put up a strong resistance to the iron fist.

Chuck Stone

Lady Ra Ra.


Naw.. that doesn't fit.

Kevin Duffy

WindSock wrote: »

But her iron curtains put up a strong resistance to the iron fist.

I want to gouge out my mind's eye with a rusty spoon. Thanks a fúcking bunch

efb

She was PM for 12 years - 30 years papers released every year- she'll make the news on Dec 30 for a while yet

cml387

Nobody seems to be making a movie about Gerry Adams or Charlie Haughey.

Just sayin'

JerryHandbag

WindSock wrote: »

But her iron curtains put up a strong resistance to the iron fist.

That'll blow away those iron cobwebs :eek:

Killer Pigeon

cml387 wrote: »

Nobody seems to be making a movie about Gerry Adams or Charlie Haughey.

Just sayin'

We need a 300/Marvel style movie about a hypothetical invasion of the North by Jack Lynch in 1969 with Ireland having an exaggerated amount of military force.

The Republicans/Nationalists would love it and it would be very provocative.

Immaculate Pasta

cml387 wrote: »

Nobody seems to be making a movie about Gerry Adams

Just sayin'

Agreed. They should make a film about Gerry Adams. And I know just the actor to play him as well.

Al off Home Improvement! - http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrlg93dUZN1qb8b0f.jpg

:cool:

Ghandee

Ffs.

Only clicked on this thread cos I thought/hoped the auld cnut had died.

I for one would gladly Piss on her grave!

Samich

Aren't all women the iron lady?

Dotrel

WindSock wrote: »

But her iron curtains put up a strong resistance to the iron fist.

Her Iron Curtains were strong, but her rusty copper exit pipe was no match for an iron fisting (and that comes direct from the memoirs of Denis Thatcher)

07734

Samich wrote: »

Aren't all women the iron lady?

Damn, you beat me to it samich!!!!

Immaculate Pasta

I've heard the film the Iron Lady explores the relationship with her father the Tin Man.

Dotrel

Immaculate Pasta wrote: »

I've heard the film the Iron Lady explores the relationship with her father the Tin Man.

The resemblance was uncanny. For one thing they were both born without a heart.

cc4life

Dotrel wrote: »

Her Iron Curtains were strong, but her rusty copper exit pipe was no match for an iron fisting (and that comes direct from the memoirs of Denis Thatcher)

nearly wet myself laughing

Immaculate Pasta

Dotrel wrote: »

The resemblance was uncanny. For one thing they were both born without a heart.

Thank you for taking the bait . Felt a bit weird if I were to set myself up for the punchline.

JerryHandbag

Ghandee wrote: »

Ffs.

Only clicked on this thread cos I thought/hoped the auld cnut had died.

I for one would gladly Piss on her grave!

Don't worry you'll know when she croaks. Hell will crack wide open, volcanoes will erupt and the earth shall move under your feet.

Then its all back to normal, keep calm and carry on!

Johnny Foreigner

Margaret Thatcher was a c*nt.
RIP Bobby Sands and the 1981 Hunger Strikers.
I will be giving the film a miss.
Hunger is one of the best films I have seen in my life.

LordSutch

Mrs Thatch, a great leader of her time? she stood up to the Unions & won a massive battle against Scargill that changed (modernised) Britain in the 80s. She stood up to the IRA & the Argentine Junta and beat them both. The Iron Lady, controversial, strong, stubborn, pig headed, fervently patriotic, self possessed. Loved & loathed in equal amounts by the British & Irish people, looked up to abroad in many cases while at the same time being hated by many back home, a real contradiction at any one time!

Worst Enemies - The IRA/ Soviet Union (old guard), Gaddafi.
Best Friends - The USA/ Gorbechef (New Russia), Poland.

Highpoint - The Falklands victory.
Lowpoint - The dreaded Poll Tax.

who the fug

cml387 wrote: »

Nobody seems to be making a movie about Gerry Adams or Charlie Haughey.

Just sayin'

Gerry Adams tree fetish would never get past the censors, and the wardrobe budget for CJ means the movie would never make money

Biggins

applehunter wrote: »

Movie previews all over the TV.

Newspapers today headlining concessions over the Hunger Strikers.

Is there a link?

http://www.thejournal.ie/gerry-adams-questions-bobby-sands-hunger-strike-claim-316895-Dec2011/

gigino

cml387 wrote: »

Nobody seems to be making a movie about Gerry Adams or Charlie Haughey.

Or Bin Laden ?

I remember when Charlie Haughey was literally telling everyone in the country to wear "the hairshirt", he was sneaking off to Paris with his secret mistress to buy the most expensive handmade shirts in the world. Great leader he was. Riding his horse, sailing his yacht, living the high life in Kinseally. While many tens of thousands of good Irish people voted with their feet and went to work in Mrs Thatchers England. Was it something like 50,000 a year emigrated then ? Whole college classes.

A film on Gerry Adams could be very explosive.

Nodin

LordSutch wrote: »

Mrs Thatch, a great leader of her time? she stood up to the Unions & won a massive battle against Scargill that changed (modernised) Britain in the 80s. ..

....creating shitholes that are still with them today. Other countries tackled the same issues in a phased manner to avoid hardships. But sure why bother with that

LordSutch wrote: »

She stood up to the IRA & the Argentine Junta and beat them both..

They were still there after her.

You left out her soft line on Apartheid south africa, her cosy relationship with Pinochet, her homophobic legislation.........

gigino

Nodin wrote: »

You left out her soft line on Apartheid south africa, her cosy relationship with Pinochet, her homophobic legislation.........

Her countries treatment of minorities was way ahead of ours at the time...if you ask the tens of thousands of Blacks, Irish, Gays etc who moved to the UK when she was PM for 12 years there.

starbelgrade

Johnny Foreigner wrote: »

Margaret Thatcher was a c*nt.
RIP Bobby Sands and the 1981 Hunger Strikers.
I will be giving the film a miss.
Hunger is one of the best films I have seen in my life.

Bit of a daft attitude to take. I mean, Hitler was a cunt, but I'd still watch a film about him.

Dudess

LordSutch wrote: »

Mrs Thatch, a great leader of her time? she stood up to the Unions & won a massive battle against Scargill that changed (modernised) Britain in the 80s. She stood up to the IRA & the Argentine Junta and beat them both. The Iron Lady, controversial, strong, stubborn, pig headed, fervently patriotic, self possessed. Loved & loathed in equal amounts by the British & Irish people, looked up to abroad in many cases while at the same time being hated by many back home, a real contradiction at any one time!

Worst Enemies - The IRA/ Soviet Union (old guard), Gaddafi.
Best Friends - The USA/ Gorbechef (New Russia), Poland.

Highpoint - The Falklands victory.
Lowpoint - The dreaded Poll Tax.

You left out Pinochet from her best friends. And lots of former mining communities are fu@ked now.
I get people admiring some of her policies, but to make out she was a heroine is just nonsense when she marginalised a lot of people.

gigino

Dudess wrote: »

And lots of former mining communities are fu@ked now.

because of increasing cheap imports from abroad, and dept of mines etc, most of those mines were getting unviable anyway.

The UK was in a bad way in the 70's due to the unions, bad productivity, strikes etc. The alternative to Thatcher was a lot worse.

Pity we had not a thatcher to stand up to our unions.

Father Damo

cml387 wrote: »

Nobody seems to be making a movie about Charlie Haughey.

Just sayin'

Do you reckon Martin Scorcese would allow the scriptwriters to let the actor playing a young Haughey utter the immortal line "as far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster"

Dotrel

starbelgrade wrote: »

Bit of a daft attitude to take. I mean, Hitler was a cunt, but I'd still watch a film about him.

Yeah but Iron Lady is directed by the same burd who did Mamma Mia. Hitler's crimes against humanity only lasted for a decade or so. Hers will live on forever.

Dudess

Unions - protecting workers! The bastards!

nice_very

Immaculate Pasta wrote: »

I've heard the film the Iron Lady explores the relationship with her father the Tin Man.

how ironic, when I saw the thread I thought she had died and this came into my head:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHJoj9IqeKg

Nodin

gigino wrote: »

Her countries treatment of minorities was way ahead of ours at the time...if you ask the tens of thousands of Blacks, Irish, Gays etc who moved to the UK when she was PM for 12 years there.

....and ours was ahead of Saudi. Yay!!!! Lets everyone get a medal for being better than somebody somewhere else......

minidazzler

Dudess wrote: »

You left out Pinochet from her best friends. And lots of former mining communities are fu@ked now.
I get people admiring some of her policies, but to make out she was a heroine is just nonsense when she marginalised a lot of people.

She was a heroine...or sorry, I should say, she was like heroin.

hooradiation

cml387 wrote: »

Nobody seems to be making a movie about Gerry Adams or Charlie Haughey.

Just sayin'

In general, Movies tend to be made about interesting people.

RichieC

"She should die at the end to give us a happy ending but she doesnt..."

jimthemental

cml387 wrote: »

Nobody seems to be making a movie about Gerry Adams or Charlie Haughey.

Just sayin'

There's already a film about Haughey, it's called Downfall.

pickarooney

Dotrel wrote: »

Her Iron Curtains were strong, but her rusty copper exit pipe was no match for an iron fisting (and that comes direct from the memoirs of Denis Thatcher)

Come on now, the lady was not for turning.

Richard Hillman

Can't wait for this film, she is my political compass. If only Ireland had a Thatcher.

The Internet Explorer

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Can't wait for this film, she is my political compass. If only Ireland had a Thatcher.

Give this lad a ring. He will sort you out.

Ellis Dee

Ghandee wrote: »

Ffs.

Only clicked on this thread cos I thought/hoped the auld cnut had died.

I for one would gladly Piss on her grave!

I'm sure you'd have to stand in a long queue!

Johro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTcZbVV8yIc

Musical and on topic.

gigino

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Can't wait for this film, she is my political compass. If only Ireland had a Thatcher.

We would not have a 25 billion budget defecit anyway, thats for sure.

starbelgrade

gigino wrote: »

We would not have a 25 billion budget defecit anyway, thats for sure.

I wouldn't be so sure - by the time she left office, she'd near bankrupt the country with her extremely naive belief that you could successfully manage the state finances by running them on her "corner shop" economic policies.

The Thatcherite years were also ones that saw the growth of the culture of greed & grab, which succeeded in creating temporary wealth, but at the same time led to an impoverishment of society and a destruction of many communities.

There is very little to be said for the achievements of Thatcher & a lot to be said for her legacy because it is a legacy of destruction & greed and remains a legacy that will take a long time to live down.