The Snapper

efb

On RTE1 now


Good girl Sharon

Dirty Dingus McGee

Massively over rated film in my opinion.

Both it and The Commitments are grand but their nowhere near as good as they're being made out to be.

efb

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Massively over rated film in my opinion.

Both it and The Commitments are grand but their nowhere near as good as they're being made out to be.

They're not Oscar material but they are cult classics

ziedth

I agree,

They are classics but I actually thought Intermission was better then both of them

miss luce

Oh I love this filim!! 😂

Fr Tod Umptious

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Massively over rated film in my opinion.

Both it and The Commitments are grand but their nowhere near as good as they're being made out to be.

The Commitments is totally overrated.
But The Snapper never got half the media attention that The Commitments got, it just built the cult following on its own, just as any cult film should.

c montgomery

ziedth wrote: »

I agree,

They are classics but I actually thought Intermission was better then both of them

Intermission is my favourite irish film and probably in top 5 films of all time

efb

I hated intermission- left after 20 minutes

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

Roddy Doyle is a genius, the Barrytown trilogies are nothing short of hilarious. The Van is actually my favourite, but all of them are super.

doolox

.....a doubtful culinary "classic" along with that other dublin classic coddle.

nullzero

OK film, like the other two, but they are like time capsules of late eighties early nineties Dublin.

myshirt

Talking about intermission.

I brought a girl to the cinema before and later that afternoon her mother asked us how we got on. I was in the kitchen talking to her father, and she was in the hall. She proceeded to tell her mother that we left for 10 minutes mid movie for intercourse and then went back to watch the rest of the film.

My god....

She meant we left for 10 minutes for the intermission of course.

Anyway, the Snapper, what a film lads. Yes, no Oscar winner, but there's a lot in it for what was the Irish family of the late 80's / early 90's. Sentimental.

Tipsy McSwagger

efb wrote: »

On RTE1 now


Good girl Sharon

Hasn't aged well at all. Go watch The Butcher Boy for a dark comedy Irish classic.

efb

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

Hasn't aged well at all. Go watch The Butcher Boy for a dark comedy Irish classic.

Didn't like the butcher boy- too creepy

Wanderer78

ah +1 to the rescue!

Technocentral

It's no "Eat The Peach", IMHO.

Dozen Wicked Words

I Went Down is the finest Irish film I've seen. Honorable mention to Disco Pigs because it's the first thing I saw Elaine Cassidy in.

endacl

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy wrote: »

Roddy Doyle is a genius, the Barrytown trilogies are nothing short of hilarious. The Van is actually my favourite, but all of them are super.

Which six films did I miss?!?

:pac:

Strazdas

In it's defence, it was only ever intended to be a fairly low key TV movie (it was made for BBC2), not some enduring cinematic classic. It's probably Irish people who have overhyped it in the meantime.

It hasn't aged particularly well, it was very much a snapshot of life in early 1990s working class Dublin rather than simply putting it's comedy and humour to the forefront.

Wanderer78

i was still buckled watching it

commonsense.

Well worth a watch every couple of years.
Brilliant performance from Colm Meaney.

Fr Tod Umptious

Strazdas wrote: »

In it's defence, it was only ever intended to be a fairly low key TV movie (it was made for BBC2), not some enduring cinematic classic. It's probably Irish people who have overhyped it in the meantime.

It hasn't aged particularly well, it was very much a snapshot of life in early 1990s working class Dublin rather than simply putting it's comedy and humour to the forefront.

And even though The Snapper was the low key TV movie it has stood the test of time better than The Commitments IMO.

No one is posting on boards.ie on an October Bank Holiday Monday, or any other day, that The Commitments just started on RTE 1.

No one knows the names of any of the characters in The Commitments, everyone knows who Georgie "Bleedin" Burgess is.

"Good girl Sharon" and "A1 Sharon" have become part of the Irish lexicon, nothing from The Commitments ever has.

Tipsy McSwagger

efb wrote: »

Didn't like the butcher boy- too creepy

It's dark comedy not over the top garbage like The Snapper.

super_furry

When you look back on it now it seems a lot darker as Sharon was basically raped by Georgie Burgess.

Technocentral

efb wrote: »

I'm aware of that it is- I'm not a fan of behan

Or Patrick Mc Cabe as we call him.

walshb

Dirty Dingus McGee wrote: »

Massively over rated film in my opinion.

Both it and The Commitments are grand but their nowhere near as good as they're being made out to be.

Couldn't agree more. Couple of funny bits here and there, but its problem was that the dialogue-humor was too forced. Never felt natural. As for Shardin. About as convincing as a chocolate teapot.

Oh, and that bedroom scene with the mam and dad was truly horrendous.

I never ever thought the film was good, and until now I always thought I was alone.

walshb

Two far better Irish films are Crush Proof and Intermission.

Strazdas

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

And even though The Snapper was the low key TV movie it has stood the test of time better than The Commitments IMO.

No one is posting on boards.ie on an October Bank Holiday Monday, or any other day, that The Commitments just started on RTE 1.

No one knows the names of any of the characters in The Commitments, everyone knows who Georgie "Bleedin" Burgess is.

"Good girl Sharon" and "A1 Sharon" have become part of the Irish lexicon, nothing from The Commitments ever has.

Agree that The Commitments is a terrible movie, I find it unwatchable.

The Snapper is brilliant in parts, some of Colm Meaney's scenes and one liners are hilarious.

kfallon

On again tonight, TV3 at 9pm!

marklazarcovic

isnt georgey burgess pat mustard also?

Father Hernandez

YES !