Sing Street

horse7

It's actually a terrible movie.

Slydice

Come on now folks!

Not everybody likes all films even if you do!

As you can see below:
From 29,739 on IMDB, it only got 8/10
It only got 79 out of 100 from 37 reviewers on metacritic
and of 13,072 users on Rotten Tomatoes, only 93% liked it .. EVEN if it got a 96% Fresh rating from 167 reviews. I mean like... that still put it down at 8/10

The message here is... even a popular film will have a range of opinion.


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A Dub in Glasgo

Slydice wrote: »

Come on now folks!

Not everybody likes all films even if you do!

As you can see below:
From 29,739 on IMDB, it only got 8/10

only? a score of 8 on IMDB is a very good score!

Slydice

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

only? a score of 8 on IMDB is a very good score!

I know

BunkMoreland

I've never seen a 8+ IMDB rated movie which wasn't genuinely good. It's a surprisingly accurate guage for all genres.

So I was looking forward to sing street with its 8. Very disappointed with it.

A Dub in Glasgo

Slydice wrote: »

I know

Too quick for my own good :pac:

The Black Oil

Watched it last night. Tbh, the style of it bothered me quite early on. It just felt very much like it was shot in someone's front room over a weekend. I've not seen Once or any of Carney's other work. I don't know Jack Reynor, either. That said, I was less distracted by its amateur vibe (imo) as the band came together a little more. It's a nice and simple film, that raised a few laughs, but I don't get the high praise for it. The music rights must have cost a fortune.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Just noticed that Sing Street is now up on Netflix Ireland - look forward to giving it a re-watch this evening now while I'm recovering from the New Year's weekend...

Yourself isit

A Dub in Glasgo wrote: »

only? a score of 8 on IMDB is a very good score!

His point I think.

I liked it. On netflix today. The male lead was great. The female lead not so much.

Of course clichés and references to other movies abound,and Irish tropes, someday we will have a nice Christian Brother in a movie (and is Synge Street really that bad?) but that doesn't mean it wasn't fun. Most movies are not original.

Preferred this to Once.

senordingdong

The Commitments for the south side.

Sad Professor

A question for people who grew up in the ‘80s and would be of Carney’s generation: did young Dublin men really adopt Glam rock fashion as seen in the movie and survive? I’m from D8 and went to a CBS school not far from Synge Street in the late ‘90s. It was a very repressive environment and if I turned up one day wearing eyeliner and a silk scarf my body would had been found floating in the canal. Different times obviously, but I have hard time believing it was ever any different.

david75

Let's not forget at the time you could allows find your niche. The cureheads n goths congregating at the central bank on Saturdays etc. Little pockets of skaters here n there.

Tipsy McSwagger

I thought it was a great little film.

El Duda

Sing Street - 9.5/10

A bunch of 80's schoolkids form a band so that one of them can impress a girl. The closest thing I've ever seen to this is probably The Commitments. It's bloody brilliant, I laughed all the way through and cried at the end. The older brother character played by Jack Reynor is one of the best written characters i've seen in a long time.

The original songs are way better than you could expect and the rest of the soundtrack is really well put together. It isn't afraid to be gritty and violent at times. The characters all feel very real. A fantastic piece of uplifting cinema.

JP Liz V1

Looks to be premiering on RTE 1 this coming Monday

gmisk

El Duda wrote: »

Sing Street - 9.5/10

A bunch of 80's schoolkids form a band so that one of them can impress a girl. The closest thing I've ever seen to this is probably The Commitments. It's bloody brilliant, I laughed all the way through and cried at the end. The older brother character played by Jack Reynor is one of the best written characters i've seen in a long time.

The original songs are way better than you could expect and the rest of the soundtrack is really well put together. It isn't afraid to be gritty and violent at times. The characters all feel very real. A fantastic piece of uplifting cinema.

Spot on a terrific film imo

JP Liz V1

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

The actress playing Raphina is English so she was putting on an Irish accent, that's why it was a bit dodgy. The Dublin bit when talking about working in McDonalds was, I assume, supposed to be a reference to the "type" of person who would end up working in McDonalds.

Interestingly Lucy Boynton is going to play Marianna Faithful in a biopic