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Handsome Devil

  • 20-04-2017 10:41pm
    #1
    JP Liz V1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 89,011 ✭✭✭✭


    Outlaw Pete wrote: »
    Sadly I went to see Handsome Devil over the Surprise Film (as my budget wouldn't stretch to both).

    Well, if I've cringed more watching a film in my life then I can't recall it. What an embarrassment of a movie. Predictable cheesy dross with themes exhausted by '94. Tries to be Dead Poet Society meets Catholic Boys, with a smidgen of Philadelphia on the side, but fails spectacularly on all counts.

    Major spolier!!!
    In the last minutes of the film, the team come back from 21-0 down to win the game!!! Whoop-dee-doo!!! Didn't see that coming.

    Every five minutes in the film has a similarly predictable cliched scene. It's one after the other from start to finish. The standing ovation gave me the best laugh of the night though. I really felt like taking the mic at the Q&A and asking them why they would even bother making such absolute horse bollox.

    One of the most infuriatingly crap films I have ever had the misfortune of seeing.

    I thought the two young leads were very good especially the fella playing Ned, kinda reminded me of a John Hughes character like perhaps Ducky, I also liked the music

    Brian O? Driscoll "choreographed" the rugby scenes, no idea why his missus was in it, as her and Ardal really did nothing

    Andrew Scott's teacher does remind me of Dead Poets Society's Mr. Keating
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  • #2
    Outlaw Pete
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    Yeah, some of the performances were good alright, despite the overall dreadfulness of it.

    For anyone interested, there's a director's Q&A screening tonight at 8pm.


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