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Forgotten Irish movies.

  • 13-10-2020 6:56pm
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,520 ✭✭✭


    I was just thinking about how in the 90s there were an awful lot of Irish movies released that would be in the cinema for a week and then disappear. Sweety Barrett was one. Brendan Gleeson as the title character, it came right after the General. Odd film, he played a guy with learning difficulties who runs away from the circus (Brendan O Carroll has a cameo as the bullying ringmaster). A very young Andrew Scott plays a barman and Andy Serkis was in it looking like Rory from Glenroe sporting a curly mullet and denim jacket. Never see it shown on telly. Can anyone think of any other examples?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,215 ✭✭✭circadian


    Taffin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,504 ✭✭✭KaneToad


    Eat the Peach

    and

    I went Down


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,408 ✭✭✭Archeron


    Grabbers :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,503 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Lamb

    early liam neeson movie where he plays a christian brother


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,870 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    The most fertile man in Ireland


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,000 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,520 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Mad_maxx wrote: »
    Lamb

    early liam neeson movie where he plays a christian brother

    I remember that being shown on RTE.. One grim film particularly the ending.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,402 ✭✭✭McGinniesta


    Irish films are usually gash.

    I mean total fanny.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,935 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    The Hard Way.
    Starring Patrick mc Goohan and Lee van Cleef

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,101 ✭✭✭Tow


    When is the money (including lost growth) Michael Noonan took in the Pension Levy going to be paid back?



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,000 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    The matchmaker starring janeane garofalo.

    Neds wake.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 814 ✭✭✭Macdarack


    The run of the country


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,520 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Reefer And The Model. Hard to view now unless you come across a VHS copy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 404 ✭✭E mac


    'The lilac bus' dunno if it's forgotten but used to be on RTE a lot back in the day


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 27,315 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    Garage.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 700 ✭✭✭Fuascailteoir


    Playboys


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,749 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    Two pages in without this, standards are slipping around here lads :D




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,749 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    This is a strange short film



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,935 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    The Miracle - Neil Jordan film starring Donal McAnally and Beverley d'Angelo.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,942 ✭✭✭✭Beechwoodspark


    The one where a fella turns into a rat

    Think it’s called

    Rat


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,520 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    The one where a fella turns into a rat

    Think it’s called

    Rat

    Yeah, I never saw that one but remember reading about it at the time. Another one of those ones that was the cinema for a really short while and then disappeared.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    looking like Rory from Glenroe sporting a curly mullet and denim jacket.

    There was a law passed in 1982 that 70% of Irish film characters would be thus attired


    This is going to be a list of absolutely dire films with the slight exception of Garage

    As somebody has already noted, Irish films are a ball of ****e


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 700 ✭✭✭Fuascailteoir


    Shrooms


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,000 ✭✭✭✭hynesie08


    Shrooms

    Never mind irish, that can barely be classified as a movie


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭cloudatlas


    There was a recent Irish Times list https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/the-50-best-irish-films-ever-made-in-order-1.4238979 The 50 best Irish films ever made, in order

    It left out the McDonagh brothers which I felt was extraordinary.

    They also left out Neil Jordan's 'The Miracle' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJrl2MajPy4

    It was very much a list made for the person who wrote the list but it shouldn't be titled 'best'.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,456 ✭✭✭The Continental Op


    Flight of the Doves 1971. Long may it remain forgotten. Saw it at the cinema when it came out - thought it was dreadful but it gets some people all excited https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/film/flight-of-the-doves-deserves-to-be-a-national-institution-1.3827375

    Wake me up when it's all over.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 404 ✭✭E mac


    Bambi wrote: »
    There was a law passed in 1982 that 70% of Irish film characters would be thus attired


    This is going to be a list of absolutely dire films with the slight exception of Garage

    As somebody has already noted, Irish films are a ball of ****e

    There's a bleakness to Irish films in the 80s. The countryside is full of nothingness and people wishing their lives were better always on the brink of moving away....(ya I know still could be the case)


  • Posts: 1,167 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Was going to post The Run of the Country and see it has been got.

    There were also two more I've seen on TV a couple of times and enjoyed, but forget the names.

    One I think may be called About My Father were James Caan comes back to Ireland to learn about his father, flashback and its Aidan Quinn.

    There was another pretty entertaining one where an assistant to an American presidential candidate is sent back to Ireland to trace his roots. She's played by an annoying American comedian lady with black hair, it's set in a seaside town and there's a love interest that's played by the Irish fella from braveheart.

    Jesus Christ, what a post, I sound like my mother...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 700 ✭✭✭Fuascailteoir


    Ah there was a decent one called pilgrim hill. Nicely made about rural isolation and made on a shoestring


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,576 ✭✭✭Skill Magill


    I think? Giz a smoke and giz yer jacket
    Love to see it again


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,054 ✭✭✭Tuco88


    Rawhead Rex... Irelands greatest horror film.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 404 ✭✭E mac


    I think? Giz a smoke and giz yer jacket
    Love to see it again

    Reminds me of Adam and Paul kinda forgotten by me anyway...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,520 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    I think? Giz a smoke and giz yer jacket
    Love to see it again

    Was that in black and white? I seem to remember Colin Murphy ripping the p!ss out of it in the Blizzard Of Odd in that weekly section that focused on bad Irish movies


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 404 ✭✭E mac


    E mac wrote: »
    Reminds me of Adam and Paul kinda forgotten by me anyway...

    Which reminds me ...'inside I'm dancing'


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Disco Pigs


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 404 ✭✭E mac


    The Disappearance of Finbar


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,576 ✭✭✭Skill Magill


    Was that in black and white? I seem to remember Colin Murphy ripping the p!ss out of it in the Blizzard Of Odd in that weekly section that focused on bad Irish movies
    It was indeed, the off license in Ranalagh was in it, and Nell McCafferty. Defo had an Adam and Paul vibe to it. Thought it was hilarious, and not in a rippin the píss out of it kind of way


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    Cal - with Helen Mirren and John Lynch

    Also heavily features the music " The Long Road " made by Mark Knopfler.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 279 ✭✭Pocaide


    Man about dog


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,520 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    E mac wrote: »
    The Disappearance of Finbar

    Johnathan Rhys Myers just before his Michael Collins moment. All I remember was his character was extremely unlikeable and there was this really weird musical segment with a guy who looked like Bono in his mid early 90s white makeup period singing a song about Finbar going missing.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,935 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    The Last of the High Kings... Jared Leto with a spot on Irish accent.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 Covidhaveago


    Crush Proof


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 404 ✭✭E mac


    Johnathan Rhys Myers just before his Michael Collins moment. All I remember was his character was extremely unlikeable and there was this really weird musical segment with a guy who looked like Bono in his mid early 90s white makeup period singing a song about Finbar going missing.

    Funnily enough I had to Google Michael Collins (film) to remember JRM the actor whom I knew was in that film in order to remember the name of it....and yes crappy film.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,749 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    E mac wrote: »
    There's a bleakness to Irish films in the 80s. The countryside is full of nothingness and people wishing their lives were better always on the brink of moving away....(ya I know still could be the case)

    And all the way through the 90s and 00s onwards, every second Irish film is about some salt of the earth oddball written by some gob****e that went to UCD


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    E mac wrote: »
    There's a bleakness to Irish films in the 80s. The countryside is full of nothingness and people wishing their lives were better always on the brink of moving away....(ya I know still could be the case)

    It doesn't get much bleaker than The Outcasts from 1982, I must have walked out before the end because apparently there was a scene in it with a woman having sex with a goat which I definitely don't remember.


  • Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 12,850 Mod ✭✭✭✭iamstop




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,520 ✭✭✭Hangdogroad


    Crush Proof

    That was an attempt to make a gritty film about Dublin skangers but the script and storyline was laughable. I think it was written and directed by an American.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,250 ✭✭✭Seamai


    iamstop wrote: »

    I really like The Butcher Boy, Irish humour at it blackest and most warped.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,935 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    I only remember these as they filmed around D3...
    The Courier - Gabriel Byrne
    A Man of No Importance - Albert Finney

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



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