Forgotten Irish movies.

Hangdogroad

vriesmays wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97C9akypOjg

https://twitter.com/KillianM2/status/1394647736465641474

Del.Monte

My almost unused (watched once) copy of Dick Dickman P.I. still available here: https://www.adverts.ie/dvd/dick-dickman-p-i-dvd/22787887 - no Irish movie collection is complete without it (except my one).

ohnonotgmail

Del.Monte wrote: »

My almost unused (watched once) copy of Dick Dickman P.I. still available here: https://www.adverts.ie/dvd/dick-dickman-p-i-dvd/22787887 - no Irish movie collection is complete without it (except my one).

offer a half eaten orange.

Hamsterchops

Nearly 700 posts of discussion about forgotten Irish movies, and that's just the forgotten ones!

Must have been churning them out like Bollywood on steroids

TenLeftFingers

Rubaí (short) https://youtube.com/watch?v=__RCraeIDqU

[Deleted User]

Clash of the ash.

BonnieSituation

Hamsterchops wrote: »

Nearly 700 posts of discussion about forgotten Irish movies, and that's just the forgotten ones!

Must have been churning them out like Bollywood on steroids

We should be sticking the list into the First post.

Been some gems.

And some godawful mucky gems.

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One that's just come back to me now, that I saw in the cinema was Saltwater.

I have no idea what it was about and I'm resisting a Wiki check....


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EDIT: I literally only remembered that Peter McDonald was in it.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0224050/

It still doesn't ring a bell.

But I definitely saw it on a first date in 2000 in Liffey Valley. Gah.

Hangdogroad

If I Could Read The Sky. This did the festival rounds.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0215865/

Hangdogroad

BonnieSituation wrote: »

We should be sticking the list into the First post.

Been some gems.

And some godawful mucky gems.

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One that's just come back to me now, that I saw in the cinema was Saltwater.

I have no idea what it was about and I'm resisting a Wiki check....


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EDIT: I literally only remembered that Peter McDonald was in it.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0224050/

It still doesn't ring a bell.

But I definitely saw it on a first date in 2000 in Liffey Valley. Gah.

I remember seeing the trailer in the cinema, all I can recall is that Pat Shorttt seemed to be playing a thuggish character.

Hangdogroad

American Women, released in the States as the Closer You Get. Dreadful scutter, an attempt at an Irish Full Monty.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0218112/

EmmetSpiceland

Hangdogroad wrote: »

American Women, released in the States as the Closer You Get. Dreadful scutter, an attempt at an Irish Full Monty.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0218112/

Great film, great soundtrack.

Leinsterblue

Two stick out for me ... The Actors with Michael Caine and Dylan Moran a really underrated film. And The Dead directed by John Huston an adaptation of the James Joyce book.

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Leinsterblue wrote: »

Two stick out for me ... The Actors with Michael Caine and Dylan Moran a really underrated film. And The Dead directed by John Huston an adaptation of the James Joyce book.

The dead is great. Good cameo by Frank too.

New Home

Saltwater and The Actors were both works by Conor McPherson. His plays are better than his films, though.

EmmetSpiceland

[Deleted User] wrote: »

The dead is great. Good cameo by Frank too.

Frank who?

ohnonotgmail

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Frank who?

Frank Patterson presumably.

Duckworth_Luas

EmmetSpiceland wrote: »

Frank who?

Sidebottom obviously!

Sgt Hartman

I still have Crushproof on DVD on my parent's house. It's from approximately 1998 and features Darren Healy as a gurrier who's just released from prison. He tries to see his baby son and he gets back together with his horse loving buddies. Michael McElhatton plays the head detective whose constantly a thorn in his side.
It's not very good but it's fun in parts.

Del.Monte

Sgt Hartman wrote: »

I still have Crushproof on DVD on my parent's house. It's from approximately 1998 and features Darren Healy as a gurrier who's just released from prison. He tries to see his baby son and he gets back together with his horse loving buddies. Michael McElhatton plays the head detective whose constantly a thorn in his side.
It's not very good but it's fun in parts.

It's woeful and I awarded it the much sought after 3 Turkeys on my blog:https://irelandsmovies.wordpress.com/c/


A dark comedy (?) without any comedy. Northsiders, horses, dysfunctional parents (and gardai) and a surreal plot. Yet another, poorly directed, train wreck of a movie which would benefit from subtitles as it’s sometimes hard to understand what language is being spoken.

Hangdogroad

Del.Monte wrote: »

It's woeful and I awarded it the much sought after 3 Turkeys on my blog:https://irelandsmovies.wordpress.com/c/


A dark comedy (?) without any comedy. Northsiders, horses, dysfunctional parents (and gardai) and a surreal plot. Yet another, poorly directed, train wreck of a movie which would benefit from subtitles as it’s sometimes hard to understand what language is being spoken.

Saw it at a film festival at the time it came out. The script is ridiculous, wasnt it written by a Yank?

Scrolling down your blog spotted Charlie Cassanova. The director got involved in a spat on Boards in a thread about that film.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2056194451

ShatterAlan

Hangdogroad wrote: »

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.

My cousin can testify that Rhys Myers is a wanker in real life.


She worked in a video rental shop (when they existed) in Cork back in the day.
Myers came in. All snotty and condescending. Didn't return the vids either. Tosser.

BonnieSituation

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Saw it at a film festival at the time it came out. The script is ridiculous, wasnt it written by a Yank?

Scrolling down your blog spotted Charlie Cassanova. The director got involved in a spat on Boards in a thread about that film.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2056194451

I went down a serious rabbit hole on that Charlie C thread. Jaysus.

I completely forgot it even coming out. I definitely want to see it now though!

I've only walked out of one movie ever:

- The Great Gatsby

I regret not walking out of the The Dark Knight Rises and Fury Road.

Charlie Casanova sounds like a challenge. But if I can get through the sex scene in The Room I can get through anything [except the Great Gatsby].

odyssey06

The Seventh Stream... 'Oirish' Hallmark fantasy romance filmed in Galway.

"A lonely widowed Irish fisherman meets a pretty mysterious woman who may just literally be the stuff of legends."

Scott Glenn and Saffron Burrows are the leads, followed by usual suspects on this forum such as Simon Delaney, Eamon Morrissey, Stanley Townsend as well as Fiona Shaw and John Lynch.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299134/

Hangdogroad

odyssey06 wrote: »

The Seventh Stream... 'Oirish' Hallmark fantasy romance filmed in Galway.

"A lonely widowed Irish fisherman meets a pretty mysterious woman who may just literally be the stuff of legends."

Scott Glenn and Saffron Burrows are the leads, followed by usual suspects on this forum such as Simon Delaney, Eamon Morrissey, Stanley Townsend as well as Fiona Shaw and John Lynch.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299134/

Some good talent in the cast but that sounds atrocious. A lot of Irish actors have to do stuff like this to pay the mortgage I'd say.

Duckworth_Luas

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Some good talent in the cast but that sounds atrocious. A lot of Irish actors have to do stuff like this to pay the mortgage I'd say.

Here's Colm Meaney dressed up as a leprechaun.

From the 1999 all time classic The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns.

odyssey06

Hangdogroad wrote: »

Some good talent in the cast but that sounds atrocious. A lot of Irish actors have to do stuff like this to pay the mortgage I'd say.

That reminds of a quote from Michael Caine about starring in a dodgy Jaws sequel...
"I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific."

And on the same theme:
"You get paid the same for a bad film as you do for a good one."

odyssey06

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Here's Colm Meaney dressed up as a leprechaun.
From the 1999 all time classic The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns.

Ironically he wasn't keen on being paired with a leprechaun in scenes from a Star Trek DS9 episode, so the character was changed to Rumpelstiltskin...
And here he is, playing one!

Hangdogroad

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Here's Colm Meaney dressed up as a leprechaun.

From the 1999 all time classic The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns.

I just realised that's Zoe Wannamaker with him.

Arturo Delgado

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Here's Colm Meaney dressed up as a leprechaun.

From the 1999 all time classic The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns.

And if you can believe, it wasn't that bad a flick, enjoyable shoite, maybe I was inebriated, somehow think Randy Quaid was in it before I Google it.

Hamsterchops

Duckworth_Luas wrote: »

Here's Colm Meaney dressed up as a leprechaun.

Looks like Zoë Wanamaker alongside . . .