the commitments 20 years on

BaZmO* · 15-02-2008 02:05PM

is_that_so wrote: »

"On a f***** Suzuki."

Best one liner in a movie ever!

Dun laoire wrote:

"Good girl Sharon. Here's a tenner go and buy some sweets.....I mean drinks"

Wrong film there buddy!

Degsy · 15-02-2008 02:06PM

Jugs82 wrote: »

Loved the film, where are they all now?? (Actors i mean) i know where some went (Hansard & Doyle) but the rest just seemed to dissapear after the film...

Also, i remember hearing something afew years back about a sequel. Anyboy else hear something along those lines??

Robert "Jimmy Rabbite" Arkins is studying english in trinity and a right sour-faced prick he is too!

Shiminay · 15-02-2008 02:26PM

jazoo wrote: »

Its was 20 years ago boggers didnt understand it, probably still cant but what would our new adopted irish think of it

As a born and bred Mayo man I can officially tell you to go fup yourself - we understood it perfectly!

Great film, one of my all time favourites. 20 years ago though, wow. Definitely my favourite of the trilogy.

"Elvis was a cajun? That's fukkin blasphemy!"

Dudess · 15-02-2008 02:29PM

Nah it's definitely not 20 years since they began to make it - unless it took three years, which I doubt. 1991 is the year it was released. I was in first year and a big group of us went to see it.

jazoo wrote: »

all of the docklands area gone now

I lived in Ringsend last year - supposed to have been a right ****-heap back in the day. It's still a bit grotty in places now, but generally it's a nice spot.

FlutterinBantam · 15-02-2008 02:36PM

Aaah shower of skangers,couldn't understand a word they said.

So inarticulate and guttural.

Degsy · 15-02-2008 02:39PM

A few of my mates at the time were in the auditions scenes..two punks and a singing punk girl(she was the female singer in the band Paranoid Visions).There was a copyright issue because the band didnt receive royalties for using the song in t he film and they got a few quid in a settlement.
Andrea Corr(out of the Corrs) was also in it as Rabbite's siter..her only lines were "go an shiite"!

thelordofcheese · 15-02-2008 02:41PM

Jugs82 wrote: »

Loved the film, where are they all now?? (Actors i mean) i know where some went (Hansard & Doyle) but the rest just seemed to dissapear after the film...

Also, i remember hearing something afew years back about a sequel. Anyboy else hear something along those lines??

I'm pretty sure Hansard is in the process of vanishing up his own arse.

faceman · 15-02-2008 02:41PM

KaG1888 wrote: »

Micah ''dont **** with me' 'Walsh what a drummer! Great film

it was wallace actually, not walsh!

i like the committments but i despise all of roddy doyle related material. i think its unfair to say that dublin hasnt changed since the 80's! The dole queues arent as long and there are alot more foreign nationals living here!

The same film couldnt really be pulled off today as well without making some changes.

Imagine a D4 version of the film???? :eek:

FlutterinBantam · 15-02-2008 02:41PM

That's my line!!!!

is_that_so · 15-02-2008 02:42PM

Degsy wrote: »

Robert "Jimmy Rabbite" Arkins is studying english in trinity and a right sour-faced prick he is too!

"I'm Joey "The Lips" Fagan
I'm Jimmy "The Bollox" Rabbitte
I got my name for my horn playing what did you get yours for?

Degsy · 15-02-2008 02:44PM

faceman wrote: »

it was wallace actually, not walsh!

i like the committments but i despise all of roddy doyle related material. i think its unfair to say that dublin hasnt changed since the 80's! The dole queues arent as long and there are alot more foreign nationals living here!

The same film couldnt really be pulled off today as well without making some changes.

Imagine a D4 version of the film???? :eek:

The bloke who inflicted "Prosperity" on us is in the process of doing just that.Its some load of crap called "six stories" about the unlikely inhabitants of an apartment block.gay couples,muslim clerics,jewish women..all the sterotypes will be t here no doubt spouting his cliched,stilted dialogue complete witth painfull pauses.

humberklog · 15-02-2008 02:46PM

Singing on the dart?Good grief. Same guy made Fame the movie and it shows. I watched it in cinema in tel aviv and it was the cringiest moment i've ever had in a cinema(and i've had a few). Was surprised to see 2 old school mates in it...J rabbit and the sax player. Shine on Rosmini but tank that bucket of a flick.

Dudess · 15-02-2008 02:57PM

faceman wrote: »

i think its unfair to say that dublin hasnt changed since the 80's!

I don't think anyone has said that.

admiralofthefleet · 15-02-2008 03:25PM

'have ye any salmon'

'sorry mister, we only have soul'

class film and every time i walk by the vhi building in town i still think of the scene in the movie where the dart passes by while its being built

Dudess · 15-02-2008 03:29PM

Every time I pass the VHI building, it means I'm rushing for (and more than likely after missing) the bus to Cork. Horrible stinky Busarus...

humberklog · 15-02-2008 04:04PM

One of the finest buildings in ireland. Ergonomic and stylishly detailed. One of the 20th centuries most important architcts(whose name escapes me).Italian dude. Pants movie.

tbh · 15-02-2008 04:30PM

the lad who played the uileann pipes in the audition scenes used to sit beside me in school, and made a few quid selling copies of H&E he used to sneak out of easons.

that's it really, everybody back to what you were doing.

Degsy · 15-02-2008 05:08PM

tbh wrote: »

the lad who played the uileann pipes in the audition scenes used to sit beside me in school, and made a few quid selling copies of H&E he used to sneak out of easons.

that's it really, everybody back to what you were doing.

I hope you live long enough to write your memoirs,truly i do.

Latchy · 15-02-2008 05:14PM

The film is just as famous for it's use of F swear word than anything else and it showed Dubliners as they were just before the the pre-cetic tiger period .

' Dubliners are the blacks of europe ' has to be one of the best ever film quotes

zAbbo · 15-02-2008 05:14PM

The books far surpass the films, The Barrytown trilogy is a must.

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jobonar · 15-02-2008 05:41PM

Billy: And you George Michael you ever call me a fuckin' eejit again, you'll go home with the drumsticks stuck up your hole... the one you don't sing out of.

Deco: That'll be the day.

Billy: I'm tellin' ya it's coming, so keep your Vaseline handy.

My favourite line's

Has me in stitches every time

Great film it never seems to get old

the commitments 20 years on

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