Best Irish films you've seen

arsenallegend · 13-04-2010 10:31AM #1

Over the past four years or so we've started to turn out great work and its becoming more regular too instead of one every ten years

So what is your favourite's from Ireland?

here are some of mine:)

Kisses
I went Down (when will we get DVD of this film!!)
Adam and Paul
Garage
Hunger
In Bruges
The snapper

faceman · 13-04-2010 10:53AM

Folks, if this thread descends into a list thread it will be locked. Please give explanations for your choices. Thanks!

PARKHEAD67 · 17-04-2010 10:11PM

Thought intermission was very good.

Hank_Jones · 17-04-2010 11:41PM

The Commitments is in my opinion the greatest Irish film ever made.
It was some amazing Irish/Dublin wit, good acting (especially considering the majority had never acted before) and a cracking story.
Roddy Doyle's best work (that was turned into a film anyway).

ultain · 17-04-2010 11:47PM

Don't know if you could class it as an Irish film per-say but 'A company of wolfs' was very good, way before Tim Burton! the brothers grim would have liked it it. I think it really put Sheridan on the map.

Hank_Jones · 18-04-2010 12:01AM

ultain wrote: »

Don't know if you could class it as an Irish film per-say but 'The Company of Wolves' was very good, way before Tim Burton! the brothers grim would have liked it it. I think it really put Jordan on the map.

FYP.

ultain · 18-04-2010 12:14AM

Hank_Jones wrote: »

FYP.

Thank you..just removed my head from my arse:o

tony1kenobi · 18-04-2010 12:24AM

I know a lot of people didn't like it but I thought Braveheart was pretty good.

Purple Lemons · 18-04-2010 12:26AM

I loved War of The Buttons

Intermission and The Commitments are both fantastic movies in my opinion too.

seanybiker · 18-04-2010 12:31AM

crush proof would probably be my favourite. It was nice seeing places I was when I was younger. Acting was alright. Story wasnt the best but alright. Scummy dublin people, teenage crap going on. Well worth a watch.

Hank_Jones · 18-04-2010 01:12AM

tony1kenobi wrote: »

I know a lot of people didn't like it but I thought Braveheart was pretty good.

I know it was made in Trim, but can it really be considered an Irish film?

It's more of an American film with a British cast really.

bluto63 · 18-04-2010 02:41PM

I quite enjoyed My Left Foot. Very strong performance from Daniel Day-Lewis and a really powerful story.

iMax · 18-04-2010 02:50PM

Intermission had one of the best opening scenes I've ever seen (internationally & Irish).

I have a soft spot for "The Courier" which unfortunately hasn't been around on DVD or VHS for well over a decade.

The commitments, well made, well written, well acted (really could have done with a follow up).

bonerm · 18-04-2010 03:04PM

I've got to be honest, whilst I have a few Irish films that I like I can't think of a single one I "love" or would watch whilst thinking "god I wish I had made this film or thought of this idea!". Not a single one.

No matter what the film it seems that all that ever comes out of this country is simple stories with nothing to get the viewer pulse going or head thinking. There's nothing that seems raise the bar or go beyond the medium of straightforward down-to-earth narrative. Every Irish film is just a literal journey from A to B without much in the realm of abstraction or cinematic ambition. The only thing I can even think that might be close to this was "The Commitments" and that wasn't really even made "by" this country when you get right down to it.

I mean could you ever see a film like "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", "Punch Drunk Love" or "Amelie" coming out of Ireland? I couldn't.

RMD · 18-04-2010 03:07PM

If you consider the north Irish, I though Micky-bo and Me was an amazing movie.

Skerries · 18-04-2010 03:48PM

what was the name of that film where a load of heads from Dublin and Belfast are in a race to get to each others respective city?
oh and Rawhead Rex

Nolanger · 18-04-2010 04:24PM

Accelerator.

slowlydownwards · 18-04-2010 04:58PM

The Butcher Boy One of my all time favourites. Growing up in dysfunctional family and the stiff society that surrounds it. Reminds us how they used to lock up people in mental institutions, if they were any bit different. But the best of it all the uncrushable spirit of a young boy that just would not give in.

Hank_Jones · 18-04-2010 05:24PM

Nolanger wrote: »

Accelerator.

I don't mean to be bad or anything...

But Accelerator is one of the worst films (not just Irish) ever made.
The story is awful, the acting is awful, the cars are awful, the characters are awful.

It's all just awful.

Flamed Diving · 18-04-2010 05:32PM

The Wind That Shakes The Barley

Faceman? You know damn well why..

Nolanger · 18-04-2010 06:55PM

Hank_Jones wrote: »

I don't mean to be bad or anything...

But Accelerator is one of the worst films (not just Irish) ever made.
The story is awful, the acting is awful, the cars are awful, the characters are awful.

It's all just awful.

I never said it was good ffs - was replying to the previous poster who asked 'what was the name of that film where a load of heads from Dublin and Belfast are in a race to get to each others respective city' :rolleyes:

seanybiker · 18-04-2010 07:00PM

Playboys or the playboy . Great little film. Mainly liked it cos it was made in the little village me father grew up in.

iMax · 18-04-2010 07:09PM

Although the money was American. The Quiet Man would probably be a favourite too...

Flight of the Doves anyone ??

Hank_Jones · 18-04-2010 07:22PM

Nolanger wrote: »

I never said it was good ffs - was replying to the previous poster who asked 'what was the name of that film where a load of heads from Dublin and Belfast are in a race to get to each others respective city' :rolleyes:

Sorry, saw the thread title. Saw the word Accelerator.
Put 2 & 2 together and got 5.

Deliverance · 18-04-2010 10:33PM

Great thread, saw films mentioned, and will put some others on the must watch list.

My contribution is 'Once'. I liked it because it was different, romantic, uplifting and most of all amazingly unpatronising for a romantic movie. I particularly liked the ending. It ended beautifully in an unexpected way.

Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6xIF92OUos

Kashkai · 18-04-2010 11:31PM

Intermission for my number one mainly bacause I thought it would be crap but it was very funny and well acted. Colin Farrell's gangsta scumbag character was well matched with Colm Meaney's Dirty Harry wanabe cop. The other interwoven subplots were well threaded together.

The Commitments was class with great music and wit. The ending for me (as someone who grew up in the Dublin of that time) was sad as they just missed out on their chance of mega stardom as a group. Considering how screwed the country is now, a sequel could work as we are back in the bad old times like when this film was shot.

The snapper had me in stitches when I first saw it. Any girl called Sharon had an awful time of it when this film was released

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cursai · 18-04-2010 11:53PM

What about Kings. great cast and story

Busi_Girl08 · 19-04-2010 01:10PM

Prosperous Dave wrote: »

The snapper had me in stitches when I first saw it. Any girl called Sharon had an awful time of it when this film was released .

"Y'alright there, Sharon?"

:p

I loved Mr Buuuuuuuurgess aswell.

MiloYossarian · 19-04-2010 04:40PM

THE FIELD(don't think it was mentioned) is a brilliant film. A good enough plot but a barnstorming performance by Richard Harris. The Bull is just a great character, powerful in body and mind, strong in his convictions and yet burdened with the weight of a great sorrow and responsibility. Some of the speeches he gets to give are rousing and epic.
And I don't know if Bloody Sunday could be considered an Irish film, or even a film, but it is certainly about the Irish, and it is great.

ultain · 19-04-2010 04:42PM

Yup, 'the field' was a good one.

kraggy · 19-04-2010 04:58PM

+1 on The Field. One of the best performances I've seen. Harris is immense.

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