TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: » Brooklyn is a good film. It's well written and has really strong performances. It's not like one of those diddly-aye-top-o-the-mornin-to-ya American made films with arsehats doing leprechaun sounding accents and everyone's eating raw spuds on the back of a donkey. Brooklyn is a rare one in that it would evoke a lot of memories for older people who lived through that era of emigration but it also touches a nerve now with the younger generations who are forced to do the same. Or even just in those who left of their own accord but still miss home. I read a lot of things around the time of it's release where Irish people living abroad said they could absolutely relate to the feeling of homesickness the main character has when she first arrives, regardless of their reasons for leaving home. A good story, in my opinion, is one that people can relate to on an emotional level regardless of whether or not the actual circumstances being played out are exactly the same as your own or completely different. A 20 year old Irish man emigrating to New York now isn't going to look at Brooklyn and think jaysus, that's me! but at the same time I'm sure they'd be able to look at it and recognise a little bit of their own experience in it. I would have more of a "cultural cringe" watching things like The Guard or Calvary than something like Brooklyn.
swiwi_ wrote: » If you're like me, and watching a film with your other half means restricting the genre to "Romantic Comedy" or "Romantic Drama", then I can recommend "Brooklyn" (unless you're from Cavan...) I'd be actually interested to know what Real Actual Irish People (you people in other words) feel watching a film like that: ?cultural cringe or are these sort of films well-received in Ireland?
mfceiling wrote: » I might as well be a woman with the amount of them in my house.
Pink Fairy wrote: » a.k. isn't top of my list anymore.....and there's 2 women on it!
irishbucsfan wrote: » Yep!
Pink Fairy wrote: » I was actually pulling the piss, knew you were a bloke, sure no women would dare darken the door of the rugby forum!
Scythica wrote: » Must be :P Nah just taking the piss about that part, went to try and do that 'see who's liked you the most' but can't remember how anymore!
Teferi wrote: » Putin is made of Teflon though. He could kill a child on live TV and he'd still be fine.
irishbucsfan wrote: » 400 journalists from over 100 media organisations have been researching it for 12 months. And not a peep. Quality work. Iceland is not going to be a pleasant place tomorrow.
Podge_irl wrote: » http://www.boards.ie/love.php?match=hot .ak is at the top of everyone's list because he is a thanks whore.
irishbucsfan wrote: » Rumous say there's a lot more in there, like further evidence of previous scandals and also some information going back to more disturbing things like sex trafficking and worse.
Teferi wrote: » As far as I understand it it's just proof of rich people dodging taxes, right? Or is it worse than that? If it's the former, I can't imagine it will hold the public interest too long. I reckon everyone just assumes that businessman, athletes, politicians etc. are dodging taxes anyway.
Buer wrote: » The Panama Papers...potentially bigger than Snowden and Wikileaks. Will be interesting to see what emerges from it. A number of world leaders looking on very dodgy ground with Putin the highest profile although he'll probably face no sanction. 2.6TB of documents...a scary amount of evidence.
Stheno wrote: » Wow is that flirting Fairy style?
Scythica wrote: » I did wonder why you always liked my posts... :pac:
Pink Fairy wrote: » I always thought you were a female poster :eek:
Scythica wrote: » I was in a remote part of Sri Lanka for a few months with only a straight cutthroat razor. I therefore grew the biggest goatee i could manage to avoid wet shaving anything that wasnt cheek.
awec wrote: » Wet shaving, ugh. I had to do that when I was in the states before christmas (first time in years) cause I forgot my shaver and I forgot how awful it feels after. Can't be bothered with it, too much hard work.
awec wrote: » I'm not bald, or even balding. :mad:
Pink Fairy wrote: » A nordie Duncan Goodhew in fact
awec wrote: » He is mocking the fact I am not a hairy bastard.
irishbucsfan wrote: » I don't understand any of those sentences, I assume it's Ulster Scots
