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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!

I was actually pulling the piss, knew you were a bloke, sure no women would dare darken the door of the rugby forum!

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!

:eek::eek:

.ak

irishbucsfan wrote: »

Yep!

I bring you love.

a.k. isn't top of my list anymore.....and there's 2 women on it!

mfceiling

Pink Fairy wrote: »

a.k. isn't top of my list anymore.....and there's 2 women on it!

I might as well be a woman with the amount of them in my house.

mfceiling wrote: »

I might as well be a woman with the amount of them in my house.

Leinster fans are they?

swiwi_

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?

Journeyman_1

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?

In the words of my mother: "Its a lovely kind of a film". I havent seen it.

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?

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_

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.

Thanks. Yeah, I quite related to it, not only because I've lived in Ireland, but also because I've been out of my home country for about 10 years now, and I won't be going back to live there. From time to time I miss NZ, even if there are heap of things I really don't like about the place.

I have definitely seen films that have Irish "cultural cringe", and I didn't find Brooklyn like that.

The book will have to be read now...

swiwi_ wrote: »

Thanks. Yeah, I quite related to it, not only because I've lived in Ireland, but also because I've been out of my home country for about 10 years now, and I won't be going back to live there. From time to time I miss NZ, even if there are heap of things I really don't like about the place.

I have definitely seen films that have Irish "cultural cringe", and I didn't find Brooklyn like that.

The book will have to be read now...

Even though it wasn't the original author that wrote the screenplay the film is basically the book on screen, if you know what I mean. It's a really well done adaptation. There might be one or two bits that were cut out but the overall experience, I found, was the same. It's a while since I read the book but I think the film might have actually been a little more satisfactory in it's ending, in that it was definitive. I think the book was a bit more vague.

Still worth reading though.

Buer

Brooklyn is very good. Manages to capture the sense of overwhelment without ever being twee.

Having discussed it with some older relations who emigrated, it's very accurate in its depictions of the experience as well as the rural Irish town at the time.

It's the first film I saw Saoirse Ronan in where I thought she deserved the praise.

Buer wrote: »

It's the first film I saw Saoirse Ronan in where I thought she deserved the praise.

I think she's been excellent in everything she's ever done. Some of the films she's done are just not great films in themselves. The Lovely Bones, for example, was a disaster of an adaptation, but Ronan was excellent in it. Byzantium is another quite messy film but her performance is great. Hanna is brilliant, How I Live Now is good too, there is a major problem in the actual plot itself, for me, but overall it's a really good film that was pretty much ignored on release.

I think the reason she's getting so much praise for Brooklyn is because it's her first sort of proper "adult" role so it makes it more accessible for people. Hanna is in no way a kids film but she's still playing a child in it, same with pretty much all of her work before Brooklyn.

swiwi_

Yeah the lovely bones was dreadful.

From memory it was peter Jackson and I don't feel the love that I am supposedly obliged to feel for his work. The last LOTR was about an hour too long and I was utterly bored.

swiwi_ wrote: »

Yeah the lovely bones was dreadful.

From memory it was peter Jackson and I don't feel the love that I am supposedly obliged to feel for his work. The last LOTR was about an hour too long and I was utterly bored.

Yeah, it was him and his wife and someone else actually did the screenplay. I'd say he was pulling the strings though. For me that book wasn't about the murdered girl it was about her family left behind and their struggle to cope with the aftermath of her disappearance. Her being in the "in between" was just a way of framing that. Jackson seemed to miss that entirely and spent most of the film showing off his special effects guys work in creating the "in between". He basically ripped the entire heart out of the book and threw it away.

I wouldn't be a fan of Jackson at all, especially not as a writer.

pickarooney

The lovely bones was utter garbage. I can't believe nobody mentioned it to Jackson at any point in the fulm's creation. I doubt the author was impressed.

Teferi

Peter Jackson's issue is that he got too powerful. LoTR was the sweet spot for him as his love of technology was balanced by the demands of the studio.

Pink Fairy wrote: »

a.k. isn't top of my list anymore.....and there's 2 women on it!

I'm sure the fact I'm a mod negates the fact I'm female

That's a fair few mods you are having a love in with

pickarooney wrote: »

The lovely bones was utter garbage. I can't believe nobody mentioned it to Jackson at any point in the fulm's creation. I doubt the author was impressed.

Jackson was writer, director and producer on it. There were 2 other production companies involved but I think his one had most control during filming. Nobody to answer to but himself for the most part. Always a bad idea.

errlloyd

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Jackson was writer, director and producer on it. There were 2 other production companies involved but I think his one had most control during filming. Nobody to answer to but himself for the most part. Always a bad idea.

Christopher Nolans best films are written directed by him and produced by his wife.

Stheno wrote: »

I'm sure the fact I'm a mod negates the fact I'm female

That's a fair few mods you are having a love in with

Yeah....they're keeping an eye on me....they were awaiting the dreaded sentence being typed on Saturday.... "Leinster V Munster...and Pink Fairy's been drinking"

Pink Fairy wrote: »

Yeah....they're keeping an eye on me....they were awaiting the dreaded sentence being typed on Saturday.... "Leinster V Munster...and Pink Fairy's been drinking"

Sure you don't even post in any of my forums

And no, that's not an invitation to start!

Stheno wrote: »

Sure you don't even post in any of my forums

And no, that's not an invitation to start!

Nope, I'm not going there at all...anything to do with religion gets a wide berth from me

errlloyd wrote: »

Christopher Nolans best films are written directed by him and produced by his wife.

Not a huge fan of Nolan myself, so not sure that's a good thing either.

I suppose the opposite end of the spectrum is a studio interfering too much with what the writer/director are trying to do and you end up with a mess.

With someone like Jackson though I'd have thought studios would have stopped giving him such free reign on things. Then again financially he gets them their money so they don't really care what he's doing.

Yeah_Right

Stheno wrote: »

Sure you don't even post in any of my forums

And no, that's not an invitation to start!

I think everyone from the Rugby forum should go pay a visit to Stheno's forums. in the Religious forum we could start a thread on whether McCaw or Hayes is the one true God. In the Separation & Divorce forum the thread could be about the strain that supporting different provinces puts on a relationship. Politics, just bring everything back to bidding for the RWC.

Synode

swiwi_ wrote: »

From time to time I miss NZ, even if there are heap of things I really don't like about the place.

Out of interest swiwi, what don't you like about NZ? Was only there once for a couple of weeks (it was baltic cold) but thought it was amazing. Suppose I was a tourist though and would be seeing it through tinted glasses

Yeah_Right wrote: »

I think everyone from the Rugby forum should go pay a visit to Stheno' forums. in the Religious forum we could start a thread on whether McCaw or Hayes is the one true God. In the Marriage & Divorce forum the thread could be about the strain that supporting different provinces puts on a relationship.

*polishes ban hammer* :pac:

I'll have you know that I was the person today to tell my OH that George Naoupu (sp?) was retiring, and explaining about his missus and his business here. Sure he didn't even know Ah You was moving to Ulster.

The politics thread would probably be fine in the cafe :pac:

Yeah_Right

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",

I have this same problem. The one good thing is that she tends to fall asleep 10 minutes into any movie so I then change it to something I'm interested in.