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The Greatest Irish Films

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    #92
    the14thwarrior
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    Life's a Breeze.
    cos it hasn't been mentioned yet!


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    #93
    Sad Professor
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    Small Wonder wrote: »
    Bore off you big child.

    Keep it friendly please.

    /mod


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    #94
    Small Wonder
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    Sad Professor wrote: »
    Keep it friendly please.

    /mod

    You're quite right. It's really not worth it.


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    #95
    vriesmays
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    Insect Overlord wrote: »
    Professional critics, their reviews, and their opinions, are just as subjective as the rest of us. They just use fancier words and more esoteric references to back them up, compared to your average viewer.

    They've also seen a lot more films than the average viewer. No Irish film is great.


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    #96
    sydthebeat
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    vriesmays wrote: »
    They've also seen a lot more films than the average viewer. No Irish film is great.

    You tried that already and failed miserably


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    #97
    vriesmays
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    None of the films mentioned here are great. Just because you thought some Irish title was good doesn't make the everyone else wrong. A great film will still be watched 50 years from now. Most Irish films resemble bad TV movies.


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    #98
    Del.Monte
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    Did you not get a part in some Irish movie? :D

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    #99
    johnny_ultimate
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    vriesmays wrote: »
    Just because you thought some Irish title was good doesn't make the everyone else wrong.

    Just because you or Film Review 1989 (side note: still laughing at that one) thought some Irish title was bad doesn’t make everyone else wrong.

    You’re making this way too easy.


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    #100
    IAMAMORON
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    The best films are the ones that the viewer subjectively enjoys and feels entertained by. I have seen brilliant movies that get terrible reviews and are classed as " squishy rotten tomatoes" and turkeys. I happened to like them.

    Some of the online rating sites can disable your spectrum of movies to watch. If you don't watch a movie that is classified as 23% on RT, just cause a few dickhead intellectuals living in Greenwich Village don't like it, you are going to overlook some great films, believe.

    Films are there to be enjoyed, if your watching a movie to annihilate it and call it a piece a shight afterwards why are you bothering? It is your own time your wasting.


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    #101
    vriesmays
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    My left foot isn't even an Irish film. It got funded by Grenada television.


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    #102
    OU812
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    Long forgotten about movie called The Courier - Trailer. Very much captures Dublin of the late 80s. Low budget & quite gritty, but a decent watch with a great Irish soundtrack.

    Full movie is on youtube


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    #103
    vriesmays
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    There's a reason it's long forgotten.


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    #104
    TerrorFirmer
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    My all-time favorite is hands down Intermission. I've seen it more times than I care to remember.

    So amazingly quotable.


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    #105
    Insect Overlord
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    vriesmays wrote: »
    There's a reason it's long forgotten.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgyLQ2jVsuY


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    #106
    Hangdogroad
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    Poitin. Look past the fact that it's in Irish, great film.


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    #107
    Jimbob1977
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    The Johnstown Monster


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    #108
    Del.Monte
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    Jimbob1977 wrote: »
    The Johnstown Monster

    Tongue in cheek?

    I doubt many here have seen this ultra low budget children's movie, but charming and all as it is an episode of Wanderley Wagon would give it a run for its money. :D

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQi0O5ZfrAc



    A brief synopsis here: https://irelandsmovies.wordpress.com/j/

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    #109
    Del.Monte
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    vriesmays wrote: »
    My left foot isn't even an Irish film. It got funded by Grenada television.

    “My Left Foot” (1989) (103 mins) Biopic/Drama

    Daniel Day-Lewis, Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker, Hugh O’Connor, Fiona Shaw, Cyril Cusack, Adrian Dunbar, Ruth McCabe, Alison Whelan.

    Director: Jim Sheridan.

    Written by: Jim Sheridan & Shane Connaughton.

    Filmed at Ardmore Studios and in Counties Dublin and Wicklow.

    Based on the autobiography of Christy Brown, an Irish writer/artist with cerebral palsy, featuring the role of his mother in his life.

    Nothing Irish about this film. :rolleyes:

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    #110
    Small Wonder
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    Del.Monte wrote: »
    “My Left Foot” (1989) (103 mins) Biopic/Drama

    Daniel Day-Lewis, Ray McAnally, Brenda Fricker, Hugh O’Connor, Fiona Shaw, Cyril Cusack, Adrian Dunbar, Ruth McCabe, Alison Whelan.

    Director: Jim Sheridan.

    Written by: Jim Sheridan & Shane Connaughton.

    Filmed at Ardmore Studios and in Counties Dublin and Wicklow.

    Based on the autobiography of Christy Brown, an Irish writer/artist with cerebral palsy, featuring the role of his mother in his life.

    Nothing Irish about this film. :rolleyes:

    Don't waste any more time on that person. We all keep taking the bait.


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    #111
    vriesmays
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    Everyone's getting confused with Irish and Irish-themed.


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    #112
    Stop moaning ffs
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    Flight of the doves


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    #113
    branie2
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    Michael Collins


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    #114
    Insect Overlord
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    vriesmays wrote: »
    Everyone's getting confused with Irish and Irish-themed.

    Read the mother-f*cking OP.
    Small Wonder wrote: »
    I would like to hear people's recommendations of the greatest Irish films.

    ...

    They can be set in Ireland, actually made in Ireland or have some other link to the country. 'Irish' themed, basically.


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    #115
    vriesmays
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    In that case Leprechuan in space is the greatest Irish film.


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    #116
    IAMAMORON
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    vriesmays wrote: »
    In that case Leprechuan in space is the greatest Irish film.

    An all time classic, I am not surprised you like it to be fair. Definitely your type of flick for sure.

    1413821283_leprechaun-zoom.jpg


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    #117
    Screw Attack
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    These probably don't count but my two favourites would be Barry Lyndon and Miller's Crossing.


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    #118
    Del.Monte
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    Screw Attack wrote: »
    These probably don't count but my two favourites would be Barry Lyndon and Miller's Crossing.

    Barry Lyndon is right up there and with a superb soundtrack. All sorts of interesting people in the cast too including our own late lamented Godfrey Quigley; Leonard Rossiter (Reggie Perrin) and not forgetting Ryan O'Neal.

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    #119
    Homelander
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    Gotta be Intermission for me. "Deirdre, come're for a sec..." (fumbling with trousers ensues). So amazingly quotable.


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    #120
    saabsaab
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    dublinman1990 wrote: »
    My list of completely Irish films would comprise of A Man of No Importance & Song for a Raggy Boy.

    And one other notable one that was not Irish themed but was filmed in Ireland; The Great Train Robbery with Sean Connery.


    Hard to watch at times but a great film - song for a Raggy Boy. great performances from Iain Glen and Aidan Quinn


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    #121
    bodhrandude
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    Although I do like some of Neil Jordan's stuff I think The Treaty was far better made than Michael Collins, I thought Brendan Gleeson played a more credible Collins and it stuck more to the facts and bonus being it didn't feature Julia Roberts. The time I saw it it was in two parts so a TV movie. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0190088/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



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