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Xmas RTE Guide is out.

  • 09-12-2005 12:40pm
    #1
    Pigman II
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭


    ...... and clearly they've gone for a 'best looking people at Montrose' theme for the cover this year. I have to say it's pretty comprehensive.

    Still, horror show aside, it wouldn't be Xmas with the guide I suppose.


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  • #2
    Tobias Greeshman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,082 ✭✭✭Tobias Greeshman


    or more that the cover is almost falling off it by the time christmas day comes around.


  • #3
    im...LOST
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,784 ✭✭✭im...LOST


    I don't usually buy it at any other time of the year.
    But Christmas is a must.


  • #4
    simu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,730 ✭✭✭✭simu


    Ah, tradition!


  • #5
    Kojak
    Registered Users Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    If they wanted al the 'beautiful people' from RTE on the cover, why do they have that black haired one from 'the afternoon show'?

    Also why the f*ck is Gerry Ryan on the cover? :mad:


  • #6
    Madge
    Closed Accounts Posts: 731 ✭✭✭Madge


    why is there no movie quiz in it?! (theres just a very cryptic crossword and those sudoko things). There was always a movie quiz in the xmas edition


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  • #7
    Skyuser
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,680 ✭✭✭Skyuser


    How they managed to squeez Gerry Ryan onto the cover with all those other people, I will never know! ....computer generated i think.


  • #8
    parasite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,077 ✭✭✭parasite


    he looks like a slug, how peculiar


  • #9
    Drag00n79
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,746 ✭✭✭Drag00n79


    Madge wrote:
    why is there no movie quiz in it?! (theres just a very cryptic crossword and those sudoko things). There was always a movie quiz in the xmas edition
    Wonderin the same thing. Used to enjoy that.


  • #10
    dosfromclare
    Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭dosfromclare


    More like the Prat Pack than the Rat Pack on the cover if you ask me !


  • #11
    franman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 260 ✭✭franman


    any good films on this christmas?? i seem to remember a time when christmas was a peak time of year for premieres and good quality films!


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  • #12
    thejovialhost
    Registered Users Posts: 345 ✭✭thejovialhost


    Oh god Chicago is the main movie shared between the beeb and RTÉ...Also on their way are Ice Age, Toy Story 2, Minority Report and yay Pirates of the Caribean:D ! That's for us terrestrial folk anywho
    You know it's christmas when you find yourself drawn to the bumper issue of the RTÉ Guide! Can't go breaking tradition now


  • #13
    Quinnsey
    Closed Accounts Posts: 71 ✭✭Quinnsey


    Is TV3 showing Blade Runner? I thought I saw an ad for it...


  • #14
    d@rk l0rd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 398 ✭✭d@rk l0rd


    parasite wrote:
    he looks like a slug, how peculiar

    A slug who has fallen headfirst into a chip pan full of oil and then into a bowl of dessicated coconut!! :)


  • #15
    Kojak
    Registered Users Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    Madge wrote:
    why is there no movie quiz in it?! (theres just a very cryptic crossword and those sudoko things). There was always a movie quiz in the xmas edition

    Those movie quizzes used to be fun.

    Hate the sight of that sudoku sh1t. :mad:


  • #16
    The Bollox
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,372 ✭✭✭The Bollox


    shíte movies on over the Christmas time tbh. I was looking forward to Hook, and there is no Home Alone on Christmas Day!!!11 I mean wtf! :mad:


  • #17
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    Marts wrote:
    shíte movies on over the Christmas time tbh. I was looking forward to Hook, and there is no Home Alone on Christmas Day!!!11 I mean wtf! :mad:

    no harm with them not showing the same things over and over


  • #18
    An Tarbh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 412 ✭✭An Tarbh


    So I take it that there's no Muppet's Christmas Carol or Santa Clause the Movie on christmas eve either.


  • #19
    thejovialhost
    Registered Users Posts: 345 ✭✭thejovialhost


    The Santa Clause was on RTÉ last saturday night. Corny but i like it!! Get's you into the christmas spirit


  • #20
    AnCapaillMor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,920 ✭✭✭AnCapaillMor


    Is willy wonka on? I'll do the usual and whip out the DVD's i bought 2 months ago and got hidden. TV's been sh!te for the past few years over xmas. 3 hours of shagginf soaps on xmas day, enough to drive anyone mad.


  • #21
    Kojak
    Registered Users Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    Mossy Monk wrote:
    no harm with them not showing the same things over and over
    I'd disagree with you there. isn't that what makes RTE great around Christmas - the same films on year after year. :rolleyes:

    For example:

    Home alone (as mentioned earlier)
    The Count of Monte Cristo.
    Ben Hur (about 17 hours long. :mad: )
    Dr Zhivago.


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  • #22
    franman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 260 ✭✭franman


    thejovialhost wrote:
    Ice Age, Toy Story 2, Minority Report and yay Pirates of the Caribean:D !

    Not a bad line up:eek: Now all i need to hear is Mary Poppins is on again and im good to go
    Marts wrote:
    and there is no Home Alone on Christmas Day!!!
    surely Home Alone 2 is on at sometime??


  • #23
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    Kojak wrote:
    I'd disagree with you there. isn't that what makes RTE great around Christmas - the same films on year after year. :rolleyes:

    i disagree. if you like these films so much why not record/buy them


  • #24
    Kojak
    Registered Users Posts: 12,801 ✭✭✭✭Kojak


    Mossy Monk wrote:
    i disagree. if you like these films so much why not record/buy them

    Did you ever hear of sarcasm? :rolleyes:

    In a round-about way I was making the point that it is very predictable what films are on each Christmas on RTÉ.


  • #25
    aw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 786 ✭✭✭aw


    What the hell is Eddis Hobbs doing on the front cover!?

    He's hardly A-list.

    Gerry Ryan may have to shoot his barber I reckon.


  • #26
    AnCapaillMor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,920 ✭✭✭AnCapaillMor


    aw wrote:
    What the hell is Eddis Hobbs doing on the front cover!?

    Aye is'nt he being hypocritical, the guide of all things, people spend money on it when papers will do an xmas guide for free. Hobbs is a sellout.


  • #27
    An Tarbh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 412 ✭✭An Tarbh


    AnCapaillMor wrote:
    Is willy wonka on? I'll do the usual and whip out the DVD's i bought 2 months ago and got hidden. TV's been sh!te for the past few years over xmas. 3 hours of shagginf soaps on xmas day, enough to drive anyone mad.

    Yep the soaps are a pain in the ass alright, feck sake why do they always have to have hour long specials for Christmas Day, just have the normal half hour and let the rest of us watch something a little less head wrecking.


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