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IFTA: Is there a point?

  • 12-02-2012 1:19am
    #1
    InkSlinger67
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,756 ✭✭✭


    I didn't watch the awards tonight but given the poor quality of Irish Film and Television over the past 15 years, is there a point to giving awards to people who make really bad film and television shows?

    Irish stage is as good as you can get anywhere in the world I reckon but its definitely not happening in front of a camera.

    Personally, I think this was just something born out of the boom (first held in 2003) when we started to like the smell of our own sh1te.


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  • #2
    Kerrigooney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,987 ✭✭✭Kerrigooney


    No.
    End thread.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 15,814 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    It's an opportunity for those in the industry to stroke one another's ego and congratulate themselves for producing mediocre rubbish that no other country in the world would celebrate.


  • #4
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Kerrigooney wrote: »
    No.
    End thread.

    It's a forum.

    Re-opens thread.


  • #5
    KerranJast
    Registered Users Posts: 1,829 ✭✭✭KerranJast


    I was flicking around earlier and saw Love/Hate beat Game of Thrones for something. That's just wrong on all kinds of levels.


  • #6
    The King of Moo
    Registered Users Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭The King of Moo


    KerranJast wrote: »
    I was flicking around earlier and saw Love/Hate beat Game of Thrones for something. That's just wrong on all kinds of levels.

    What was Game of Thrones nominated for?

    Best TV series starring Aiden Gillen?


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  • #7
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    KerranJast wrote: »
    I was flicking around earlier and saw Love/Hate beat Game of Thrones for something. That's just wrong on all kinds of levels.

    Flicking your bean to the IFTAs?

    Jeepers. Did you run out of porn?


  • #8
    Dr. Manhattan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 190 ✭✭Dr. Manhattan


    There's as much point to them as any other, similar awards. How much point that is, is open to debate.


  • #9
    Kerrigooney
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,987 ✭✭✭Kerrigooney


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    It's a forum.

    Re-opens thread.

    Touchè. I watched it for a while tonight and it really was utter ****e. When Mrs Browns fucking Boys is winning awards then that really says it all. I didn`t want to read or get involved in a thread about it. Hmm...that`s goin well,isn`t it? :(


  • #10
    amdublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    Primetime Investigates won an award.

    Considering the big payout RTE made from our licence money because of a fk up by PT Investigates I think accepting an award is a bit messed up :confused:

    :(


  • #11
    D1stant
    Registered Users Posts: 1,806 ✭✭✭D1stant


    "I'm sorry your host Simon Delaney cant be here tonight as he is down the pub. On his behalf, the show wil be hosted by a roast beef roll"


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  • #12
    JerryHandbag
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭JerryHandbag


    D1stant wrote: »
    "I'm sorry your host Simon Delaney cant be here tonight as he is down the pub. On his behalf, the show wil be hosted by a roast beef roll"

    My mind goes back to when he was a contestant on Who Wants to Be A Millionaire. Look at him now!


  • #13
    squod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,704 ✭✭✭squod


    amdublin wrote: »
    Primetime Investigates won an award.



    Madness. We've hardly had a straight word from RTE in the last four years.


  • #14
    John Doe1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    "And the winner of the best film in the world starring an actor we could afford to bribe to come to awards ceremony goes to.....:D


  • #15
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    InkSlinger67 wrote: »
    given the poor quality of Irish Film and Television over the past 15 years,.

    It was better before that :confused:


  • #16
    SeaFields
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,551 ✭✭✭SeaFields


    amdublin wrote: »
    Primetime Investigates won an award.

    Doesn't that win an award every year?! Its like there is a category that only primetime investigates could win


  • #17
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    who remembers the Jacob awards.....when each category winner would receive a tin of biscuits


  • #18
    amdublin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,653 ✭✭✭✭amdublin


    SeaFields wrote: »
    Doesn't that win an award every year?! Its like there is a category that only primetime investigates could win

    Yep.

    You think they'd pull that category considering recent events.


  • #19
    Zebra3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,968 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    SeaFields wrote: »
    Doesn't that win an award every year?! Its like there is a category that only primetime investigates could win

    Ah, but there's some fierce competition altogether from those TV3 documentaries. :rolleyes:


  • #20
    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    It was better before that :confused:

    RTE was much better in the 1970s and 1980s - certainly from a drama perspective.


  • #21
    El Horseboxo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭El Horseboxo


    It's funny when they announce someone as a very talented and versatile actress that starred in glenroe, fair city and a Kerry Gold butter ad.


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  • #22
    St.Spodo
    Registered Users Posts: 1,027 ✭✭✭St.Spodo


    To be fair, Love/Hate and The Guard last year were worthy of recognition.


  • #23
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    KerranJast wrote: »
    I was flicking around earlier and saw Love/Hate beat Game of Thrones for something. That's just wrong on all kinds of levels.
    Well it's not like anyone from Game Of Thrones would be available to accept an award. Love/Hate was obviously going to win - a competitor was just required to tick a box.


  • #24
    Missmiddleton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 176 ✭✭Missmiddleton


    "IFTA" is a point I don't know about it.


  • #25
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    Its a bit of a cod tbh. Nothing wrong with having an award ceremony but dont call it something that rhymes with BAFTA, and hold it on the night before the British awards, in the pathetic hope that some big yank whos going to be in London anyway, will grace us with his presence for half an hour. Plus, handing out awards to people who arent even bothered to be there to accept them! Painful stuff.


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