RTE2... Its not Invictus, Its "Goodbye Bafana"

scotchy

Been watching what is supposed to be Invictus on RTE 2 and wondering when Morgan Freeman was going to come into it. They have been advertising it as Invictus all evening .....Its not "Invictus", Its "Goodbye Bafana"

How are RTE able to make mistakes like this FFS???

jonnny68

Yeah I noticed that how could they make a mistake like that :-\

Femme_Fatale

That Bafana show is good though.

Rayne Wooney

rabble rabble tv licence rabble

Sunnyisland

scotchy wrote: »

Been watching what is supposed to be Invictus on RTE 2 and wondering when Morgan Freeman was going to come into it. They have been advertising it as Invictus all evening .....Its not "Invictus", Its "Goodbye Bafana"

How are RTE able to make mistakes like this FFS???

They have been in a tailspin since Nelson mandela died, it's all hands on the funeral now,nothing else matters.

jonnny68

Quite a powerful film all the same, quite disturbing looking at just how bad apartheid was.

LordSutch

Last minute change to RTE2 schedule, due to Mandela's demise?

Mr Jinx

took me a while to cop it, was wondering where the hell was Matt Damon and all the rugby!!

scotchy

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

That Bafana show is good though.

I Agree and am enjoying it...But its not Invivtus:rolleyes:



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Mr.Crinklewood

Mrs Gregory is hot.

Femme_Fatale

Mr.Crinklewood wrote: »

Mrs Gregory is hot.

... as is Mr Gregory.

Mr.Crinklewood

He likes that flask.

lightspeed

Thank you

I was thinking the same thing. Ive not seen invictus but i was happier to watch a film that focused on Mandela and the life he had in prison and rather than invictus which from what i read is mostly regarding the Mandela and the South African Rugby team.

It was only near the end i was thinking, where is Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman? and where is the rugby?

After it was over, i was thinking if anybody had mentioned it already on after hours, and here we are,

BillyMitchel

Only watched the beginning lads - did he get out of prison in the end?

Femme_Fatale

BillyMitchel wrote: »

Only watched the beginning lads - did he get out of prison in the end?

Watch it ffs - I don't do spoilers! :mad:

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

We're talking too totally diffrent films here! They only share one character in common!

It's a bit like watching The Dark Knight and wondering where Adam West is.

BillyMitchel

Princess Consuela Bananahammock wrote: »

We're talking too totally diffrent films here! They only share one character in common!

It's a bit like watching The Dark Knight and wondering where Adam West is.

Who the fock is Adam West?!

HansHolzel

BillyMitchel wrote: »

Only watched the beginning lads - did he get out of prison in the end?

He did but his motorbike ended up getting tangled in barbed wire in a field.

BillyMitchel

HansHolzel wrote: »

He did but his motorbike ended up getting tangled in barbed wire in a field.

Why was there barbed wire in a field? Keep the lions out?

HansHolzel

Ever see Steve McQueen in The Great Escape?

naughtysmurf

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

... as is Mr Gregory.

He's no Matt Damon :P

Kenjataimu

BillyMitchel wrote: »

Who the fock is Adam West?!

He's on Family Guy...

whupdedo

Jaysus I was wondering when the ****in rugby world cup was going to come into it until about 10 minutes from the end

BillyMitchel

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Watch it ffs - I don't do spoilers! :mad:

Just tell me, I don't even know who he is!

HansHolzel

BillyMitchel wrote: »

Only watched the beginning lads - did he get out of prison in the end?

He did and he made it to Mexico.

scotchy

HansHolzel wrote: »

He did and he made it to Mexico.

But only after he cured the Governors Wife's brain tumor and brought the little mouse back to life.

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BillyMitchel

What's in Mexico? Mexicans!!!


Jayus that film sounds deadly craic altogether. Think ill have a look for it!

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

BillyMitchel wrote: »

Who the fock is Adam West?!

Tuna canner.

ardmacha

Mrs Gregory is hot.

a face to launch 1000 ships.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Mr.Crinklewood wrote: »

Mrs Gregory is hot.

That's "The Graduate" right?

EDIT - Never mind (but still not as embarassing as watching Goodbye Bufana and waiting for Morgan Freeman to show up )

spank_inferno

scotchy wrote: »

Been watching what is supposed to be Invictus on RTE 2 and wondering when Morgan Freeman was going to come into it. They have been advertising it as Invictus all evening .....Its not "Invictus", Its "Goodbye Bafana"

How are RTE able to make mistakes like this FFS???

Hey!
C'mon now.

A mere 2,200people work there producing literally a couple of hours of TV content per day.

Mistakes can happen.

Now sit down & don't forget to pay your €160 RTE poll tax for next year!

Oink

That explains it. I thought maybe the guard's son was going to grow up into Matt Damon. And Dennis Haysbert was going to... I don't know... morph into Morgan Freeman. I also thought If I'd known there was so little rugby in it I would have gone to see it in the cinema.

duuuh.

Aglomerado

BillyMitchel wrote: »

Who the fock is Adam West?!

The Mayor of Quahog.

scotchy

Oink wrote: »

I thought maybe the guard's son was going to grow up into Matt Damon. And Dennis Haysbert was going to... I don't know... morph into Morgan Freeman.

duuuh.

I Hadn't seen either film before and that's exactly what I was waiting for.:o

It was nearly an hour into the film before I started to wonder How long the film was if Matt Damon or Morgan Freeman hadn't shown up yet.

Had a quick look on the interweb about James Gregory. I find it hard to believe the story that he was so good to Mandela. A lot of Mandela's family and friends also dismiss it.

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statesaver

Watched the movie and in fairness thought it was better than Invictus. Was good to see it from the prison guards viewpoint.

Oink

scotchy wrote: »

I Hadn't seen either film before and that's exactly what I was waiting for.:o

It was nearly an hour into the film before I started to wonder How long the film was if Matt Damon or Morgan Freeman hadn't shown up yet.

Had a quick look on the interweb about James Gregory. I find it hard to believe the story that he was so good to Mandela. A lot of Mandela's family and friends also dismiss it.

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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/may/20/nelsonmandela

"But many, including Mandela, suggest Gregory's description of the friendship is at best highly exaggerated and in several incidents untrue. One writer close to Mandela says he said privately that Gregory 'hallucinated' some of the deep discussions and emotional encounters he described in the book."

Huh. Ok then. I'm looking forward to watching the end of it tonight as it's a good movie, even though it's a lot of poo-poo.

HansHolzel

Mandela wrote warmly of Gregory in at least three places. The film tones down any exaggeration that critics claim was in Gregory's book, on which the film is based.

D-FENS

Did no-one see the opening credits that stated Goodbye Bafana or did RTE change that to Invictus as well?..

Oink

D-FENS wrote: »

Did no-one see the opening credits that stated Goodbye Bafana or did RTE change that to Invictus as well?..

I saw it. I thought it was a "chapter" in the movie or something like that. Certainly not the title of the movie, which was "obviously" Invictus.

HansHolzel

spank_inferno wrote: »

Hey!
C'mon now.

A mere 2,200people work there producing literally a couple of hours of TV content per day.

Mistakes can happen.

Now sit down & don't forget to pay your €160 RTE poll tax for next year!

Did anyone see The Week in Politics yesterday, where the unfailingly crass RTE played the music of Paul Simon (boycott breaker) at the end, over the closing images of Mandela?

TwoShedsJackson

scotchy wrote: »

I Hadn't seen either film before and that's exactly what I was waiting for.:o

It was nearly an hour into the film before I started to wonder How long the film was if Matt Damon or Morgan Freeman hadn't shown up yet.

Had a quick look on the interweb about James Gregory. I find it hard to believe the story that he was so good to Mandela. A lot of Mandela's family and friends also dismiss it.

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This reminds me of my boss - he was in Paris in 1975 and decided to go to the cinema. So he went to the local multiplex (2 screens), which had the choice of either 'Jaws' or 'The Towering Inferno'.

He decides to see 'The Towering Inferno', so he pay his money, heads in and starts watching it.

About an hour into it, the skyscraper is on fire, burning people everywhere, and next second he hears the voice of someone else who is obviously Irish, and quite drunk, bellow out 'WHEN IS THE FU<KIN SHARK GOING TO COME INTO THIS!!!'.

scotchy

D-FENS wrote: »

Did no-one see the opening credits that stated Goodbye Bafana or did RTE change that to Invictus as well?..

The film started at 9pm, so I thought I'd catch the headlines on the news at 9 on RTE 1 while the credits were rolling.:o

Sean Cronin was Tweeting about this, he was watching it for an hour waiting for the rugby to start in it too.:)

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RolandGoose

Thank You OP for clearing this up!

I too was wondering what was going on, I thought IMDB made a mistake as I was looking for the name of the cast and I couldn't get any results as to who played Mandela in his younger years, (As then I presumed the movie would progress through time and Morgan Freeman would play Mandela in his later years, as is the case with Invictus)

Pretty poor form from RTE, the film that was initially scheduled to play was Hotel Rwanda, but due to Mandela's death was changed to Invictus on the TV and Digital Guide listings, I guess somehow this fell through and RTE ended up broadcasting Goodbye Baffana, One thing that did annoy me and I am not entirely sure if RTE are at fault, was the lack of subtitles when people were speaking the Xhosa language, which did happen a fair bit throughout the movie, and is very important to the storyline!


Pretty enjoyable movie, some parts were glossed over very briefly, I'll look forward to seeing Invictus now.

scotchy

They've got it right this time.....Invictus on RTE2 now

The_Valeyard

Gahhhhhh


Necro threads!!!!!


But you are correct

scotchy

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Gahhhhhh


Necro threads!!!!!


But you are correct

I've been waiting to resurrect my thread for nearly a year:o

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Peregrine

Good timing with the rugby match too.

The_Valeyard

scotchy wrote: »

I've been waiting to resurrect my thread for nearly a year:o

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And on the day that Ireland beat South Africa.

catallus

Matt Damon looks nothing like Mandela.

The_Valeyard

catallus wrote: »

Matt Damon looks nothing like Mandela.

MATT DAMON!!!!!!!

Birneybau

Nimr wrote: »

Good timing with the rugby match too.

Love those kind of coincidences ; P