Oh Dear God........!

mike65

The Dubliner has the "favoutite Irish film of all time" as voted by thier readers, some 10,000 apparently.

The top filum is...."The Bleedin' Commitments!

Me sighs....I can't locate the top 10 on the web but I think My Left Foot was No 2 and Name of the Father no 3, with stuff like Michael Collins, In America and Intermission also in the mix I think.

The Commitments....I cant belive it.

Mike.

OLDYELLAR

Oh god , that film was terrible!I absolutely hated it!

RobertFoster

1. The Commitments
2. My Left Foot
3. In the Name of the Father
4. The Quiet Man
5. The Snapper
6. Michael Collins
7. The Field
8. Intermission
9. Veronica Guerin
10. Inside I'm Dancing

Source

Tusky

Irish films in general are so terribley depressing.

Karl Hungus

What!? No mention of I Went Down? Possibly the only Irish movie that you can really call great.

Ireland has been exporting some amazingly talented actors for ages now, so why the hell can't we make a decent movie!? It's pitifull.

jcoote

spin the bottle was savage craic... the actors that are any use want to go to america or the uk or whatever to make money rather than the only perk bein people mutterin on the side of the street 'dats ur maan frum tha bledin filum..whas 'is face'...i'd rather not be know

arbeitsscheuer

Well, first off, I loved The Commitments. Thought Parker did a really good job translating it to the big screen. But...

Having Michael Collins, Veronica Guerin and InterMission in the Top10 ahead of films like I Went Down is criminal. Although having said that I can't think of another choice other than I Went Down, so I guess that explains the relative paucity of classics in the Top10.

Kevin_rc_ie

1. My Left Foot
2. The Commitments
3. In the Name of the Father
4. I went down
5. Michael Collins
6. The Snapper

for me.

Raoul Duke

Butcher Boy.....Butcher Boy......Butcher Boy!!!!

garred

The Snapper...."Good girl Shardon, that wasy A1"

monkeyfudge

I like 'The Actors'

It's not much of a film... as it has a pretty stupid plot... but it's very funny.

Too bad about the horrible child actress in it.. she really ruined alot of the film for me.

bullrunner

What about 'Man about Dog'? I thought that was one of the funniest Irish films of the past god knows how long!!

jor el

Fortunately I've never seen the committments, I hated those damn songs on the radio so much when it was out so I have no intention of ever seeing it.

My top Irish movies would be:
Michael Collins - 'cause he's da man
Intermission - Colin Farrell as a scumbag? Not much acting required there then
The Snapper - Colm Meaney, brilliant.
Veronica Guerin - I just liked this film.

Was About Adam an Irish film or just set in Ireland and with Irish actors? I thought that was pretty funny. "You shag my girlfriend and turn me into a homosexual you b*stard" I'd put that next in the list I guess.

reece

I liked the snapper, spin the bottle, this is my father, intermission.

the thing that bugs me though is when some Irish magazine or newspaper runs an article

'The committments where are they now'. It was a film damn-it ...they're
actors !!!.

StonedParadoX

wow i havent replied to this topic yet i must be slacking

inside im dancing is wow i went in high which wasnt a good idea but HEY! ****in brilliant man my mates hated it

The butcher boy ..! stupid extra vision and not having it

Running Bing

I thought intermission and veronica gueiran were diabolical films. But I have to agree with tusky, for some reason I find Irish films terribly depressing.

Sarky

Darby O'Gill And The Little People tbh.

StonedParadoX

heh depressing as in sad or bad?

Blisterman

Intermission was terrible and unoriginal.
The Commitments was good though. That's a little depressing though, with everyone being so poor back then and on the dole.
Well, it's not that depressing, really.

arbeitsscheuer

jor el wrote:

Was About Adam an Irish film or just set in Ireland and with Irish actors? I thought that was pretty funny. "You shag my girlfriend and turn me into a homosexual you b*stard" I'd put that next in the list I guess.

Well, my mate Gerry Stembridge directed it, so I'm guessin it's an Irish film! And he's an Irish director, ya can't say that about Alan "Commitments" Parker, who is from North London. About Adam is a pretty good film though, I'll grant you. Yeah, maybe it should be on the list.