that bloody sunday yoke on the telly.

Goodshape

watched Bloody Sunday instead of Big Trouble...

it was good. well made in the low-budget sorta way, I like all that 'in the action' camera work.

...the guy from the BT adds done good too.

thoughts?

(oh yea, and a poll... why not?)

Washout

It kind of made you want to get up and join the IRA.

meglome

Originally posted by Washout
It kind of made you want to get up and join the IRA.

Well I think that's what actually happened after this event. Like internment, this was great for IRA recruitment.

GoneShootin

indeed it was a very emotive production

tho it would not want me to get up and join the IRA, as that would be plain silly

shotamoose

It was very good, I thought. It looked like the seventies, for one thing, and it didn't try to simplify and take sides (as far as I could see).

Headcase

I watched till 11:30 before a got completly bored and went to bed. Thought it was crap.
but James Nesbitt was good

The Gopher

Was it shot mostly in Ballymun?Im fairly sure thats the Ballymun towers.
Personally I didnt really watch it.I was to busy looking out for 90s satellite dishes and jumbo jets flying outta tiny Derry airport every 20 seconds.:p

billy the squid

was to busy looking out for 90s satellite dishes and jumbo jets flying outta tiny Derry airport every 20 seconds.

did you find any?

Seriously though I thought it was well made BUT does anyone think they should have saited to see what came out of the Bloody Sunday inquiry before they made it

Swifty

What a load of Atari Jaguar.

Goodshape

Originally posted by The Gopher
Was it shot mostly in Ballymun?Im fairly sure thats the Ballymun towers.

..some of it was as far as I know. Most of it was shot in Derry though.

domkid

Sev and PHB were in it. As Little IRA kids.

nanook

I watched in on TV 3 and i wasnt sure about it. Like in all of the evernt's (and i could be wrong) but i thought there was alot more provo action, to the best of my knowledge all i saw was three shots of a revelvor being fired. But the way it was shot and James Nesbit was fantastic, just made me think for a bit in relation to the whole event which is the north.

Lemming

Originally posted by fcddunne
Seriously though I thought it was well made BUT does anyone think they should have saited to see what came out of the Bloody Sunday inquiry before they made it

Definitely. The saville enquiry should have been allowed to finish before they screened this.

Good film though.

Apparently Nesbitt has receieved death threats from loyalist paramilitaries and been lashed by the Orange Order et al. for playing the role of a catholic civil rights marcher.

jd

Originally posted by Lemming




Apparently Nesbitt has receieved death threats from loyalist paramilitaries and been lashed by the Orange Order et al. for playing the role of a catholic civil rights marcher.

I thought he played Ivan Cooper(?-tx G.),who was a Protestant civil rights activist. If you think about it, it killed off any hope of the Protestant working class organising along traditional ideological (ie labour/socialist), as distinct from sectarian lines.
jd

Lemming

Originally posted by jd
I thought he played Ivan Mcdonald-who was a Protestant civil rights activist

Oops,,, yer absolutely right jd. Lapse in memory from me on that one! Sorry guys!

gandalf

I thought he played Ivan Cooper not McDonald.

I thought the cut scenes didn't work well at the start of the film. If I didn't have some knowledge already of that day I would have gotten confused easily. However the cut scenes worked very well for the actual march and when the gunfire broke out.

James Nesbitt was very good in the lead part as well (considering I normally hate him in anything on TV).

Gandalf.

Yeats County

I thought that it was an excellent film, very realistic. The emotion and horror of Bloody Sunday was clear to see in the film.

Thrasher

While I think the film was shot very well and was interesting to watch, its extremely important to remember that that's what it was - just a film!

I certainly found it moving but had to check myself every now
and then.... the director was certainly taking one viewpoint
(i.e. the Nationalist one). And while he claims to have made
a "factually based" film, all the facts aren't available, and
some artistic license was used.

However, any film that sparks debate and gets the British
public to question their own government & army's actions
is serving some purpose........

The_Bullman

Did anyone here listen to reports from the Saville inquiry. I listen to the Last Word and Eamon Mc Cann was giving reports from the Inquiry. Word for word it was more emotive than that movie as it was words from people who where there. The only part of the movie that there is any debate about is whether the provos fired rounds. The fact still remains that the Brits shot unarmed people and covered their asses.

Dempsey

Originally posted by The_Bullman
. The fact still remains that the Brits shot unarmed people and covered their asses.

AND the queen congratulated the officers in charge , gave them a medal !!!!! I'd f****** kill the b**** and all them officer's in charge who swept, all the things they did wrong ,under the carpet.:mad:

Lemming

Originally posted by The_Bullman
The only part of the movie that there is any debate about is whether the provos fired rounds.

Apparently, there was an admission by a guy (the guy in the film that fired the revolver at the para's), that he fired 6 shots from a revolver at the para's, but only "out of anger" after he saw a young lad and an older man being shot dead in front of him.

just out of interest .... what's the reaction been to this film inside the mainland UK? Anyone know?

suppafly

i think that it was a very good movie and accurately managed to show that horror and fear that people felt on that day. That event destroyed the civil right movement and did more for the IRA cause than anything. If it hadn't happened maybe there would be a little more peace up in the north now.

suppafly

Originally posted by Lemming

just out of interest .... what's the reaction been to this film inside the mainland UK? Anyone know?

Well there are 2 versions of the that day out at the moment Bloody Sunday and Sunday. I have seen both of them. The second movie Sunday had a debate after it and most of them seem to be horrifeid by it to. Although alot of them didn't really know all that much about that day.