Don't watch the snapper if your sensitive guys.

Had it recorded. Stuck it on this morning and nearly choked on me Easter Egg when I heard it. But still a very funny film.

Anyone care to identify what people would find upsetting?

If you watch it they were both drunk and she made the first move so who is the rapist?

In fairness, it deals with sexual assault which was glossed over in the movie.

The Sharon character is a young woman who becomes pregnant following sexual assault bordering on rape, as she is so drunk that she cannot consent when Burgess takes advantage of her being drunk and has sex with her without her agreement.

That issue is not really explored in the movie, although it is in the book.

The understanding of female consent to sex has changed since the 1980s and 1990s, and I think that is the issue they were referring to.

ive been severely traumatized by this movie, i can no longer use garden clippers after it ffs!

I think you are going to need to.

This party they were at was the Christmas party of the football club. It is in the new year because no one remembered to book a venue.

So they are both drunk she started kissing him. She jumped on him and started kissing him and yet he is the rapist?

OK time for my lesson.

It's just a film, no need to take it too seriously.

People like you who act irrationally to pieces of fiction are a serious problem in society you need to get some perspective and realize that if every piece of fiction ever written was to appeal to your overly sensitive nature you'd have very few books, films or tv shows being written that are worth reading or watching. Your hyper sensitive attitude is every bit as bad as the Catholic Church's attitude to films and books of the past.

Him.

Colm Meaney burying his face in Ruth McCabe's sn*tch?

“So much has changed since 1986, when I started writing The Snapper,” he told an interviewer two years ago. “The legislation on rape is clearer today. As the writer [if I wrote it today], I’d make sure that the sex was consensual, that it wasn’t open to doubt. The novel is about a woman taking ownership of her own story; that wouldn’t change.”

I mean, the lad who wrote it even knows it's a dodgy scene, but as usual boards knows better.

Its just a funny movie,, just enjoy it,, and if its not to your taste,, then don't watch it..

And if your one of those delicate snowflakes, maybe pop off a letter to RTE and let them know just how offended you are..

She's twenty in the movie but I haven't read the book in 20 years so maybe she's 16 in that.

Enjoyed it last night, Colm Meany's finest moment as the conflicted father, I thought there would've been a HD version of this now but RTE seemed to be happy to show the SD version.

Or, here's a crazy idea, we could have some sort of system that would allow people to know the content of said entertainment so people can make an informed decision? Maybe a little insert at the start?

I mean you'd have to be some snowflake if that offended you, or a massive hypocrite. Maybe you could avoid anything with words in case they're mean words.

I'm fine with having a little disclaimer, the issue is every single film in the world could potentially be offensive to someone so we might as well just add a disclaimer to every single film (therefore defeating the point of said disclaimer) fact is not all films, tv shows , books are going to appeal to everyone sensibilities so maybe people just need to be adults and accept that if you watch a film there may be parts of it you may no like and perhaps you should do some research yourself beforehand and look up the film on the internet and see if it may offend you or not. Rather than watching a film and then complaining about it afterwards.

Disclaimers before film are really for children (real and emotional ones) not adults.

What’s the soft core “scene” like these days, Count? Can’t say I’ve seen much since the heady days of the mid-90’s going into the very early 00’s.

You’d catch a movie on a Friday, or Saturday, night on Bravo or some other “satellite” channel. Always with some giant of the industry like Shannon Tweed, Gabriella Hall, Griffen Drew, Shannon Whirry, Shauna O’Brien or, maybe even, Athena Massey featuring.

Would they be better off showing “classics” from that era or are there modern takes on the genre that could rival those?

I'm not offended by them , I couldn't care less about any disclaimer beforehand.

I just think they're essentially pointless and people advocating for them could really do their own research beforehand

I didn't know the poster had been raped.

There are film classifications, there are reviews of films on the internet and there are plenty of ways of finding out without having a content warning whether a film would be offensive to you.

There is also the point that essentially every single film could in some way be offensive to someone in the audience so you could genuinely have a content warning before every single film ( you could argue that most films depicting crime or violence could potentially be traumatic to someone who was the victim of crime or violence) , there is also the fact that people themselves need to realise that films of the past are going to reflect attitudes of the past and they need to accept that before they watch a film.

You are entitled to your opinion but you expressed it along with making assumptions about me. Your post above is another example. I'd be happy to engage with you in discussion about the topic but not while you are casting aspersions on me with your little "quotes". I'm not embarrassed by anything. You are on a crusade here. Of you go with it