Movie recommendations

[ballinaman]

Yes, thats the one and she gets her tits out into the bargain.

So would it be a type of nudey film father?

Not quite enough nudity to fall into that category.

Ahhhhh jaaysus...

[Celt_Man]

Yes, thats the one and she gets her tits out into the bargain.

She gets the box out in The Dreamers if I can remember rightly.

What a statement thebigfella, if you aren't a poet, you have missed your calling!!!

And to address the point of your statement - Excellent!!!  Another one to get a gawk at (movie that is)

[SLIGONIAN]

Yes, thats the one and she gets her tits out into the bargain.

She gets the box out in The Dreamers if I can remember rightly.

What a statement thebigfella, if you aren't a poet, you have missed your calling!!!

And to address the point of your statement - Excellent!!!  Another one to get a gawk at (movie that is)

[Rois]

Just saw The Nativity - childen's film but it was absolutely amazing!  Laughed and laughed. 

[Puckoon]

She was unbelievable looking in Casino Royale.

I thought she was bogging in the extreme. Vespa, right?

Obviously relatively speaking, for a famous bond girl.

[ha ha derry]

Watched "The Crew" last night, a movie about Liverpudlian gangsters. Worth a watch. Check out the Moby charachter in it.

[nrico2006]

The Crew is a good show, especially considering Cordelia Bugeja's antics in the film.  Your man Moby is a nut, funny big lad though.  Everybody knows a man like Moby.

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Watched Pans Labyrinth the other night, quite dark, but thoroughly engrossing, the character of the "Captain" is one of the most distasteful movie characters I've seen portrayed in a long time! Well worth a watch (if you can handle subtitles).

[Croí na hÉireann]

Watched Hunger on Channel 4 last night, probably the most powerful film I've ever seen...

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Watched Hunger on Channel 4 last night, probably the most powerful film I've ever seen...

Was very powerful indeed, couldn't work out were we supposed to "feel for" the odious prison officer?

[ballinaman]

Watched Hunger on Channel 4 last night, probably the most powerful film I've ever seen...

+1 Outstanding movie.

[stpauls]

Watched Hunger on Channel 4 last night, probably the most powerful film I've ever seen...

Was very powerful indeed, couldn't work out were we supposed to "feel for" the odious prison officer?

was trying to figure that one out myself GDA, was to-ing and fro-ing with it! great film all the same, was engrossed from start to finish!!

[Rawhide]

anyone seen avatar?

[AbbeySider]

Watched Hunger on Channel 4 last night, probably the most powerful film I've ever seen...

+1 Outstanding movie.

I totally disagree as I didnt really like Hunger.

*** POSSIBLE SPOILERS... but not really ***

That might sound outlandish, but the reason I didnt like it is because it didnt do the Hunger Strikers any justice and I found the story and character development to be very frustrating.

I didnt like the film because it totally dehumanises Bobby Sands and the rest of the prisoners by focusing too much on the extremities of the dirty protest without giving any background information or character development.
Its like the film was made to shock, which it did, but it left me feeling empty as there was no story about the struggles in the North and no background information on the individual prisoners.
For neutrals I know (some of my friends, who may not know much about the background story), they found it hard to care for the hunger strikers as there is no getting to know them. All they see is dehumanised people partaking in the blanket and dirty protest. While what they did and endured was harrowing, fearless and brave, among a million other things, none of that sinks in as its not explained WHY they are doing what they are doing.

Instead, in some twist of the story they give you the RUC point of view. I was left confused as it was ironic because I wasnt sure if the audience was meant to feel sorry for the RUC and what they had to do to the prisoners, or if I was to feel sorry for the prisoners who had f**k all character development and you weren't told their background. Why show someone on the other side eating breakfast at home, washing their hands etc when they are the meant to be the ones inflicting the pain? Why humanise them and show the Hinger Strikers in a deplorable context?

Another thing that annoyed me was the overly cinematic scenes with the RUC detective smoking in the snow, the scene with the fly on the prisoners hand at the cell window and the scene of mopping the prisoners corridor.
Now while these scenes are striking and beautiful, and have their place to describe the solitude etc, they are off beat and it felt like the film was trying too hard to be art-house.

I would have used that time to explain some background of the troubles, or even depict Sands story about the deer when he was a kid. Anything to do some sort of character development.

As films go it annoyed me for those reasons. It didnt do the prisoners or the troubles justice and wouldnt be a patch on In The Name of The Father / Some Mothers Son.

Thats just IMO! 

[ballinaman]

Valid points abbeysider, thread about the movie itself gives some of the possible reasons about thing lack of character development and background story. I enjoyed it because it was a different type portrayal of the hunger strikes, no need for a some mothers son remake.

The Box = The Bo-llo-x. Although, not quite as bad as what i had heard and was expecting. Bit mad but I'd wasn't expecting much else from that director!