Movie recommendations

[BrotherMore6592]

Absolute muck. It was like a film made for Americans and their notions of what Irish people are

[J70]

I enjoyed Banshees.

Also liked White Noise, which I was very skeptical about.

[Tony Baloney]

I enjoyed Banshees.

Watched The Menu at the weekend. It was "interesting" - I think I enjoyed it.

[J70]

The Menu was fun.

Was slightly disappointed in Glass Onion. Good film, just not as good as the first one.

[JimStynes]

Appreciate its a dark, tragi-'comedy" but it was too much of a spoof for me, too silly to get invested in.

Farnell playing a stupid fool, too silly to get behind the character. Gleeson chopping fingers off etc...honestly a load of balls.

She too thought it was shite and fell asleep...I perservered but wasted my time

Sure sign of a shite film is you wouldn't watch it again

Complete crap

[nrico2006]

Really liked The Menu. 

Thought White Noise was terrible.

The Christian Bale Edgar Poe one was OK just.

[Jell 0 Biafra]

I'd skip The Menu.  All style and no substance. 

[lurganblue]

All quiet on the western front, on Netflix. Harrowing to say the least. Such a difficult watch but it's must see in my opinion.

[Turf]

I guess the Golden Globe judges don't read the gaaboard....

[Milltown Row2]

Well the Irish are a bit sore on themselves, bunch of begrudging cnuts

[Look-Up!]

Movies are subjective, same way beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You don't have to be a begrudger to not find the film to your taste. Personally I thought it was shite, touch of paddywhackery crap about it but in a more subtle way than say Darby O'Gill. That too also won a Golden Globe.

[Milltown Row2]

Movies are subjective, same way beauty is in the eye of the beholder. You don't have to be a begrudger to not find the film to your taste. Personally I thought it was shite, touch of paddywhackery crap about it but in a more subtle way than say Darby O'Gill. That too also won a Golden Globe.

No, I'm talking about the bregrdging Irish cnuts who ain't fussed on Irish success, regardless of what ya think personally..

The threads are littered with people begrudging Irish sports stars or people that do well

Not everyone from Ireland drinks Guinness or speaks Irish or live in a white pebbledash cottage on a cold wet island off the shores on Connemara, but hey its winning awards

I think we hate people thinking we are backwards, and while I haven't seen it and its bound to be as slow f**k (from what Ive read on here by the real experts) its obviously ticking the right boxes

[Look-Up!]

So you haven't watched it. Maybe watch it so before commenting on others. I haven't seen anyone on here begrudging the success of the film, just people a bit perplexed by the hype after watching it. I will admit the acting is very good, the only thing that stops you switching off. The story itself is nonsense, there'd be more depth in an episode of Fair City.

[CK_Redhand]

When considering how good a movie is, we can look at it from 2 viewpoints.
How entertaining is it?
How much should we value it's artistic merit?

Think of these as a graph with x,y axes.
High entertainment, high art = Shawshank Redemption
High entertainment, low art = Con Air
Low entertainment, high art = The Seventh Seal
Low entertainment, low art = Freddy Got Fingered

Where any movie can be rated on a sliding scale for both. I just picked random examples off the top of my head.

I think the Oscars and other awards tend to favour the high art, low entertainment movies. Yes they are good.  They are thought provoking, well acted, beautifully shot, original, etc. But you will not want to watch these types of movies again, or at least not on a regular basis. There is also an element of snobbery where critics favour the artistic over the entertainment value.

So a movie can be "good" and yet not rewatchable.  I think Banshees of Inisherin falls into that category.

[Look-Up!]

All very true Redhand. The acting and the scenery are good and "arty" but you can't help but feel a bit cheated (for want of a better word) after watching.

An analogy I'd use are those arseholes that put up those 5 minute videos on the internet with the caption "epic, must watch till end" or similar. What follows are 5 minutes of monotonous shite and then the video ends with nothing. 5 minutes of your life you'll never get back. That's what the "artistic element" of this film is, a caption that promises it'll be worth it if you stick to the end. Then nothing. 2 hrs of your life you'll never get back.