Movie recommendations

[The Iceman]

Has anyone ever seen "Man on Wire" ??

It is a documentary about this mad french man who managed to tight rope walk between the twin towers in the 70's.
Class documentary about the planning behind it all - how they got into the buildings, rigged everything up and then actually carried out their plans.

[pintsofguinness]

Seen "Year one" there tonight, quite disappointing, better to give it a miss.

[DennistheMenace]

Just watched Se7en again, classic.

[longball]

Wimbeldon is on RTE 1 tonight its actually very funny.

[ziggysego]

Seen "Year one" there tonight, quite disappointing, better to give it a miss.

Seen trailers for it and it looked poor enough. A first miss in Jack Black's film career.

[CiKe]

Has anyone ever seen "Man on Wire" ??

It is a documentary about this mad french man who managed to tight rope walk between the twin towers in the 70's.
Class documentary about the planning behind it all - how they got into the buildings, rigged everything up and then actually carried out their plans.

Thought man on wire was brilliant. Lunatic the guy was. When I saw him practising and doing the stuff about 10ft from the ground I was impressed, but I never actually thought he would do any of that up there - thought it would be a walk across and that was it, but the crazy bugger was out there for half an hour or something stupid like that.

[Capt Pat]

Seen "Year one" there tonight, quite disappointing, better to give it a miss.

I actually thought that while it was a pretty dumb movie it was actually quite good. Look at the trailers, I mean what are you expecting from it? Not nearly as good as other comedies like Super Bad or Talladega nights just a simple dumb stupid funny movie.

[Capt Pat]

Anyway on to a more serious movie. I give Public Enemies 7 out of 10. It is at 9 out of 10 on the IMDB board but for me it is missing something. 

[Iceberg]

Seen what happens in Vegas at the weekend, pretty funny for a chick flick.

[Celt_Man]

Rented out Defiance last night - have to say it's a top show one of the better ones I have seen in a long time... Well worth renting out if you haven't seen it yet

[nrico2006]

Have a copy of Defiance since April, still haven't got around to it.  Must watch it soon

[longball]

I watched couple of movies over the weekend:

One Missed Call- was average enough

The wrestler- i enjoyed this thought was good enough story line, what everyone else think of it?

Once- Watched it last nite, its the film with Glen Hansard as the busker in Dublin i thought it was very good. anyone else see it?

[Archie Mitchell]

This one looks interesting.

Drinking road movie gets festival premier

By Barry McCaffrey
07/07/09

Heard the one about the three guys travelling from Belfast to Dublin, stopping at every pub along the way and making a film about it? The Old Road to Dublin, Ireland's first "drinking road movie" will get its premier at the Galway Fleadh Film Festival this weekend. Barry McCaffrey reports

FOR decades the journey from Belfast to Dublin on the old 'B' road could take anything up to four hours with tailbacks in Newry, dug-up roads in Dundalk and bottlenecks in Balbriggan.

However, new motorways and bypasses mean that the Belfast to Dublin journey time has now been cut in half.

But in the ever increasing frenzy to arrive everywhere in record time, many of the roadside pubs which were traditional pit-stops on the 104-mile journey have now become no more than a distant memory for motorists.

In an effort to retrace their misspent youth, radio DJ Joe Lindsay, computer technician Kris Kinnaird and psychiatric nurse David James decided to recreate the Belfast to Dublin journey stopping at every pub along the old 'B' road route.

"It would have been quicker to take the new high-speed motorway, but where is the fun in that?'' the film's director Vincent Kinnaird said.

"These days we all complain so much about having no time and now with the credit crunch we're all complaining that we haven't any money either.

"We wanted to find out if the soul of Irish society has really changed over the last 30 years.

"Has the Celtic Tiger ripped the heart out of the country or is it a myth that money can't buy happiness?"

"On the other hand, it could just be that we fancied harking back to the old days of stopping off for a pint in every pub along the road?

"It might have taken longer in those days but you ended up being the happiest person in the world by the time you made it too Dublin."

The trio, who were chauffeured by a teetotaller, started off at 8am with the first pint of the day at Belfast's Europa Hotel.

The next stop on the journey was at Murtagh's Pub in Newry, which was forced to close down after the building of a bypass.

After paying their respects they took a souvenir and started back on the road.

The intrepid explorers stopped off at various hostelries in Dundalk, Castlebellingham, Monasterboice and Balbriggan before finally making it to Dublin 24 hours later.

Along the way the trio ran into countless characters, including opera singers in search of the early morning cure and post-wedding parties eager to give early morning impromptu performances of Riverdance.

"The road movie wasn't about how much we could drink but was more about how people and places have changed," Mr Kinnaird said.

"In some ways it was also a social experiment in seeing how alcohol changed people's points of view as the journey progressed.

"Hopefully the result is a comedy road trip about three Belfast boys trying to recapture their youth and not behaving too badly along the way."

The Old Road to Dublin will premier at the Galway Fleadh Film Festival this weekend and Mr Kinnaird said he hoped that it could get picked up by a major film distributor.

"There are a number of big American companies who are going to be at the festival, so who knows what might happen?" he said.

"It's so hard to get a film on to the big screen these days, especially one about three guys driving from Belfast to Dublin stopping in every pub along the way.

"But if Thelma and Louise can do it, then why can't we?"

[full back]

Has anyone seen 'In the Loop' yet?  Its the film version of TV's 'The Thick of It' and has James Galdofini in it.  Looks good.

Anyone seen this?
Heard good reviews about it

[Carmen Stateside]

Just seen Bruno.  Something similar to Borat and just as funny.
You know it has been good when the crowd are still laughing on their way out.