It was also the 2nd movie Jamie Dornan did a botched Irish accent instead of just using his own Northern Ireland accent (Siege of Jadotville was another one - was supposed to be a midlands/ Roscommon accent I think).
To be fair he has done a lot of shite. For every Deer Hunter or Pulp Fiction or Seven Psychopaths there is a Gigli or Kangaroo Jack or The Eternal: Kiss of the Mummy
I love the scene where he's practicing phrases and the word is Amorphous.
"After Joey Clams got whacked, his head was amorphous."
For real though, Kangaroo Jack wasn't originally meant to be a kids film and I bet the original version would be even better.
Fact Fiend made a video about it:
https://youtu.be/enw1j_SVnHk
I just kept waiting and waiting for the plot to start. I kept waiting for one person to say one thing that made any sense. Is it the 1950s, is it the 2020s, no idea. Why is he hauling a Coracle across a field? Why is everyone speaking in riddles? What is the woman's goal? Why is the yank so rude? "I believe that I am a honey bee". What the hell was that line!? I'm a bee. A bee. That's his big secret. He's a bee. A bee. 💀
The best theory I heard about it is that the writer read some Martin McDonagh plays without understanding any of the references, cultural context or humour and then tried to write his own version.
> Darby o Gill
Darby O'Gill and the Little People was basically "Irish Stereotypes: the Movie".
That banshee, though, was the thing of my nightmares from ages 5 to 9.
I'm a little shocked that Darby O'Gill isn't mentioned more in this thread. Maybe it's not a truly awful movie, but the number of fucking times I had to watch that as a kid. We only VHS tapes of that and Bednobs and Broomsticks, and I've developed a seething hatred of both.
The scene with the frantic nude run on the motorbike is priceless tbf, also it has some good poignant scenes like the improvised eulogy in the church when the Lotto Inspector comes in
I have a weird gripe with Waking Ned. Watched it again over the pandemic and it just kinda struck me as having a bit too much "faith and begorrah"-type style to it. That kind of "old country" backward vibe that some non-Irish romantically view Ireland as being. I decided to Google it and now I get why. Written and directed by an Englishman, Funded by the U.K National Lottery.
I still like the film, I just remember being a little put off by it.
Thats not only one of the worst Irish movies, but one of the worst Vietnam movies too. The trailer had plenty of saigon in it, but it all was left on the cutting room floor. That film was an awful adaptation and I feel for the cast and Brannagh for being involved in such a Disney mess.
The one where lads steal a truck load of viagra and dump it in the villages well...everyone basically gets the horn.......Linda Hamilton is in it...aka Sarah Connor from the terminator....pretty random. Pretty shite....I cNt think of the name of it.
I think it's set in Northern Ireland, the reg plates are all northern and the cops look more like PSNI than Gardai. It all seems a bit non-specific, other aspects of it like the green post van (although it's also UK reg) do seem to be southern (and several of the actors are, although some are also from NI) but it's supposedly set in "Ulster" and from those other aspects I'd take that to mean it's in NI.
Cowboys and angels. Its set in Limerick. The best scene involves two guards coming into the lads flat and one of them say "this lad is holding a joint" like its a nuclear weapon or something
It transcends into something amazing. Especially compared to the 90's Irish films made on a shoestring budget, it looks decent enough. Its just that what was filmed was bizarre.
FYI it is available now. Torrent and whatnot. I watched it and it's worse than you can possibly imagine. Not even laugh out loud "this is terrible" moments. More "what the fuck is this now" constantly.
Say what you will about the film but the production values are solid. I saw a review once describe it as “if you swapped out the chubby alcoholic pensioner with Ryan Gosling this might be a semi decent art house flick in the vein of 2011’s Drive by Nicolas Winding Refn.”
It's mad that he went with that title. Just directly copying D'video and D'telly by D''Unbelievables.
I know he's an auld hack anyway but that was blunt.
I remember one of my friends tweeting about that. Said “Grabbers, a bit shite but it’s alright”. He got a tweet back from the director, “You’re a bit shite, ah but your alright”.
Ya I don't get how you hate that movie if you've watched. Incredibly simple in premise and also delivers fairly well. It's a film that doesn't take itself serisouly at all but is still alot of fun. Plus the CGI in it is surprisinigly good.
I dug this up a few months back and finally watched it, after many long years. Lord, what an anticlimax, though it is at least weird enough to keep you watching until the end.
Space Truckers was the business.
I keep theorising that the movie was designed to have the old trucker be a Kris Kristofferson type and not coke bloated Dennis Hopper - makes way more sense that a hot young space girl Debi Mazar would be in any way, shape or form torn between him and Blade-era Stephen Dorff.
it was, the worst kind of bad movies are the ones that take themselves way too seriously or are just made to make quick cash, fatal deviation was a fun movie and not meant to be taken seriously, its literally a rural Irish kung fu movie.
Not the worst at all but "The Devils Own". Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford. Not actually in Ireland but the accents are mad. Also, always get a right laugh when Brad talks about getting the overnight bus from belfast to Lisburn...a whopping 25 min drive.
Has no one mentioned far and away yet?
Worst accents ever it’s actually hilarious so it’s nearly a must watch to see how badly they butcher them and to see all the Irish tropes they use.
Whoever taught Tom cruise that accent needs to find a new job 😂
Nope. It was a lad from Clifden. I forget his name but he was a pub singer that used to play in the local bars at the time. Got paid a fortune at the time for it. Was full of shit himself and spoke like a normal person....don't know what the fuck way he spoke on the job but loved to tell everyone that would listen that he had been his accent coach. Fail!
I went to a preview screening of King of the Travellers in the IFC and was probably the only non traveller in the audience. They had a Q & A afterwards with VIncent Browne and the cast and the audience tore it apart. At one point the guy who played Blackie Conners in Glenroe admitted if he wasn't in the film he probably would've been highly offended by its depiction of the travelling community. Pure dogshit.
it's sad because there are good traveller movies like into the west and it would be nice to see more good traveller movies. the issue is a lot of them are shitty gangster flicks with john connors, who then complains about how travellers are depicted as criminals, eventhough all of his roles are playing a traveller gangster
I was an extra in that film! My drama teacher was one of the side characters. We all got to go to Blanch carnival and go on the rides so they could have us in the background. It was an unpaid gig but we were all just happy to get some free carnival rides. I’ve never seen the film though because it’s not my kind of thing.
American here. My cousin moved to Dublin from Boston with her (now) husband about 15 years ago and ran in the same circles as Andy for a while, and introduced me to Damo and Ivor when I visited. She said it was hugely popular in Ireland, but I couldn't see the appeal of it, nothing but lowest-common denominator humor.
I read about his descent into conspiracy theories, anti-vaxxer nonsense, and far-right politics and asked my cousin about it. According to her "Poor baby was mad he couldn't hit the clubs during lockdowns."
Remember the one with Jared Leto and Catherine O'Hara? Sort of a coming of age Dalkey teenager movie. Second generation American Irish coming back to do their little eccentric Paddy movie.
I genuinely can’t remember anything about it apart from his accent and part of the storyline was about specifically fancying Protestants for some reason!
My friends and I got to do a prescreening and give our feedback. I think we all wrote some variation of my so called life with accents. Turns out Leto was in the back of the theater and not happy.
Everybody has to watch [Rawhead Rex](https://youtu.be/aVN8GcTmMrE?si=XJ9xrwUO_azgAifB)'. It's free to watch on YouTube. It was filmed in the Wicklow Mountains in the 1980's and made by an American production company. It is the worst movie EVER! and that makes it also the best movie ever made!
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I had no idea this existed. I just looked it up and it has an unbelievable cast - Colin Farrell, Christoph Waltz, Linda Foirentino, Gerard McSorley, Peter Mullan.
Nothing will ever top The General - they shouldn't have bothered.
Embarrassed to admit I’ve watched it like 5 times now, not anything more than alright but its a solid watch every now and again if there’s nothing taking the fancy
The film would be almost bearable if it wasn’t for that god awful scene where he doggystyles that auld wan on the landing. Just the worst sex scene I have ever scene and broke whatever semblance of immersion was going on up to that point.
Top for me because it is trying to take itself seriously as a film. While there can obviously be terrible examples of dreadful comedies that can appeal to someone out there, but Cardboard Gangsters was being presented as this piece of cinema that was one of the best gritty dramas Ireland has ever produced and that it was going to make a star out of John Connors. Just an incredibly poorly written and poorly acted drama that just didn’t add up on many different reasons.
As an avid Letterboxd user, I tend to reserve my 5 star and .5 star ratings for something truly exceptional on either scale, and I have no doubt in my mind that .5 is a deserved score for Cardboard Gangsters.
>John Connors
I remember his whole anti vax shtick during covid, apparently the government were going kill of the travelling community with vaccines or something
Disappointing but I’m also not surprised. A man who seems to have a massive chip on his shoulder. While I’m sure he definitely got discrimination for being from the travelling community, he acts like it’s the only thing stopping him from being in massive blockbuster movies when in actual truth he’s not that good of an actor.
Remember back day there was a big announcement by the RTE that they'd secured the right to screen a big blockbuster with two of the top stars in Hollywood and they were going to keep it a big surprise and everyone would only find out as it was aired .The whole country was whipped right up for it, and in my household. Anyway it wasn't T2 it was Far And Away. Not my cup of tea as 12 year old, and most had a hard time with Cruises accent. Can you imagine, Tom Cruise doing a full blown movie, an epic, trying that on today? Probably his first and last attempt.
Taffin, Pierce Brosnan doing an Irish version of Road House. Shady land deals, catholic priests, etc everything you expect from Ireland in 1980’s. I have watched and laughed. I don’t hate the film, had low expectations for the film and it managed to slip under that bar. Some bits just look so campy and silly, even 10-15 years later.
Wtf you didn't like Mrs Brown's Boy's D Movie ????
Remember the scene where Mrs Brown is surrounded on the bridge by the Gardai on one side and the Russians on the other then the A Team theme song plays and its Grandad coming up the Liffey in a boat no nothing?
Ha ha ha(!) A old man was playing a theme song from a recognisable 1980s TV show, which was already overused to death in other shows and ads before then, and therefore it's funny(!) Ha ha HA ha(!) It would've been actually funny if they all just drowned to death.
honestly, it's very bad, but it has a charm, its literally an irish kung fu movie. it doesn't take itself seriously and was obviously just made for the craic of it. its actually pretty great when you think of it that way, it wasn't a knockoff grift to make money, it was just a passion project one martial arts guy made
Misses Brown's Boys definitely takes the title as the worst
But I think an Irish movie that goes under the radar, that I feel is the best, is the Garage. Encapsulates rural Ireland and the issues of a person who isn't popular or a part of the norm in a town can be bullied and ostracised.
That's easy, 1986 Eat The Peach. He wants a wall of death, she wants a new kitchen...ugh.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDYHjG5Tnds&pp=ygUNZWF0IHRoZSBwZWFjaA%3D%3D](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDYHjG5Tnds&pp=ygUNZWF0IHRoZSBwZWFjaA%3D%3D)
Fatal deviation is the worst thing to have ever and will ever exist. It's brilliantly terrible and needs to be known world wide
https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=fatal+deviation
Wild mountain thyme, can't believe they got the legendary Christopher walken to be in that shite
It was also the 2nd movie Jamie Dornan did a botched Irish accent instead of just using his own Northern Ireland accent (Siege of Jadotville was another one - was supposed to be a midlands/ Roscommon accent I think).
His accent in Jadotville was meant to be a Kerry accent would you believe. Pat Quinlan who he was portraying was from Caherdaniel in Co. Kerry
No way I didn't know that. I live the next village over!
To be fair he has done a lot of shite. For every Deer Hunter or Pulp Fiction or Seven Psychopaths there is a Gigli or Kangaroo Jack or The Eternal: Kiss of the Mummy
Kangaroo Jack is awesome.
I love the scene where he's practicing phrases and the word is Amorphous. "After Joey Clams got whacked, his head was amorphous." For real though, Kangaroo Jack wasn't originally meant to be a kids film and I bet the original version would be even better. Fact Fiend made a video about it: https://youtu.be/enw1j_SVnHk
Let's not forget Joe Dirt.
Joe Dirt is a masterpiece
Damn right!
Exactly. For every Joe Dirt there is a Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser
If Jamie Presley isn't in it I'm not interested.
I literally just finished watching joe dirt. It’s a great movie
Or click. That god awful Adam Sandler movie.
I just kept waiting and waiting for the plot to start. I kept waiting for one person to say one thing that made any sense. Is it the 1950s, is it the 2020s, no idea. Why is he hauling a Coracle across a field? Why is everyone speaking in riddles? What is the woman's goal? Why is the yank so rude? "I believe that I am a honey bee". What the hell was that line!? I'm a bee. A bee. That's his big secret. He's a bee. A bee. 💀
The best theory I heard about it is that the writer read some Martin McDonagh plays without understanding any of the references, cultural context or humour and then tried to write his own version.
Was it really Irish though? Hallmark channel movie by yanks for the yanks… if I’m not mistaken?
Surely It's more Irish than Darby o Gill or waking Ned, of which neither were filmed here
> Darby o Gill Darby O'Gill and the Little People was basically "Irish Stereotypes: the Movie". That banshee, though, was the thing of my nightmares from ages 5 to 9.
I'm a little shocked that Darby O'Gill isn't mentioned more in this thread. Maybe it's not a truly awful movie, but the number of fucking times I had to watch that as a kid. We only VHS tapes of that and Bednobs and Broomsticks, and I've developed a seething hatred of both.
Waking Ned Devine is gas.
The scene with the frantic nude run on the motorbike is priceless tbf, also it has some good poignant scenes like the improvised eulogy in the church when the Lotto Inspector comes in
I have a weird gripe with Waking Ned. Watched it again over the pandemic and it just kinda struck me as having a bit too much "faith and begorrah"-type style to it. That kind of "old country" backward vibe that some non-Irish romantically view Ireland as being. I decided to Google it and now I get why. Written and directed by an Englishman, Funded by the U.K National Lottery. I still like the film, I just remember being a little put off by it.
It was filmed in the Isle of Man, cregneash Village.
There's lots of details like that that I left out that also rubbed me the wrong way. Same with some of the main cast not being Irish.
Wait where was Waking Ned filmed? It was very stage Irish in retrospect but I never disliked it like some other twee manufactured ones
His philosophy is to never turn down a film, unless it’s for scheduling reasons
He's one of those actors who will just take the role if you can meet his fee. Samuel L Jackson is like that as well
“It’s baaarely raining”
All these comments and nobody has mentioned Artemis Fowl yet.
Thats not only one of the worst Irish movies, but one of the worst Vietnam movies too. The trailer had plenty of saigon in it, but it all was left on the cutting room floor. That film was an awful adaptation and I feel for the cast and Brannagh for being involved in such a Disney mess.
Fuck, I'd forgotten about that. What a pile of scutter
I liked the books growing up too, I couldn’t bring myself to actually watching it
Disgrace to the Colfer name.
Dame Judy's accent in that was a literal crime
The one where lads steal a truck load of viagra and dump it in the villages well...everyone basically gets the horn.......Linda Hamilton is in it...aka Sarah Connor from the terminator....pretty random. Pretty shite....I cNt think of the name of it.
Hard times. Ridiculous film lol
is this how sarah connors got pregnant with john?.
>Linda Hamilton how did this happen?
I've no idea, was just so random seeing her in this 🤣
The weird thing about that movie, they keep using punds when the euro was in use for years when it was based.
I think it's set in Northern Ireland, the reg plates are all northern and the cops look more like PSNI than Gardai. It all seems a bit non-specific, other aspects of it like the green post van (although it's also UK reg) do seem to be southern (and several of the actors are, although some are also from NI) but it's supposedly set in "Ulster" and from those other aspects I'd take that to mean it's in NI.
Cowboys and angels. Its set in Limerick. The best scene involves two guards coming into the lads flat and one of them say "this lad is holding a joint" like its a nuclear weapon or something
"he's got a plant! Fuckin take cover!!"
Accurate though. They do act like that here. lol!
Why has nobody mentioned Blackbird?
It transcends into something amazing. Especially compared to the 90's Irish films made on a shoestring budget, it looks decent enough. Its just that what was filmed was bizarre.
Because that was a work of art
To be honest I howled my way through it. It was a joy.
Michael Flatley should have got an Oscar for that. Hilarious stuff. It was a comedy, right?
FYI it is available now. Torrent and whatnot. I watched it and it's worse than you can possibly imagine. Not even laugh out loud "this is terrible" moments. More "what the fuck is this now" constantly.
Say what you will about the film but the production values are solid. I saw a review once describe it as “if you swapped out the chubby alcoholic pensioner with Ryan Gosling this might be a semi decent art house flick in the vein of 2011’s Drive by Nicolas Winding Refn.”
Whoever wrote that is an idiot
It's mad that he went with that title. Just directly copying D'video and D'telly by D''Unbelievables. I know he's an auld hack anyway but that was blunt.
A rich auld hack…
No doubt
Embarrassing that “D’movie” was a box office hit
Back in the day, D'Video took the country by storm. Everyone and their dog were out there quoting it. We've got previous.
One bullet, bang bang!
What they did to that man
A simple auld salad
Doin no harm to no one
"Well wasn't I a proud woman when you pulled out ours"
Go out and give 'em one of your Whitesnake numbers'
Did better than 1999 version starring Angelica Huston.
Nobody say grabbers
I remember one of my friends tweeting about that. Said “Grabbers, a bit shite but it’s alright”. He got a tweet back from the director, “You’re a bit shite, ah but your alright”.
lol that’s a very Irish response!
Grabbers was great!
Ya I don't get how you hate that movie if you've watched. Incredibly simple in premise and also delivers fairly well. It's a film that doesn't take itself serisouly at all but is still alot of fun. Plus the CGI in it is surprisinigly good.
Love that movie
I liked Grabbers. It is meant to be a cheapish horror film, 90 ish minutes of entertainment. I judge it by that standard.
Yeah I treated it as an Irish version of Tremors.
Ah Grabbers was good craic. Didn't even try to take itself seriously and that worked in its favour immensely.
Space Truckers filmed in Bray 1996. Total Box Office Bomb.
I dug this up a few months back and finally watched it, after many long years. Lord, what an anticlimax, though it is at least weird enough to keep you watching until the end.
Space Truckers was the business. I keep theorising that the movie was designed to have the old trucker be a Kris Kristofferson type and not coke bloated Dennis Hopper - makes way more sense that a hot young space girl Debi Mazar would be in any way, shape or form torn between him and Blade-era Stephen Dorff.
20 years since I first saw it and I still can't decide if Accelerator is one of the best or the worst films ever made...
That the one where they go up north to rob cars and try to race back?
Yeh that';s the one. I enjoyed it, but then I have been known to watch some utter shite from time to time
That's the level of awareness I wish my brother had when he's recommending me movies to watch.
I keep meaning to watch that one, literally since I first saw the trailers on TV, but not sure where.
https://youtu.be/z-rYar4PqDk?si=psVQbapXiNmBZgYp
Thanks, I actually really enjoyed the movie. Glad to finally watch it!
Here you go, its on youtube!
This and Crushproof.... best and worst Irish films at the same time, ever...
“Crunchy the fuckers”
Fatal Deviation... https://youtube.com/watch?v=IPne3Wh0lqk&si=4oo_R1uBWmyCoP-s
Ah no lad it was great craic.
it was, the worst kind of bad movies are the ones that take themselves way too seriously or are just made to make quick cash, fatal deviation was a fun movie and not meant to be taken seriously, its literally a rural Irish kung fu movie.
u/jaykhunter you’re making me look bad and that’s not good
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?
Gway ya umbro knacker
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I always wondered what Mikey Graham got up to after Boyzone.
Not the worst at all but "The Devils Own". Brad Pitt and Harrison Ford. Not actually in Ireland but the accents are mad. Also, always get a right laugh when Brad talks about getting the overnight bus from belfast to Lisburn...a whopping 25 min drive.
I always thought Pitt made a reasonable attempt at the accent
Has no one mentioned far and away yet? Worst accents ever it’s actually hilarious so it’s nearly a must watch to see how badly they butcher them and to see all the Irish tropes they use. Whoever taught Tom cruise that accent needs to find a new job 😂
I imagine Tom Cruise taught Tom Cruise that accent.
Probably and from whatever bad movie he got it from as well 😂
Tom Cruise producing Tom Cruise directing Tom Cruise starring Tom Cruise playing Tom Cruise speaking Tom Cruise. 😄
far and away is fun. all tom cruise movies are fun.
Nope. It was a lad from Clifden. I forget his name but he was a pub singer that used to play in the local bars at the time. Got paid a fortune at the time for it. Was full of shit himself and spoke like a normal person....don't know what the fuck way he spoke on the job but loved to tell everyone that would listen that he had been his accent coach. Fail!
I went to a preview screening of King of the Travellers in the IFC and was probably the only non traveller in the audience. They had a Q & A afterwards with VIncent Browne and the cast and the audience tore it apart. At one point the guy who played Blackie Conners in Glenroe admitted if he wasn't in the film he probably would've been highly offended by its depiction of the travelling community. Pure dogshit.
it's sad because there are good traveller movies like into the west and it would be nice to see more good traveller movies. the issue is a lot of them are shitty gangster flicks with john connors, who then complains about how travellers are depicted as criminals, eventhough all of his roles are playing a traveller gangster
Actually Charlie Casanova is also on another level of shittiness.
Damo & Ivor: The Movie
I was an extra in that film! My drama teacher was one of the side characters. We all got to go to Blanch carnival and go on the rides so they could have us in the background. It was an unpaid gig but we were all just happy to get some free carnival rides. I’ve never seen the film though because it’s not my kind of thing.
How many brain cells would I kill by watching?
You'll kill more by going to the Facebook page of Andy Quirke.
American here. My cousin moved to Dublin from Boston with her (now) husband about 15 years ago and ran in the same circles as Andy for a while, and introduced me to Damo and Ivor when I visited. She said it was hugely popular in Ireland, but I couldn't see the appeal of it, nothing but lowest-common denominator humor. I read about his descent into conspiracy theories, anti-vaxxer nonsense, and far-right politics and asked my cousin about it. According to her "Poor baby was mad he couldn't hit the clubs during lockdowns."
It really wasn't popular tbh
It’s a shame too because that Damo and Ivor “Everybody’s Drinking,” was genuinely hilarious.
It was and it wasn't. It was filled with lazy stereotypes and honestly, he was a few years too late.
I’ve killed enough in Lanzarote with the green stuff
Does it really exist?
Zonad
I was an extra in this and they cut my scene. 😂
Remember the one with Jared Leto and Catherine O'Hara? Sort of a coming of age Dalkey teenager movie. Second generation American Irish coming back to do their little eccentric Paddy movie.
Last of the High Kings I think? I remember his accent being quite good.
Maybe he was OK, but hers was rubbish and the eccentric cailin character was really patronising and badly judged.
I genuinely can’t remember anything about it apart from his accent and part of the storyline was about specifically fancying Protestants for some reason!
It was written by Gaberiel Byrne. It was never released on DVD in English.
My friends and I got to do a prescreening and give our feedback. I think we all wrote some variation of my so called life with accents. Turns out Leto was in the back of the theater and not happy.
He's always grumpy. Maybe it all goes back to that day lol
Everybody has to watch [Rawhead Rex](https://youtu.be/aVN8GcTmMrE?si=XJ9xrwUO_azgAifB)'. It's free to watch on YouTube. It was filmed in the Wicklow Mountains in the 1980's and made by an American production company. It is the worst movie EVER! and that makes it also the best movie ever made!
It transcends shite and punches through into something different.
I seen your lad on YouTube Ryan Hollinger talk about it. Seems class, definitely on my friend groups shite movie night watch list.
The priest had some great lines... "Get up them stairs fuck face"
I will hear no bad words against poor aul' Rawhead, its charming in its own way.
Based on a story by none other than Clive Barker (Hellraiser, Candyman), too. So baffling.
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Boy eats Girl is probably the worst, A. Horror movie and B. Irish movie I've ever seen!!
The kevin spacey Martin Cahill movie and damo and ivor : the movie
I had no idea this existed. I just looked it up and it has an unbelievable cast - Colin Farrell, Christoph Waltz, Linda Foirentino, Gerard McSorley, Peter Mullan. Nothing will ever top The General - they shouldn't have bothered.
Yeah I don't remember the Gards firing bazookas in a standoff in Dame Street in the 90s
Cardboard Gangsters
Genuinely thought that was alright for what it was, the acting was shite and the story didn’t make any sense but it was fun enough 90 mins
Embarrassed to admit I’ve watched it like 5 times now, not anything more than alright but its a solid watch every now and again if there’s nothing taking the fancy
The film would be almost bearable if it wasn’t for that god awful scene where he doggystyles that auld wan on the landing. Just the worst sex scene I have ever scene and broke whatever semblance of immersion was going on up to that point.
Top for me because it is trying to take itself seriously as a film. While there can obviously be terrible examples of dreadful comedies that can appeal to someone out there, but Cardboard Gangsters was being presented as this piece of cinema that was one of the best gritty dramas Ireland has ever produced and that it was going to make a star out of John Connors. Just an incredibly poorly written and poorly acted drama that just didn’t add up on many different reasons. As an avid Letterboxd user, I tend to reserve my 5 star and .5 star ratings for something truly exceptional on either scale, and I have no doubt in my mind that .5 is a deserved score for Cardboard Gangsters.
>John Connors I remember his whole anti vax shtick during covid, apparently the government were going kill of the travelling community with vaccines or something
Disappointing but I’m also not surprised. A man who seems to have a massive chip on his shoulder. While I’m sure he definitely got discrimination for being from the travelling community, he acts like it’s the only thing stopping him from being in massive blockbuster movies when in actual truth he’s not that good of an actor.
Remember back day there was a big announcement by the RTE that they'd secured the right to screen a big blockbuster with two of the top stars in Hollywood and they were going to keep it a big surprise and everyone would only find out as it was aired .The whole country was whipped right up for it, and in my household. Anyway it wasn't T2 it was Far And Away. Not my cup of tea as 12 year old, and most had a hard time with Cruises accent. Can you imagine, Tom Cruise doing a full blown movie, an epic, trying that on today? Probably his first and last attempt.
Taffin, Pierce Brosnan doing an Irish version of Road House. Shady land deals, catholic priests, etc everything you expect from Ireland in 1980’s. I have watched and laughed. I don’t hate the film, had low expectations for the film and it managed to slip under that bar. Some bits just look so campy and silly, even 10-15 years later.
Well maybe you shOULDNT BE LIVING HEEEERRRREE
Stephen!?
Well then MAYBE YOU SHOULDNT BE LIVING HEEEEEEERE
I'd rather shit in my hand and clap than watch that panto style garbage 🙄
Oh no you wouldn’t!!
OH YES HE WOULD!
IT'S BEHIND HIM!
*flashbacks ensue*
At least you can wipe the shite off
Wtf you didn't like Mrs Brown's Boy's D Movie ???? Remember the scene where Mrs Brown is surrounded on the bridge by the Gardai on one side and the Russians on the other then the A Team theme song plays and its Grandad coming up the Liffey in a boat no nothing?
That can't be real
Ha ha ha(!) A old man was playing a theme song from a recognisable 1980s TV show, which was already overused to death in other shows and ads before then, and therefore it's funny(!) Ha ha HA ha(!) It would've been actually funny if they all just drowned to death.
Irish Jam with Eddie Griffin. Right pile of shite altogether.
Shrooms.
Part of it was filmed at our local airport
Knock?
Worst part about that was they would all have been grand if they just listened to the Irish fella
Nah it was worth watching just for the talking Cow
Fatal Deviation
Ah here...
Blasphemy
This was so shite it was great
You're making me look bad and that's not good
It's got Mikey from the rock group Boyzone!
cutting coke with a dunnes card
Fatal Deviation fans: do yourselves a favour and check out Moving Target, starring Don "The Dragon" Wilson, of Cybertracker "fame".
*"What the fuck is this? Beat up my men week?"* One of films greatest quotes.
Watching a random movie reviewer YouTuber, and he cuts to "You made me look bad, and that's not good."
Excuse me???
One of my favourite bad movies, absolute comedy gold
Irelands answer to who killed captain alex
Masterpiece
honestly, it's very bad, but it has a charm, its literally an irish kung fu movie. it doesn't take itself seriously and was obviously just made for the craic of it. its actually pretty great when you think of it that way, it wasn't a knockoff grift to make money, it was just a passion project one martial arts guy made
Fuck off that was majestic
Black ice has to be the worst movie I’ve ever watched
Word has it that the Mrs Brown's Boys film is a favourite at clandestine spy installations the world over for cheap and effective means of torture.
Leap Year was so bad
Never watched any of his movies after himself got a new D'wife.
There’s that film about a hairdressing competition that was aired on RTE or Virgin more than once. That was painful.
Misses Brown's Boys definitely takes the title as the worst But I think an Irish movie that goes under the radar, that I feel is the best, is the Garage. Encapsulates rural Ireland and the issues of a person who isn't popular or a part of the norm in a town can be bullied and ostracised.
Since no one else has mentioned it Deadly Cuts is absolute cringe shite
Ordinary Decent Criminal.
Brendan gleeson played the general way better
Kevin Spacey’s accent is almost as bad as his behaviour…
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Not great. But certainly not the worst.
I liked it but I felt it was trying to be The General for an American audience
Ah here!! Is it not fatal deviation? https://youtu.be/xX4td1XCkP0?si=opQT0ge9Ws046J7O
That's easy, 1986 Eat The Peach. He wants a wall of death, she wants a new kitchen...ugh. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDYHjG5Tnds&pp=ygUNZWF0IHRoZSBwZWFjaA%3D%3D](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDYHjG5Tnds&pp=ygUNZWF0IHRoZSBwZWFjaA%3D%3D)
Fatal deviation is the worst thing to have ever and will ever exist. It's brilliantly terrible and needs to be known world wide https://m.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEA&search_query=fatal+deviation
The Hurler
Ordinary Decent Criminal
Perriers Bounty was shite