The Commitments on Virgin Media 2 at the moment, best Irish film ever?


It's shite, but thoroughly entertaining. The Snapper is the much better movie. And there's plenty of Irish movies better than any of that trilogy.

Can't resist a shout out to Garage starring Pat Shortt. What a thoroughly bleak experience with no redemption whatsoever.

Absolutely brilliant and almost painful to watch. The scene where he is making the tea for his boss after it all goes wrong is especially harrowing.

The upshot of this isolation protocol is that I might catch up on a few films. Recently watched Terminator: Dark Fate, it was OK, no better or worse than the precious couple of episodes. Hit & miss effects but worth a watch overall. Watched Ad Astra last night, AKA Brad Pitt looks stoned - IN SPACE. Again it was OK. Really wanted to be a Terrence Malick film with a dash of The First thrown in. Spectacular effects, though. It'd happily sit alongside Gravity and Moon I suppose.

I'm halfway through Colour Out Of Space now, so far it's pretty crap.

Didn't see Moon, but I hope it's better than Gravity!

I enjoyed Gravity, despite hating Bullock.

Colour Out Of Space took a turn for the better just after that but ultimately wasn't great. Watched Dark Phoenix after, that was pretty poor too.

Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on March 17, 2020, 10:53:16 AM
Didn't see Moon, but I hope it's better than Gravity!

Moon is a great movie, not even in the same space (very punny) as gravity, which was gash

Watched Free Fire earlier, mighty stuff. Pissed all over High Rise, that's for sure. I must watch Down Terrace and that one he did a couple of years ago, I like the others of his that I've seen.

I watched The Platform in Netflix just now.  Very good.

An Irrational Man worth a watch. JoaquĆ­n Phoenix, very enjoyable.

Watched birds of prey... I now have stage 20 corona virus  :abbath:

Can't imagine how shit it is..avoiding completely.

I've heard it opens well but after the first 10 mins. it turns into a bad Deadpool rip-off. Can't be bothered with it myself.

Thought the recent DC Extended Universe stuff was supposed to be getting better, what with Joker and everything. Sounds like things took a nosedive here.