"Bloody Sunday" the film

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Anyone see it? Should they have made it 30 years ago? Was the carnage solely borne so that James "Unfunny, Unsexy" Nesbitt could wander around the battlefields still wanting to know what love is and wanting BAFTA to show him a pile of metal?

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

i was watching "rush hour 2" on dvd!! (taking sides: er, no don't bother...)

― mark s, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It took two hours to reinforce all the steroetypes I already had re the British Army and the various Irish factions. Black Hawk Down did it better.

― Pete, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Unfortunately a long hot bath and a very comfortable new mattress made me fall asleep just over an hour into it. Is this my fault or James Nesbitt's?

― Emma, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It is the fault of HISTORY!

― Pete, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

That's alright then.

― Emma, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

(rush hour 1 was way better than rush hour 2)

― jel, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Bloody Sunday + Black Hawk Down = War Porn

― Trevor, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

(if jackie chan had succeeded senator george mitchell as chair of the peace talks, then HEADS WOULD HAVE BEEN KNOCKED TOGETHER!!)

― mark s, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I agree with pete and wish to add that there's nothing clever in jerky camera work.

― Ed, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I thought this was going to be about the movie where Peter Finch kisses a man.

― rosemary, Monday, 21 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

eight years pass...

Saville Report, after 13 years, finds all dead and wounded were innocent

― May be half naked, but knows a good headline when he sees it (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link

I was pretty moved watching the reactions in Londonderry on the news. Well played all round.

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 01:42 (thirteen years ago) link

They played some of the victims famillies' statements on NPR...overwhelmingly moving. Great day for them.

― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 02:01 (thirteen years ago) link

three years pass...

Just watched this movie for the first time today and its odd reading all these negative comments to this film from years ago. If you find political cinema kinda frivolous or even offensive perhaps, thats fair enough but criticising a film for not bringing these issues to light when the event happened seems a tad unfair. It simply wouldnt have been made back then.

I dont feel it reinforced any stereotype either. The British soldiers dont come across as evil villians just scared, out-of-their-depth, macho and a bit thick.

― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Tuesday, 15 April 2014 19:38 (ten years ago) link

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