Saturday 27 November 2010
WHERE ARE THE 'REALLY BAD' IRISH MOVIES?
What's going on here? The world's best blog on Irish cinema is querying the lack of really bad Irish films when it has already slated most of our titles? Well what's a 'really bad' film? Well, they're not stuff like most Hollywood big-budget sequels where a fortune was wasted on effects and bad acting. Rather, they are films that are truly stunning in a sense of 'how did that get made?'. They are the kind of films that require a certain bravery to get produced as most people would be afraid to tackle the subject matter. Stuff like The baby (a man wears nothing but a nappy!), Irina Palm (a respectable, middle-aged woman gives hand jobs to collect money for her young grandson's operation), and Boxing Helena a woman ends up as a torso. Films that have a certain arthouse leaning but leave the audience stunned for all the wrong reasons! Where are the Irish films like this? Where are the filmmakers here with the nerve, imagination, and balls to make a truly shocking movie that misfires completely but still stands out for its sheer daring?
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