THE BLAND SELECTING THE BLAND!

Seems some guy from RTÉ has listed his ten favourite Irish movies. As expected it's a predictable list. The dead is a good choice but it wouldn't get into director John Huston's top ten list! My left foot is another good choice but here's something not many know. There is a film guide from 1990 and this movie is listed as a turkey of the year! Crying game is another overrated choice. Too young to remember but wasn't this a movie that no-one liked here until the Yanks loved it? More of a good distribution story than a great film? The snapper was a TV movie and is as dated as most. Still, an interesting choice. The general is laughably overrated. From the laughably overrated John Boorman. A director with more bad films than good ones. The informer is a creaky, stagey effort from John Ford who has made far better titles. Picking this movie over Ford's The quiet man was silly? The commitments is another predictable choice and is from another overrated director. Lots of Irish people hate this film but it's not bad. Adam & Paul is a good choice and is definitely one of the best Irish titles from the last decade. I went down is just silly. Maybe the recent hype that it got a DVD release made it onto this list? Odd man out is a good film but no classic. The director has made better stuff. Always found it to be overrated. So that's a predictable list from someone who has not seen most Irish films? Lots of titles from the 1990s too? There are better Irish films out there but that's for another post!