Tell The Moon About The Neil Jordan Poll

Morbs likes Breakfast in Pluto more than I do.

Anyone seen In Dreams?

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I'm voting High Spirits just to be difficult.

This must be the only poll where I have seen all of them. Only the Pat McCabe stuff is truly great, but I think that reflects on how novelistic Jordan is as a director and how cinematic McCabe is as a writer (c esp The Dead School)

Saw In Dreams at the cinema, and not since, but I'm pretty sure it was kind of dud, though setting everything in a drowned town was cool.

I kind of want to go for the Good Thief, but only because I saw it again a few months ago and 1.) Nick Nolte is great and 2.) Russian chick was hawt.

toss up between Breakfast and Butcher even though I have a soft spot for In Dreams, largely because of how Annette Bening is so beautifully photographed, more bothered by the fantasy aspects than I usually am in it though.

the good thief ftw

In Dreams is awful.

wait, u left off THE BRAVE ONE!!!!!! mods delete this poll plz

Sorry! I forgot that one.

is In Dreams a worthy Downey, Jr vehicle?

The End of the Affair is terrible.

Mrs. Nugent asked me to vote for The Butcher Boy and to tell you fish to "fuck off!"

As far as I recall Angel is good enough to be worth the vote here.

I saw In Dreams maybe a year after it came out? so, quite a while ago. I remember thinking it was more interesting than the reviewers said.. that they had the wrong expectations. but maybe I'm wrong. planning to watch it again pretty soon.

Butcher Boy is really good, Crying Game is one of my favorite movies, I'm sure I've seen it at least 25 times. so much great dialogue!

There are bad actorly brogues, and there is Julia Roberts' Irish accent in Michael Collins, whoo boy..

I say The Crying Game only recently &, having been told by the world that (SPOILER IF YOU LIVE IN A CAVE) chick is a dude pior to the experience, I feel like I missed out on an important component of the narrative intrigue of the thing. Honestly, though, I was struck by how dudelike the lady looked from the outset & I was wondering if I would have objectively called him/her out as a tranny without prior knowledge of the twist. Basically, I was surprised that so many other people were surprised.

I thought the same at the time. An old woman sitting in front of me with her friend leaned to her and said, after The Revelation, "Oh, well, I guess that's the surprise..." But it still holds up by creating this Hitchcockian suspense: we know more than Stephen Rea, etc.

Forest Whitaker needs subtitles, though.

High Spirits (1988)
We're No Angels (1989)

Rough times.

for me it's wolves vs. butcher boy -- which probably i could make up some sort of female vs. male coming-of-age fantasia dichotomy about -- and butcher boy wins because it's funnier. (mona lisa and crying game are also pretty great, and in dreams has some good spookiness before it turns silly and boring.)

interview with the vampire BLEW MY MIND in 7th grade

that's a better movie than it deserved to be, really.

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Voting Mona Lisa, but The Crying Game and The Butcher Boy are both very defensible choices. Really need to see Breakfast on Venus on video. I liked it in the theater, but I really felt like I need some subtitles.

On Pluto rather, ahem.

Butcher Boy is really fucking good....easily one of the best Irish films of all time, made even better by huge swathes of Irish people I know utterly not getting it.

Had no idea In Dreams was by Jordan. Figured that for some no-name thriller director.

Company of Wolves

The Good Thief was basically a remake of Melville's Bob Le Flambeur right? I preferred the original. Nick Nolte takes his gruff shaggy dog routine to a new level in that film.

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waht

People are stupid.

I like TGT, but c'mon.

i'm surprised End of the Affair didn't get any votes, it's probably my favorite.

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Not sure I even knew Marlowe existed till today--it was playing at a rep on the way home, the timing was right, so why not. Not terrible, just deadly dull.

Rewatched Mona Lisa tonight for the first time in decades. Great movie, great leads — Hoskins is so volatile and vulnerable at the same time, and Cathy Tyson is remarkable. It’s a rare film about prostitution that doesn’t ever romanticize it, even as Hoskins falls in love with her. The whole uncovering of a ring of pimps providing young women to rich violent men felt very topical 40 years on, but I guess that’s because that has always been part of the real world.

I had the same reaction, tips. I checked the 2021 Criterion blu-ray out of the library, my first viewing in years.

and The Crying Game follows so many of its beats.