I need someone to drive me to Dublin. From Cardiff.
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
We’re sworn off excessive YouTube posting here on Culch.ie but this is a matter of national importance.
Via One For The Road.
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Jesus fucking Christ!!!
(she is very hot though – is it forgivable?)
(She is very hot. She’s not really at fault. Everything else is though).
I had this on my blog last week. It’s just atrocious. I’m getting that PS I Love You feeling all over again.
Everyone involved in the making of this monstrosity should be shot.
That is all.
It never ceases to amaze me how much of a movie can be crammed into the trailer. In this case it must be 97% at least!
I wonder how it ends.
Threesome?
‘Tis shockin’ stuff altogether. Shockin’.
Seriously though – what way is he driving her to Dublin from Cardiff?! Surely ya’d just get the boat from Holyhead to Dublin. Where is this Oirish town that she ‘fries’ with her Blackberry?! Why do the Welsh people have Oirish accents?! Why am I bothering to ask these questions?!
Shockin’.
Apparently he’s bringing her from the west of Ireland somewhere to Dublin. Quite how they explain getting from Wales to there is beyond me.
This is the general gist of the film that I posted on my blog:
“The story follows the (somewhat scary) Irish tradition that allows women to propose to men on February 29th, Anna decides to follow her boyfriend Jeremy to Dublin and get him to commit. When she gets stranded on the wrong side of our fair land she enlists the help of local boy Declan to help her cross our vast countryside. These two spar to begin with, but soon things get more interesting.
Shopgirl’s Anand Tucker is assigned directing duties on a script by Slumdog Millionaire writer Simon Beaufoy, while Amy Adams stars in the central role. She’s aided and abetted by Matthew Goode, a Declan, and Adam Scott, as Jeremy. Adams is a really good actress and Beaufoy can bang out a very good script on his day. Matthew Goode isn’t bad either so the movie has some chance.”
I must add that I wrote the above before I found out that the other two screenwriters are Harry Elfont and Deborah Kaplan, the team behind Made of Honour, Surviving Christmas and Josie and the Pussycats.
How does an Oscar winning writer team up with those two?
Is there really any need to actually SEE this film after the trailer (of course that is assuming anyone would want to see it)
She is very hot – the reason why (well one of the reasons) why i watch enchanted over and over with the kids
lottie i reckon a flash mob just turn up at the end and start dancing to ‘drop kick murphy’s’ then amy adams realises she’s bigger than this movie and that it is in fact a step back for her. So she addresses the audience directly down the camera and apologises for stereotyping an entire race and tells the director to jog on!
That or nessy shows up looking for a lift to scotland!
oh god people like ps i love you so this wil prob win some random irish film award meh!
@Redlemonaders Congrats on having the 7,000th comment on Culch.ie.
@Redlemonaders – Brilliant – I love it. I can hear the frantic scramble of the writers to re-write the ending now.
MEN tsch.
Firstly, have any of you considered that the film itself may fully explain the fact that there is a sea between Cardiff and Ireland & that when he said I’ll drive you to Ireland he meant drive plus ferry? I’m giving it that benefit of the doubt.
Secondly, it’s a rom com. It’s always worth seeing. There is a definite continuum between good & bad rom coms, but from the trailer I think this doesn’t look that bad.
Simon Beaufoy also did the script for Miss Pettigrew which also starred Amy Adams, a film that got poor reviews but I thought it was great. Made of Honour was a top class rom com.
Granted we get past the driving to Ireland thing, my question is aren’t airlines contractually obliged to get you to your final destination? It just seems very odd that she would be stranded in the middle of nowhere in Wales. And is Declan supposed to be Irish or Welsh, cause Declan isn’t a very Welsh name. Plus he’s an English actor playing whichever one.
I do like seeing Georgie Burgess in the trailer though.
Or Pat Mustard if you will.
wow go us!!
Bngr are you taking the piss? made of honour a good rom com?
So not taking the piss. Its quality. It has Patrick Dempsey – check, good friendship-based romance as opposed to the 1 day love affairs some of them have – check, great romantic tension moments – check. I’m sure the Scots don’t like the stereotyping but apart from that it’s a winner.
I was actually on Inishmore when they were shooting some of this there. If I knew then what I know now I would have tried to stop them.
But she doesn’t ask to be driven to Ireland, she asks to be driven to Dublin and while Declan seems obviously Irish, the drunk guy who falls over ticks all the stereotype boxes. I don’t know if ye’ve been to Cardiff but it doesn’t look like some broken down fishing village. Quite how she ends up getting from Cardiff to the west coast and overshooting Dublin is pretty confusing though. That and why Declan is driving perhaps the oldest car in the country (surely he could have bought himself a Fiesta or something, we’ve only been in recession around a year or so). Then they wind up staying in the only house in the country that haven’t bought a new bed since the 20′s, in a village that crashes when you plug in your mobile.
Is it kind of sad that the closest Hollywood have ever gotten to an accurate depiction of Ireland was that Simpsons episode last year?
I liked the trailer, think it’ll be a good film, but then aren’t I always the strange one..