I went to see this last night and all I can say is what a load of rubbish! If anyone can say that they did not cringe and laugh in horror at the embarrassment of this film, I would be surprised!
The film was trying to be something different than the normal Irish “depressing” films that have being made over the years. The comedy style was suppose to be quirky and “blue brothers” , but it fails miserable at this. The montage scenes are just to fill space and pad the film out, it doesn’t work.
I wonder who paid for this review?, I could not disagree more with this review. This is not a 4 star film, its a 1 star at best, I give them credit for trying something new.
And also what the hell is this : “Like a particularly inspired Father Ted episode, Zonad is a comic gem. From Ireland.” What head shop stuff was this guy smoking when he watch the film ?
And another review , would all these people not get paid if they gave the film a bad review.
NEWS FLASH !!!! the film is the “worse movie ever”.
I’m all for supporting Irish films and I have so far went to all of them that were release this year, but I felt that the media hype around this film is misplaced as i felt that after the film. I want my money back.
I feel that that after working for 4 years (IT dept) on a project
that employed up to 400 people across Europe and further afield, I
can’t understand why a short film that took six months to make is
getting more headlines than a the first FEATURE film out of Ireland
since the Bluth studios.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullivan_Bluth_Studios
Again today RTE compound is ignorance but give a short film more of
the headlines:
Quote:
”
There is Irish interest in five categories. One of the nominees,
‘Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty’, is in the running for the Best
Animated Short Film award.
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Other Irish nominees include Tommie Moore, Director of ‘The Secret of
Kells’, Peter Devlin for sound on ‘Star Trek’, and Octagon Films for
the short film, ‘The Door’. ”
The Secret of Kells gets nominated for best animated feature film and
RTE adds this as a secondary note, I think as a news organisation
that can’t even get facts corrects should not be writing news.
If other news organisations can get it right, why can’t RTE ?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/movies/awardsseason/03kells.html
Come one, please see some common sense!
Just and update: 15 March I have not received an email back about this, I suppose I should not expect one either!