Irish cliches
OK -- I'm only half Irish, but the Irish cliches in this movies were fairly ridiculous.
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Good movie, but would also agree.. esp Tommy Lee Jones listening to U2
shareI think the U2 thing is actually pretty symbolic. He buys the tape off of someone else after claiming to not know who they are. I think this is meant to show us that he's "been away" from a long time and is detached from normal life. U2 was at the height of their popularity, how many people do you think never heard of U2 at the time? Especially Irishmen?
shareWhat Irish cliches are you talking about?
shareFor what it's worth, as far as I can tell, pretty much all of the original music was done by Irish bands/singers.
KS
LOL you know, when I was younger I thought this movie was AWESOME. Then I watched it again last night on AMC and thought it was the cheeziest thing ever.
Especially when Max (Lloyd Bridges) goes to the "Irish Pub" to meet up with Tommy Lee Jones...and he's like "Arr Gimmie a GUINNESS". He sounded more like a pirate than Irish.
THEN the bartender is actually wearing a Guiness shirt...
and when he finally pours him the beer you can tell it's not even Guinesss. LOL
In some places, they don't pull a pint of guinness properly at all. They just pull it like it is lager. I can't remember exactly what the pint looked like, something like flat coca cola I heard. :-)
If you pull it wrong and let it sit around for an hour in a warm place, that's what guinness looks like, I hope TLJ wasn't drinking it.
If I remember correctly it looked more like a Red Ale....totally not Guinness!!!
Hmm now I wonder if I can find a screen grab or video from that scene ! ha ha
You do know so-called stereotypes generally have a basis in truth, right?
Guinness is an Irish beer.
Irish people drink a boatload of it.
Officially the most internationally recognized symbol of Ireland, Guinness is the most popular alcoholic drink in Ireland and in many other countries besides.
So in a movie about Irish, in an Irish bar, should they then avoid this fact altogether, lest they appear to be pandering to a stereotype?
Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?