I just clicked on the message board to try and get some more info on this and there's no-one here:(
Any word on release dates?
Trailer?
Anybody?
Hello?
Lousy internet..
'Seen one eat a rockin' chair one time.'
Looks interesting. I liked Considine in DEAD MAN'S SHOES. And am interested to see what kind of film he'll direct.
sharei worked on this ronnie n the story line was amazing!! i cant wait till it comes out so we can all watch it!! xx
shareI literally gasped when I came across this article on Entertainment Weekly's website this morning:
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/01/28/sundance-tyrannosaur/
As a huge Paddy fan, I really hope his film gets picked up for a proper release -- including theatrical and DVD in the US.
"I know I'm not normal -- but I'm trying to change!" ~ Muriel's Wedding
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Really really looking forward.
shareI was, until I read that the main character beats his dog to death in the beginning of the movie. That's where I draw the line at wanting to know anything more about any film character, much less the film's protagonist.
Revenge is a dish that best goes stale.
I was but having second thoughts because of the dog.
It immediately cancels out any symphaty I could have had for the protagonist and makes me not care. It basicly spoils the movie for me.
Agreed. Sad really 'cause I'm sure its a good movie altogether. But because of the animal abuse I won't watch it.
If you've heard of it, it's already too mainstream for me. -Commander Shepard
I don't really understand this as a reason not to see the film - I doubt animal abuse is presented positively in Tyrannosaur.
I don't like any violence - but I wouldn't choose to not see a film because it featured intense violent scenes. It's by exposing ourselves to things we don't, or hope we won't, experience in everyday life through film that we are able to learn what those kind of actions do to people.
And the idea that you straight out cannot have sympathy for a violent character seems very limiting - one doesn't have to like a character to find points of sympathy with them.
Well said ebmarshie.
I could understand where the previous posters were coming from if animal abuse were presented as a positive or tolerable act but the likelihood of this is minimal. Mullan's character isn't meant to be a role model or hero and a film's protagonist doesn't have to be either.
Morally grey characters are infinitely more interesting anyway. A recent example would be the True Grit remake: of the two good guys, Rooster is a drunk and believes that the end justifies the means, and LaBoeuf is a despicable *beep* And of the two villains, Chaney is endearingly stupid and Ned Pepper is an outright gentleman.
Their loss.
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"YOU HAVE TO BUY ME DINNER FIRST!"
Okay, firstly you don't actually see any violence inflicted on the dog. The camera concentrates on Mullen, his anger and his response when he realizes what he's done to what is effectively his closest friend. Secondly, it works as a contrast to a later scene that I won't go into here because the less you know the better. Thirdly it functions as a way of showing the depths to which his character has sunk and makes his redemptive climb out of that position all the more impressive. At the risk of stating the blindingly obvious it isn't real so don't let something that you would find deplorable in real life deter you from seeing what is an extraordinary film in the grand tradition of Ken Loach.
Why are you wearing that stupid man suit?
At the beginning of the film Joseph (Peter Mullan) takes one drunken kick at the dog which unfortunately kills it - producing sober remorse.
A little later, three youths deliberately set upon Joseph and repeatedly kick him into insensibility.
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Here we go again. Oh the irony. The movie is about a woman being abused, and yet some people won't watch it because a DOG gets abused. What is the world coming too, haha.
shareIMDb put up the trailer yesterday.
The acting looks sensational. I'm looking forward to this, above all, because it promises to do what so few Hollywood films seem capable of: showing the realistic, harrowing consequences of violence on our psyches.