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A Gentleman's Game (2002)
Worth watching
What a movie. This movie really captures the life of the other side of golfers. It really shows how the country club atmosphere is really like. With all the behind closed doors look and what really happens to the classic scene where Timmy confronts a member on cheating. The movie really hits a chord. It shows how golf is an exit from the real world and how the country club way of life sometimes isn't as it cuts up to be. It's sort if you took Caddy shack and minus all the comedy from it. Then you would have the more serious and grimmer look that A Gentleman's Game takes on the private world of country clubs. Bottom line this is a movie worth giving a chance.
Michael Collins (1996)
great movie
Neil Jordan has done an excellent job in capturing the life and times of Ireland's greatest Martyr. Michael Collins is shown through a light that doesn't glorify the killings he ordered but it really almost reflects on how much he wanted peace. The opening scene showing the Easter Rebellion couldn't have been any more real. It truly shows how this small group of Patriots were left to be lambs to the slaughter while Ireland would only look on until that grim day when one by one they were lined up and shot. Showing Connolly shot in the chair really hits a chord and shows the lack of humanity the British used with the Irish. The only problem I had with the movie was that it didn't show more of the brutality that the Black and Tans unleashed on the land. There were only three scenes where you saw them torturing citizens and shooting the innocent. These soldiers were so brutal that their own officers were ashamed of what they did. Personally I think there should have been a little more details shown of that before the Cario Gang was killed.
Finally the closing scenes when Collins meets his maker were done to perfection. The shadow casted on from Béalnabláth really shows one of the more darker days of Irish history. I love when they show the funeral montage and mention how he tried to take the gun out of Irish Politics when it was a gun that took him out of Politics. Great movie. I think any Irish American to watch this movie and see how back home the most powerfull Empire in the World was brought to its knees by the bloody actions by one man.