Leap Year (2010)

[metirish]

Oirish American gal from Boston gets frustrated when her cardiologist boyfriend of four years doesn't propose to her on a dinner date like she expected him too , he is off to Dublin in the morning for a conference and that's when she hatches a plan to go and propose to him.....you see , in Ireland every leap year on that date a woman can propose to her man......only on that day mind .....of she goes to Ireland with only days to spare but.....bad weather forces her to land in Dingle Co. Kerry , Hollywood bog standard hijinks ensue ......she needs to get from Dingle to Dublin in two days......the handsome bar owner in Dingle will drive her for 500 euro....you can guess the rest...


A chick flick that will please the missus , lots of beautiful scenery but so many things wrong here ....

Matthew Goode has a n Oirish accent that might be even more annoying that the one Tom O'Cruise had in "Far & Away"...Amy Adams plays her part fine for what it is I suppose...


Half the fun here for me in this movie was picking out the parts of Ireland that were supposed to be other parts of the country, the producers had beautiful shots of cliffs that are supposed to be Dingle.....but they are in fact The Cliffs at Dun Aengus in the Aran Islands....I am pretty sure none on the movie was shot in Dingle.....


The amazing castle they walk up too in "Tipperary" is not in Tipperary and for the most part was computer generated it looks like.... the castle is real but the view up to it is not.....

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Any movie drawing "Far & Away" comparisons has got to completely suck big hairy moose cock.

F&A I think was the worst movie I ever paid money to see. If you ever see Ron Howard around, punch him the neck for making that POS. Even 'Arrested Development' doesn't completely make it for it.

[Guest themetfairy]

metirish wrote: A chick flick that will please the missus ,

Please don't make such assumptions. The only reason I'm not participating in the poll is because the trailer was unwatchable.

[metirish]

Oh please, relax and stop taking it seriously.

[Guest themetfairy]

Just sayin'.

[metirish]

I shouldn't have put that in there, bad choice of words....I'm taking from the movie with this talk....

[Guest themetfairy]

metirish wrote: I shouldn't have put that in there, bad choice of words....I'm taking from the movie with this talk....

LOL

[Edgy MD]

Is there an airport in or near Dingle that can handle a trans-Atlantic commercial flight? I'm figuring that if they can't land in Dublin, they land in Shannor or somewheres in England. (I got waylaid to Heathrow on my first flight into Dublin.)

And in two days, nobody can get a connecting flight? Contrived just a bit.

Sounds like an Irish conspiracy to increase tourism among marriage-hungry Irish-American women.

[metirish]

I'm sure tourism Ireland loves crap like this.Cork airport could handle such flights, here's the thing though, the flight in route to Dublin gets routed to Wales and arrogant american must get to Dublin right this instant dammit. No flights out and she's missed the ferry so she goes and apparently hires some gombean to take her across in a huge storm, that they pass any number of good and closer to Dublin ports to round the south coast to get to Dingle seemed lost on the producers.

To be fair they did mention some other port first that was to dangerous to attempt a call.

I am urging people here to rent it so we can havIe a good chat about it.

[Frayed Knot]

metirish wrote: I am urging people here to rent it so we can havIe a good chat about it.

You want me to rent not only a chick flick but one that got almost universally lousy reviews?
Not even the cute Amy Adams could make me rent this even if it was Leap Day.

[metirish]

Well it's on cable too which is where I watched it.

[Edgy MD]

As Dingle is about as far from Wales as any part of mainland Ireland (I guess they could have ended up in Donegal), I think there must've been a lot of gombeans involved.

[metirish]

I'm putting you down Edgy as a solid to watch this with your wife....good man you are ....no excuses now like with Hunger.

[smg58]

metirish wrote: I am urging people here to rent it so we can havIe a good chat about it.

Can't we just talk about my honeymoon instead? We actually got to Dingle Bay. And to Dublin, for that matter (no trouble catching the ferry from Wales).

[metirish]

smg58 wrote: metirish wrote: I am urging people here to rent it so we can havIe a good chat about it. Can't we just talk about my honeymoon instead? We actually got to Dingle Bay. And to Dublin, for that matter (no trouble catching the ferry from Wales).

Do tell please....

[smg58]

It was one of those whirlwind two-week bus tours that CIE does. We landed in Heathrow, spent a day in London, headed up to Scotland, then down through the Lake District and the north of Wales, ferried to Dublin, spent a full day there, drove to the Stud Farm in Kildare and then Cashell Rock, did the Ring of Kerry, went to Blarney Castle and Waterford Crystal, ferried back to Wales, saw Castle Cardiff, the city of Bath, Stonehenge, and then back to London. Exhausting, but awesome. We lucked out because the one fully clear day was for the Ring of Kerry, so we got some great shots (including Dingle Bay and a view of the Skelligs from our bus). I wish we could have seen more of Dublin, but it was the halfway point of our trip and we needed to get laundry done. We did get to Kilmainham Gaol at least, along with Dublin Castle.

[Willets Point]

I've been to Dingle too but alas not with Amy Adams or someone who looks like her.

[metirish]

smg58 wrote: It was one of those whirlwind two-week bus tours that CIE does. We landed in Heathrow, spent a day in London, headed up to Scotland, then down through the Lake District and the north of Wales, ferried to Dublin, spent a full day there, drove to the Stud Farm in Kildare and then Cashell Rock, did the Ring of Kerry, went to Blarney Castle and Waterford Crystal, ferried back to Wales, saw Castle Cardiff, the city of Bath, Stonehenge, and then back to London. Exhausting, but awesome. We lucked out because the one fully clear day was for the Ring of Kerry, so we got some great shots (including Dingle Bay and a view of the Skelligs from our bus). I wish we could have seen more of Dublin, but it was the halfway point of our trip and we needed to get laundry done. We did get to Kilmainham Gaol at least, along with Dublin Castle.

CIE did the whole tour including the UK?......what price if you don't mind me asking for you both, I am seriously considering doing a CIE tour when I take my wife and son for a few reasons, mostly because it basically plans your trip and makes you go places.

[smg58]

It cost something like $3500 per person back in 2007, but I can't remember if that included airfare. I also can't tell you if children get a discount.