The Wind That Shakes the Barley/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Complaining About Shows You Don't Watch: Several critics condemned the film as pro-IRA, anti-British propaganda, only to have it revealed that they hadn't actually seen the film, having not attended any screenings of the as-of-then unreleased film. Of the most prominent, Tim Luckhurst of The Times remained silent, while historian Ruth Dudley Edwards bafflingly declared that she refused to watch it "because I can't stand its sheer predictability".
  • Complete Monster: The Tans. This is Truth in Television. Even many of their own officers were appalled at seeing the atrocities.
  • Nightmare Fuel: Boy the Fingore scene is convincing...
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