Danny Boyle

[Virgo76]

Wow. Apparently the films Slumdog Millionaire and Trainspotting were both directed by the same person. He also oversaw last year's Olympic ceremony. He's called Danny Boyle. Has anyone else ever heard of him? It's surprising nobody on the radio, press or TV has thought about inviting him for an interview or something.

[anonymous_lurker]

He was shit in Tramadol Nights.

[Pete23]

I liked his cover of that song from the Catwoman musical.

[Jim_MacLaine]

He's not been well recently and so had to cancel some gigs in mexico :(

[Johnny Townmouse]

Best thing he was involved with:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyRL73HIvqg

[Beep Cleep Chimney]

I liked it when he wrote 'The Commitments'.

[BritishHobo]

I liked him as Ollie in The Thick of It.

[Spiteface]

I liked that 28 Days film he did with Sandra Bullock in it.

[Delete Delete Delete]

I liked Shallow Hal with Jack Black.

[Nuclear Optimism]

For the past few months every week there's been a new story about "something over which Danny Boyle nearly quit the Olympics". Because of penny pinching, because of sponsorship, because of those missiles on top of those flats...

He must have "nearly walked away, honest!" about a dozen times.

[Johnny Townmouse]

They don't call him Dead Kate Moss behind his back for nothing.

[Blumf]

Pursuant to that tag down there, when Danny does pop his clogs, will somebody be singing that at his funeral? I think they should. Yeah, that's something that should definitely happen. He should hurry up and die to make the dream come true.

[Serge]

Best thing he was involved with:

I was so hoping that was going to link to the Inspector Morse Rave episode. I liked 'Shallow Grave' and 'Trainspotting' at the time, didn't like 'Life Less Ordinary' or '28 Days Later', haven't been arsed to watch anything else. I'm sure he's a nice guy, but his name is the cinematic equivalent of the words 'Produced By Danger Mouse' on an album - I can already feel myself slipping into slumber. There are suddenly posters for his new one all over the place, but even the fact that Vincent Cassel is in it isn't enough for me to bother.

[Mini]

I saw Trance earlier and loved it, it's up there with Sunshine. The first great film of 2013 that I've seen.

[Virgo76]

I actually do like him. Just incredibly overexposed currently. (None of the interviews mention his recent split from Rosario Dawson).
His new film doesn't look great though.
He's also in danger of expulsion from the "Looks a bit like Morrissey" club. He should stop ageing.
He's looking better than he did in Young Frankenstein though (BOOM BOOM).

[billtheburger]

Regarding Sunshine. As soon as they said the ship flying to the sun was called Icarus, I hated the film.

[shiftwork2]

Say what you like about Danny but I'm now very careful when out potholing.

[madhair60]

Regarding Sunshine. As soon as they said the ship flying to the sun was called Icarus, I hated the film.

Hahaha! No fucking way!

[KLG-7C]

I haven't seen the film, but couldn't it be the writers thinking "This is the sort of thing that humans would call a ship flying to the sun, so we'll put that in" and not "Haha, you know what would be the cleverest ever, right? Calling a ship flying to the sun Icarus. Yeah, I know."?

[billtheburger]

It's actually Icarus II.

And I take your point about, "what man would call it" on the grounds of Titanic II

[Petey Pate]

References to Greek myths always go down a storm in our household.

[checkoutgirl]

He's a fucking immoral prick, taking money from gambling addicts via the medium of his betting shop chain. The cunt.

[BritishHobo]

Been quite nice to them Indian kids though.

[Johnny Textface]

I saw Trance earlier and loved it, it's up there with Sunshine. The first great film of 2013 that I've seen.

I'm debating whether to go and and see this or something else on saturday night. It's really good you say? I will trust a whore over the couple of mixed reviews I have read.

[Nuclear Optimism]

For ages I assumed Danny Boyle was Scottish. Turns out he isn't.

This is an interesting post isn't it?

[checkoutgirl]

This Boyle fella makes me sick!! What kind of man would disguise himself as a small town in County Roscommon  ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boyle,_County_Roscommon

It's beyond a joke this!!

[mobias]

He turned down a nighthood recently so that gets him extra brownie points in my book. I like him. Favourite film, probably 127 Hours. Though the Begbie moments in Trainspotting are some of the best scenes in all cinema.

[Kane Jones]

Though the Begbie moments in Trainspotting are some of the best scenes in all cinema.

Best? Most terrifying, certainly.

[Queneau]

I've been a massive Boyle fan for years, and rate the fella highly. Looking through his films there is an incredible range of styles. Encouraging people like Cottrell Boyce to write for children was great. Plus, he's a huge Underworld fan - a duo I think deserve a lot more attention. There are torrents floating around of his version of Frankenstein. Get on it!

[Virgo76]

The Underworld films go off a bit after the first one though.