What?s Your County?s Favorite Movie Genre?
What?s Your County?s Favorite Movie Genre?
Screenclick.com has compiled the definitive list of who’s renting what and what it might say about our home county. With posting DVD rentals to the doors of their 70,000 registered members through out Ireland it’s fair to say they know a thing or two about what films we’re watching, and they’re about to tell all!
Is Dublin the most environmentally conscious county in Ireland? Because surprisingly enough the most rented movie in Dublin over the past twelve months is Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth”. This might lead us to think that, maybe those city dwellers are finally thinking about their impact on the environment. Dublin also rents more Oscar winning movies then any other county with six out of ten of their most rented receiving the Academy Award. However Oscars do not equal culture and perhaps not
so astonishing is the fact that there was no foreign language or art house movie, in any county’s most rented. However Leitrim does appear slightly more educated then the rest of us; renting the highest percentage of World Cinema and Documentary.
Westmeath and Kilkenny are perhaps the most patriotic of us, renting more Irish movies than any other county, while Longford has the only all American top ten. They are also the only county to have “The 40 Year Old Virgin” in amongst their most rented; and rent the lowest percentage of Romance movies per capita, which might make you believe that Longford people are probably not the most amorous amongst us! It seems the south of the country is missing a little sunshine with Cork, Kerry and Waterford all having Little Miss Sunshine as their number one most viewed. While on the opposite end of the
country, Donegal is the biggest renter of Action movies in the country.
These lists are a result of five years of Screenclick renting, and represents the most rented of all time from each individual country. Looking at the list it’s obvious we are quite a serious bunch with only three comedy titles appearing in the top ten of more then one county. These were Borat, Hot Fuzz and the of course the black comedy Little Miss Sunshine. Laois it appears has the best sense of humour renting almost one third more comedies per capita than any other county. Notably Kilkenny and Mayo rent the least comedies. The majority of our most rented are more likely to be a serious hard hitting blockbuster, with Babel appearing the record number of times, featuring in twenty out of the twenty six counties’ top ten.
The latest blockbusters do
not appear in this report as they would not have been out long enough to compete against some of the heavy hitters. Screenclick believe in next year’s review there will be more Irish titles with Garage and Once remaining in high demand, and other titles bound to catch up are The Kite Runner and Juno – but whether or not the counties’ individual tastes is set in stone or weather it will change with time is yet to be seen.
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