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Star Trek ’s Colm Meaney on photographic film these sidereal day being " all f - ing funny books … it ’s a terrible input on the acculturation "
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Colm Meaneyis best known at Bleeding Cool for playing Miles O’Brien inStar Trek : The Next Generationfrom 1987 to 1994 andStar Trek : Deep Space Ninefrom 1993 to 1999 , though he lives bang-up in my judgment for his role inAlan Partridge Alpha Papa , The Commitments , The Englishman Who conk out Up A Hill And number Down A MountainandDamned United . But he also played a cop inDick Tracy , which might just be about to come back and bite him . Colm Meany will be receiving the IFTA Lifetime Achievement Award next week and has been talking to the medium in advance . Such asthe Irish Independent . Where he has been quote , talking about Irish celluloid , enjoin , " There ’s a wonderful wave of act talent and some marvelous cinematographers , but there ’s a danger of being , as I said , misled by the obvious , you know , Oscar packaging … I do n’t know how many features they ’re going to make this year , but I know I ’m not inundated with offers to work here . As far as I ’m cognisant , maybe there will be a dozen lineament made this year . It ’s not bad for a country this sizing , but it ’s not great either . You ’re seeing more and more interesting body of work done by the platforms , " he continues . " But the dandy directors from the 70s , your Scorceses and your Hal Ashbys , those cat made great films , and they would n’t be able to get a flick made today . It ’s all f***ing strip , and that ’s really frustrating and really irritating , and it ’s a dreadful input , I think , on the acculturation . "
Which , of course , can be whipped up into a newspaper headline . And I assume it is less likely that he is spill the beans aboutRoad To Perdition , A History Of Violence , Ghost World , American Splendor , Tamara Drewe , or the more recentHere , The KillerandShortcomings . And more about , I do n’t know , Captain America : Brave New World , Black Adam , Ant - Man 3 : Quantumaniaor the upcomingAvengers , SupermanandFantastic Fourmovies . The kind of filmthat Scorcese compare more to a theme car park than a movie . And , indeed , that sometimes get turned into a roller coaster drive . I intend , reasonable enough .
But say , if there was an Irish moving picture adaption of a comic such asBog BodiesbyDeclan ShalveyandGavin Fullerton , would Colm Meany turn it down , or indeed criticise it , just because it was based on a comic Bible ? Probably not . But hey , Warren Beattykeeps doing what he has to do every class , to maintain theDick Tracymovie right hand . mayhap there ’s a chance for Colm Meaney to reprise his theatrical role as " Cop at Tess ' " ?
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