the idea that people don't want to see silly movies is just ludicrous
they're not saying that people don't want to see silly movies, they're objecting to the trivialization of violence
not that anyone saw this shit
Gross$7,757,130 (USA) (15 June 2008)£4,729,687 (UK) (1 June 2008)
― gabbneb, Saturday, 6 December 2008 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link
zing
― BIG HOOS'S poncho steencation (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 6 December 2008 17:07 (fifteen years ago) link
they're objecting to the trivialization of violence
haha you're an imbecile.
― TOMBOT, Saturday, 6 December 2008 17:09 (fifteen years ago) link
six shooter was pretty good
― Tanganyika laughter epidemic (gbx), Saturday, 6 December 2008 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link
the movie is not worth my taking the time(1 hour ago)
also maybe go to some time management classes
― TOMBOT, Saturday, 6 December 2008 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link
and to say the violence in this movie is trivialized is completely missing the point
― BIG HOOS'S poncho steencation (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 6 December 2008 17:15 (fifteen years ago) link
the hoos always gotta be more polite about a thing
― TOMBOT, Saturday, 6 December 2008 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link
its a shame when a thing happens i figure you sugarcoat it make it nice for the people
― BIG HOOS'S poncho steencation (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 6 December 2008 17:22 (fifteen years ago) link
M@tt: no offense intended! just meant to be a playful rib after noticing your mod request on the RR Martin thread.
i've decided to keep this movie on my queue for the simple fact that it inspired this much discussion.
i think the biggest reason i keep pushing it back is because i recently saw L4yer Cake, and don't want it to be like that.
― shortwave (rockapads), Saturday, 6 December 2008 17:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't care how much money this movie made. That guy's argument for why it is a bad film is the kind of demonstrative asshattery that is beneath even the worst ILM poster.
What tombot said.
― caek, Saturday, 6 December 2008 17:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I liked this a lot.
― WmC, Saturday, 6 December 2008 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link
also maybe try anger management classes
― gabbneb, Saturday, 6 December 2008 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link
see how it is?
objection!
― omar little, Saturday, 6 December 2008 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Thread of the week.
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Saturday, 6 December 2008 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
i fucking LOVED this.
― jed_, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 03:17 (fifteen years ago) link
"two manky whores and a racist midget... i'm going home"
i still think this is great.
― caek, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 04:17 (fifteen years ago) link
i really liked it too (just saw it a few weeks ago)
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 04:52 (fifteen years ago) link
this movie owned. every Farrell Hater I know even thought he was good in it.
― wilter, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 04:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Yes - a terrific film. Agree re it being a "test case" for Farrell Haters, in much the same way that Russell Crowe Haters are almost always won over by Master And Commander.
― Bill A, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 08:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Bill A otm I think!
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 08:55 (fifteen years ago) link
(not sure if I know any serious crowe haters)
Results 1 - 10 of about 173,000 for normal beer gay beer. (0.20 seconds)
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 08:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I have a friend who once claimed that he wanted to have a bare knuckle fight with Crowe, such was his hatred. Once he knocked him out he would then move on to Farrell, who apparently would pose less of a challenge.
― Bill A, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 09:08 (fifteen years ago) link
got no problem with crowe, but i couldn't stand farrell and nearly gave in bruges a miss.glad i decided to watch it though farrell was great.
― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 09:13 (fifteen years ago) link
one slight problem with farrell in this movie is that the part is obviously written for someone less good-looking. i refuse to believe that someone who looks like him would be excited or surprised to meet a girl on holiday, no matter how wet behind the ears the character is supposed to be. that's nit-picking though. his performance was great and i'm glad he was in it.
― caek, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I liked this film, but Ralph Fiennes doing a Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast stretched the credibility just a little, did anyone think?
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Thought Fiennes was terrible - whatta ham
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 17:16 (fifteen years ago) link
i just pretended he was ben kingsley
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 17:17 (fifteen years ago) link
ah, reminds me of the "french actresses" thread :
http://z.about.com/d/worldfilm/1/7/J/4/1/ClemencePoesy.jpg
― AleXTC, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link
one slight problem with farrell in this movie is that the part is obviously written for someone less good-looking. i
We're talking about Colin Farrell, right?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link
and he's got these disturbing eyebrows moving all over the place in this...
― AleXTC, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 17:51 (fifteen years ago) link
i just think mcdonagh's looney tunes stuff got the best of him here - it could have ended so much better
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 17:56 (fifteen years ago) link
"I liked this film, but Ralph Fiennes doing a Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast stretched the credibility just a little, did anyone think?"
this was my slight problem with this although feinnes is not as objectionable a screen presence to me as kingsley.
― jed_, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 18:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Kingsley in the last ten years has been so much fun that I've forgotten the Gandhi years.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 18:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Hate Farrell normally, really liked this film.
Yeah it's contrived, but what fiction isn't, and it kind of adds to the silliness and the displacement of it. And unlike a lot of overly contrived movies I didn't really know what to expect next.
― Not the real Village People, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 21:04 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought this was a wicked little film, thoroughly enjoyed it.
― Sickamous Mouthall (Scik Mouthy), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 21:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Farrell is always better when he doesn't have to do an accent cf. Intermission
― Number None, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 22:23 (fifteen years ago) link
This film is funny.
― Maximo Park Ji-Sung (Matt DC), Sunday, 8 February 2009 22:53 (fifteen years ago) link
The scene confirming this: Fiennes choosing a gun. The Uzi dialogue was about one line too long, too "offensive," too cute in that post-Tarantino way.
― The Screaming Lobster of Challops (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 23:55 (fifteen years ago) link
it did kinda feel like a guy ritchie movie when he was onscreen
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Thursday, 12 February 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Really dug this. Not flawless by any means, but a really clever, fun, alarming film.
― James Morrison, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 08:14 (fifteen years ago) link
thought this was really entertaining
threw me for a loop when they did the reveal on ralph fiennes on the phone, totally not who i pictured after listening to just his voice for the first half of the movie
farrell's a p. good comic actor
― boner state university (cankles), Sunday, 8 March 2009 18:18 (fifteen years ago) link
This film really divides opinion. I've got at least two friends who absolutely hated it, and I just cannot understand why.
― chap, Sunday, 8 March 2009 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link
Enjoyed it.
― Sundar, Sunday, 8 March 2009 20:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Saw Colin Farrell in Bruges when he was filming this.
Aha! What scene? I passed by the set when I came from my knitting class.
I can not express how much I hated this film. Really. I fucking loathed this film so much. It has taught me one thing: that my hatred can go to extremes that I hadn't experienced yet. (hyperbole? yeah I guess)
― the tip of the tongue taking a trip tralalala (stevienixed), Sunday, 8 March 2009 20:58 (fifteen years ago) link
It's just ridiculous, really. I mean, shit I know this shit's not meant to be realistic but wtf man. Midgets? Drugs? In Bruges? Sure, yeah, but not this bad acid trip. Also the opening scene was edited the worng way cause they walk along the Love Lake and that it didn't fit or sth. I'm trying to erase all memories I had from this movie out of my fucking brain.
― the tip of the tongue taking a trip tralalala (stevienixed), Sunday, 8 March 2009 21:00 (fifteen years ago) link
just watched this, have to go with akm's "it is weirdly touching and strange and funny and tightly acted". So many great little lines and scenes, Brendan Gleeson was brilliant, I *liked* Fiennes' hamminess.
― ailsa, Sunday, 8 March 2009 23:55 (fifteen years ago) link
Finally watched this last week and I really sort of loved it.
CF was great and very funny which I didn't really expect.
I know there were funnier moments/lines but I keep laughing at this:
Ray, you are about the worst tourist in the whole world. Ken, I grew up in Dublin. I love Dublin. If I grew up on a farm, and was retarded, Bruges might impress me but I didn't, so it doesn't.
Also I lost it when they cut to the party scene and CF was telling the midget about all the midget suicides.
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Saturday, 28 March 2009 23:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Jordan Prentice is the fucking best
― 20 HOOS poppin steens on kawasakis (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 28 March 2009 23:18 (fifteen years ago) link