Come Anticipate Martin McDonagh's 'In Bruges'

"mark that under who gives a shit" - zach g

uh oh, somebody has the mondays!

farrell's irish accent is a travesty tbh

Can you elaborate on that? I was under the impression that he is Irish. Is he hamming it up in this?

In the space of 6 months last year i saw Colin Farrell, a man i'd not seen in any films before, in 2 completely different parts in 2 completely different and utterly amazing films; this and Miami Vice. I was mighty impressed i can tell you, as he'd pulled off that 'little indie-type film/ big hollywood movie' balancing act thing so well.
If i hadn't been told specifically i don't think i'd have even noticed this was the same guy.

He gets a bad rep i recall for some reason or other (though not on ILX maybe?) but he's surely some kind of mad acting genius.

Or he has a helluva agent.

nah chap just raggin on him.

pisces- farrell is usually good value, even in shitty movies. he's hilarious in daredevil, and very good in phone booth and tigerland, which are both well worth catching (not sure i'd say the same about daredevil tbh).

I think it's his rougeish alpha-male public persona that gets people's backs up more than his acting ability. Also he's been in some toss films in his time.

c. 2003–4 or so he was in a ton of mediocre films, and he was shagging everyone, and that got people's backs up.

any of you who haven't seen intermission need to watch it

he's a funny and charming dude when he calms down a bit. 'calming down' may or may not refer to substances wearing off tbh.

and yeah intermission is very good, with a very funny farrell turn

Farrell also did a really good and really convincing post-rehab attrition tour that made up for a lot of lost ground. I mean, he's funny in this movie, but his performance is also very sad and soulful. It's all in the eyebrows.

really need to see it again

― everybody's into weirdness right now (gbx), Saturday, January 16, 2010 6:50 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark

just did---still great

really old-fashioned morality play now that i think about it. not gonna bother to read upthread but i think the tarantino-ish quality can only be found in the fact that it's a "genre" piece that tries (maybe fails iyho) to aim higher.

the soundtrack is really weird. all piano fugues and nu-metal interludes, really doesn't match the tone of the script, but w/e

The main theme is a really nice piece of music imo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnRyHPyGf-s

Carter Burwell is perhaps my favourite modern film composer.

Martin's brother's movie the guard has a 95% on rotten tomatoes

i thought it was fucking awful

i didnt think it was awful, but not very good. definitely wished that gleeson & cheadle had done a new movie with martin instead.

it was cool gleeson was watching the shout on tv in 1 scene

the writing/dialogue was dreadful, every cliche in the world & @ every beat the movie really thinks its clever & funny & isnt even a little

I was sure the little guy was Peter Dinklidge, but it was not. There could be a good production of True West with those two.

― Eazy, Monday, June 16, 2008 6:59 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest

This blew my mind a little bit, I've been thinking it was Dinklage for years. I am obviously some kind of dwarf racist.

Still not seen In Bruges but this thread has me curious. The trailer looked awful, was it just badly marketed?

Yes.

I remember thinking the trailer looked really bad and was totally surprised by it. It was nothing like what I thought it would be.

lol @ all you dwarf racists

it was cool gleeson was watching the shout on tv in 1 scene

the writing/dialogue was dreadful, every cliche in the world & @ every beat the movie really thinks its clever & funny & isnt even a little

― johnny crunch, Saturday, August 20, 2011 7:08 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark

i pretty much agree, but gleeson has a superhuman ability to make anything watchable as long as he's onscreen. his and cheadle's charisma kept the whole thing afloat. and i thought there were a few decent gags, and some cool music. but obv i'd much rather watch a new martin mcdonagh movie with those guys in it

still think its weird to hear ppl talking about this guy considering what a local celeb he was for me growing up. glad for him that this was a hit.

never seen it or anything

A spectacular feature debut from McDonagh, it's great news that In Bruges will soon be followed up by another black comedy, this one going under the brilliantly unsubtle title of Seven Psychopaths. That killer title has already drawn in a stellar cast, with Sam Rockwell, Mickey Rourke and Christopher Walken, joining previous collaborator, Colin Farrell, on the project.

According to Variety, who broke the story, Farrell stars as a writer struggling to complete his latest script, also called Seven Psychopaths, but soon becomes embroiled in some sort of dog kidnapping caper thanks to his two friends, played by Rockwell and Walken. Mickey Rourke will play the decidedly upset gangster whose dog is kidnapped.

this sounds so howlingly dire that it'll make me retroactively hate in bruges

"decidedly upset"

saw 7 psychopaths this morning - blech

Saw the post above and thought, "Wait, is Rourke in this too?" Then googled and found

http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2011/11/mickey-rourke-out-of-seven-psychopaths-calls-martin-mcdonagh-a-jerkoff

loved in bruges but im wary about 7 psychos

did not love in bruges and this new one looks like the worst guy ritchie bullshit strain ever

its cool that mcdonagh's keeping the dream of the 90s alive, it just doesnt look that funny

it's exactly the part of 90s cinema nerdery that needs to stay dead

It's too bad because his Irish-centric non-hitman plays are terrific.

zachylon & Eazy both otm

My friend worked on this and he claims he likes it. I remain deeply skeptical.

well it wants 2 have it both ways - it's a send up/deconstruction of all those hitman/killer cliches while also operating w/in that world - main prob is how tone deaf & unfunny it is

chuckled @ walken a few times tho tbh

It's too bad because his Irish-centric non-hitman plays are terrific.

I saw a production of 'The Lieutenant of Inishmore' a few years ago., it was woeful stuff. "Father Ted meets Tarantino", arghh

Kept waiting for "Seven Psychopaths" to be more than what it is, and while I was ultimately disappointed at what it was (meta cliches?) I guess I enjoyed it enough. Can't believe he'd be satisfied with such a hoary screenwriter lives his own story conceit, though. It's been done a lot better (see: "Adaptation," etc.)

Love how often Sam Rockwell is cast for a particular strain of manic overacting. Loved Walken's underacting. Liked Farrell in this, who I think has been solid since sobering up, and got his own overacting out of his system in "Fright Night."

Farrell's performance in IB is one of my favourite of the last five years, and I pretty much hated him before that.

That was his big come back post clean-up, right?

Yeah, "Miami Vice" was two years before that.

Which means there was much soul searching and rehab in between.

Farrell is always better when he's acting in his own accent

love hoos itt

currently watching dis new ting and finding it very hard to watch cuz it is not 1996 and the sense of anachronism is just too great

whoever the bawbag is who isnt farrell i hate him

this is fucking waste