Come Anticipate Martin McDonagh's 'In Bruges'

and to say the violence in this movie is trivialized is completely missing the point

the hoos always gotta be more polite about a thing

its a shame when a thing happens i figure you sugarcoat it make it nice for the people

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.

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.

I liked this a lot.

also maybe go to some time management classes

also maybe try anger management classes

see how it is?

objection!

Thread of the week.

i fucking LOVED this.

"two manky whores and a racist midget... i'm going home"

i still think this is great.

i really liked it too (just saw it a few weeks ago)

this movie owned. every Farrell Hater I know even thought he was good in it.

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 otm I think!

(not sure if I know any serious crowe haters)

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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.

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.

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.

I liked this film, but Ralph Fiennes doing a Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast stretched the credibility just a little, did anyone think?

Thought Fiennes was terrible - whatta ham

i just pretended he was ben kingsley

ah, reminds me of the "french actresses" thread :

http://z.about.com/d/worldfilm/1/7/J/4/1/ClemencePoesy.jpg

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?

and he's got these disturbing eyebrows moving all over the place in this...

i just think mcdonagh's looney tunes stuff got the best of him here - it could have ended so much better

"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.

Kingsley in the last ten years has been so much fun that I've forgotten the Gandhi years.

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.

I thought this was a wicked little film, thoroughly enjoyed it.

Farrell is always better when he doesn't have to do an accent cf. Intermission

This film is funny.

I liked this film, but Ralph Fiennes doing a Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast stretched the credibility just a little, did anyone think?

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.

it did kinda feel like a guy ritchie movie when he was onscreen

Really dug this. Not flawless by any means, but a really clever, fun, alarming film.

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

This film really divides opinion. I've got at least two friends who absolutely hated it, and I just cannot understand why.

Enjoyed it.

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)

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.

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.

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.

Jordan Prentice is the fucking best

Ray: One gay beer for my gay friend, one normal beer for me because I am normal.

YES!

I want to watch it again now.

just saw this one after having it pop up in my netflix queue as something i would like ... i enjoyed this film a LOT, many great lines (e.g., "two manky whores and a racist midget... i'm going home") and (as someone upthread said) great little scenes. i don't think that this is very tarantino-esque, but it is something that someone who likes tarantino would enjoy IMHO.

this movie is fucking brilliant