Come Anticipate Martin McDonagh's 'In Bruges'

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

what the fuck nakh, we were watching this not half a fucking hour ago, gave up due to tiredness

are we in a mindmeld? god i hope so

still only el sur from this year, need more of its like

the poster for this always makes me think of the Dream Of The 90s song from portlandia. thats what mcdonagh is doing... living that dream

waste is the word. I liked Walken though. Especially his pronunciation of "hallucinogens"

i did find this to be majorly disappointing. there a couple solid chuckles, but there's nothing even slightly fresh or surprising about it. whereas In Bruges was a huge surprise (maybe just because i wasnt familiar with mcdonagh back then).

it's weird that he wants to jump into "meta" Hollywood shit so soon. Try just making a solid movie first. I've never seen any of the plays

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jit3YhGx5pU

swore i'd never see his stuff again for some reason but will obviously see this

It will end horribly and be absolutely worth every minute

All in for this

yup

mostly lost faith/interest when he made 7 Psychopaths (which i haven't actually seen) but this looks much better

7 psychopaths is terrible but it may have a couple of moments iirc. not gonna watch it again to confirm.

this new one is supposed to be more serious than the trailer makes it seem

7 psychos was terrible, thought this sounded ok but the trailer looks p bad imo

Can't offhand think of a bigger drop in quality between a director's consecutive films than In Bruges>7 Psychopaths.

it's a promise of frances mcdormand cursing out her whole town for an hour or two, what are you talking about

keep forgetting this guy has stopped being a playwright, or put it on the backshelf

I didnt mind 7 psychopaths tbh

me neither. enjoyable overall, with moments good & bad. agree it's a huge step down from in bruges tho.

Def

That is otm

In Bruges suffers badly from the tie everything together traits that mcdonagh suffers so badly from. The main difference in quality is that there's just no beating Brendan Gleeson for adding heft to a midweight smartass violent movie.