Come Anticipate Martin McDonagh's 'In Bruges'

great stuff

was kinda surprised at how much i enjoyed this

y'all need to see six-shooter

I liked this. Is CF wearing fake eyebrows?

tied everything up just a little too neatly, but really nicely done. really good lines.

You can get Six Shooter on Youtube. It won the Oscar for Live Action Short in 2006, definitely worth a watch

Is there some secret viral campaign to get me to watch this movie? Even the coffee shop girls are talking about it.

people liking stuff isn't a "viral campaign"

ps i didn't like this movie that much

i didn't like this movie that much

I think that's the first time I've heard someone with a sort of non-commitall take on this movie. It's got the most passionate haters 'n' lovers of any sleeper I can think of since maybe "Juno."

(ps I hated this movie through-and-through but I've been fascinated (if baffled) by the way it's been embraced)

yea i didnt *love* it but its v. fun & entertaining and that compensates a lot for the overly synched up/DO U SEE ending.

also yea ferrell's eyebrows totally pwn certain scenes in a good way imo

Finally watched this again and maybe liked it even more than the first time. CF is so funny and I don't think I realized how weirdly touching it was at towards the end between BG and CF. I got a little teary eyed tbh.

super. choppy, funny, bleak. it struck me there is no character in it that has a purely good nature except the hotel owner.

certain sections are stylised (the pinteresque phone dialogue between gleeson and fiennes for example), but the whole piece moves with such a jaunt i could accept the stylistic fluctuations completely.

Just watched it last night on DVD.

The first 3/4 of it were well-acted and unexpectedly funny, most especially Colin Farrell's character. The humor flowed naturally from the characters and I could believe in them as humans, not mere excuses to make gags, as in so many comedies.

Fiennes character more or less ruined the movie for me, but not because of it being poorly acted. Fiennes did about as well as he could with it. More because of the writing. Once Fiennes' character came on screen the plot went downhill pretty rapidly. Nothing that came out of Fiennes character improved the movie, afaics. Although I can see why the screenwriter failed to notice this, because Fiennes character was probably fun to imagine, and looked better in imagination than it did in context.

Problem was, the logic of Fiennes character was so violent that introducing him required the movie to end in a bloodbath that added nothing worthwhile.

I liked this a lot. Why? akm put it just about spot on...

"this is a great little film, it is weirdly touching and strange and funny and tightly acted."

<3

wau at so much of this thread. how the f has this anything to do with tarantino or post-tarantino-ness?

in bruges is a great film, really fuckin funny, though i agree with aimless that it slackens a little after fiennes (who i often like and don't understand the rote hate he gets -- oh no, a posh actor, whatever next) turns up.

i generally like farrell, and he just kills it in this. don't think he was nominated for any awards, which is silly and petty.

(ps ella taylor is a moron out to make her name.)

luv this movie

really need to see it again

So good. Wish my bro hadn't lost my copy of it, could stick it on now.

One of the most underrated, under-seen gems of the decade, hands down. Such an odd mix of stuff linked by some brilliant dialogue, strong performances (yes, even the cartoonish ones) and inexplicable references to "Don't Look Now."

lol as much as i disagree with u hm on avatar, that's how much i agree with you on this

yeah i like this movie, more than i expected. gleeson and farrell are a good team, they should do more together.

this film made me laugh a hell of a lot.

farrell and gleeson both got golden globe nominations, fwiw

"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