The Banshees of Inisherin

love him screaming about the no-competition oscars

Fabulous Farrell hair.

― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, January 10, 2023 8:13 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

those eyebrows are what's giving me a glimmer of hope tbh

those too!

Watched this last night and intensely disliked it, maybe something wrong with me since I similarly hated In Bruges.

yes, your problem is that you are wrong and stupid (sorry, j/k)

I loved this.

tbf I am often wrong and stupid, but my problems with this are articulated upthread so I'm not entirely alone

ilx in general is getting increasingly defensive about stuff it likes not being liked by everyone, best not to worry about it

Also increasingly aggressive about pushing back against enthusiasm

To say nothing of the violent backlash to the backlash’s backlash

Gotta say it’s fucking hard to comment on this thread since I cut off my thumbs

You dullard!

Maybe you were never nice at all

I'm still trying to get my head around the idea that all the ale was bottled. I would have figured it would be in casks.

Also increasingly aggressive about pushing back against enthusiasm

― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, January 10, 2023 6:19 PM (three hours ago)

Ha! When I think of the one person here who embodies this, it's you!

I liked this movie a lot. But I like it lazily, not enthusiastically. You can fight me about it. I won’t fight back.

I'm still trying to get my head around the idea that all the ale was bottled. I would have figured it would be in casks.

A good detail.

Another thing I thought was clearly directed at people from outside Ireland was everyone’s overuse of “feckin”, which I didn’t like

https://preview.redd.it/z3p90ryv63aa1.jpg?width=1988&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c58f886211ef36f662b92341ae70fadd0215607d

:/

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah that didn’t help, like watching a two hour episode of Father Ted with maiming.

is Collin saying "feckin" in that latimes interview? Maybe the only time that particular censorship matters.

It's LA, he was saying "flippin"

is Collin saying "feckin" in that latimes interview?

Definitely not

I think the url here is pretty self-explanatory.

http://www.back2stonewall.com/2023/01/watch-18-year-old-colin-farrell-modeling-a-thong-on-irish-tv-video.html

I still like the film, but I’m gritting my teeth really hard and going “death of the artist, death of the artist, death of the artist.” Fucking diaspora.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FmhLdvTXgAAZoXt?format=jpg&name=large

why do even the good and admirable actors have to be such fucking melts, lol!

That’s the director & writer!

oh I thought it was Gleeson, well N London 2nd gen Irish - say no more!

his brother is useless arsehole as well, but it doesn't diminish my liking of the movie. God knows how it somehow ended up better than good!

In spite of him, I guess.

Brendan Gleeson played Collins in The Treaty, there’s no way he’s that fucking ignorant.

I started watching one of his brother's movies, mainly because Gleeson was in it. It was so nauseating I gave up after 10 minutes. Definitely someone who wouldn't be getting ahead without a bit of nepotism.

i just watched this and i enjoyed it a lot, thanks gyac for this thread

banshees of inisherin is about softblocking a mutual

— gage (@neatsaux) January 20, 2023

This was a strange and somewhat off-putting movie but was interesting. I liked its theme of the narcissism of small differences

I'm all for Colin Farrell winning an Oscar

what you like about the movie has become everything I find off-putting about it since reading that bollocks from McDonagh. But a well made movie with some excellent individual performances can often transcend the worst ideas of a shitty hack director/writer, thankfully.

despite all of the hate, and realizing the criticism of it was valid and that it was somewhat shallow and inflammatory, I liked McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. This film seems much less interesting in comparison

I think the url here is pretty self-explanatory.

http://www.back2stonewall.com/2023/01/watch-18-year-old-colin-farrell-modeling-a-thong-on-irish-tv-video.html

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, January 15, 2023 6:02 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

bless you for this

confirmation that cf is hung like a horse. cheers

Or a donkey even.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FnT9nruXEAA4mtl?format=jpg&name=large

I did think Barry has the aura of someone who was dragged up, it turns out he was.

I have cooled a bit on this since I saw it but I’d be happy for the actors to win awards as they carry the whole film. Martin McD can lose his for all I care.

I'm remembering another reason I hated McD. The hilarious use of the r-word in the trailer for Three Billboards, to illustrate that the character in this movie is no-nonsense and says it like it is and is very funny with it.

I still like the film, but I’m gritting my teeth really hard and going “death of the artist, death of the artist, death of the artist.” Fucking diaspora.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FmhLdvTXgAAZoXt?format=jpg&name=large

― bit high, bitch (gyac), Sunday, 15 January 2023 14:25 (one week ago

This is my problem with people saying its an allegory. It is such a weak attempt at one and he displays a facile understanding of the Civil War like "hey, sometimes things be like that!"

Yeah when I posted after having just seen it I found that part not that convincing - and ofc I was ascribing MMcD having more understanding than he turned out to 😒

A really great piece in Slate about all this:

McDonagh himself has always sounded fairly noncommittal about his own claims to being an Irish writer; indeed, he has never—at least in interviews—seemed to give the concept all that much weight. In a 1998 conversation with the Irish critic and writer Fintan O’Toole, he said that “thinking about being Irish only came into my life when I decided to write Irish plays … It would be phony of me to say I have anything to do with Irish storytelling.” As off-the-cuff as these reflections are, they hint at something interesting and revealing about McDonagh’s work: that being an “Irish writer” might be a kind of choice, in the same way that it is a choice to work in a particular genre, such as crime or sci-fi, or Oscar-worthy drama.

As a metaphor it’s both vague and clumsy; for it to work, you’d have to think of the Irish Civil War was some kind of basically unfathomable squabble between former best friends, as opposed to a conflict over a treaty with the British government that granted only partial independence and divided Ireland into two political entities, to disastrous results. As a political allegory, it seems obviously retrofitted, tacked onto the narrative to add unearned resonance.

I don't think an artist has to fully understand their work on an intellectual level for it to be good. He still wrote and directed the thing, got the performances, etc, it's not really fair to say it's good in spite of him.

Separated into two trilogies, McDonagh's first six plays are located in and around County Galway, where he spent his holidays as a child

lol I didn't know about his "Irish plays" - what a pumper.

Came here to post that link. Mark O'C expresses precisely what I found so insufferable about the film.

I took the vague understanding of the Civil War as partly reflective of the island's isolation, they didn't really feel very connected to anything off the island anyway. (That it also apparently reflects McDonagh's own vague understanding of it doesn't necessarily change that. Although maybe it's unlikely that anyone in the country wouldn't have had an allegiance of some kind, I don't know.)