gabbneb do you have any opinions of your own or are you just using those as stand-ins since you haven't seen the movie this thread is about
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 6 December 2008 15:10 (fifteen years ago) link
I thought this movie was quite enjoyable, and I fucking hate colin farrell. I will second omar re: unexpected grisliness though.
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 6 December 2008 15:11 (fifteen years ago) link
i have seen this movie, and share the opinions expressed in those reviews. the movie is not worth my taking the time to express them on my own.
― gabbneb, Saturday, 6 December 2008 15:14 (fifteen years ago) link
this guy
― BIG HOOS'S poncho steencation (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 6 December 2008 15:15 (fifteen years ago) link
well that should be reason enough for most of the rest of ILX's regular posters to go see it, I think
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 6 December 2008 15:17 (fifteen years ago) link
perhaps they will weigh more carefully than my opinions those of the voice and the worldly socialists. and some other ilxors seem to agree that yr fancy movie sucks.
― gabbneb, Saturday, 6 December 2008 15:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Is that World Socialist site some kind of satire?
― Me and Ruth Lorenzo, Rollin' in the Benzo (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 6 December 2008 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link
lol worldly socialists
― BIG HOOS'S poncho steencation (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 6 December 2008 15:21 (fifteen years ago) link
One wants to ask: why? Why make such a film at this point in time? There’s a good deal going on in the world, why this? Does anyone care about a pair of dreamed-up assassins?
what an absurd point this is
― BIG HOOS'S poncho steencation (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 6 December 2008 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
what an absurd world
― gabbneb, Saturday, 6 December 2008 15:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Dudes making movies about hitmen, Gabbneb linking to a bunch of Trotskyites, will the wonders never cease
― BIG HOOS'S poncho steencation (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 6 December 2008 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
did David Brooks see this movie?
― El Tomboto, Saturday, 6 December 2008 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
This is one of my favourite few films of the year. I thought it was great. All three main actors were brilliant. The pay-off was a bit silly.
― caek, Saturday, 6 December 2008 16:13 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean the pay-off at the tower. The very last scene on the film set I liked.
― caek, Saturday, 6 December 2008 16:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Popular moods, and even moods within the film industry, have changed. Serious things are going on.
Er...what?I guess it's all Catholic guilt and whatnot (Bruges represents purgatory, no?) but I liked it, mostly for Brendan Gleeson actually. Someone needs to make a film about a dwarf hitman if it hasn't been done already.
― Matt #2, Saturday, 6 December 2008 16:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Popular moods, and even moods within the film industry, have changed. Serious things are going on. The flippancy, the annoying and self-conscious “playfulness,” as well as the gratuitous and contrived violence, of In Bruges seem largely beside the point. McDonagh could probably do something better; perhaps he should try a hand at it.
Tres, tres retardé.
― caek, Saturday, 6 December 2008 16:37 (fifteen years ago) link
king of spoilers? i posted something in the george rr martin thread i had taken down in like 5 seconds.
and i usually avoid ILE film threads. which i will continue to do.
but anyway this movie was good.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Saturday, 6 December 2008 16:45 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean I understand dudes are trying to be socially engaged but that's such an oblique way of going about it: McDonagh should clearly be making black comedies about Abu Ghraib!!
― BIG HOOS'S poncho steencation (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 6 December 2008 16:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Exactly. There are problems with this film, but the idea that people don't want to see silly movies is just ludicrous. Someone should show that guy this year's Sundance selection and some Iraq film box office. Shit, last year's Sundance selection, which included In Bruges, would have made this point.
― caek, Saturday, 6 December 2008 16:49 (fifteen years ago) link
the idea that people don't want to see silly movies is just ludicrous
they're not saying that people don't want to see silly movies, they're objecting to the trivialization of violence
not that anyone saw this shit
Gross$7,757,130 (USA) (15 June 2008)£4,729,687 (UK) (1 June 2008)
― gabbneb, Saturday, 6 December 2008 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link
zing
― BIG HOOS'S poncho steencation (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 6 December 2008 17:07 (fifteen years ago) link
they're objecting to the trivialization of violence
haha you're an imbecile.
― TOMBOT, Saturday, 6 December 2008 17:09 (fifteen years ago) link
six shooter was pretty good
― Tanganyika laughter epidemic (gbx), Saturday, 6 December 2008 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link
the movie is not worth my taking the time(1 hour ago)
also maybe go to some time management classes
― TOMBOT, Saturday, 6 December 2008 17:11 (fifteen years ago) link
and to say the violence in this movie is trivialized is completely missing the point
― BIG HOOS'S poncho steencation (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 6 December 2008 17:15 (fifteen years ago) link
the hoos always gotta be more polite about a thing
― TOMBOT, Saturday, 6 December 2008 17:20 (fifteen years ago) link
its a shame when a thing happens i figure you sugarcoat it make it nice for the people
― BIG HOOS'S poncho steencation (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 6 December 2008 17:22 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― shortwave (rockapads), Saturday, 6 December 2008 17:24 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― caek, Saturday, 6 December 2008 17:24 (fifteen years ago) link
I liked this a lot.
― WmC, Saturday, 6 December 2008 17:53 (fifteen years ago) link
also maybe try anger management classes
― gabbneb, Saturday, 6 December 2008 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link
see how it is?
objection!
― omar little, Saturday, 6 December 2008 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Thread of the week.
― Peter "One Dart" Manley (The stickman from the hilarious 'xkcd' comics), Saturday, 6 December 2008 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
i fucking LOVED this.
― jed_, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 03:17 (fifteen years ago) link
"two manky whores and a racist midget... i'm going home"
i still think this is great.
― caek, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 04:17 (fifteen years ago) link
i really liked it too (just saw it a few weeks ago)
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 04:52 (fifteen years ago) link
this movie owned. every Farrell Hater I know even thought he was good in it.
― wilter, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 04:56 (fifteen years ago) link
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, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 08:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Bill A otm I think!
― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 08:55 (fifteen years ago) link
(not sure if I know any serious crowe haters)
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― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 08:57 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Bill A, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 09:08 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― not_goodwin, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 09:13 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― caek, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 16:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I liked this film, but Ralph Fiennes doing a Ben Kingsley in Sexy Beast stretched the credibility just a little, did anyone think?
― Beloved lightbulb (Neil S), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 17:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Thought Fiennes was terrible - whatta ham
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 17:16 (fifteen years ago) link
i just pretended he was ben kingsley
― Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 January 2009 17:17 (fifteen years ago) link
ah, reminds me of the "french actresses" thread :
http://z.about.com/d/worldfilm/1/7/J/4/1/ClemencePoesy.jpg
― AleXTC, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link
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?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 13 January 2009 17:50 (fifteen years ago) link