Come Anticipate Martin McDonagh's 'In Bruges'

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.

Is that World Socialist site some kind of satire?

lol worldly socialists

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

what an absurd world

Dudes making movies about hitmen, Gabbneb linking to a bunch of Trotskyites, will the wonders never cease

did David Brooks see this movie?

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.

I mean the pay-off at the tower. The very last scene on the film set I liked.

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.

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.

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.

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!!

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.

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)

zing

they're objecting to the trivialization of violence

haha you're an imbecile.

six shooter was pretty good

the movie is not worth my taking the time
(1 hour ago)

also maybe go to some time management classes

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.