Come Anticipate Martin McDonagh's 'In Bruges'

it sucks, totally a dressed-up '90s tarantino ripoff. actually though colin farrell was ok tho

This movie won't fucking leave the Mpls. Landmark multiplex. It's been there longer than My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

Longer than March of the Penguins.

really?

is it earning??

does minneapolis have a large irish-belgian community?

It's still showing at Piper's Alley in Chicago, as well.

I liked it well enough when I saw it and have now almost completely forgotten it.

I stand by my month-old praise, though I do still think someone involved should have objected to all the annoying convergences at the end. The pat tying up of meaningless knots does not a climax make, unless you're Larry David.

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.

St. Paul has a significant Irish population, but I think it's really more a case of crap boutique indie movies that do even halfway good at the BO get held over just about indefinitely in this town.

i don't get how it's tarantino-esque in "style/genre"? it's not a genre mashup; the camera work isn't gimmicky or "indie" feeling; the chronology isn't all mixed up.. aren't those the things people mean by tarantino's style? on the other hand, it's about hitmen who piss off their boss, have rambling conversations, react with humor to life-threatening situations, take drugs they shouldn't

part of the reason i hated it is that i staked everything on the ending, hoping it would justify the time i'd spent on the rest of it

i thought fiennes was awful

p.s. the "american" accents the fatties had were the most wildly incorrect american accents i've heard this side of radio 4; say what you will about colin ferrell but he could have given them some pointers there

This film is very funny and well-acted. The plot is a little contrived, particularly at the end, but that didn't bother me at all.

This wasn't the madcap comedy the trailers led me to believe it would be, but I thought it was terrific and I think anybody slagging it for being a Tarantino ripoff are completely missing the point.

i have had this on my netflix queue for a while but I keep pushing it back. this thread has convinced me to delete it altogether. i also hate the fuck out of farrell.

I'm usually not a fan either, but he's excellent in this.

Only Tarantino similarities I got were men with guns and elliptical dialogue.

kinda surprised at how relatively grisly this flick was

i have had this on my netflix queue for a while but I keep pushing it back. this thread has convinced me to delete it altogether.

that is weird, what were you hoping we'd say about it? this is a great little film, it is weirdly touching and strange and funny and tightly acted.

this is truly the worst film i have seen in a long time

― Tracer Hand, Monday, June 16, 2008 4:17 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it sucks, totally a dressed-up '90s tarantino ripoff. actually though colin farrell was ok tho

― s1ocki, Monday, June 16, 2008 6:02 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I don't feel like I saw the same movie as you people. it's nothing like lock stock, for example, holy shit, that is the worst movie ever. it never once crossed my mind to compare this movie to Tarantino, I don't think it's got anything in common with him.

i also really liked this!

Me too! I love Tarantino, but never got even the slightest nibble of similarity. It's worlds away. Mad Eye Moody = awesome.
And I love Ralph Fiennes in this, he's great in these kind of 'out there' roles. SO great.

it never once crossed my mind to compare this movie to Tarantino, I don't think it's got anything in common with him.

― akm, Friday, December 5, 2008 7:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

fwiw the trailer led me to believe I'd be getting something Tarantinoish, but I was damn satisfied (if initially disturbed) by the darker and more substantive tack this took.

I liked that it was willing to delve so deep into their morality...I found that last act really, really moving.

it is weirdly touching and strange and funny and tightly acted.

^^^^ on this. Liked it a lot and Farrell was great.

i really like colin f. a lot in this.

i like how when he's in the park and he was gonna kill himself he cries like you really cry when you cry, like a pathetic bitch and not like some kinda stoic movie tough guy kinda way....

http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-01-29/film/more-adventures-in-gangsterland/
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/mar2008/brug-m19.shtml

M@tt you seem to be king of spoilers

that scene isn't even near the actual climax of the film

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

I thought this movie was quite enjoyable, and I fucking hate colin farrell. I will second omar re: unexpected grisliness though.

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.

this guy

well that should be reason enough for most of the rest of ILX's regular posters to go see it, I think

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

Saw it the other night. Pretty good I thought but I did how many people attending where thinking more 'quirky Irish comedy' than 'Martin McDonagh film'

I accept this film as a microcosm of social conflict and dysfunction during the Irish Civil War--without the English as a common enemy the Irish start attacking each other. But dang was that slog to sit through.

It was waaaay too nice.

I liked Banshees, the first time McDonagh has made me think of Beckett (or think of him in terms of Beckett, anyway). Colin Farrell really is good, would be happy for him to get some awards out of it.

the farrell performance is so excellent

i never quite fell for the film but i understand why others have

same

I liked that the movie resisted easy resolutions — part of its point I guess. But for sure Farrell is the main reason to see it. Everyone else is good too, it’s a strong cast.

The funniest thing for me was hearing people express how boring they found some other people.

I thought it was great, want a mini donkey

it's weird that anyone finds the 'other characters' boring, there are only a handful of them and I wouldn't have described Siobhan as boring, or Dominic, who is just tragic.

oh wait, RAG means the characters in the movie describing other characters as dull, I misinterpreted that.

also, I guess it's finally time to say Colin Farrel is an excellent actor; treating his good stuff as an exception these days doesn't give him the credit he deserves.

I found this facile and predictable in the same manner as Triangle of Sadness, another one that left me cold