Come Anticipate Martin McDonagh's 'In Bruges'

thought this was really entertaining

threw me for a loop when they did the reveal on ralph fiennes on the phone, totally not who i pictured after listening to just his voice for the first half of the movie

farrell's a p. good comic actor

This film really divides opinion. I've got at least two friends who absolutely hated it, and I just cannot understand why.

Enjoyed it.

Saw Colin Farrell in Bruges when he was filming this.

Aha! What scene? I passed by the set when I came from my knitting class.

I can not express how much I hated this film. Really. I fucking loathed this film so much. It has taught me one thing: that my hatred can go to extremes that I hadn't experienced yet. (hyperbole? yeah I guess)

It's just ridiculous, really. I mean, shit I know this shit's not meant to be realistic but wtf man. Midgets? Drugs? In Bruges? Sure, yeah, but not this bad acid trip. Also the opening scene was edited the worng way cause they walk along the Love Lake and that it didn't fit or sth. I'm trying to erase all memories I had from this movie out of my fucking brain.

just watched this, have to go with akm's "it is weirdly touching and strange and funny and tightly acted". So many great little lines and scenes, Brendan Gleeson was brilliant, I *liked* Fiennes' hamminess.

Finally watched this last week and I really sort of loved it.

CF was great and very funny which I didn't really expect.

I know there were funnier moments/lines but I keep laughing at this:

Ray, you are about the worst tourist in the whole world.
Ken, I grew up in Dublin. I love Dublin. If I grew up on a farm, and was retarded, Bruges might impress me but I didn't, so it doesn't.

Also I lost it when they cut to the party scene and CF was telling the midget about all the midget suicides.

Jordan Prentice is the fucking best

Ray: One gay beer for my gay friend, one normal beer for me because I am normal.

YES!

I want to watch it again now.

just saw this one after having it pop up in my netflix queue as something i would like ... i enjoyed this film a LOT, many great lines (e.g., "two manky whores and a racist midget... i'm going home") and (as someone upthread said) great little scenes. i don't think that this is very tarantino-esque, but it is something that someone who likes tarantino would enjoy IMHO.

this movie is fucking brilliant

i liked it!

i keep knocking this off the top of my netflix but now i will have it delivered

I want to watch it again.

Oh wait - I said that a month ago. Still do!

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."

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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.