me neither. enjoyable overall, with moments good & bad. agree it's a huge step down from in bruges tho.
― Balðy Daudrs (contenderizer), Monday, 27 March 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link
Def
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 27 March 2017 17:32 (seven years ago) link
That is otm
In Bruges suffers badly from the tie everything together traits that mcdonagh suffers so badly from. The main difference in quality is that there's just no beating Brendan Gleeson for adding heft to a midweight smartass violent movie.
― The night before all about day (darraghmac), Monday, 27 March 2017 20:32 (seven years ago) link
Agreed. Fiennes raises the intensity bar a couple of notches too. The smashing of the telephone in the study seems strangely anachronistic.
― wtev, Tuesday, 28 March 2017 05:42 (seven years ago) link
well, one vote for his new one on Slant. Nice cast anyway.
https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/three-billboards-outside-ebbing-missouri
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 17:16 (six years ago) link
i found this movie troubling in all the ways it intends to be, and extremely well-acted, yet i find myself really annoyed with it. the angle of the police department's track record of brutality and racism, admittedly played up in the marketing but absolutely present in the film, is never seriously dealt with. the screenplay and acting heap tremendous sympathy on woody harrelson (so, what, he's absolved?) and about two-thirds of the way through start developing rockwell in a much more sympathetic direction, and knowing what we know about him this is really, really jarring. i've skimmed some of the rave reviews and i agree with everything they're saying but they do not mention this. a major character is clearly a racist cop who committed these acts of brutality, but it's not dwelled upon, it doesn't seem to come up even after he's committed more serious offenses that by rights should have him in jail, and at the end... well, i won't spoil.
and i'm not saying that the film straightforwardly asks us to like and sympathize with this character, nor that a film about a racist cop has to stop at depicting him as pure evil. because obviously this is a movie where the main protagonist also does some things that go beyond the pale, and we are forced to see her in a complicated moral light. but in 2017 to make a movie about american police, where racially-structured brutality is put in play as a theme, and then to end where we do is very.... weird. imo. it started to feel not like a deliberate provocative choice and more like a tone-deaf outsider filmmaker who Does Not Get It.
but maybe it's just me?
― gimme the beet poison, free my soul (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 03:10 (six years ago) link
all re: three billboards if that wasn't obvious. i loved in bruges.
I agree with all of that, Doctor C. I was also a bit put off by the scene in which the new chief comes to town, and he's black, and he immediately calls all the white officers crackers and motherfuckers and lays down the law and fires Dixon on the spot. It just seemed so pat, like a fantasy of police accountability--some good black officers in high places could take care of the bad white ones, and that would be that.
― JRN, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 03:23 (six years ago) link
(also reading back over my post above: i mean "more serious offenses" as in "additional serious offenses" not that they are "more serious" than the torture that apparently took place before the film started)
― gimme the beet poison, free my soul (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 04:34 (six years ago) link
I used to think the Coen bros sometimes made bad movies, but really they were just lesser Coen bros movies. This movie and that terrible George Clooney movie that came out showed me what bad Coen bros movies would look like.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 05:05 (six years ago) link
I definitely prefer McDonagh writing about Ireland than the U.S.
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 05:50 (six years ago) link
and yeah agreed with JRN about the new chief. also the only black characters are him, the guy who put up the billboard, and the other gift shop employee. they're all accessory characters with none of the home lives or inner complexity that the rest of the cast are allowed. dinklage gets more screen time and more dialogue establishing his personhood than the woman who is arbitrarily and punitively jailed and then shows up to just be happy as can be that she's out and that mcdormand is still doing her thing. did she have any feelings about this situation?
― gimme the beet poison, free my soul (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 06:39 (six years ago) link
i think the chief's backstory is that he is lester freamon from the wire.the mom from it's always sunny was a bit of on-the-nose casting, too.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 07:26 (six years ago) link
I might ask that, if you're not going to make a separate thread for it, you'd refrain from "and then this thing happened" about a film that won't be released until next year in a lot of territories. I'm prepared to sacrifice my dignity and call you "Lads" if this will get the work done.
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 12:09 (six years ago) link
Backing Farrell 💯 on this one...lads
― m8, capitalism, m8 (darraghmac), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 12:10 (six years ago) link
I read this thread backwards and thought you was talking about Colin
― Centrist Pred (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 13:32 (six years ago) link
Sorry, Andrew. I started out intending to not be spoilery but it got away from me.
― gimme the beet poison, free my soul (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 14:00 (six years ago) link
new thread: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - a Martin McDonagh film with McDormand, Harrelson, Rockwell, and SPOILERS
― gimme the beet poison, free my soul (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 28 November 2017 15:45 (six years ago) link
there’s also been discussion on the woody barrels on thread
― sciatica, Tuesday, 28 November 2017 15:49 (six years ago) link
lol
I saw a production of 'The Lieutenant of Inishmore' a few years ago., it was woeful stuff. "Father Ted meets Tarantino", arghh
― Michael B Higgins (Michael B), Friday, 12 October 2012 21:56 (seven years ago) bookmarkflaglink
shite
embarrassing
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 5 March 2020 21:38 (four years ago) link
having discussed it with a half-a-bottle-of-red-down mrs mac, we have decided that without great performances, mcdonagh is in fact without merit in any way.
and im not offering but id write ten times better of actual irish dialogue, and god bless our diaspora but fucked if we should tolerate them making cod-irish characters a thing if flann o'brian was mocking yeats himself for doing so a century before this overboosted tart
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 5 March 2020 22:36 (four years ago) link
His only play worth talking about is The Pillowman yeah that’s right
― median punt (gyac), Thursday, 5 March 2020 22:44 (four years ago) link
well nowhttps://www.atgtickets.com/shows/the-pillowman/duke-of-yorks-theatre/
― median punt (gyac), Thursday, 5 March 2020 22:52 (four years ago) link
and im not offering but id write ten times better of actual irish dialogue
oh do this already for every sake
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Thursday, 5 March 2020 22:56 (four years ago) link
breaks my heart to see these powers of anecdote and answerback wasted on ilx alone
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Thursday, 5 March 2020 22:57 (four years ago) link
read kevin barry
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 5 March 2020 23:07 (four years ago) link
Kevin Barry read Shaw
”Well, they are not going to let me like a soldier fall… But I must say they are going to hang me like a gentleman."
― median punt (gyac), Thursday, 5 March 2020 23:14 (four years ago) link
if ilx were up on their barry id poll his short stories, there's stuff in there that broke me and renewed me tbh
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Thursday, 5 March 2020 23:28 (four years ago) link
I’m not up on my Barry apart from the lad fromBelvedere! What’s he like? Would I like him?
― median punt (gyac), Friday, 6 March 2020 00:13 (four years ago) link
would hope so
he runs a bit towards fascination with the sex he imagines everyone is having and a certain gra for idk rural hippies
but some of the writing is so utterly irish in energy and phrase that i got homesick and sher i never left.
and a few of the tales and characters are pretty unforgettable
― BSC Joan Baez (darraghmac), Friday, 6 March 2020 00:27 (four years ago) link
There's a Barry essay about living in Cork that's just superbly magical and gritty somewhere on the internets. I thought "City of Bohane" was an attempt at a bogger Mad Max that worked maybe a third of the time but fair play for having a go.
Martin McDonagh is a wasteman who hasnt done anything of any worth and I'm including "In Bruges" in there also.
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Friday, 6 March 2020 00:48 (four years ago) link
Well now there's this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRu3zLOJN2c
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 4 August 2022 14:30 (one year ago) link
Banshees is fantastic. I can never remember which McDonagh brother is which, but this is a lot like John Michael's Calvary. The small island grudges thing reminded me of Michael Powell's Edge Of The World too.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 22 October 2022 19:22 (one year ago) link
I haven't liked a movie this guy's done but I do want to see Colin Farrell get an Oscar so ...
― Eric H., Saturday, 22 October 2022 20:27 (one year ago) link
https://i0.wp.com/www.popbabble.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/seven-psychopaths-colin-eyebrows.jpg?w=1600&ssl=1
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 22 October 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
I liked Calvary, so that's good news to me
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Saturday, 22 October 2022 20:46 (one year ago) link
First half was a great movie about how difficult it is for men to maintain long term friendships but then it gets progressively more daft for the sake of some high drama
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Saturday, 22 October 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link
Has this been released everywhere yet? It's one of my favorites this year.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 29 October 2022 19:29 (one year ago) link
Gonna watch a preview on Wednesday.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 29 October 2022 19:35 (one year ago) link
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'
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 29 October 2022 19:43 (one year ago) link
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.
― Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Saturday, 5 November 2022 12:00 (one year ago) link
It was waaaay too nice.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 November 2022 12:16 (one year ago) link
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.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 26 November 2022 01:21 (one year ago) link
the farrell performance is so excellent
i never quite fell for the film but i understand why others have
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 26 November 2022 01:28 (one year ago) link
same
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 26 November 2022 01:32 (one year ago) link
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.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 26 November 2022 02:45 (one year ago) link
The funniest thing for me was hearing people express how boring they found some other people.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 26 November 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
I thought it was great, want a mini donkey
― akm, Sunday, 27 November 2022 03:35 (one year ago) link
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.
― akm, Sunday, 27 November 2022 21:44 (one year ago) link