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i guess for me it's not super important whether it's a good movie or whether it was created using good filmmaking. i resent the decision by the filmmaker to make the film the way he made it; it seems like an asshole decision on his part.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 2 March 2018 22:03 (six years ago) link
I'm firmly in the camp of you can make a good racist vigilante movie
McDonagh hasn't, not because of ethics but because it's a cartoon that thinks it's ~~~~~~deep~~~~~
It wouldn't hold an episode of murder she wrote together
I wonder if McDonagh intended it as a spot of deliciously witty wordplay - "ebbing misery."
― Doctor Casino
it's very clever if one has no idea how "missouri" is pronounced - so probably!
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Monday, 12 March 2018 14:14 (six years ago) link
two weeks pass...
Dialogue is very good McDormand is excellent when let and tbh the cast in general make a pleasing job of what they're given
Watched this a while back. Didn't strike me as awful, pigshit stupid or morally repugnant, but nor did I particularly care for it. I agree with darraghmac's summary of its better qualities. Frances McDormand is riveting as Mildred, with strong support from Harrelson and Rockwell. Though the characters are simplistic or incoherent (or both), the dialogue is sharp throughout, and the story keeps mutating in unexpected directions. The cinematography is quite nice, too. I was engaged and more-or-less "entertained" throughout.
But it all felt so empty and pointless once the credits rolled. I think this reflects not just the total lack of grounding in recognizable human experience (remarked on above), but also the barrage of ultimately meaningless provocation. The similarly transgressive In Bruge works, I think, because it seems so perfectly content with ghoulishly clever black comedy as an end in itself. Here, McDonagh crudely flirty with hot-button social issues about which he has nothing to say, and he ramps up the horror for both cheap emotional effect and cheap shock value.
Worse, he doesn't even have the guts to follow his "provocative" ideas to their obvious conclusions. The violently racist (yet soulful!) moron flips out and assaults a white guy. Mildred's terrorism is spared a body count. It's like a defanged, shaggily aimless version of Dogville, the empty spaces stuffed with details cribbed from Fargo.
two weeks pass...
The best thing i can say about this slop is that it used a good Townes van Zandt song i don't think i knew.
MM constantly in "Aren't I so clever?" mode; well, no.
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Friday, 20 April 2018 11:50 (six years ago) link
three months pass...
Sandy Martin, as Dixon's mother, gives the best performance in this. It's a shame she wasn't given more to do.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Monday, 13 August 2018 11:11 (five years ago) link