Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - a Martin McDonagh film with McDormand, Harrelson, Rockwell, and SPOILERS

I meant black panther tbh

i kid I kid

the poll doesn't include my take as an option though :-/

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!

Dialogue is very good McDormand is excellent when let and tbh the cast in general make a pleasing job of what they're given

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.

Strongly disagree with the conclusion that Rockwell is in any way compelling. He plays an imbecile sadist in an obvious way.

good analysis tbh

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.

Sandy Martin, as Dixon's mother, gives the best performance in this. It's a shame she wasn't given more to do.

did not like this, but the "holding ladders" line destroyed me