Come Anticipate Martin McDonagh's 'In Bruges'

His only play worth talking about is The Pillowman yeah that’s right

well now

https://www.atgtickets.com/shows/the-pillowman/duke-of-yorks-theatre/

and im not offering but id write ten times better of actual irish dialogue

oh do this already for every sake

breaks my heart to see these powers of anecdote and answerback wasted on ilx alone

read kevin barry

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."

if ilx were up on their barry id poll his short stories, there's stuff in there that broke me and renewed me tbh

I’m not up on my Barry apart from the lad from
Belvedere! What’s he like? Would I like him?

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

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.

Well now there's this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRu3zLOJN2c

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.

I haven't liked a movie this guy's done but I do want to see Colin Farrell get an Oscar so ...

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I liked Calvary, so that's good news to me

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

Has this been released everywhere yet? It's one of my favorites this year.

Gonna watch a preview on Wednesday.

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