Come Anticipate Martin McDonagh's 'In Bruges'

This wasn't the madcap comedy the trailers led me to believe it would be, but I thought it was terrific and I think anybody slagging it for being a Tarantino ripoff are completely missing the point.

i have had this on my netflix queue for a while but I keep pushing it back. this thread has convinced me to delete it altogether. i also hate the fuck out of farrell.

I'm usually not a fan either, but he's excellent in this.

Only Tarantino similarities I got were men with guns and elliptical dialogue.

kinda surprised at how relatively grisly this flick was

i have had this on my netflix queue for a while but I keep pushing it back. this thread has convinced me to delete it altogether.

that is weird, what were you hoping we'd say about it? this is a great little film, it is weirdly touching and strange and funny and tightly acted.

this is truly the worst film i have seen in a long time

― Tracer Hand, Monday, June 16, 2008 4:17 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it sucks, totally a dressed-up '90s tarantino ripoff. actually though colin farrell was ok tho

― s1ocki, Monday, June 16, 2008 6:02 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I don't feel like I saw the same movie as you people. it's nothing like lock stock, for example, holy shit, that is the worst movie ever. it never once crossed my mind to compare this movie to Tarantino, I don't think it's got anything in common with him.

i also really liked this!

Me too! I love Tarantino, but never got even the slightest nibble of similarity. It's worlds away. Mad Eye Moody = awesome.
And I love Ralph Fiennes in this, he's great in these kind of 'out there' roles. SO great.

it never once crossed my mind to compare this movie to Tarantino, I don't think it's got anything in common with him.

― akm, Friday, December 5, 2008 7:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

fwiw the trailer led me to believe I'd be getting something Tarantinoish, but I was damn satisfied (if initially disturbed) by the darker and more substantive tack this took.

I liked that it was willing to delve so deep into their morality...I found that last act really, really moving.

it is weirdly touching and strange and funny and tightly acted.

^^^^ on this. Liked it a lot and Farrell was great.

i really like colin f. a lot in this.

i like how when he's in the park and he was gonna kill himself he cries like you really cry when you cry, like a pathetic bitch and not like some kinda stoic movie tough guy kinda way....

http://www.villagevoice.com/2008-01-29/film/more-adventures-in-gangsterland/
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/mar2008/brug-m19.shtml

M@tt you seem to be king of spoilers

that scene isn't even near the actual climax of the film

gabbneb do you have any opinions of your own or are you just using those as stand-ins since you haven't seen the movie this thread is about

I thought this movie was quite enjoyable, and I fucking hate colin farrell. I will second omar re: unexpected grisliness though.

i have seen this movie, and share the opinions expressed in those reviews. the movie is not worth my taking the time to express them on my own.

this guy

well that should be reason enough for most of the rest of ILX's regular posters to go see it, I think

perhaps they will weigh more carefully than my opinions those of the voice and the worldly socialists. and some other ilxors seem to agree that yr fancy movie sucks.

Is that World Socialist site some kind of satire?

lol worldly socialists

One wants to ask: why? Why make such a film at this point in time? There’s a good deal going on in the world, why this? Does anyone care about a pair of dreamed-up assassins?

what an absurd point this is

what an absurd world

Dudes making movies about hitmen, Gabbneb linking to a bunch of Trotskyites, will the wonders never cease

did David Brooks see this movie?

This is one of my favourite few films of the year. I thought it was great. All three main actors were brilliant. The pay-off was a bit silly.

I mean the pay-off at the tower. The very last scene on the film set I liked.

Popular moods, and even moods within the film industry, have changed. Serious things are going on.

Er...what?
I guess it's all Catholic guilt and whatnot (Bruges represents purgatory, no?) but I liked it, mostly for Brendan Gleeson actually. Someone needs to make a film about a dwarf hitman if it hasn't been done already.

Popular moods, and even moods within the film industry, have changed. Serious things are going on. The flippancy, the annoying and self-conscious “playfulness,” as well as the gratuitous and contrived violence, of In Bruges seem largely beside the point. McDonagh could probably do something better; perhaps he should try a hand at it.

Tres, tres retardé.

king of spoilers? i posted something in the george rr martin thread i had taken down in like 5 seconds.

and i usually avoid ILE film threads. which i will continue to do.

but anyway this movie was good.

I mean I understand dudes are trying to be socially engaged but that's such an oblique way of going about it: McDonagh should clearly be making black comedies about Abu Ghraib!!

Exactly. There are problems with this film, but the idea that people don't want to see silly movies is just ludicrous. Someone should show that guy this year's Sundance selection and some Iraq film box office. Shit, last year's Sundance selection, which included In Bruges, would have made this point.

the idea that people don't want to see silly movies is just ludicrous

they're not saying that people don't want to see silly movies, they're objecting to the trivialization of violence

not that anyone saw this shit

Gross
$7,757,130 (USA) (15 June 2008)
£4,729,687 (UK) (1 June 2008)

zing

they're objecting to the trivialization of violence

haha you're an imbecile.

six shooter was pretty good

the movie is not worth my taking the time
(1 hour ago)

also maybe go to some time management classes

and to say the violence in this movie is trivialized is completely missing the point

the hoos always gotta be more polite about a thing

its a shame when a thing happens i figure you sugarcoat it make it nice for the people

M@tt: no offense intended! just meant to be a playful rib after noticing your mod request on the RR Martin thread.

i've decided to keep this movie on my queue for the simple fact that it inspired this much discussion.

i think the biggest reason i keep pushing it back is because i recently saw L4yer Cake, and don't want it to be like that.

I don't care how much money this movie made. That guy's argument for why it is a bad film is the kind of demonstrative asshattery that is beneath even the worst ILM poster.

What tombot said.

I liked this a lot.

also maybe go to some time management classes

also maybe try anger management classes

see how it is?

objection!

Thread of the week.

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