I cannot even stay awake reading the title of this movie
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 26 February 2018 05:33 (six years ago) link
I literally don't know where the billboards are, because I fall asleep before I get to their location every time.
― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Monday, 26 February 2018 05:35 (six years ago) link
theres swear words on em
― flappy bird, Monday, 26 February 2018 05:40 (six years ago) link
I like some of the satirical stuff in it (how everyone is out for revenge, mainly) and the honesty about every white person in middle american towns being racist. but oof at everything else.
― adam the (abanana), Monday, 26 February 2018 15:17 (six years ago) link
i finally watched this last night.
my expert analysis is that i couldn't stop thinking about how none of the characters seemed like they were from missouri. which wouldn't necessarily be a problem except that it seemed like the supposed authenticity of the performances is part of the film's appeal. rockwell's character in particular was really dumb in every sense of the word (although his mother was maybe the only one who pulled off the missouri-vibe). they did a good job with the goddamn cussing, though.
― i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Thursday, 1 March 2018 01:24 (six years ago) link
I wonder if McDonagh intended it as a spot of deliciously witty wordplay - "ebbing misery."
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link
Original title included "Idaho."
― "Minneapolis" (barf) (Eric H.), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
Ooo
I'll reserve broader thoughts for now, but note that I suspended my usual interest in realism and geographical specificity for a film about a clearly fictional place in the (imagined) sociological middle of the country. I don't think any 'authenticity' was intended even in that sense with characters who at least begin as (intentional?) caricatures.
― Moo Vaughn, Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:45 (six years ago) link
No if you take it as a piece of McDonagh ouevre it's merely in keeping with his cultural tourism ignorance
― Finn T Buoty (darraghmac), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
is the dialogue good? is McDormand good? that's all i care about tbh
― we have sayings like, "Embrace reality." and "Rocks don't Lie." (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:50 (six years ago) link
No. She's fine. What else?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:57 (six years ago) link
i'll pass then. what's up with the dialogue?
― we have sayings like, "Embrace reality." and "Rocks don't Lie." (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 1 March 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
Dialogue is very good McDormand is excellent when let and tbh the cast in general make a pleasing job of what they're given
― things you looked shockingly old when you wore (darraghmac), Thursday, 1 March 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, March 1, 2018 10:37 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
livin it up at the joketell missouri
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 1 March 2018 21:16 (six years ago) link
walked the fuck out, fight me
― rip van wanko, Friday, 2 March 2018 03:43 (six years ago) link
sending Sam Rockwell to kick your ass brb
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 March 2018 03:52 (six years ago) link
Which part did you walk out on?
― i remember the corned beef of my childhood (Karl Malone), Friday, 2 March 2018 03:55 (six years ago) link
^ u&k
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Friday, 2 March 2018 05:08 (six years ago) link
Reaction to this movie is insane IDKWTF everyone is so worked up about
― flappy bird, Friday, 2 March 2018 05:27 (six years ago) link
Disbelief at critical adulation of a hamfisted film that was about as nuanced as batman.
― lana del boy (ledge), Friday, 2 March 2018 09:11 (six years ago) link
from the director of Seven Psychopaths, no less
― we have sayings like, "Embrace reality." and "Rocks don't Lie." (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 March 2018 10:17 (six years ago) link
without wanting to spoil the movie for me in case i want to see it, i have this feeling that lots of critics, professional and otherwise, are carrying on under the mistaken impression that McDonagh's work has at any point been a species of social realism
― we have sayings like, "Embrace reality." and "Rocks don't Lie." (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 March 2018 10:26 (six years ago) link
I did not like the graphic design of the billboards.
― milquetoast malone (King Boy Pato), Friday, 2 March 2018 10:54 (six years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-feel-good-fallacies-of-three-billboards-outside-ebbing-missouri
It's almost like this isn't a movie substantially about the ethics of vigilantism (in the context of police abuse) directed by a left-leaning anarchist (who grew up amidst IRA bombings) and starring at least one other (the estranged son of a contract killer).
― Moo Vaughn, Friday, 2 March 2018 20:26 (six years ago) link
― lana del boy (ledge), Friday, March 2, 2018 9:11 AM (eleven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I don't entirely disagree with the characterization but not sure it's inapplicable to the criticisms, nor am I familiar with adulation from anyone particularly respectable.
― Moo Vaughn, Friday, 2 March 2018 20:28 (six years ago) link
XP those are not inputs that make it any less pigshit stupid
― things you looked shockingly old when you wore (darraghmac), Friday, 2 March 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link
I really think it's devolved into an argument about whether 3 Billboards is politically/ethically good or politically/ethically bad (or in internet terms EVERYTHING or TRASH) -- all of which has basically supplanted and overshadowed any potential conversation about whether it's actually a good movie or not. And discussing politically/ethically good vs politically/ethically bad — something that had heretofore been the concern of academia — has increasingly become the metric in which people decide whether a movie is good or bad in general.
Its two completely different and two completely valid modes of critical thought competing for their place in the conversation, which means like six camps of thought competing in a space where there's only two results
good filmmaking/good ethics = good moviegood filmmaking/bad ethics = good moviegood filmmaking/bad ethics = bad moviebad filmmaking/good ethics = good moviebad filmmaking/good ethics = bad movebad filmmaking/bad ethics = bad movie
I don't think anyone is arguing for the other two
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 2 March 2018 22:00 (six years ago) link
I might poll those
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 2 March 2018 22:01 (six years ago) link
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
Vote Now, Doctor Casino!
POLL 'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' Is...
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 2 March 2018 22:09 (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
― things you looked shockingly old when you wore (darraghmac), Friday, 2 March 2018 22:10 (six years ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a6/0f/74/a60f74a89ee115e505e77ea4b50d8c6e.jpg
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 March 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link
I meant black panther tbh
― things you looked shockingly old when you wore (darraghmac), Friday, 2 March 2018 22:16 (six years ago) link
i kid I kid
the poll doesn't include my take as an option though :-/
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 2 March 2018 22:44 (six years ago) link
― 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
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.
― not quite as cool as seeing damo's wang but (contenderizer), Saturday, 31 March 2018 03:24 (six years ago) link
Strongly disagree with the conclusion that Rockwell is in any way compelling. He plays an imbecile sadist in an obvious way.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 31 March 2018 03:29 (six years ago) link
good analysis tbh
― flappy bird, Saturday, 31 March 2018 04:52 (six years ago) link
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
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
did not like this, but the "holding ladders" line destroyed me
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 13 August 2018 14:34 (five years ago) link