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{{ Like the look of that, loved In Bruges. }}

Same

I wouldn't say it's quite Farrel's real accent: I think the whole cast are putting it on a bit to match the part of Ireland the story is set.

That's the thing I like about McDonagh's movies: he started with plays, and this shows in the effective dialogue he writes. His brother is not a playwright, but seems to have a similar talent for it (The Guard, Calvary).

In Bruges is far too depressing for me. Don't like it.

Ehh it's a black comedy, emphasis on the black.

Oh my goodness how stupid, lol

I no right. I'm thinking is this good or really bad. King Kong ffs.

This could be good.

The storyline isn't very original.

More black elves hahaha

{{ Still think it comes across like Guardians of the Galaxy shoved into a fantasy setting, but it at least might be switch your brain off fun for a couple of hours. }}

Yeah we shall see. I suspect it is chock full of 5th edition D&D-isms: in other words, fake and stupid D&D.

You do realize that there is a natural correspondence between "fake" and "D&D", right?

{{ Very true Halfy- but there should not be a correspondence between 5th edition and bloody game wrecking, game breaking dumbarsery!
When I was DMing I refused to use 5th, hell I wasnt keen on a lot of 4th, as DM I loathed feats. All that stuff deemphasises good role playing and emphasises being an overpowered juggernaut. Hated it. }}

Well it's like the difference between playing a game and pretending to play a game: that's what I mean by fake.

It is a rules system that pretends to be able to do all manner of things, but that consists of mediocre half-measures that add up to a totality of banal incompetence.

anyone seen Everything Everywhere yet? it looks cool.

Yeah, it's a fun one! 

I reviewed it some time back, in the "seen any good films" thread.  To me the main fun was seeing glamour/action stars like Jamie Lee Curtis and Michelle Yeoh playing characters in drab lives, and revelling in portraying the third-rate everyday experience.  Neither of them has been anywhere near a suburban asian-american landromat owner or a harried tax examiner, but they killed it.  The performances were right on the edge between reality and satire; a brilliant balancing act from the entire cast.

Mrs Figg wrote:anyone seen Everything Everywhere yet? it looks cool.

It's a chaotic mess, but I guess it had enough feel-good parts in the midst of the tedious nihilism to trick people into thinking it had a positive message.

Yes, it's chaotic.  The science fiction/surrealistic parts didn't interest me, except insomuch as we got to see a beaten down acerbic laundry room owner reacting to the surrealistic mess.   The surrealistic interjections could have been anything - all that mattered is that we kept returning to Yeoh's hard bitten chinese mother going "fuck all this saving the universe shit -  I've gotta get my tax situation sorted out or I'll lose the laundromat."

I wouldn't have awarded it Best Picture.  But it was a refreshing diversion from typical Hollywood formula films.

Good old Indy

Lots of people seem to hate this, mostly because of Phoebe Waller Bridge.