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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2017 13:09:10 GMT
This movie was amazing!! OJ scene was a little..., but otherwise, super solid. Ending thought provoking. 9 of 10, my vote for best picture. Who cares, I know, just sayin.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2017 13:10:47 GMT
Window scene was my favorite part, dorky guy from iron man 2 was my fave!!
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Post by politicidal on Nov 26, 2017 15:45:50 GMT
Window scene was my favorite part, dorky guy from iron man 2 was my fave!! That's Sam Rockwell. For future reference. He's usually pretty good in stuff.
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Post by jervistetch on Dec 1, 2017 2:33:47 GMT
This movie was amazing!! OJ scene was a little..., but otherwise, super solid. Ending thought provoking. 9 of 10, my vote for best picture. Who cares, I know, just sayin. I just saw this today. Really liked it. What scene involving OJ are you referring to? The scene in the hospital? I feel like I missed something.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2017 14:47:51 GMT
This movie was amazing!! OJ scene was a little..., but otherwise, super solid. Ending thought provoking. 9 of 10, my vote for best picture. Who cares, I know, just sayin. I just saw this today. Really liked it. What scene involving OJ are you referring to? The scene in the hospital? I feel like I missed something. yes that scene. It was cheesy and didn't seem to of fit with the movie
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Post by jervistetch on Dec 2, 2017 18:23:23 GMT
I just saw this today. Really liked it. What scene involving OJ are you referring to? The scene in the hospital? I feel like I missed something. yes that scene. It was cheesy and didn't seem to of fit with the movie I think the fact that Red was being kind to Dixon, despite having been thrown out a window by him, marked the beginning of Dixon's evolution into a decent human being.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2017 2:16:07 GMT
Yeah I mean on paper it seemed alright but for me, personally, it just felt slightly off. It's just me tho.
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Dec 6, 2017 10:17:47 GMT
I just saw this today. Really liked it. What scene involving OJ are you referring to? The scene in the hospital? I feel like I missed something. yes that scene. It was cheesy and didn't seem to of fit with the movieI thought that it fit the style of the film, although the fit of the film could be uneasy at times. Having just seen the movie, I consider it "pretty good/good." Here is my brief review: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri is more or less a black comedy, but its grandiose flourishes and over-the-top expressions of irony and humor mesh uneasily with its dark, tragic, morally ambiguous subject matter. Still, the film is effectively eerie and haunting, strange and surreal, and in its better passages it can be quite mesmerizing. Ultimately, the movie's message may be one of nihilism, and the film has something to say about redemption and vengeance—albeit in a twisted manner that may cloud the movie's moral urgency. Francis McDormond delivers a relentless powerhouse performance, and the locations do evoke rural Missouri, despite the actual shooting location of North Carolina. By the way, I would compare Three Billboards to two recent films. The first is last year's acclaimed Manchester by the Sea, which I deemed "good" after a first viewing and "good/very good" following a second screening. (Although I enjoyed the film and found it memorable, I did not consider it a magnificent masterwork—it is significantly flawed.) Like Three Billboards, Manchester by the Sea mixed comedy and tragedy while also featuring baroque stylization that sometimes proved excessive. With that film, the baroque elements actually were more aggrandized and distracting and created greater tonal inconsistency, but when Manchester successfully fused comedy and tragedy (as during, say, the first half of the film and again in the final few scenes), the results proved outstanding—greater than in Three Billboards. The other recent movie that I would somewhat analogize to Three Billboards is Suburbicon, which played in theaters about a month ago. I considered Suburbicon "good"—as an outright satire and a dark historical fantasy (set in the 1950s), Suburbicon is more consistent in vision and tone than Three Billboards. On the other hand, there is greater urgency, potency, and poignancy to Three Billboards, but the satirical elements mesh less smoothly. I will probably see Three Billboards one more time.
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Post by lenlenlen1 on Dec 6, 2017 21:59:11 GMT
This movie was amazing!! OJ scene was a little..., but otherwise, super solid. Ending thought provoking. 9 of 10, my vote for best picture. Who cares, I know, just sayin. Best picture I've seen this year. Blade Runner 2049 wont get nominated.
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Dec 14, 2017 12:33:07 GMT
I viewed the movie again on Tuesday night; my assessment is essentially the same as I wrote earlier, but I did like it slightly better, so I have upgraded my basic take from "pretty good/good" to "good." I still feel that the operatic or deadpan humor fits somewhat uneasily, or unevenly, with the film's subject matter and mood, but I gained a greater appreciation for the open-ended conclusion, which effectively reflects the movie's moral ambivalence. I also gained a greater appreciation for some of the shots, not just the daylight landscapes (again, with North Carolina standing in for Missouri), but the nighttime scenes, especially those involving flames and the contrast between the scarlet billboards and the black sky. Additionally, the movie's scenes of violence are strikingly handled and dynamic. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri offers irreverent characters and an anti-authoritarian sensibility reminiscent of such films from the late 1960s and the early-to-mid 1970s as Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967), Charley Verrick (Don Siegel, 1973), and Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (Michael Cimino, 1974), all of which are also set in rural Midwestern or Western America. Unfortunately, Three Billboards' mix of irreverence and tragedy is not as organic as that of its Vietnam-era predecessors. Bonnie and Clyde, for instance, is full of humor yet deeply bleak and fatalistic, and those elements seamlessly mix without a hint of strain. Three Billboards, conversely, often feels a tad strained or forced. Still, there are many compelling elements to this film, aspects that are raw and macabre, funky and uncompromising. I feel that the film best blends its sardonic humor and edgy darkness in the late scene at the bar that ends in a brutal beating.
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