Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Go see it. This amazing playwright drags you through humor, blackness, and hope. Amazing work...... what kind of mind thinks up plot lines and characters like this, based around billboards.
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Re: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Watched this when it was released a few weeks ago and yes it is excellent. Didn’t expect it to start picking up awards though as I have equally enjoyed other Martin McDonagh movies that have hardly made it big such as the Guard and In Bruges although Seven Psychopaths did seem to get more press coverage.
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Re: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Saw it last night and enjoyed the 'ride' - reminded me of Fargo in its action and flawed characters - a little bit disappointed with the ending...........
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Can't afford the air fare just to go see some billboards, unfortunately.
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Re: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Watched it a week or so ago, very interesting film and hopefully it will pick up one or more awards.
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I thought the same, it had nowhere to go so just fizzled out. The rest of the film was brilliant though. Everybody's favourite bit must be when she sticks her head out of the car window and delivers that peach of a line to the news reporterchorleyhere wrote:Saw it last night and enjoyed the 'ride' - reminded me of Fargo in its action and flawed characters - a little bit disappointed with the ending...........
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Re: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Best film I have seen in a long time
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Re: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Very good film. McDormand is excellent as usual and should be picking up an award.
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Re: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Looking forward to seeing it. Frances McDormand is always excellent.
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Re: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
A really good film...I thought the actor who played the Deputy Sheriff was excellent.
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Re: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
BooRadley wrote:Watched this when it was released a few weeks ago and yes it is excellent. Didn’t expect it to start picking up awards though as I have equally enjoyed other Martin McDonagh movies that have hardly made it big such as the Guard and In Bruges although Seven Psychopaths did seem to get more press coverage.
The Guard was made by his brother.
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Yes I believe it was Michael McDonagh who directed the Guard but I'm pretty sure Martin was invovlved. Still a pair of talented brothers.Caernarfon_Claret wrote:The Guard was made by his brother.
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BooRadley wrote:Yes I believe it was Michael McDonagh who directed the Guard but I'm pretty sure Martin was invovlved. Still a pair of talented brothers.
Spur each other on I'm sure.
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The story is a fiction and whilst the good acting etc. makes it believable it remains an illusion and there is something deceitful in how it is portrayed. I recently saw the film 'Darkest Hour' and was disappointed to find out that the scene on the train, which gave the impression that this was what influenced Churchill to stand firm, was also a fiction.
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claret59 wrote:The story is a fiction and whilst the good acting etc. makes it believable it remains an illusion and there is something deceitful in how it is portrayed. I recently saw the film 'Darkest Hour' and was disappointed to find out that the scene on the train, which gave the impression that this was what influenced Churchill to stand firm, was also a fiction.
There was some discussion about this on the TV box how much should "historical films" take liberties with facts in order to entertain.
Imagine if they did the same in documentary films.
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Its called dramatic licenceclaret59 wrote:The story is a fiction and whilst the good acting etc. makes it believable it remains an illusion and there is something deceitful in how it is portrayed. I recently saw the film 'Darkest Hour' and was disappointed to find out that the scene on the train, which gave the impression that this was what influenced Churchill to stand firm, was also a fiction.
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I thought I'd heard the word faction used for this genre but post16 has it dramatic license.
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I'll be looking into this! Sounds great. "In Bruges" was just brilliant!
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I actually thought the ending was fine with the two characters who were most at war during the whole film kind of riding off into the sunset together almost with a common goal.Claret-On-A-T-Rex wrote:I thought the same, it had nowhere to go so just fizzled out. The rest of the film was brilliant though. Everybody's favourite bit must be when she sticks her head out of the car window and delivers that peach of a line to the news reporter
Mildred was obviously a troubled soul who could not get over the lack of police success in finding her daughters rapist killer(s). In fact she had become quite bitter and twisted. Dixon the red neck police deputy fed by his mothers racist bile was careering through life like a pinball.
The premature death of Chief Willoughby became the catalyst to an unlikely liaison between the two which neither seemed to realise until the very end. I think it had a kind of symmetry.
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Re: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Plot spoilers.
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Re: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Available free on Kodi.
And yes, a really good film.
And yes, a really good film.
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Re: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
SorryCaernarfon_Claret wrote:Plot spoilers.
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Re: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Sam Rockwell brilliant as isFrancis M
Already lots of awards
Rockwell easy for an Oscar
great film
Already lots of awards
Rockwell easy for an Oscar
great film
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Re: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Spoiler alert - Anyone that seen it think that part of the appeal of the final scene is the irony of the mother riding off with a common goal, with the deputy, whom, given his predominant character and the ready violence displayed, could himself be a core suspect?