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What a film!
I still don't understand how I was completely engrossed for nearly 2 hours.
An absolute must see.
Agree.
I think it's due to appear on Disney+ in about a week, looking forward to it
It's on my list.
Pretty sure it's already had a thread, when it came out...?
Great film, and absolutely, if you tried to describe it to someone who didn't know it, you coukdn't make it sound appealing if you tried.
Pretty sure it’s already had a thread, when it came out…?
Yeah, but still. 🙂
Yip I still don't like it.
Yeah – some dope not getting it
Rolls a bogie and flicks it in your direction.
It's been dropped onto Disney+ now.
We've just watched it on as a rental on Prime . Absolutely loved it, just my thing. My wife not so much, it's so depressing she said, but she did think it was well done, just not her thing.
Seen it now very good and perhaps, quite contemporary in some ways as regards male relationships.
Work colleague comes from Achill Island and lot of her cousins and friends were in the film. She said Gleeson and Farrell had no pretentions and were great craic.
A truly dreadful movie that should have been a five-minute short. And would still have felt too long.
Cliched. Boring. Humourless. Nasty. Relentlessly depressing and dumb.
The daft amount of hype seems driven by people desperate to tell the world that they 'got' it.
That, while on the surface it's a boring film about two idiots, they could see beyond this.
They could understand the complexity, the layers and nuance that makes everything meaningful and profound.
All of this is achieved by chucking in a panto crone and some references to the Irish civil war.
Watched it last night. Really wanted to like it but underwhelmed. Possibly result of all the hype but sneaking suspicion it still would have been lacking without it.
kid was good, especially the ‘touché’ scene and I liked the dog….nice scenery….
(post peters out just like the film)
We’ve just watched it tonight and absolutely loved it. We did it as a double bill with An Irish Goodbye which was also excellent! I was worried it might have been a bit over-hyped and not live up to it but we both really enjoyed it
I now feel the need to watch In Bruges again.
My wife liked it. I thought it was just unrelentingly miserable and depressing. As much as I yearned to be one of the cool kids who 'got it' I just didn't. Other than the scenery I couldn't think of a single redeeming feature.
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A truly dreadful movie that should have been a five-minute short. And would still have felt too long.
Cliched. Boring. Humourless. Nasty. Relentlessly depressing and dumb
I experienced the exact opposite, thought it was novel, gripping, filled with wry humour, intelligent and I rewatched it the following night as the acting was excellent.
That, while on the surface it’s a boring film about two idiots, they could see beyond
The "two idiots" were living on island during huge upheavals of the Irish civil war. The point is they did not particularly "get it".
It wasn't the Weimar Republic.
I'm not a cool kid.
Read some Irish history, that's not written by England.
Read some Irish history, that’s not written by England.
I know the history and this film has nothing of any value to say about it.
It's dumb and reductive. And it was written by an English man, which explains a lot.
Stick to Fast and Furious then;
a bit less reductive.
Watched this about a month ago, expected very little from it.
Am I the only one that thought it was (intentionally) hilariously funny, albeit a tad dark humor ?
Had a few loud laughs when viewing. Surely nobody else could have viewed the dead donkey scene with a straight face, maybe it's an Irish humor thing.
I didn't like it either. Might give it another go in a different mood but just couldn't see anything in it worthy of the hype. Loved EEAAO and so was pleased to see it winning the awards instead.
I watch movies and TV to be entertained and this definitely hit the mark for me. No idea what the point was but for most of the movie it made me laugh, loved the characters and the style. It also made reminded me that I still need to go over there for a road trip. I had to google the year it was set in as it felt timeless.
Keeping on the Irish film theme, we watched An Cailín Ciún yesterday via apple t.v.
Started off slow but I quite enjoyed and at the end Mrs Kilo was crying so ideal for a relaxing, entertaining film.
Calvary is worth a watch too
Why do people always jump to the conclusion that the only reason someone doesn’t like something is because they didn’t understand it? Says more about them than anything else especially if their next move is to vociferously defend that which they had no part in creating….almost as if they were actually defending their superiority.
Am I the only one that thought it was (intentionally) hilariously funny, albeit a tad dark humor ?
Nope. 🙂
Cliched. Boring. Humourless. Nasty. Relentlessly depressing and dumb.
The daft amount of hype seems driven by people desperate to tell the world that they ‘got’ it.
That, while on the surface it’s a boring film about two idiots, they could see beyond this.
They could understand the complexity, the layers and nuance that makes everything meaningful and profound.
Every single time a film is critically acclaimed and well received by the public people line up around the block to say exactly this. Congratulations on having slightly different taste to everyone else.
Am I the only one that thought it was (intentionally) hilariously funny, albeit a tad dark humor ?
Arthouse Father Ted is how I'd describe it.
Great film btw but definitely not a popcorn flick.
not a popcorn flick
You don't understand popcorn.
Seems like the people who don’t like it find it depressing and that’s a big issue for them? It is definitely depressing, not every movie should be happy. Maybe this one just isn’t for you. Different strokes for different folks n all that’ll
Seems like the people who don’t like it find it depressing and that’s a big issue for them? It is definitely depressing, not every movie should be happy. Maybe this one just isn’t for you. Different strokes for different folks n all that’ll
You're right about different strokes, it's fine of course that we all like different things.
I did find it depressing but I wouldn't say that is 'a big issue'. It didn't make me hate it, just not really enjoy it - which is fine I think. I don't expect every film to be a joyfest. I think films can be poignant, thought provoking or even sad, without being depressing. I don't mind feeling a bit sad or emotional after a good film, but actually feeling depressed is not something I'm looking for!
I will give it another try at some stage, maybe I'll take more away from it on a second viewing. With so many people rating it, I must have missed something.
I thought it was good but not great. Well acted, beautifully shot with fantastic scenery and darkly amusing. Other folk might like it more and some not so much or not at all. Different strokes
I went to see it with my partner and she thought it was a very good film whereas I was glad to see the end as I found it hard going but kind of boring if everyone just raved about it and slag off anyone who couldn't get into it
Seems like the people who don’t like it find it depressing and that’s a big issue for them? It is definitely depressing, not every movie should be happy.
I did find it joyless and depressing but my dislike of it goes beyond that.
It reminds me of Elephant by Alan Clarke which depicts a series of murders in mundane settings during the Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Very different types of films but similar in many ways.
Both are bleak.
Both present Irish conflicts as a backdrop to senseless violence.
Both strip away any context, particularly Britain's role in Ireland.
And both are made by artsy English people who are lauded for their work.
The effect is to present the Irish as simple-minded and savage idiots.
In Banshees the Irish civil war allegory is so clumsily tacked on that it's embarrassing.
The message is that the civil war was a bit like two incredibly thick Irish people falling out.
Brilliant. How profound. Five bags of popcorn.
@copa - you've missed the entire point of the film. It's not allegorical about the civil war at all - it's simply set at that time.
It's a film about despair, a break up, male friendship, depression. It's palpably NOT about the civil war, was never meant to be.
Don't know why you're quite so butthurt about it tbh but you do seem to be.
To be fair, Elephant is an absolutely awful film and one of those that I finished watching and thought ‘that’s two hours of my life I’ll never get back’
But I can’t see how you can possibly even equate The Banshees of Innersherrin with that at all. They couldn’t feasibly be more different
I think you may be overthinking things here fella. I watched it thinking it’d be a sort of different version of In Bruge and it was. It’s laugh out loud funny in parts, beautifully put together and I loved it as much as I loved In Bruge
Each to their own though. It’d be dull if we all liked the same thing. I’ll still keep talking to you though. And I won’t burn your house down. Honest 😂
maybe his mate has stopped talking to him.
🙂 🙂 🙂
To be fair, Elephant is an absolutely awful film and one of those that I finished watching and thought ‘that’s two hours of my life I’ll never get back’
Are you thinking of the same 'Elephant'? 1989, produced by Danny Boyle? Coz it's a short film - 40 minutes, not 'two hours'. I think that's the one @copa is referring to. Unlike him I don't see any similarities between it and Banshees, although it is most certainly 'bleak'. I actually thought it was a very powerful film and captured the savagery of tit for tat killings during the troubles very well. The lack of dialogue and matter of fact way it was filmed somehow really underlined the banality and futility of it all. I spent a third of my 23 year army career in Northern Ireland, including most of the 1980s and was serving there when it was filmed. It was very evocative of life there at that time and chimes with much of my lived experience.