Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh; November 10, 2017) Movie • Page 3

This is where you and I both have that contrarian part of our brain that perks up.

 

I wouldn’t say this movie is horrible but my opinion on it has soured since I saw it.

 

Yeah I haven’t really read anything about the movie but the more I think about it the less I like it. I wouldn’t say it’s bad but it’s nowhere near In Bruges or Seven Psycopaths

 

It's not just that it's a "bad" movie, even though Jake points out quite a few things that in retrospect are just plain bad... It's that it's problematic and offensive.

I can't really vouch for anything he's said on Twitter, but listen to the podcast starting around 37 minutes. He goes into more specific detail as to why he feels the way he does, cites examples from the film, etc...

Like I said, I initially enjoyed the movie, but after hearing that podcast, I've completely changed my mind.

 

genuinely believe there is a non-zero chance the script was auto-generated by a bot. the dialog isn’t fucking human. it’s awful

dinklage and cornish’s characters are specifically bad

 

Tone-Deaf ‘Three Billboards’ Tries Absolving White People of Racism. And Oscars Season Loves It.
there was another article I saw about the racism in this too

 

'Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri' Is Hopelessly Bad on Race

White Critics Love 'Three Billboards' Like They Love Their Racist Uncles | HuffPost

Three Billboards Portrays a Missouri That's Stupider and More Violent Than the Real Thing

The Tonally Incoherent Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Hasn't a Clue How to Manage Its Weighty Themes and Discordant Plot

’Three Billboards’ Struggles To Make Its Provocations Matter

 

I made my worst films of the year list way too early. The plight of the Oscar film seems like it will never go away.

 

The movie starts with the main character stopping her car to stare at billboards as if she had never seen a billboard before. This is going to be a long one.

 

I can't wait to hear what Tetra has to say about this movie.

 

Frances McDormand is rambling about Crips and Bloods for absolutely no reason except some abstract point about culpability.

 

I really hope you're not live commenting about this while at the movie theater. And if you are, please tell me you are the only one in the theater.

 

When I go to the theater I sit in the back with my notebook. I would not pay to see this.

 

In a flashback, the daughter literally says "I hope I get raped!" before the actual event occurs. I am taking a nap and going to see Phantom Thread later. I can't take this anymore.

 

I have yet to see this because of the reaction in here. This seals that.

Also, what lol. That was an actual line?

 

yep! and then the strings swell as frances remembers that, yeah, her daughter did get raped that night

it's chill.

 

that's also the only scene they show the daughter and the only thing they say about who she was as a person

 

I was on board with this in the first half, but it totally lost its way and fell apart for the rest. Super overrated.

 

"Talking about dead kids, what about the billboard lady?"

The ex-husband comes in and starts strangling his ex-wife over a comment, their son pulls out a knife and puts it to his father's throat, and then the ex-husband's new girlfriend comes in and goes "well THIS is awkward!"

Now McDormand is talking to a deer about reincarnation. I overslept and missed Phantom Thread so I am going to plow through this garbage.

 

Let us know what you think about Woody Harrelson's posthumous letters

 

It was cringeworthy enough when the wife made those comments, but when he puts it in his suicide note I rolled my eyes as hard as I ever had.

 

It looks like Sam Rockwell gained a little bit of weight to play the schlubby manchild small town cop, but he adopted this swagger of a man twice his size to compensate.

He is such a cartoonish villain. He immediately makes racist comments when he meets people, and he lives with his mother and spends most of his free time with her. It is how Hollywood loves to portray racist people; it is scarier when you realize that actual racists can be successful, otherwise normal members of the community that people take seriously.

 

Apparently in the world of this movie the police station just closes down for the night, because as we all know criminals go to bed early. McDormand acts with genuine shock when her decision to firebomb the police station (which is completely counterproductive to her desire to force a police investigation into her daughter's murder) ends up with a person on fire, who was only in there to learn that the dead sheriff thought that Rockwell had "potential", even though the film has never established that at any point in the movie.

 

it sounds like he's making it up, but folks, it really is that bad!

 

Yup. This movie is fooling everyone. It's really a dumpster of a movie.