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Posted on 1/18/18 at 9:21 am to cfish140
I'm sure I'll get downvoted to hell because that's what typically happens of any dissent in "this movie is great threads" but this thread is overrating the hell out of the movie. I'm not saying people shouldn't see it, but you guys are setting people up for disappointment. The acting and performances are great, and the story starts off strong, but the ending really leaves this movie hanging.
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Pretty good movie. Ending was meh.
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Pretty good movie. Ending was meh.
Posted on 1/18/18 at 9:35 am to lsufan112001
Commence the downvotes but just watched and I do think it was good and the performances were top notch, but I thought it was a B/B+ movie
Some people on here saying it's one of the best movies they've ever seen. Really???
Thought the writing was average and the plot just didn't go anywhere. It just ended.
On one scene the ex husband comes in and just drops 4 f bombs in 5 words. Made no sense. That's great writing?
Also when the ex cop is listening to the radio and the whole building is burning around him and he has no clue. Might be the most nonbelievable scene I've seen in a while. A 3000 degree fire is within 6 feet of you and you're jamming out.
Just don't see how this is on people's best ever list but to each is own
Some people on here saying it's one of the best movies they've ever seen. Really???
Thought the writing was average and the plot just didn't go anywhere. It just ended.
On one scene the ex husband comes in and just drops 4 f bombs in 5 words. Made no sense. That's great writing?
Also when the ex cop is listening to the radio and the whole building is burning around him and he has no clue. Might be the most nonbelievable scene I've seen in a while. A 3000 degree fire is within 6 feet of you and you're jamming out.
Just don't see how this is on people's best ever list but to each is own
This post was edited on 1/18/18 at 9:37 am
Posted on 1/18/18 at 10:43 am to dallastiger55
The interactions with the ex husband were the weak spots in the film — he was completely overshadowed by all of the other great performances.
Posted on 1/18/18 at 10:44 am to dallastiger55
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Also when the ex cop is listening to the radio and the whole building is burning around him and he has no clue. Might be the most nonbelievable scene I've seen in a while. A 3000 degree fire is within 6 feet of you and you're jamming out.
I didn't really care for that scene either... plus he worked there for years, he has to know where other possible exits are located rather than jump through a flaming window.
Posted on 1/18/18 at 10:51 am to LSUBoo
Hilarious that in a year when people are saying that Get Out and Lady Bird deserve Best Picture noms, people are shitting on Three Billboards.
Posted on 1/18/18 at 10:57 am to wildtigercat93
best movie of the year so far for me. And I've seen The Post and Molly's Game as well, which were both fantastic.
Posted on 1/18/18 at 11:52 am to wildtigercat93
Whether or not Three Billboards was intended (or succeeded) as a dark comedy, it’s a little like Million Dollar Baby to me. And it may well score Oscars like it.
McDormand and Harrelson were as dead-on as Eastwood and Swank, but outside of those great roles there were too many flaws for me to consider either to be the masterfully crafted films that both were lauded as.
Like MDB, there’s a coarse, yet sympathetic lead (great so far)—but also like MDB there’s ham-handed stereotypes that kept me from taking it seriously. Dixon was as instantly unbelievable to me as Baruchel’s laughably bad “Danger” or Maggie’s Jawbone County family. And I’m a Rockwell fan.
Add all of the head scratching points mentioned in this thread and unresolved ending (which didn’t bother me, but also didn’t move the needle back) and I just think it’s being overrated.
But, like MDB, I’ll probably end up watching it ten times because it’s still a good movie with some outstanding parts.
McDormand and Harrelson were as dead-on as Eastwood and Swank, but outside of those great roles there were too many flaws for me to consider either to be the masterfully crafted films that both were lauded as.
Like MDB, there’s a coarse, yet sympathetic lead (great so far)—but also like MDB there’s ham-handed stereotypes that kept me from taking it seriously. Dixon was as instantly unbelievable to me as Baruchel’s laughably bad “Danger” or Maggie’s Jawbone County family. And I’m a Rockwell fan.
Add all of the head scratching points mentioned in this thread and unresolved ending (which didn’t bother me, but also didn’t move the needle back) and I just think it’s being overrated.
But, like MDB, I’ll probably end up watching it ten times because it’s still a good movie with some outstanding parts.
Posted on 1/18/18 at 12:22 pm to Backinthe615
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Like MDB, there’s a coarse, yet sympathetic lead (great so far)—but also like MDB there’s ham-handed stereotypes that kept me from taking it seriously.
I believe these "stereotypes" were a good bit of the point - people think what they think about others because of superficial markers. All of these characters tended to show a lot of layers as we got to know them. Even the sleazy ex who is chasing girls young enough to be his daughter. Even the dwarf.
Fantastic acting and great material are just a treat for me. This movie is one of the best I've seen since No Country.
This post was edited on 1/18/18 at 12:23 pm
Posted on 1/19/18 at 5:41 am to TigerinATL
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he acting and performances are great, and the story starts off strong, but the ending really leaves this movie hanging.
Agreed. What also threw me off was the unbelievably fast transition from dumb racist a-hole to thoughtful compassionate samaritan that Rockwell went through in just about no time towards the end.
Posted on 1/19/18 at 6:10 am to taylork37
I didn’t find his quick transition to be odd at all. He had read the note from his now-deceased role model, encouraging him to become a better man... then almost died, suffering serious burns in the process. But the strongest part, to me at least, was when Red found out it was him under the bandages, and STILL brought him orange juice as a
sign of forgiveness. And it’s not like all of a sudden he just started being good, but rather he was placed in a circumstance to do good, and he took it.
sign of forgiveness. And it’s not like all of a sudden he just started being good, but rather he was placed in a circumstance to do good, and he took it.
Posted on 1/19/18 at 9:56 am to Ace Midnight
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I believe these "stereotypes" were a good bit of the point - people think what they think about others because of superficial markers. All of these characters tended to show a lot of layers as we got to know them. Even the sleazy ex who is chasing girls young enough to be his daughter. Even the dwarf.
EXACTLY. A lot of the complaints about the movie show a complete lack of understanding of a film's perspective and unreliable narrators. Perhaps Mildred isn't the most honest and fair-minded of people to guide us through the story.
People become more sympathetic once we get to know them. That's true in movies and in life.
Posted on 1/19/18 at 10:45 am to Ace Midnight
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I believe these "stereotypes" were a good bit of the point
I almost included Gran Torino in the MDB comparison but didn’t because of this very point.
I get the purpose of Dixon’s character arc, and it’s not even about what flavor of stereotype he portrayed to me, that’s why I brought up Danger — which was just a bad job from the writers, director and actor combined.
I just thought (especially in contrast to McDormand & Harrelson’s performances) it was a sloppy part that took me out of the zone.
Just my opinion.
ETA: And he’ll almost surely get an Oscar nod for it.
This post was edited on 1/19/18 at 10:48 am
Posted on 1/22/18 at 5:30 pm to Baloo
I saw it yesterday and really liked it...BUT, I do think it was terribly flawed. A few thoughts:
I thought it was odd/tone-deaf that not a single mention or reference to meth was made. I've seen some complaints that this Irish writer had a few blind spots like that.
The 19 year old GF of the ex-hubby was just insulting to the audience's intelligence. Sure, maybe a few cheap laughs, but a cardboard cutout at best.
The movie sort of ignored the legacy of race and prejudice in small-town policing in favor of a far-fetched redemption arc for Rockwell. (Irish writer strikes again?)
Was there really no penalty for attempted murder for Rockwell other than being kicked off the force?
Although I liked the contents of the suicide note, what was the actual point of giving so much screen time to Woody's suicide?
I actually didn't mind that the ending was open-ended - I just thought it was absurd/uninteresting. Really, they're teaming up as vigilantes now?
I thought it was odd/tone-deaf that not a single mention or reference to meth was made. I've seen some complaints that this Irish writer had a few blind spots like that.
The 19 year old GF of the ex-hubby was just insulting to the audience's intelligence. Sure, maybe a few cheap laughs, but a cardboard cutout at best.
The movie sort of ignored the legacy of race and prejudice in small-town policing in favor of a far-fetched redemption arc for Rockwell. (Irish writer strikes again?)
Was there really no penalty for attempted murder for Rockwell other than being kicked off the force?
Although I liked the contents of the suicide note, what was the actual point of giving so much screen time to Woody's suicide?
I actually didn't mind that the ending was open-ended - I just thought it was absurd/uninteresting. Really, they're teaming up as vigilantes now?
Posted on 1/22/18 at 5:33 pm to wildtigercat93
I thought it was okay...I don't get its greatness.
And Rockwell's character - a complete nut job, under the thumb of his even wackier mom whom he still lives with..suddenly, out of nowhere he becomes a new man due to a letter from the sheriff? Not believable. and then nonchalant about what McDormand's character did (which was the worst thing done on camera in the movie).
McDormand did a good job - she made me feel her pain the entire show. Harrelson is good.
Good movie, not great, imv.
And Rockwell's character - a complete nut job, under the thumb of his even wackier mom whom he still lives with..suddenly, out of nowhere he becomes a new man due to a letter from the sheriff? Not believable. and then nonchalant about what McDormand's character did (which was the worst thing done on camera in the movie).
McDormand did a good job - she made me feel her pain the entire show. Harrelson is good.
Good movie, not great, imv.
This post was edited on 1/22/18 at 5:35 pm
Posted on 1/22/18 at 5:39 pm to Overbrook
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nowhere he becomes a new man due to a letter from the sheriff? N
Probabaly had more to do with his hero dying, added with his own close call with death right after, and then a man who he almost killed by throwing him out the window showing human compassion after having zero reason to do so....
I'd say all of those things would probably change someone's outlook on life
Posted on 1/22/18 at 6:11 pm to Big Scrub TX
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Was there really no penalty for attempted murder for Rockwell other than being kicked off the force?
There very well could have been in the future. Cops protect other cops. And maybe the kid didn’t want to press charges to get on the bad side of a police department in a small town
Not saying that’s all fact, just that it’s a possibility
Posted on 1/22/18 at 6:46 pm to wildtigercat93
I'm probably going to sit down and watch it here in the next few days because it looks like this film is your Best Picture winner for 2017.
Posted on 1/22/18 at 7:13 pm to Ace Midnight
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I believe these "stereotypes" were a good bit of the point - people think what they think about others because of superficial markers. All of these characters tended to show a lot of layers as we got to know them. Even the sleazy ex who is chasing girls young enough to be his daughter. Even the dwarf.
Fantastic acting and great material are just a treat for me. This movie is one of the best I've seen since No Country.
All o this.
Posted on 1/22/18 at 10:26 pm to RollTide1987
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because it looks like this film is your Best Picture winner for 2017.
For some reason I get the feeling that its not gonna win. A little to odd/funny based on the academys past winners. But at the same time none of the other likely nominees stand out as a sure winner either
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