THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson and fukkery)

[NobodyReally]

I saw this. It's good, thumbs up but there are some things about it I just couldn't relate to or find believable. Basically it is small town white people committing and planning crimes without thinking of any consequence that no Black person would do the same without knowing decades of jail are in front of them. While nobody is rich in this movie there is still tons of white privledge.

But besides that yeah it's cool. Best thing is it is unpredictable. Nothing from the ads or description give away where they are going with this. I like well done movies that do that most of the time.

I agree with your review. I like that the movie was somewhat self-aware enough to at least comment on race more than once, but you're right, it doesn't really seem self-aware enough to understand a lot of what happened was propelled by white privilege.

One thing in particular related to that I didn't like was

Spoiler

the redemption arc of that racist cop Dixon. I understand the movie was trying to weave all of their lives together to show how connected humanity is, but fukk that guy, you know? lol. fukk him. I hate it when writers make me root for people that would kill me in real life, especially a racist a$$hole like that.

Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Clarke Peters, Peter Dinklage, & Caleb Jones all did A+ in their roles. I really enjoyed the humor, but overall, man, this movie is dark. The twists and turns really are unexpected. Some of them seemed a little too convenient, but then again, sometimes that's how life works. I really liked how they ended it and I'm glad it doesn't end in a tidy bow or answer everything. I wish more movies would do that.

I'd give this a 8.5/10, took a few points off for my gripes above, but other than that, it's a really good movie.

 

[AnonymityX1000]

I agree with your review. I like that the movie was somewhat self-aware enough to at least comment on race more than once, but you're right, it doesn't really seem self-aware enough to understand a lot of what happened was propelled by white privilege.

One thing in particular related to that I didn't like was

Spoiler

the redemption arc of that racist cop Dixon. I understand the movie was trying to weave all of their lives together to show how connected humanity is, but fukk that guy, you know? lol. fukk him. I hate it when writers make me root for people that would kill me in real life, especially a racist a$$hole like that.

Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Clarke Peters, Peter Dinklage, & Caleb Jones all did A+ in their roles. I really enjoyed the humor, but overall, man, this movie is dark. The twists and turns really are unexpected. Some of them seemed a little too convenient, but then again, sometimes that's how life works. I really liked how they ended it and I'm glad it doesn't end in a tidy bow or answer everything. I wish more movies would do that.

I'd give this a 8.5/10, took a few points off for my gripes above, but other than that, it's a really good movie.

Yeah I say 8/10. It's quality and yeah the more open ended ending serves the movie very well.

Spoiler: But yo

How about fire bombing a police station and remaining free. Holy shyt, is that even realistic in any sense?!

 

[NobodyReally]

Yeah I say 8/10. It's quality and yeah the more open ended ending serves the movie very well.

Spoiler: But yo

How about fire bombing a police station and remaining free. Holy shyt, is that even realistic in any sense?!

LOL. Hell no. Must be nice though, being all sympathetic and justifiably angry.

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

Woody my dude but he play the same character in everything

And the southern accents he uses in roles sound horrible


Still great actor tho

 

[sjankis630]

I am on the fence. Bytch kicks dude in dikk for throwing drink on her car. And then she kicks a chick in the cooch too! ? Kind of outrageous if you ask me.
This may be a DVD watch on my part.

 

[FlyRy]

I want to peep this just haven't had time. This is the type of movie I'd rather pay $7 and watch from the comfort of my own home.

We need better day and date movies on VoD

 

[ZEB WALTON]

that end with the newscaster just made this must watch

 

[Pitfalls0117]

McDonagh isn't going for realism, brehs. He's a playwright by trade and really the events of the film are meant to set the stage for an exploration of anger, grief, revenge.

I enjoyed it overall. It was wrenching at times but the humor tempered it for me. I thought the racist cops mom was great in her role. The pacing made the movie feel like it dragged towards the end, that's my main criticism.

 

[I AM WARHOL]

What's up with the limited release? I have to go to atl to watch it

 

[re'up]

This is a uniquely bad and offensive movie, hits many ugly racial notes, and manages to use the rape, murder, and torture of a child as not much more than a backdrop for textbook hack, unfunny "black comedy", which consists of good actors reciting bad lines, that reflect a reality that exists nowhere on this earth, much less in Ebbing Missouri.

-When Dixon called the first Mexican a "beaner" there were loud laughs in the audience, in the small, indie theater I frequent, when similar jokes were made regarding black people, there was also laughter. I have to believe Mcdonough was going for these laughs.

 

[AnonymityX1000]

This is a uniquely bad and offensive movie, hits many ugly racial notes, and manages to use the rape, murder, and torture of a child as not much more than a backdrop for textbook hack, unfunny "black comedy", which consists of good actors reciting bad lines, that reflect a reality that exists nowhere on this earth, much less in Ebbing Missouri.

-When Dixon called the first Mexican a "beaner" there were loud laughs in the audience, in the small, indie theater I frequent, when similar jokes were made regarding black people, there was also laughter. I have to believe Mcdonough was going for these laughs.

I liked it, if you are easily offended maybe it's not for you. I think the term you are looking for is 'dark comedy'. there was definitely nothing black about this movie. lol

 

[re'up]

I am using black comedy, in the same way as "dark", not black movie. I am nowhere near easily offended, but there is a lot that is repulsive about this movie....The suggestion that violence, killing, and vigilante justice will some how quell the pain of losing a child in the most horrific way imaginable? I went to a memorial for a 14 year old girl in my city who was raped, tortured, and thrown outside her Mom's house, wrapped in a blanket. To portray that kind of anguish or pain, and trauma, in a dark way, with humor is fine, to turn it into a running gag is not. The movie doesn't care about the death of the child, it cares more about the arc of Rockwell's character, in a bizarre performance, I have to say.

These people aren't real, they are clearly drawn from the same "edgy" writers that did "Seven Pyschopaths", and think attaching a lot of fukk, or cock, and mixing in a sappy montage of killing means it's boundary pushing.

Lets talk about how Dixon's character's alleged torture and brutalizing of a black suspect is treated as a joke, and at once not a joke, when it's useful for Mcdormand's character to have the moral high ground, she throws it at him, like a rock. Later, when he has helped her, all seems to be forgiven, though he has shown himself to be a brutal, violent sadist. And a racist, when he instantly berates the new chief, which is also played for laughs.

So, what was the joke? Where is the lesson? Men who torture black suspects (or anyone) are morally redeemable if they draw the line at child rape?

 

[AnonymityX1000]

I am using black comedy, in the same way as "dark", not black movie. I am nowhere near easily offended, but there is a lot that is repulsive about this movie....The suggestion that violence, killing, and vigilante justice will some how quell the pain of losing a child in the most horrific way imaginable? I went to a memorial for a 14 year old girl in my city who was raped, tortured, and thrown outside her Mom's house, wrapped in a blanket. To portray that kind of anguish or pain, and trauma, in a dark way, with humor is fine, to turn it into a running gag is not. The movie doesn't care about the death of the child, it cares more about the arc of Rockwell's character, in a bizarre performance, I have to say.

These people aren't real, they are clearly drawn from the same "edgy" writers that did "Seven Pyschopaths", and think attaching a lot of fukk, or cock, and mixing in a sappy montage of killing means it's boundary pushing.

Lets talk about how Dixon's character's alleged torture and brutalizing of a black suspect is treated as a joke, and at once not a joke, when it's useful for Mcdormand's character to have the moral high ground, she throws it at him, like a rock. Later, when he has helped her, all seems to be forgiven, though he has shown himself to be a brutal, violent sadist. And a racist, when he instantly berates the new chief, which is also played for laughs.

So, what was the joke? Where is the lesson? Men who torture black suspects (or anyone) are morally redeemable if they draw the line at child rape?

Uh could you use some spoiler tags please?! It doesn't get a wide release until tomorrow.
I disagree, it's obvious you are easily offended. This movie is definitely not going for any lessons man. It's about people in a dark place basically staying there. Nothing is really resolved, no one has a righteous epiphany.

 

[valet]

Dope film. Give my thought when I get home. But I agree with unpredictable. Can't think of a film like it

 

[FlyRy]

Seeing this sunday