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HIS FILM DIARY 2015
total movie count ........... current day count
191 .......................... 202
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June 3rd
—— 2008 ——
IN BRUGES
—— comedy ——
Maybe that's what hell is,
the entire rest of eternity spent in f*cking Bruges
Sometimes I love a good crooked comedy with a decent dose of dark humor on top of it, which, when I come to think of it, suddenly makes me feel lucky that I ended up in a low life habitation like Bruges. Not only is the actual location funny enough on its own, weird residents and all, but I also have the pleasure of the pitiful company of two horrendous hitmen, who pretty much suck at their jobs. At least one of them does, since he ends up killing he little boy by accident, which is what eventually makes him end up in Bruges where everything goes wrong…
The movie is one of those that I like to call modern-day period pieces on a small scale, but often with major problems. They are in fact the exact opposite of grand scale period pieces, in the way that films like ‘In Bruges’ deals with the small insignificance turned significant. We have these two guys in a small hotel room, in a small city, waiting in silence or with small talk, until the coast is clear again for them to go out into the open. And that’s it. It makes for a fun film, where all the little things count, every joke and every gesture gets to shine in all of its glory, because the movie doesn’t have anything else to go on. The fun-factor depends entirely on these two individuals, their weird accents, together with all the stuff they accidently get themselves into. I loved Colin Ferrell and Brendan Gleeson in this, they were the perfect odd couple for this audacious adventure into destined failure. Ralph Fiennes was a pleasurable although slightly cliché villain, which was also the lovely person who had them thrown into Bruges in the first place.
Ultimately I had a lot of fun with this film, though it didn’t quite reach my expectations. I found it very inventive in terms of how independent it wanted to be, but even when it felt overly cliché, it was mostly because of the play on typical thrillers and arduous action films. This movie succeeded in attempting to be a failure all the way through, and the journey with these guys was great, while I didn’t buy into everything. It was mainly the smaller things of which you could pick out here and there, which made this movie marvelous entertainment!
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HIS FILM DIARY 2015
total movie count ........... current day count
191 .......................... 202
__________________________
June 3rd
—— 2008 ——
IN BRUGES
—— comedy ——
Maybe that's what hell is,
the entire rest of eternity spent in f*cking Bruges
Sometimes I love a good crooked comedy with a decent dose of dark humor on top of it, which, when I come to think of it, suddenly makes me feel lucky that I ended up in a low life habitation like Bruges. Not only is the actual location funny enough on its own, weird residents and all, but I also have the pleasure of the pitiful company of two horrendous hitmen, who pretty much suck at their jobs. At least one of them does, since he ends up killing he little boy by accident, which is what eventually makes him end up in Bruges where everything goes wrong…
The movie is one of those that I like to call modern-day period pieces on a small scale, but often with major problems. They are in fact the exact opposite of grand scale period pieces, in the way that films like ‘In Bruges’ deals with the small insignificance turned significant. We have these two guys in a small hotel room, in a small city, waiting in silence or with small talk, until the coast is clear again for them to go out into the open. And that’s it. It makes for a fun film, where all the little things count, every joke and every gesture gets to shine in all of its glory, because the movie doesn’t have anything else to go on. The fun-factor depends entirely on these two individuals, their weird accents, together with all the stuff they accidently get themselves into. I loved Colin Ferrell and Brendan Gleeson in this, they were the perfect odd couple for this audacious adventure into destined failure. Ralph Fiennes was a pleasurable although slightly cliché villain, which was also the lovely person who had them thrown into Bruges in the first place.
Ultimately I had a lot of fun with this film, though it didn’t quite reach my expectations. I found it very inventive in terms of how independent it wanted to be, but even when it felt overly cliché, it was mostly because of the play on typical thrillers and arduous action films. This movie succeeded in attempting to be a failure all the way through, and the journey with these guys was great, while I didn’t buy into everything. It was mainly the smaller things of which you could pick out here and there, which made this movie marvelous entertainment!
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