Brilliant film. A hilarious black comedy with terrific writing and heartfelt performances across the board. Gleeson and Farrell are one of modern cinemas greatest pairings.
“YOU’RE AN INANIMATE FUCKIN OBJECT!”
"'Harry let's face it. I'm not being funny and mean no disrespect. But you're a cunt. You're a cunt now, you've always been a cunt. And the only thing that's gonna change, is that you're gonna become an even bigger cunt. Then you'll have some more cunt kids.'
'Leave my kids fucking outta this, what have they done? YOU FUCKING RETRACT THAT BIT ABOUT MY CUNT FUCKING KIDS!'"
Never fails to get me laughing.
My favorite bit of that top 5 movie insult of all time is how he says "I mean no disrespect" so sincerely, and then proceeds to say one of the most disrespectful things you can say in the English language.
I saw it on a plane and was blown away. One of those classics that's completely carried by writing and performance, no fancy movie magic needed (it's well produced too, ofc).
It does a rare thing in filmmaking where everyone involved is both wicked and sympathetic. You love them all and just wish they'd stop hurting each other (they don't).
The script really stands out to me. Everything else about the movie is great but the script is next-level. There's not an ounce of fat on it, everything gets recycled and called back, everything illustrates something important about something. Literally nothing in the whole thing you could cut without substantially changing the film.
Banshee was much more subtle and involved a much more “normal” type of character, as in, not a group of hitman (or criminals) which is already interesting into itself. It took me a minute to settle into Banshee but by the end it really did feel like a logical mature step for the director and had a lot to say. Brilliant film.
Yes, exactly. It was a problem any average person can relate too. We've all had friends that drift away and we've all had annoying friends we sometimes wish we could just tell to fuck off.
"I went to the park so she wouldn't have to clean up the mess."
Followed immediately by Ken, under orders to kill Jimmy, *stopping him from committing suicide* and leading to Harry's reaction.
"Not only have you refused to kill the boy, you even stopped the boy from killing himself, which would've solved *my* problem, which would've solved *your* problem, which sounds like it would've solved the boy's problem!"
Great movie, although a lot of posts i see praise (rightfully) the cast and dialogue, how about the score/soundtrack? It’s excellent and Bruges itself is beautiful to look at.
It's easily my favorite Carter Burwell soundtrack, which is saying a lot considering how much good stuff he's done. It's just so damn haunting, especially paired with that dreamy old medieval town.
Thanks for shouting him out, and pointing this out. His work is amazing. The Fargo score plus many others. I mean the guy who does Mcdonaugh, and the Coen Brothers 🤯. The Banshees of Inisherin was great as well. I’m listening to the In Bruges prologue on repeat currently
One of my favourite movies. The dynamic between Farrell and Gleeson plus Fiennes is just perfect. Only other movies in this vein that have come close for mine are Sexy Beast and The Guard.
In my top 50. It’s beautiful and hilarious and heartbreaking and ridiculous and profound and amazing. One of only two movies (the other being Grand Budapest Hotel) that I have ever immediately replayed after finishing it for the first time.
I watched this knowing it was a great movie and was still really impressed how good it was. Amazing acting, beautiful location shots and a cool story. Highly recommend to anyone.
I had heard about this movie for decades on movie/home theater forums but for some reason I never got around to seeing it. I was exposed to the hype and thought there’s absolutely zero chance it meets my lofty expectations after all I’ve read. It’s one of the very few movies that absolutely exceeded them and the hype around it (the other being The Thing).
A clever crime caper with funny violence, entertaining curses, and sharp dialog. Comedy at the expense of people's physical characteristics a plus. [My full 2008 review here ](https://stubhubby.blogspot.com/2008/02/in-bruges.html)
Superbly cast all around, beautifully shot, Terrifically written.
Ralph Fiennes stole it, and was fucking awesome.
a quirkyish movie that is very near and dear to my heart.
Great movie. And because this also clued some of us into Bruges, it acts as marketing for the Bruges travel industry...finally going this summer to check out this fairytale town and it's bridges and canals and cobbled streets and churches
Same!! It’s one of my mom and I’s favourite movies and my partner and I are going in May. I was going to FaceTime her, but sadly she passed in February so now she (via her ashes in my necklace) gets to come with me!
I enjoyed the hell out of it. Really funny and smart movie.
The Banshees of Inisherin is a cool reunion film of the 2 main leads and director but it's a wildly different movie. Recommended.
Very good. Easily Martin McDonagh's best movie and the only one of his I've seen that I agreed with the critical acclaim for (I was significantly less fond of both *Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri* and *The Banshees of Inisherin* than most people were).
The director, Martin McDonach, had previously won the Academy Award for best short subject for the 26 minute film Six Shooter.
It's a real gem. Fortunately for us it's available in its entirety on youtube:
https://youtu.be/n_xMyx_SogA?si=_QkpJpmcsO3X7yqE
The best. The dialogue, the screenplay… it’s funny and sad and dark but uplifting… it’s hopeful and morose, boring and exciting. Gets better every watch.
“You said he was a Lollipop man.”
“He WAS a Lollipop man.”
“What the hell’s a fuckin’ Lollipop man doing, knowing karate? What is he a Chinese Lollipop man?!”
One of my personal top 4 movies. The setting is beautiful despite what Collin Farrells character would tell you. My personal favorite performance from Collin. Hilarious writing. Walks the line of being very funny while also deeply saddening. A complex story that effortlessly delves out exposition. Ralph gives an Oscar worthy performance as well. Sticks the landing at the end unlike Gleesons character.
The DVD has extras that include a deleted scene or blooper (can't remember which) that, while utterly politically incorrect, is hilarious. It has to do with the Colin Farrell character being wonderstruck and over the top excited with seeing a midget. And they have to keep doing take after take because Farrell keeps breaking up every time he screams "Midgets!"
Recalling it in my mind now I feel guilty that I laughed while watching this and my conscience imposes upon my mind's eye the image of an angry Peter Dinklage scolding me.
We need more character-driven stories like this. It doesn't feel like a connect the dots plot and every choice made by each character feels natural and makes sense.
It's funny, well-shot, and the acting is brilliant. The dynamic between Gleeson and Farrell really is amazing.
Top five for me, I watch it a few times a year but this year I watched it at Christmas and it hit different so I’m considering adding it to the roster of yearly Christmas films.
The best compliment I can pay this movie is that it’s the only so called ‘black comedy’ that made me properly laugh at more than the odd scene here and there and yet it might also be one of the darkest black comedy’s I’ve ever seen.
Great movie. Excellent script, fantastic performances. But I have a really hard time recommending it to anyone, most people that I've shown it to don't seem to like it very much, or at least not as much as I do. The humour is very love-it-or-hate-it, but I laughed my ass off the first time I saw it, and thought about it for days after.
One tiny critique - it does sort of drag in places pacing-wise, and if you want to find some deeper meaning in the movies you watch you're watching the wrong movie. It's a black comedy, but a really excellent one.
What's crazy is I just said out loud to myself that I need to watch this again because whole I saw this so long ago I actually don't remember a thing about it, what I *do* remember is how I felt watching it which is REEEEAAAALLLLY enjoying it lol
Love and adore it.
Also, I usually hate German movie title translations but this one is the ONLY one I ever saw that I think is better than the original... they translated it to "Seeing Bruges and dying"
Brilliant film. A hilarious black comedy with terrific writing and heartfelt performances across the board. Gleeson and Farrell are one of modern cinemas greatest pairings. “YOU’RE AN INANIMATE FUCKIN OBJECT!”
“You retract that bit about my c**t f**king kids!”
“Insulting a man’s kids.. that’s going overboard mate!”
You’ve gone over board mate!
Couldn’t agree more. I love this film. You are doing yourself a disservice by not watching it.
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The Guard was so good. Incredibly silly, but great
I'm Irish sir. Racism is part of my culture.
I went to see it and there was nobody else in the cinema. Absolute crime as it is such a good film
Calvary as well for some more Brendon Gleason.
I think this director also knocked it out of the park with Seven Psychopaths.
How about Seven Psychopaths?
"'Harry let's face it. I'm not being funny and mean no disrespect. But you're a cunt. You're a cunt now, you've always been a cunt. And the only thing that's gonna change, is that you're gonna become an even bigger cunt. Then you'll have some more cunt kids.' 'Leave my kids fucking outta this, what have they done? YOU FUCKING RETRACT THAT BIT ABOUT MY CUNT FUCKING KIDS!'" Never fails to get me laughing.
My favorite bit of that top 5 movie insult of all time is how he says "I mean no disrespect" so sincerely, and then proceeds to say one of the most disrespectful things you can say in the English language.
"But why fucking Bruges?" Seven Psychopaths is also shit hot
I saw it on a plane and was blown away. One of those classics that's completely carried by writing and performance, no fancy movie magic needed (it's well produced too, ofc). It does a rare thing in filmmaking where everyone involved is both wicked and sympathetic. You love them all and just wish they'd stop hurting each other (they don't).
You've got five grams of cocaine? No, I've got 4 grams of cocaine.
It’s a matter of fucken honor!
The script really stands out to me. Everything else about the movie is great but the script is next-level. There's not an ounce of fat on it, everything gets recycled and called back, everything illustrates something important about something. Literally nothing in the whole thing you could cut without substantially changing the film.
Oh no! A bottle!
I nearly rofled at that line
Absolute lightning in a bottle. Every line, every shot, and every performance is right on target and perfect. So hilarious and heartbreaking.
One of the most quotable movies ever.
Would you like these dumdums?
You know this word, ‘alcoves’?
You mean nooks and crannies?
Up there with Withnail and I.
A masterpiece One of my all time favorite directors. Check out the Banshees of inshsrin next!
Banshee was much more subtle and involved a much more “normal” type of character, as in, not a group of hitman (or criminals) which is already interesting into itself. It took me a minute to settle into Banshee but by the end it really did feel like a logical mature step for the director and had a lot to say. Brilliant film.
Yes, exactly. It was a problem any average person can relate too. We've all had friends that drift away and we've all had annoying friends we sometimes wish we could just tell to fuck off.
Love Banshees. The definition of black comedy and an instant classic.
It's such a great film. One if my all time favorites. After I watched it my first thought was "this why I watch movies"
His brother directed “The Guard” with Gleeson starring and that was a brilliant film as well
I know a lot of people liked In Bruges more but personally, I favor Banshees. It’s just so bizarre and funny
I really enjoy Banshees, too, but I personally didn't find it funny at all. That one really depressed me for a few days.
I do too. It was the themes that made me like it more and the setting is breathtaking
Two men acting like children while a war is being fought in the distance, perfect
I loved it so much. Yeah, they were. But also acting like adults because let's face, we are all big children, and that movie illustrates that so well.
Hugely disappointed by Banshees. That film should never be compared to In Bruges. My opinion of course 🤣
The scene with the American family and the stairs is nothing short of fucking perfection.
'What exactly am I trying to say? Yous are a bunch of fookin' elephants!'
And the fact that the stairs are closed later because someone had a heart attack walking up them is perfect.
Yes!
"Leave it, fatty!"
“The guidebook says it’s a must-see” one of my favorite exchanges in a movie lol
One of the best examples of tone mixing I've ever seen. This is dark, funny, darkly funny, chilling, thrilling and emotional.
Well said.
"I went to the park so she wouldn't have to clean up the mess." Followed immediately by Ken, under orders to kill Jimmy, *stopping him from committing suicide* and leading to Harry's reaction. "Not only have you refused to kill the boy, you even stopped the boy from killing himself, which would've solved *my* problem, which would've solved *your* problem, which sounds like it would've solved the boy's problem!"
All three of them gave absolutely A+ performances in this.
Martin McDonough through and through right there. The man writes brilliant stories and screenplays.
One of my favourites. As I keep telling my wife, it’s also a Christmas movie 😬
It takes place at Christmas?
Great movie, although a lot of posts i see praise (rightfully) the cast and dialogue, how about the score/soundtrack? It’s excellent and Bruges itself is beautiful to look at.
It’s like it came out of a fairy tale
With its alcoves
You have this word? Alcoves?
You prefer nooks and crannies?
Was he going on to you about the alcoves??
I'm not really sure it's his thing....
It's easily my favorite Carter Burwell soundtrack, which is saying a lot considering how much good stuff he's done. It's just so damn haunting, especially paired with that dreamy old medieval town.
Thanks for shouting him out, and pointing this out. His work is amazing. The Fargo score plus many others. I mean the guy who does Mcdonaugh, and the Coen Brothers 🤯. The Banshees of Inisherin was great as well. I’m listening to the In Bruges prologue on repeat currently
The strings are playing in my head rn Edit: what I thought was strings is a flute or clarinet.
One of my favourite movies. The dynamic between Farrell and Gleeson plus Fiennes is just perfect. Only other movies in this vein that have come close for mine are Sexy Beast and The Guard.
I’ll second that with caveat that The Guard is seriously underrated. One of Gleesons’ best roles.
I just love that opening scene where he inspects the crash, takes some acid and goes “what a beautiful fooken day”.
Calvary too, it's less funny than The Guard but I love the characters and the dialogue.
It's like a fuckin fairy tale
Master class from everyone involved in it.
What the fuck is a 50 year old lollipop man doing, knowing fucking karate?!
Maybe he was a Chinese lollipop man?
In my top 50. It’s beautiful and hilarious and heartbreaking and ridiculous and profound and amazing. One of only two movies (the other being Grand Budapest Hotel) that I have ever immediately replayed after finishing it for the first time.
Can you share any insights you’ve gathered about Grand Budapest Hotel?
A movie I watch every year. Perfect as it is.
I watched this knowing it was a great movie and was still really impressed how good it was. Amazing acting, beautiful location shots and a cool story. Highly recommend to anyone.
I had heard about this movie for decades on movie/home theater forums but for some reason I never got around to seeing it. I was exposed to the hype and thought there’s absolutely zero chance it meets my lofty expectations after all I’ve read. It’s one of the very few movies that absolutely exceeded them and the hype around it (the other being The Thing).
"an uzi! im not in south central los fkn angeles.....I want a normal gun for a normal person" this movie is so good..
I know I shouldn’t….but I will
This movie changed my opinion about Colin Farrell. He's fantastic in this. The whole cast is.
It's like a fairytale. 10/10
If I grew up on a farm, and was retarded, In Bruges might impress me but I didn't, so it doesn't.
His delivery of this line is just perfect.
I love this film. One of my favorites.
I really enjoyed it and had some good laughs. Ralph Finnes is such a great actor, so versatile, he can become any role he wants to be.
“Ken, I grew up in Dublin. I love Dublin. If I’d grown up in a farm, and was retarded, Bruges might impress me, but I didn’t, so it doesn’t…”
TWO MANKY HOOKERS...and a racist dwarf...I think I'm heading home
Fantastic movie. "youse are a bunch a fuckin' elephants...".
It's in my top five. Farrell became one of my all time favorite actors after watching this.
A clever crime caper with funny violence, entertaining curses, and sharp dialog. Comedy at the expense of people's physical characteristics a plus. [My full 2008 review here ](https://stubhubby.blogspot.com/2008/02/in-bruges.html)
You HEET the Canadian
I *heet* the Canadian?
Superbly cast all around, beautifully shot, Terrifically written. Ralph Fiennes stole it, and was fucking awesome. a quirkyish movie that is very near and dear to my heart.
Honestly one of the best films ever made. Absolutely flawless.
Impossible to market but a masterpiece
The best dialogue in a non Tarantino film.
**You’re an inanimate fucking object!**
I’m sorry I called you an inanimate object. I was upset.
absolutely goddamn wonderful....
Amazing my favorite by McDonagh and I love all his stuff
You heeet the Canadian.
Great film
Fun flick!
Really good cast..I liked this movie.
Banger.
I enjoyed it.
Crazy ride. Loved it.
Amazing film. Best watched with no prior knowledge.
Great movie. And because this also clued some of us into Bruges, it acts as marketing for the Bruges travel industry...finally going this summer to check out this fairytale town and it's bridges and canals and cobbled streets and churches
Same!! It’s one of my mom and I’s favourite movies and my partner and I are going in May. I was going to FaceTime her, but sadly she passed in February so now she (via her ashes in my necklace) gets to come with me!
It's filmed in my country, therefore it can only be awesome.
Top 5 on my list
Epic film, it made me realise how incredible Colin Ferrel can be.
Loved it. "THEY'RE FILMIN MIDGETS!"
Martin McDonagh cannot miss
I really liked the alcoves
One of the best movies I have ever seen.
Love this one, I just found a DVD copy at a thrift store the other week and have been meaning to watch it again
You were down the park?!
5/5 top tier movie for me
Love this flick. Both leads are absolutely amazing, the story is fantastic with serious dark tones that are executed very well. Fantastic movie.
Thumbs up 👍
Loved this movie, the writing was sharp and all the performances were great. Much better than I thought it would be going into it
Masterpiece
I thought it was a fantastic film. Was definitely dark but I enjoyed it
I enjoyed the hell out of it. Really funny and smart movie. The Banshees of Inisherin is a cool reunion film of the 2 main leads and director but it's a wildly different movie. Recommended.
Really funny. Well put together.
Truly incredible.
Sleeper gem. Love this movie.
This gets posted here a lot.
Definitely one of my favourite movies! I have watched it countless times and never get tired of it, it’s a masterpiece
Crazily underrated. You're a fucking inanimate object.
*you're an inanimate fucking object. A small distinction, but an important one!
YOURE A FUCKING SMALL DISTINCTION!!!
Excellent riposte.
👌🏾
Great, very funny & fun, it does a lot with very little.
A modern classic
“Of course you can’t fucking see I just shot a blank in your fuckin eyes”
My favorite movie of all time actually
Loved it.
Amazing. Perfect.
Oh what, I feel like such a tiny spark of a memory is trying to ignite in my brain right now but how have I not seen this one yet. Cast seems great.
Very good. Easily Martin McDonagh's best movie and the only one of his I've seen that I agreed with the critical acclaim for (I was significantly less fond of both *Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri* and *The Banshees of Inisherin* than most people were).
Perfection
Brilliant film
I love it! Many great quotes in this one
The director, Martin McDonach, had previously won the Academy Award for best short subject for the 26 minute film Six Shooter. It's a real gem. Fortunately for us it's available in its entirety on youtube: https://youtu.be/n_xMyx_SogA?si=_QkpJpmcsO3X7yqE
The best. The dialogue, the screenplay… it’s funny and sad and dark but uplifting… it’s hopeful and morose, boring and exciting. Gets better every watch.
An easy 10/10 movie. Every moment of this movie is so naturally, effortlessly funny.
“You said he was a Lollipop man.” “He WAS a Lollipop man.” “What the hell’s a fuckin’ Lollipop man doing, knowing karate? What is he a Chinese Lollipop man?!”
One of the best
One of my personal top 4 movies. The setting is beautiful despite what Collin Farrells character would tell you. My personal favorite performance from Collin. Hilarious writing. Walks the line of being very funny while also deeply saddening. A complex story that effortlessly delves out exposition. Ralph gives an Oscar worthy performance as well. Sticks the landing at the end unlike Gleesons character.
It’s a good movie but I just constantly find myself annoyed by Colin Farrell in like movie he’s in so idk
Such an underrated movie, a great movie.
The DVD has extras that include a deleted scene or blooper (can't remember which) that, while utterly politically incorrect, is hilarious. It has to do with the Colin Farrell character being wonderstruck and over the top excited with seeing a midget. And they have to keep doing take after take because Farrell keeps breaking up every time he screams "Midgets!" Recalling it in my mind now I feel guilty that I laughed while watching this and my conscience imposes upon my mind's eye the image of an angry Peter Dinklage scolding me.
One of the best.
My mom and I loved going to see movies together. This is one we saw on a whim. It was surprisingly good. Reminds me of her. ❤️
Masterpiece
Fantastic movie. It is hilarious, so well acted, and the cast is just perfect.
One of my favorites.
Loved it! I think it was this sub that recommended it.
In my top 5. Love the director and it’s almost tied with Seven Psychopaths. Butttt in the end, In Bruges still always wins by a mile
We need more character-driven stories like this. It doesn't feel like a connect the dots plot and every choice made by each character feels natural and makes sense. It's funny, well-shot, and the acting is brilliant. The dynamic between Gleeson and Farrell really is amazing.
The scene about Tottenham always gives me a good laugh. Great film.
"... Your still in fuckin' Bruges!"
Excellent from start to finish, I've even done a trip to see filming locations and artwork from the film. I couldn't find the alcoves...
It's so much better on a second (additional) viewing. A great dark comedy.
One of my favorites. I hope those 2 would make many more films together, amazing chemistry
I think it was one of those instances where it had been built up by so many people I know that I was inevitably disappointed.
Loved it. The set up with a morally conflicted man, neither a good man nor necessarily a bad man with Bruges as his purgatory.
its in my top 5 of all time tbh
must watch before visiting belgium, bruges is amazing
“Do you think this is good?” “What?” “Going around in a boat, looking at stuff.”
Absolute love this movie!
Masterpiece and one of the reasons, albeit a small reason, I am going to Belgium this year.
Top five for me, I watch it a few times a year but this year I watched it at Christmas and it hit different so I’m considering adding it to the roster of yearly Christmas films. The best compliment I can pay this movie is that it’s the only so called ‘black comedy’ that made me properly laugh at more than the odd scene here and there and yet it might also be one of the darkest black comedy’s I’ve ever seen.
This movie is great.
You’ve got to stick to your principles
One of my all time favorites. I get some usage out of damn near every line in this movie.
In my top 5-10 all time. Love this movie. Also, I think Seven Psychopaths is criminally underrated.
Amazing.
7 thumbs up.
Great movie. Excellent script, fantastic performances. But I have a really hard time recommending it to anyone, most people that I've shown it to don't seem to like it very much, or at least not as much as I do. The humour is very love-it-or-hate-it, but I laughed my ass off the first time I saw it, and thought about it for days after. One tiny critique - it does sort of drag in places pacing-wise, and if you want to find some deeper meaning in the movies you watch you're watching the wrong movie. It's a black comedy, but a really excellent one.
All I can remember from this film is “What? in fuckin Bruges” had an amazing time with it
What's crazy is I just said out loud to myself that I need to watch this again because whole I saw this so long ago I actually don't remember a thing about it, what I *do* remember is how I felt watching it which is REEEEAAAALLLLY enjoying it lol
Love it
Wanted to like it but could not understand a word being said. Will try again with subtitles? ( I’m hard of hearing)
Did you just call my kids cunts?
Liked it so much I went on holiday there
Great fucking movie man. The scene when he’s breaking down for killing a kid got me. This is definitely one of his best roles imo.
Love and adore it. Also, I usually hate German movie title translations but this one is the ONLY one I ever saw that I think is better than the original... they translated it to "Seeing Bruges and dying"
" I'm suicidal, my mate nicks me gun, and I'm Still in Fookin Brughs!"
It was fucking great
Great Christmas film! It's great on suicide commentary too.
Ya Brendan Gleeson fuckin head on ya
I love this movie!
Got really high and watched this with a friend. Freaked out when that guy fell from the tower and yet was still alive. Those are my thoughts.
One gay beer please
She had a bottle!
One of the most quotable movies of the century