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Originally Posted by Demdike@Cult Labs  Nice write up, JHarker.
Banshees is a film that intrigues. The general premise doesn't really appeal - the two friends falling out - but still it intrigues.
I love McDonagh's In Bruges. For me along with Shoot 'em Up (2007) it was one of the most entertaining films of the 00's. However Seven Psychopaths which came out a few years later i thought was, for want of a better word, rubbish. |
Seven Psychopaths is the only one of Martin McDonaghs films I'd seen previously. It was ok but felt like wannabe Tarantino with the whole film sort of hung on the scene of Christopher Walken refusing to put his hands up at gunpoint. At least that's all I can remember among all the inane dialogue.
It left me with no interest whatsoever in ever revisiting it. In Bruges on the other hand I now want to watch.
And no, the idea of two friends falling out in and of itself is neither here nor there. Its the abruptness and the setting that intensifies the scenario, along with the brilliant performances of the four main cast, it's very much a mood piece as well I found. I think you'll like it Dem. While I've yet to see In Bruges, Banshees couldn't be further away from Seven Psychopaths.