Which is one of the weirdest and heaviest hitting films I've seen recently, and while there is some comedy, it is not a funny movie.
I may be missing a detail or two, and would happily be corrected, but for the curious:
- Green = Catholics / IRA supporters
- Yellow/Orange = Protestants
- Red = English
- Blues = Anglo-Irish Treaty supporters (?)
edit: formatting
I'm asking because I picked up a hitchhiker way back when that was an ordinary thing to do, and he was a vocational school grad, but told me this whole thing about how the Wizard of Oz was a parable about the gold standard (follow the yellow bricks to the Emerald City) vs greenback dollar, with the cowardly lion (Dept of Defence) and the Tin Man (midwest industrial might) and Scarecrow (agriculture), pitting the witches of the North and South and East and West... you get the picture. It's a very tight theory, and I was shocked I hadn't learned this in my college track/college career.
and I believed it for the next decades till I found out: it wasn't true.
So I ask you again, is this something you know you know? I only have time left to believe one new thing and I need to be sure of it
Not the sectarian "troubles" and IRA, circa the 1970s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles
This is one of my favorite scenes in recent memory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBIsqYO9l8w
What acting.
But I suspect a lot of that is a subjective taste, so it's not surprising it's not widely appreciated.
I found it absolutely not funny, very strange, and didn't like any of it one bit. Shame, because I really like most of what both leads do.
I'd rather cut off a finger than watch it again. And making that joke was the only time I've laughed about that awful movie.
The story was perfect for a short film and not a feature film. I bet if you edit the movie down to 20-25 minutes it will make a fantastic piece of art.
Agree to disagree. I found it funny. Just try describing it to someone, and the premise is actually hilarious. But yes, dark, and heartbreaking in certain scenes. Great film.
Gleeson and Farrell are good actors, but for me the script let them down. It felt like it was trying too hard to be meaningful or symbolic but nothing landed.
Barry Keoghan was the best thing about it, amazing performance.
The melancholy, loneliness, and utterly pointless violence far outweighed the occasional laugh.
I’ll be hit randomly in my day with recollections from the film and chuckle or even burst out laughing. More so than In Bruges or 3Billboards.
“That’s the same way my mammy died.” And “I’m here for the opposite of that. What’s the opposite of licks? I don’t know.” And “It takes two to tango. I don’t want to dance. You were dancing with your dog.”
He has that hangdog, depressed and confused thing going on that's so charming.
Surprised it got that much hype
Sibling comments are correct, on review, that it seems you can work around it by holding down in advance.
Unfortunately by the time I verified that I had run out of time since I spent most of what I had trying to make it work on my own before returning to the thread to offer this feedback.
Personally, I think the idea is good enough that I will try to return on desktop later when I have time… but for the devs - if you read this - you could really enable a lot more people to get a lot further in this presumably great creative experience if you made the controls respond better on mobile.
I tried it on keyboard and it's a bit more playable, but frustrating for players like myself who more than have the dexterity to press exactly when I want to.
A+ for humour, artistic style, and concept... D for play-ability.
I suppose it's supposed to be an allegory to the futility of the Irish Civil War? If we the audience can't make a connection to something like that it feels a bit too abstract.
I didn't make it far into the game, but it is a neat project.
I liked it more than Three Billboards, but not as much as the excellent In Bruges.
Banshees felt distant. Was it about Irish society specifically? I don't know much about Ireland but I got the feeling that this was a really fringe island community and probably not representative of Ireland realistically or figuratively. I don't really feel like the themes it was presenting were universal. Perhaps the timeliness was an issue. idk.
In Bruges is like peak black comedy. the themes itself, on some level, are pretty damn funny, which isn't a thing you really see in many works.
Pretty certain that Colm Doherty was not referring to this game when he said this, but somehow it seems applicable.
Brilliant job!
It doesn't make much sense it was created as a marketing device for a movie, it's not that kind of movie. However, considering names and graphics it looks totally as authorized work. My guess is it's a marketing device for an agency, which worked with a movie crew in some capacity and was granted a permission to use these assets for a bit of self-promotion.
But it is beautifully photographed.
No connection at all with the common antecedent: British imperialism; slavery in America's case and a colonial legacy of partition imposed at gun point in Ireland's.
Controls are still a bit clunky (slow to respond), but do work.
It’s a remote island right, and I think the history makes the more recent transformation more impressive and interesting.
I enjoyed the film. There was this nagging feeling the whole time that there was supposed to be some sort of metaphor for the conflict in Ireland but I knew nothing about it, so it felt like I was missing something. I don't know that I really understood what it was trying to say either way. I liked 'In Bruges' a lot more personally.
You're probably better off not knowing - any attempts at serious commentary on that conflict by the film didn't land well with anyone more informed. It's an enjoyable, likeable film, but cultural or political insights aren't McDonagh's strong points.
I also really liked Three Billboards, though I heard it received similar criticisms for its clumsy portrayal of US political themes (which I'm more distant from).
I didn’t read any criticisms of the film that seemed serious to me. I didn’t seek out too many reviews but probably read a dozen that boiled down to “portrayed racists in positive light” and that just seemed to not understand the film much at all. But there may be more detailed and nuanced criticism that I haven’t seen.
Makes me wish for more unconventional film-game adaptations.
Thank you.
Highly recommend.
But if you don't like the start of that path, you probably won't like the middle or end.
