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Great concept. Has anyone else finished the film? I'm a bit past the thump on the door and not sure if I want to finish the movie if things keep going that way.
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It was brilliantly written and had a lot of laugh out loud moments, but it wasn't a comedy. It was extremely dark, just like the awful civil war that it was a metaphor for. The melancholy, loneliness, and utterly pointless violence far outweighed the occasional laugh.
So it was sometimes very funny, but was also sometimes very dark. Let's call it a… black comedy.
You can call it whatever you want, but I'm certainly not going to recommend it to friends as a black comedy. That's a surefire way to set them up for disappointment.
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Agreed. Seems to really depend on the person. It came highly recommended to me by a family member, describing it as good and funny. 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.
Completely agree. I kept asking myself "why does this movie exist and why am I watching it?" 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.
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> the Irish charm of the setting and characters I find Irish people perfectly charming, but when it comes to the themes of Irish film and literature, charming does not oft spring to my lips. Did you watch this film to the end? warmed the cockles of your heart did it?
As I said not for everyone, I watched it to the end, not sure why you are implying otherwise.
i didn't imply anything, I literally asked, and more importantly, in a rhetorical sense as a lead-in to what I said after.
my comments in my opinion, like the film in your opinion, are not for everyone, only for people of superior taste.
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There's another genre also commonly called Black Comedy where Black is African American not Dark. To be fair, it is genuinely confusing to have that genre name collision.
I’ve never heard “Black Comedy” used to describe comedies by black filmmakers. However, I have heard name collisions with “Black Arts.” My city hosts an annual event called the “Black Arts Festival” and when I first saw the banners around town, I was confused. I learned the true purpose and have always wondered if some evil wizards mistakenly attend.
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As I said not for everyone, I watched it to the end, not sure why you are implying otherwise.
> not sure why you are implying otherwise i didn't imply anything, I literally asked, and more importantly, in a rhetorical sense as a lead-in to what I said after. my comments in my opinion, like the film in your opinion, are not for everyone, only for people of superior taste.
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As I said not for everyone, I watched it to the end, not sure why you are implying otherwise.
> not sure why you are implying otherwise i didn't imply anything, I literally asked, and more importantly, in a rhetorical sense as a lead-in to what I said after. my comments in my opinion, like the film in your opinion, are not for everyone, only for people of superior taste.
I'm not taking your bate soz.
To me the film just made the Irish look like dumb and uncivilized drunkards.
Yes, and? I think that was part of the point. I don’t think that’s the totality of describing Irish, but as someone that has a bit of Irish heritage and interactions with Irish it’s a common characteristic. It’s a remote island right, and I think the history makes the more recent transformation more impressive and interesting.
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There's another genre also commonly called Black Comedy where Black is African American not Dark. To be fair, it is genuinely confusing to have that genre name collision.
Black comedy has always been used to refer to a certain type of dark humour. You need more than a few "Twitter critics on a righteous circlejerk" to change its meaning.