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Post by urbanpatrician on Feb 14, 2024 3:53:50 GMT
When it was first released it was probably my number one. But now I feel like it's a pale Coen or Tarantino.
Still good and Top 10. Just not something I'd get on the podium and declare how great it is.
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Post by JangoB on Feb 14, 2024 4:00:25 GMT
#16. Very good film though.
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Post by Joaquim on Feb 14, 2024 5:25:09 GMT
#8
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Feb 14, 2024 5:33:30 GMT
#2 (behind Blade Runner 2049)
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 14, 2024 9:12:30 GMT
At the time it was #1 iirc certainly # 1 English language edging Phantom Thread.......I gave it a 10 / 10 and A LOT of people hate it that I know ...... it caused a big deal irl because it gets A LOT of "pacinoyes you have great taste but you rdiculously overpraise that" comments .........and I don't really have great taste anyway, I have a kind of fncked up, oddly specific taste  I think it's McDonagh 's best work - and I love his work and have seen a lot of his plays too.......to me its a film exactly about the exact time it was made in the US - capturing this idea of NO FORGIVENESS - an idea that has really - in the Trump Era (s) is a de facto poliical position actually - of being so sure you're right you never bend at all.........I like films where characters react to the plot and appropriately, believably change. What's weird about 2017 is there is a movie - Hagazussa -that I saw later that I now like more now than any in 2017....it's a horror and I think I rated it a 7 + on MAR but I have later watched it like a billion times - I own the DVD ffs ......I'd now give that a 10 also and it's a 5.8 on IMDB .......almost no on sees THAT movie the way I see it either........ I'm pretty sure Mattsby thinks "pacinoyes had too much wine" - to paraphrase Godfather II - when it comes to that and we have similar tastes ffs  2017 is my most "Hmmmmmmmm, okayyyyyyyyyy" year I think......  |
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Post by mhynson27 on Feb 14, 2024 11:32:58 GMT
#2 (behind Get Out)
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Feb 14, 2024 14:27:31 GMT
Pretty sure I had it #1. I also don’t revisit rankings upon rewatches or new entries and make changes after the year ends. I just keep a tally at the time and then move on. But if I was asked to list my top 10 of 2017 today I’d actually just wing together a new list while looking thru the releases from that year.
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Post by mikediastavrone96 on Feb 14, 2024 15:27:31 GMT
My least favorite of McDonagh's movies. It's the one where his overriding theatricality backfires on him, as it has a few too many absurd coincidences and always goes for the biggest swings in its dialogue only to whiff terribly at times (the scene between Harrelson and Cornish on the couch is painful as is the exchange between McDormand and Newton). Also just feels clumsy in the hot button issues it introduces - racism, rape - as they glide past for the film's ultimate theme of forgiveness or at the least the extension of grace, a worthwhile theme that I personally don't think sticks the landing (though I'm more forgiving of it than its staunchest critics) but at least it's clear McDonagh is interested in it rather than using it as window dressing to fire up the audience's emotions. I find a lot of the Midwest milieu that same kind of window dressing - unsurprisingly McDonagh's view of the region is pretty shallow and I guess he thought setting it in Missouri instead of North Carolina where it was (obviously) filmed was better so they could use the heartland setting as metaphor.
This is not all to say I find the movie terrible, of course. It still has some really good acting, the core premise is immensely interesting and deservedly provocative, and McDonagh's talent still shines through even if he's going a bit out of his depth this time.
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Post by ibbi on Feb 14, 2024 17:48:49 GMT
I'd give it the Oscar.
And when I say I'd give it the Oscar I'm talking about Oscar the Grouch. I'd put in the trash can right next to him.
Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to obliviously earnestly read this letter as the building burns down around me.
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Post by Archie on Feb 14, 2024 17:51:39 GMT
Nowhere. That Sam Rockwell face turn has to be one of the least earned in movie history.
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Post by stabcaesar on Feb 14, 2024 18:12:45 GMT
I think nowhere. I find it quite overrated. His other two films are vastly superior (NS Seven Psychopaths).
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Post by rhodoraonline on Feb 14, 2024 18:30:46 GMT
Probably Top 10
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Post by tep on Feb 14, 2024 18:33:40 GMT
It's good enough, but would fall somewhere out of my top 20.
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Post by futuretrunks on Feb 14, 2024 18:36:03 GMT
Meh. It's okay. I don't understand the hate for it, nor the love. I forgot about it as soon as the credits started rolling.
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Post by countjohn on Feb 14, 2024 21:06:21 GMT
2017 is an ass tier year for movies but still "nowhere". It's a bad movie.
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