THREE BILLBOARDS

Premeired on HBO this Saturday Night.

Do yourself a favor and save yourself the 2 hours. Yes, Frances is a great actress but this movie sucked.  

That is all.  Carry on gents

100% agreed....Woody getting an Oscar nom for this role is highly suspect.

 The movie sucked and so did its message. 

I thought it was decent. Funny. LRM, what do you think the message of the movies was that sucked.

 The story was about a woman who couldn't get justice from the police. Why did they need to to have Sam Rockwell's character as the openly racist white cop Officer Dixon ? He skillfully dances around the N word, but yet has enough hatred to torture a black man in police custody ?

More Hollywood CRAP 

You guys are both idiots and missed the point altogether. LRM, you know I wouldn't insult you so I only call you an idiot in jest. Triple6.... so like I said, you guys are so wound up and ready to be pissed at something that even movies have you triggered.

The meaning of the movie, or more so, the rationale behind the character development, was to show that no person, and no situation, is simply black and white (no pun intended). At face value, Sam Rockwell's character is a racist cop. The more the story unfolds you realize he was no more racist than Frances McDermott's character. It was no coincidence that Sam's character never says the N-word. Frances' does. He had anger issues, true, but this wasn't a story about racist cops, or even inept cops. It was a story to show that people are just people. And even when they have the most gallant of intentions, sometimes they just can't seem to put their best foot forward. It shows that sometimes people are just misunderstood. And if you get to know them, and avoid prejudice, avoid the boxes society tries to put people in, you can find people's redeaming qualities. I find it hilarious that I, as a black man, only viewed the racial undertones as just background (because it was just background), and that Sam Rockwell's "racist cop" was my favorite character. Meanwhile, a couple of white guys are all, "this is bullsh*t! It's like 12 years a slave." The things you read on covers.

And 666, to your point about the Academy, Sam Rockwell won an academy award for this picture. Do you think "liberal" hollywood awarded him because he did such a good job of portraying the racist monsters they believe white cops to be, or did they award him because he did such a good job of showing that people aren't just what they appear to be on the service. And the guy who is presented to us in the first few minutes as the racist cop can by the end become the most endearing character. A lot more endearing that Frances McDermott's character.

I think you should probably avoid any movies deeper than a kiddie pool. Stick to movies that explain themselves within the title. "Dude Where's My Car", for example. It's about two dudes. They can't find one of the dudes' car. Zany hijinks ensue.

StumpTownStu,  

We just have different views on some things.  I always enjoy reading your opinions   

This one isn't my opinion. I'm 100% right on this one. I could go even deeper and show how the whole "male-bashing/metoo" narrative that 666 was pushing was nearly a complete 180 from what the film was actually portraying, how the female protagonist had the least redeeming qualities of any of them, Sam Rockwell's character included, but there's really no point in it. 666 is an numbskull. No reason to even waste time explaining anything to him and you I respect too much to get all lecture like as if i'm schooling you or something.