Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Alex]

Saw In Bruges the new Brendan Gleeson, Colin Farrell, and Ralph Fiennes gangster movie.

One of the reviews I read said something like "this is the movie that Guy Ritchie has been trying to make." Talk about screwing up my expectations. Accents and gangsters is about all it has in common with a Guy Ritchie movie.

Once I got out of the groove I was primed for and into the groove the movie actually wanted it is pretty good but I can't quite recommend going out of your way to see it theatrically. DVD will be fine. The last 30 minutes does an unusually fine job of tying up the various elements that preceded it and seemed like random foolishness at the time and yet still feels very organic.

It was also my first time at the Kabuki in San Francisco as a paying customer since they completed their conversion into a Sundance theater. I don't give a damn about upscale chocolates and Mexican Coke at the snack bar but the seats were nice, I do love me reserved seating, and we'll definitely have to try the balcony bar on a future visit.