Honestly, I can't understand what was so great about The Banshees of Inisherin. Did I watch the same movie as everyone else? My feelings about it are the same as Siobhán's feelings about the men on Inisherin. I'm always aching for original stories in Hollywood so maybe I hyped this movie up a lot in my head.
Nothing really happens in this film except for the complete overuse of the word 'feckin' (officially the most annoying word in the lexicon after this movie). I'm fine with films where 'nothing happens' but this never went anywhere.
I got the metaphor and the point, I understand the allegory and comparison to Ireland in the civil war, and how people don't change and would rather 'cut off their own fingers' to admit they were wrong, and I can appreciate the themes the script is trying to explore but that's just it, it tried and failed miserably at that. This movie is another case of when a film is more concerned with working on a metaphorical level that it forgets that it needs to work on a literal level as well, there’s got to be a line between expressing a metaphor and making an entertaining film.
The film felt very tedious and exhausting. Dialogue is not awful not great. The Banshees of Inisherin has no plot and an unexplained conflict, it drags the audience along in anticipation of an explanation for what's going on. I'm fine with leaving things unexplained to give people the chance to use their own imaginations but it's just that I expect there to be some sort of narrative conclusion when I go along with a story of a man cutting off his fingers for no sensible reason.
I can't really ding any of the technical aspects like cinematography, writing, and music, they are great but the whole package was kind of dull. I didn't feel one single emotion throughout the whole movie and didn't even realize it was a drama/comedy because I didn't chuckle even once. If you laugh when you hear someone say 'feckin' or 'miniature donkey', this movie is just for you.
The Banshees of Inisherin is pretty much a character study of 2 very boring and annoying people, who act like middle schoolers for almost 90 minutes, and we know nothing about them, which means that movie is really boring to watch. Colm's motivation to stop being friends with Padraic is very childish. I would have really liked to see their relationship or what a conversation of theirs was like before Colm made this decision. I absolutely didn't care about none of them. Colin Ferrell and Brendan Gleeson are good but absolutely not a standout performance.
I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but this film just didn't really do it for me. I was probably expecting too much.
Review by cutecruelBlockedParentSpoilers2022-12-24T10:43:11Z
Honestly, I can't understand what was so great about The Banshees of Inisherin. Did I watch the same movie as everyone else? My feelings about it are the same as Siobhán's feelings about the men on Inisherin. I'm always aching for original stories in Hollywood so maybe I hyped this movie up a lot in my head.
Nothing really happens in this film except for the complete overuse of the word 'feckin' (officially the most annoying word in the lexicon after this movie). I'm fine with films where 'nothing happens' but this never went anywhere.
I got the metaphor and the point, I understand the allegory and comparison to Ireland in the civil war, and how people don't change and would rather 'cut off their own fingers' to admit they were wrong, and I can appreciate the themes the script is trying to explore but that's just it, it tried and failed miserably at that. This movie is another case of when a film is more concerned with working on a metaphorical level that it forgets that it needs to work on a literal level as well, there’s got to be a line between expressing a metaphor and making an entertaining film.
The film felt very tedious and exhausting. Dialogue is not awful not great. The Banshees of Inisherin has no plot and an unexplained conflict, it drags the audience along in anticipation of an explanation for what's going on. I'm fine with leaving things unexplained to give people the chance to use their own imaginations but it's just that I expect there to be some sort of narrative conclusion when I go along with a story of a man cutting off his fingers for no sensible reason.
I can't really ding any of the technical aspects like cinematography, writing, and music, they are great but the whole package was kind of dull. I didn't feel one single emotion throughout the whole movie and didn't even realize it was a drama/comedy because I didn't chuckle even once. If you laugh when you hear someone say 'feckin' or 'miniature donkey', this movie is just for you.
The Banshees of Inisherin is pretty much a character study of 2 very boring and annoying people, who act like middle schoolers for almost 90 minutes, and we know nothing about them, which means that movie is really boring to watch. Colm's motivation to stop being friends with Padraic is very childish. I would have really liked to see their relationship or what a conversation of theirs was like before Colm made this decision. I absolutely didn't care about none of them. Colin Ferrell and Brendan Gleeson are good but absolutely not a standout performance.
I'm sure I'm in the minority here, but this film just didn't really do it for me. I was probably expecting too much.