Monday, 15 June 2009

• Mancouch Lost Gem: In Bruges

  

  Mancouch readers, I'm writing this in reference to a movie that I'm pretty sure a lot of you missed, my first nominee as a Mancouch Lost Gem: In Bruges. Here's the trailer:

  This was a movie that deserved a lot better. It never got a really wide release in theaters when it came out (I saw it in a tiny one in NYC), it wasn't really well-marketed at all. and as a result, obviously, not very many people saw it. It didn't even make its relatively small budget back, only making about $8 million. Those who did, however, really liked it: It's currently at 81% on Rotten Tomatoes, and the script got nominated for an Oscar. Any of my friends that I've told about it really seem to like it as well, and so I'm passing it on to you. A short summary from Wikipedia: "During his first job, fledgling hitman Ray (Colin Farrell) accidentally kills a young boy. He and his senior colleague Ken (Brendan Gleeson) are sent to Bruges by their high-strung employer Harry Waters (Ralph Fiennes), and told to await further instructions."

  That might not sound like much. But to that, you add:
  

  *Drugs. A lot of drugs.

  *The hot girl that Ray meets in Bruges (of course), Chloe:

  *A midget (specifically, this midget):

   

  *A fair amount of action, and a larger amount of ridiculous circumstances.

  *And finally, an overload of hilarious one-liners, none of which I can actually write here because most, if not all of them are pretty raunchy.

  Seriously, I really encourage you guys (girls too) to check this one out, as it was criminally overlooked last year. I don't want to get into too much detail over it, because I wouldn't want to ruin anything, but I think that the average Mancouch reader would really enjoy it. Are there any other movies that you guys would want to recommend as Mancouch Lost Gems?

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