[silisili]

Agreed. Seems to really depend on the person. It came highly recommended to me by a family member, describing it as good and funny.

I found it absolutely not funny, very strange, and didn't like any of it one bit. Shame, because I really like most of what both leads do.

[dreamcompiler]

Completely agree. I kept asking myself "why does this movie exist and why am I watching it?"

I'd rather cut off a finger than watch it again. And making that joke was the only time I've laughed about that awful movie.

[theironhammer]

It's set during the Irish Civil War. Someone else in this thread posted a Wikipedia link to an article about this war. If you read some of that you'll begin to understand what the film is about.

[sph]

> "why does this movie exist?"

"What is art?" I started to enjoy film more when I understood that the best directors are just telling a story and not don't care if you like it or not. Of course you are free to hate it.

The same applies to any form of art.

If you want a movies easy to enjoy, there's the superhero blockbuster movies and Star Wars, I guess.

[silisili]

I mean, you're not wrong, but the truth is, anyone can tell a story. I hear tons from drunks at bars and homeless folks in my city.

What makes a director/story writer so exalted as to have better stories?

The best movies, IMO, are those that can tell a story while drawing the audience in. Whether through comedy, sadness, shock, etc.

This movie was just a person telling a very weird story. Taken at pure face value, and ignoring the actors' talent, it sounds more like a story a random drunk person on a bus would tell.

I understand art is completely subjective, so I'm in no place to say you're wrong. But it's kinda dismissive to tell someone who hated it to watch superhero movies. Now -those- really shouldn't be made.

[ihateyouall123]

Never come to HN for engineers trying to describe film

[anyfactor]

It had a pretty good premise. But I felt like they couldn’t figure out the rest. The 3rd act felt meh to say the least.

The story was perfect for a short film and not a feature film. I bet if you edit the movie down to 20-25 minutes it will make a fantastic piece of art.

[Derbasti]

It just made me feel rotten. There was no laughter in our cinema.