Movies you haven't seen (probably)

Maybe you have seen these three, but I doubt it. One is barely in theaters yet and the other two are a bit obscure. Still, I highly recommend you check 'em out.

In Bruges
The plot of this one finds two hitmen hiding out in Bruges, Belgium. Which sucks, according to Ray, played by Colin Farrell. Weird hilarity and sporadic brutal violence ensue.
Criminal dark comedies have long been a favorite of the goats, from Pulp Fiction to Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Unfortunately criminals witty banter has been so often used in Hollywood that sometimes it just comes off as rote and stupid (cough, Smoking Aces, cough). But this is somehow fresh. Hard to believe there are still original ideas out there in this genre.
A lot of it is just bizarre, especially the dialogue. Example: "An Uzi? I'm not from South Central Los Angeles. I didn't come here to shoot twenty black ten year olds in a drive-by. I want a normal gun for a normal person." Sure you do Ralph Fiennes. Or how about: "You can't sell horse tranquilizers to a midget!" Yes, there is a midget, or dwarf as he prefers to be called. Also there is a lot of anti-Americanism in the form of the two hitmen giving tourists a hard time. And don't forget about the darkness. Jokes about child murder usually aren't funny.

Kabluey
This is like Napoleon Dynamite only not retarded. Don't get me wrong -- I like delicious bass as much as the next guy -- but this has more going on than Uncle Rico and hilarious dancing.
Plot: A sadsack guy moves in with his sister-in-law to help out while her husband and his brother is serving in Iraq. The guy is unbelievably pathetic -- until he becomes the costumed mascot of a failing dot-com company, forced to stand on the side of a country road and hand out fliers advertising office space for rent, which allows him to kind of become a superhero.
Here is the final credit sequence. It doesn't really have anything to do with the movie.


The Wrestler
Rourke! Aronofsky! Absolutely!

That's it on movies till next time, after I see JCVD or perhaps Donkey Punch.