Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) - ★★★★★

I LOVE this picture of Woody popping out of Missouri!

This movie won an Oscar, I think, so it makes sense that I liked it because I HAVE VERY REFINED TASTE.

Even though it was kind of a rough start (I'm just not sure why whoever made this movie chose NOT to capitalize the word "outside" in the title card. I get that its a preposition or whatever but I really think it's too long to be all lowercase in a situation where a person has chosen to capitalize every other word in the title!)

Sorry, but this just looks dumb to me. If nothing was capitalized, it would be fine. 

But enough of that! It's time to move on to the REAL reason we're all here: Woody!

In this movie he plays a police chief named William Willoughby, which I think is a fun name. Even though sometimes I wish Woody had hair, I think the bald head really worked for this role, because this is the same hair every small town cop has. What sets Chief Willoughby apart from most small town cops is that he was pretty likable! It was weird for me to feel so warmly towards a police officer, not only because I feel like a lot of them are bad people, but because in twelfth grade I had to go on a police ride-along for my civics class and I hated every minute of it. But I guess that's just the magic of Woody Harrelson.

That I did feel warmly toward Chief Willoughby made it especially tough when he went out to his horse barn, covered his face with a bag, and shot himself in the head. He was already dying of cancer, and he wanted his family's last memories of him to be from when he was healthy, so I guess he did it with good intentions (?), but I still hate to imagine how terrible I'd feel if Woody Harrelson was my dad, and one day he went out to our horse barn, covered his face with a bag, and shot himself in the head. Even though he does a really nice job narrating all the really nice letters he left behind, I think I'd still feel pretty shippy.

Which brings me to my next comment! I watched this on FXM because it just happened to be on, but that meant everything was censored. At first I thought it was an artistic choice to have all the characters talk about the "flipping billboards" or the "fudging dentist" or "freaking you up" or to have them call each other "cooks," but eventually I realized that was mother-flapping silly of me to believe, since this is a Serious Movie. Either way, it made my viewing experience a little more fun :)

Something that did NOT make my viewing experience more fun was when Frances McDormand made the dentist drill into his own thumb with his tiny sharp tooth drill and it went right through the nail! I hated that!

Frances made up for the dentist incident by wearing this jumpsuit, which I loved, for the whole movie. She also did a really great job and I enjoyed her performance, but this blog isn't about her, is it?

Anyway, I really liked this movie. I don't think I would have hated my police ride along so much if I was riding along with Chief Willoughby (but I would have still hated it, on principle), and I would definitely be sad if William Willoughby was my dad and he killed himself in my horse barn, even if he was going to die of cancer in a couple months anyway.

Look at this cool cat!