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SPRING BREAKERS (OT) Why Y'all Actin' 'Spicious?

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Saw it earlier today and then saw GI Joe later, lol, and this movie remains the only thing in my head.

I had no idea what the fuck to think when I stepped out of the theater, but the movie has just grown on me more and more. The repetitiveness worked, as it only became more surreal the darker the movie got; especially after we got the real account of the
robbery scene.

James Franco completely stole the show. He was just mesmerizing every second he was on screen. And the Britney Spears scene is probably one of the most memorable scenes I can ever recall seeing in a theater.
 
Vanessa Hudgens is so damn fine, I wanna go see this movie but would have to go alone and that's way too sad.
 
Pein said:
Vanessa Hudgens is so damn fine, I wanna go see this movie but would have to go alone and that's way too sad.
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Saw it by myself the second time. Of course I work at the same theatre I saw it in. I also had the auditorium to myself.

The whole auditorium with a huge screen and tits all over it...
 
Karkador said:
I'm really not making a judgment call on the movie by saying it's dumb. The content presented to us in the movie is extremely fucking dumb. It's dub step drops to spring break debauchery, it's taking every opportunity at a male gaze camera angle, it's a ridiculous rap game James Franco, it's Gucci Mane, it's 'innocent' TV starlets giving stilted dialogue about wanting cock and wanting to shoot people. It's extreeeeeeeeemely dumb.

Now whether or not that meant anything to us, watching as the movie sort of obsessively retraces its own outlines of the subject matter for 90 minutes, that's what I'm asking (and not rhetorically). There's so much dumb in it that I can't deny that it was designed that way, on purpose, for a reason...but I don't know what the reason is.

But I'm thinking- Simply putting a creative filter on dumb shit (if that's what you meant by "arthouse") doesn't actually change much. I still come away thinking it was dumb. And while I acknowledge that yeah, a lot of stuff like this actually happens in real life, there is no real take-away or resolution. It's more of a exaggerated picture of something that we look at and react to, rather than follow like a story.

It's not like a typical movie where a conflict happens and then get resolved. In this case, it would be dumb things happening that then get unmade, either by laughing it off as a comedy (which it wasn't, though it had a few funny moments) or by just having some really sobering moments in-movie where everyone realizes how dumb it all is. I think there was maybe only one thing sort of like that
(Alien being scared)
, and I'm not quite sure if that's what the movie intended the take-away to be.

So I dunno, man. I watched what felt like a very long 90 minutes of something that felt very deliberate and yet perhaps not entirely under control, but I'm not mad or disappointed by it. Just kind of bored by it. I'm just wondering if it was dumb purely for the hell of being dumb.
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This must be your first Harmony Korine film.
 
Loved this. Deliciously dark. The soundtrack was perfect as well.

The Britney tracks gave me life. Also, Gucci was hilarious.
 
I was going to go see this alone. My girlfriend of 10 years said she wants to go with me though. She probably is going to think it's dumb. However, I rarely drag her to the movies to see stuff she doesn't want to see.
 
My aunt wants me and my other cousins to go see this with her because she likes james franco.


I don't think she has any clue on what this movie is about or any of the content inside.
 
MThanded said:
I was going to go see this alone. My girlfriend of 10 years said she wants to go with me though. She probably is going to think it's dumb. However, I rarely drag her to the movies to see stuff she doesn't want to see.
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Persona7 said:
My aunt wants me and my other cousins to go see this with her because she likes james franco.

I don't think she has any clue on what this movie is about or any of the content inside.
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Dropping the shocker on these people will be the most fun ever! DO IT
 
Welp, saw this with my mom and younger sister, lol.

We all knew what we were going into; and in any other situation, there's no way we'd have gone together. But an opportunity to see Disney starlets act stupid and "all grown up" on the big screen like this doesn't happen too often.

We all agreed it's a film worth seeing, and it was certainly entertaining enough. But it wasn't great, and none of us would really care to watch it again.

There were a gratuitous amount of boobs - but boobs never harmed anyone, so that wasn't embarrassing or anything. There were only three occasions where it was awkward - a girl being a tease at the party, a certain gun scene with Franco (lol), and a comment about what the twins like to do.

James Franco was hilarious. The three of us are still quoting one of his lines a couple days later -
LOOK AT ALL MAH SHIT!

Didn't really like the ending. Really would have enjoyed something more climactic and grandiose. But I suppose it was serviceable and it fit the film well enough.
 
One of my favorite things about Korine is how he'll have this super intense crazy drawn out scene and then drop it completely to move onto something else. The montage nature of the film and underlying soundtrack (along with repetitive dialogue) created a great dream state and was fine in its own right, but it lost a bit of his specific touch.

For example, i would love to see something like the piano scene handled the old school Korine way, even though that montage sequence was absolutely hilarious.

I am betting James Franco can just think about this movie any time he's having a bad day and feel 10x better. Must have been a blast.
 
Skel1ingt0n said:
James Franco was hilarious. The three of us are still quoting one of his lines a couple days later -
LOOK AT ALL MAH SHIT!
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The whole monologue in all its poetic glory:

"This is the fuckin' American dream. This is my fuckin' dream, y'all!

All this sheeyit! Look at my sheeyit!

I got … I got SHORTS! Every fuckin' color.

I got designer T-shirts!

I got gold bullets. Motherfuckin' VAM-pires.

I got Scarface. On repeat. SCARFACE ON REPEAT. Constant, y'all!

I got Escape! Calvin Klein Escape! Mix it up with Calvin Klein Be. Smell nice? I SMELL NICE!

That ain't a fuckin' bed; that's a fuckin' art piece. My fuckin' spaceship! U.S.S. Enterprise on this shit. I go to different planets on this motherfucker! Me and my fuckin' Franklins here, we take off. TAKE OFF!

Look at my shit. Look at my shit! I got my blue Kool-Aid.

I got my fuckin' NUN-CHUCKS.

I got shurikens; I got different flavors.

I got them sais. Look at that shit, I got sais. I got blades!

Look at my sheeyit! This ain't nuttin', I got ROOMS of this shit!

I got my dark tannin' oil … lay out by the pool, put on my dark tanning oil …

I got machine guns … Look at this, look at this motherfucker here! Look at this otherfucker! Huh? A fucking army up in this shit!"​
 
Oh man, saw this last night and like it, even though I didn't know wtf was going on. I didn't expect that shit at all.

Loved the Britney Spears piano scene thing lol
 
dc89 said:
It's almost, almost made me like a Skrillex track. Well I like the first 40 seconds or so anyway.

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The movie wouldn't have been what it was without Skrillex. The opening credits scene was absolutely perfect with that track playing. That goes for all the party scenes that kept playing. Definitely going to have to cop the soundtrack asap.

"Everytime" is full on stuck in my head right now, Godney.
 
Caught a last minute late showing last night with friends, I really enjoyed it and the cinematography is beautiful. I fucking loved the panning scene with the car and all the various ocean shots


even james franco thinks selena gomez looks like a young teenager

Only thing I disliked was the massive amount of titty montages, they went on too long in certain spots.

I really didn't think I was going to like this. Out of 7 people it had the same amount of likes by the same people when we saw Drive
two, me plus another :(


Is this movie doing badly? They already had it at the far end of the theater in one of those half rooms. The showing was 95% full though... 6 people left during the opening titty montage.

Edit : I talked to a few people and at two theaters near my area they never even gave this movie a full theater room and instead shoved it into the back half rooms at both.

spoiler

Didn't see that coming

I am probably going to see it again on wednesday as noted in my other post above. (lol)
 
UltimaPooh said:
This must be your first Harmony Korine film.
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True. I had seen Kids a long time ago, but I barely remember it. Although I do seem to recall Kids not being so...stilted, at times? But I can see that the two movies are going in pretty different directions.

I do agree that the panning shot of the robbery in the beginning was pretty damn good. I also agree that James Franco/Alien is the only real reason to see this.
 
Back from the movie. It was corny as shit and the climax was so preposterous it almost made me want to roll my eyes. Yet somehow, I actually liked it
 
Terrible movie. It felt like a 1.30 hour long music video montage. The filming style was the only redeeming "quality", and even that got tedious.

The lack of story, the ridiculous characters, the repetitiveness, the repetitiveness, and the repetitiveness.

Stupid as hell. Its one of those films where if you just read the script, you'd WTF and throw it in the trash before reaching the second page.

I'm sure you could defend the movie by saying its a stylistic experiment, or art, or whatever. But it wont convince me. Me and my friends were checking the time regularly because we were bored as hell. Yes, even with the tit gallore.
 
Souldriver said:
Terrible movie. It felt like a 1.30 hour long music video montage. The filming style was the only redeeming "quality", and even that got tedious.

The lack of story, the ridiculous characters, the repetitiveness, the repetitiveness, and the repetitiveness.

Stupid as hell. Its one of those films where if you just read the script, you'd WTF and throw it in the trash before reaching the second page.

I'm sure you could defend the movie by saying its a stylistic experiment, or art, or whatever. But it wont convince me. Me and my friends were checking the time regularly because we were bored as hell. Yes, even with the tit gallore.
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Spider from Mars said:
It's an R rated, Harmony Korine film. If you were expecting Project X: Girls Gone Wild Edition, you didn't do enough research before seeing it. The advertising has the trappings of a party film, one where people think of Spring Break as some sort of pilgrimage of self discovery when in reality, all they do is get fucked up. There is a very ethereal element to the narration and I think it works if you go in knowing what to expect.
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I went in not knowing what to expect, my first Harmony Korine film and loved the fuck out of it. The etheral undercurrent really elevated this movie to something special for me.
 
BlueTsunami said:
I went in not knowing what to expect, my first Harmony Korine film and loved the fuck out of it. The etheral undercurrent really elevated this movie to something special for me.
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Same. I viewed it as pretty shrewd social commentary, sort of a meta troll on the party-goer demographic.
 
Juice said:
Same. I viewed it as pretty shrewd social commentary, sort of a meta troll on the party-goer demographic.
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it's social commentary but it's definitely not trolling party-goers. I think its depiction of the spirituality behind letting yourself go is often a sincere endorsement. It just doesn't endorse taking that too far. to some degree, though, escape from the real world and into the party dreamworld is righteous: it knocks down gender norms, it's hypnotic bliss, so on.
 
Slurmer said:
James Franco is hilarious in this. The movie only becomes enjoyable once he starts to take over.
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Yeah that's my biggest problem with it. The pacing is terrible. I still really enjoyed it but I would have edited down the first half substantially given the chance.
 
I guess I'm going to have to wait till it hits Blu-ray to watch this. I waited to long to get into the theaters. Oh well.
 
Absolutely loved this, went in for the Hudgens/Benson goodness but was taken on an acid trip of neon nihilism. It looks gorgeous, the Skrillex soundtrack was spectacular and the performances terrific, especially Franco (even though he usually annoys me no end). I do think it's an art film, but in the sense of art seeking to having meaning through the reaction it draws out of its viewer, rather than having any fixed meaning in itself. I don't see how you could authentically capture the spring break culture the film represents while moralising and Korine seems intelligent enough to let the debauchery play out and leave the rest to the audience. For what it's worth, spring break (as shown in the film) would be my living hell, but I was electrified by the movie and fully taken in its slipstream regardless. Cracking stuff, easily my front-runner for film of the year and probably the best I've seen since L' Illusioniste (a somewhat different experience) in 2010.
 
Just saw it. The only reason to see it is for the tits and ass. And perhaps Franco being funny.

I just hated the filming style. The whole "we're being all indy! Look at this!" style. I hate it. The whole thing was really dumb.

But... tits and ass. Only watch if you're a guy.
 
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