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SPRING BREAKERS (OT) Why Y'all Actin' 'Spicious?
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I wonder if it's an affectation or not. I mean, imagine if she had a bouncy bubbly voice. People wouldn't date her, so much as chaperone her.
PorkChopSandwiches
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what's the britney spears song james franco and the girls sing near the piano?
PorkChopSandwiches
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just beautiful, you are magnificent, this milkshake is entrenching
Messofanego
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biosnake20
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About to watch this tonight, what should I be expecting? Are the trailers misleading?
Messofanego
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"The most unforgettable movie of the year" @richardroeper. I'm surprised Roeper praised it so highly.
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Body Language poster from twitter:
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Broder Salsa
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I really wish this was in 3d... and Smell-O-Vision supported.
Just saw the movie and I thought it was pretty awesome, though it dragged a bit after the second girl left town. My only disappointment was that all the girls besides Selena Gomez felt kind of dull, flat, and interchangeable.
Someone on the way out of the theatre loudly said "That was the stupidest movie I've ever seen". Haha, that was priceless.
Someone on the way out of the theatre loudly said "That was the stupidest movie I've ever seen". Haha, that was priceless.
Spider from Mars
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Saw it
Loved it
Loved it
The more I think about it, the more I think that the final act of the film is the two girls telling an embellished version of the truth. The way that they walk around the complex, taking out body guards with such ease and killing Gucci and stealing his lambo. Charles Kinbote narration all up in this bitch.
Just watched it with a friend.
We were cracking up the entire time, but not for the right reasons. We thought the entire thing was ironic? People were complaining. Quite a few up and left 3/4ths of the way through. Some were holding out to the ending but when nothing redeemable happened it was just grunts and "wtf's" on the way out.
Can someone please explain this movie to me without sounding like a pretentious douche?
We were cracking up the entire time, but not for the right reasons. We thought the entire thing was ironic? People were complaining. Quite a few up and left 3/4ths of the way through. Some were holding out to the ending but when nothing redeemable happened it was just grunts and "wtf's" on the way out.
Can someone please explain this movie to me without sounding like a pretentious douche?
Spider from Mars
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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.
"The most unforgettable movie of the year" @richardroeper. I'm surprised Roeper praised it so highly.
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I'm willing to bet you were laughing for exactly the reasons the film intended
Saw this yesterday.
My gf thinks its the worst movie ever made, but I liked it. James Franco was hilarious and I can't hate on anything with multiple slow motion dub step t&a sequences. One thing my gf pointed out that I agree with is that without all the repetition, the movie would have been like 30 mins long. I got what they were going for with that, but I would have liked it more if there had been more scenes
My gf thinks its the worst movie ever made, but I liked it. James Franco was hilarious and I can't hate on anything with multiple slow motion dub step t&a sequences. One thing my gf pointed out that I agree with is that without all the repetition, the movie would have been like 30 mins long. I got what they were going for with that, but I would have liked it more if there had been more scenes
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ToyMachine228
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Still confused as to why neither of the theaters in my county are playing this. I can't find it online either. Lame.
samus i am
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I've got to convince someone to go see this movie with me.
Ixion
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Spider from Mars
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Cloud Atlas was polarizing amongst film fans. I am not saying that everyone that disliked Spring Breakers isn't a fan of film, but the majority of the complaining seems to be that they expected A but got B instead.
Count Dookkake
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The Illiterati
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The movie is not dumb in the slightest. Hence the majority of people hating it. Although the film should have gone wide in order to get people into screenings, most people who went to see this are not the intended audience. This is arthouse masquerading as MTV.
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
, 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.
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)
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.
cooljeanius
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I'm immediately reminded of the ending of Burn After Reading by this question
cutmeamango
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Is your post mimicking the structure and characteristics you describe deliberately? Because that's genius.
"Dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb" Confusing take-away, gets bored by it.
Messofanego
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It's kind of genius of how repetitious the shots of the daytime beach spring breakers and Alien's catchphrase of "spring break forever" are throughout, eventually numbing you to the point of thinking: "hey wait, this is kinda boring, you know spring break is really just a corporate ritual every year rather than some spiritual mentality...that Alien dude living his whole life like spring break sounds kind of pathetic".
so you're saying the movie is dumb?
Devolution
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Coen Brothers films.
blame space
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now hold on a goddamn minute
Surely you meant some other brothers. The Farrelly brothers?
Devolution
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Nope. Just sayin' in most of 'em you don't walk away with anything and stuff isn't really resolved in a couple. Doesn't make the ride worthless though. I love their films.
Let me reiterate/clarify that I don't think (or, at worst, am not sure) this movie is dumb or even outright bad. I just want to discuss what, if anything, they were doing with the themes beyond their face value, and if they weren't, then what do you take away from it and what merit does it have that way.
Devolution
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So it's a shittier Thirteen?
More purposefully comedic than Thirteen, but yes.
way different than saying their films are dumb for the sake of being dumb.
also, I am so sorry.
Messofanego
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This is a pretty great review
Perfectly mirrors my feelings. Someone who gets the point of the repetition.
Perfectly mirrors my feelings. Someone who gets the point of the repetition.
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