I love Harmony Korine's work and I thought going in this movie was going to be strange, slow, and messed up. However, it wasn't, instead it was just slow. It was too high budget and mainstream and not what I was expecting from Harmony Korine. On paper it should have been genius. James Franco takes some crazy hot girls who performed an armed robbery just so they could go to spring break, AND Gucci Mane is the bad guy. But instead it repeats dialogue throughout to the point where it goes from annoying to just plain funny. This movie can essentially be summed up as follows. "I wanna go home," "Spring break, spring break forever," "It feels like a dream." ESPECIALLY James Franco whispering "spring break, spring break forever" which is repeated at least 15-20 times throughout during various scene transitions and sometimes repeated 3 times in a row. The entire first 40 minutes could have been totally cut out, I would have thought it cooler if it just opened with them robbing the diner and going to spring break. I think it missed the mark it was going for trying to show the dark side of youth (as with most Harmony Korine movies) and it ends up being a bunch of close-up shots of boobs, butts and straight up vagina while everyone seems to be having a great time except whiny little Selena Gomez and then her gold digging friends ditch her to hangout with the equally annoying James Franco as Alien. James Franco dies so quickly and in such a lame unexpected way after he's all pumped up for revenge it kind of spoke to the necessity of his character in general. And then the 2 girls are all of a sudden expert marksmen and kill 20 dudes without missing or having to reload. Then they drive back home probably to go back to their boring college lives. I would say that I hated this movie but because of the excellent cinematography work and the fact that I laughed hard at the repetitive dialogue and pointless structure I would still recommend it to people just so I can talk to them about it and they would get it when i creepily whisper "spriiing breeeaaak, spriiinnngg breeeakk foreeeevveerrr."
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Spring Breakers
(2012)
If you like to laugh at serious movies, watch this.
31 July 2013
Warning: Spoilers
This Is the End
(2013)
You have to know going in how plot less and ridiculous it will be.
19 June 2013
I was actually surprised that it was better than I thought it was going to be. I think too many movie-goers hyped it up in their heads that this movie was going to be the most epic comedy of all time. I went in knowing how dumb it was going to be and found it really funny at parts and I liked the dark comedy eased with more immature slapstick comedy. A lot of these negative reviews I've read either have some kind of religious agenda against this movie or were people trying to measure how big their cinema knowledge penis is by citing great foreign films and comparing how much it falls short. It's a stoner comedy made by stoner nerd's that happened to find success and are probably just as baffled as these harsh critics are as to how they achieved it. In a movie filled with celebrity cameos and over the top CGI and humor, it felt to me like it was still a down to Earth movie they probably spent 30 minutes writing and had a blast filming and getting friends together and showed Hollywood excess from the point of view of the outsiders. If you were offended or wrote this movie off because it wasn't up to your standards, you're not the audience this movie had any intention of appeasing. It's obviously a cult comedy that some will love and most will hate which sometimes are the best comedies. It wasn't quite up there with the writer's and actor's other modern day classics but it was totally enjoyable and worth watching again.
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