Spring Breakers (Post-release)
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Capn_Jack_Savvy
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Hee Hee! No movement on this thread but I'll be sure to miss this one!
EyeofSauron
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wow, theres so many reasons not to like this, and yet i cant get the thought out of my head that it might have something to it
MFP 2020
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Harmony Korine got her start with Larry Whatisname, the lecherous-old-man director of "Kids" (which promised to be really shocking and really wasn't). If she's anything like him, it will at least be interesting to watch. Might not make much sense. Girls may or may not get naked, but I'd expect a lot of body worship.
I think I just talked myself into it.
I think I just talked myself into it.
Why 'Spring Breakers' Will Make You Hate Teenagers Today, but Also Understand Them | Movie News | Movies.com
Opening statements from the article before it goes further into the plot of the movie.
"The most important thing to understand about Spring Breakers is that it’s exactly what it is, and it’s also a lot more. Unquestionably, it’s a leering, hedonistic celebration of teenagers objectifying and dehumanizing themselves in the name of adolescent, boundary-testing rebellion. But it’s also, in both form and content, an objective portrait of the way that popular culture has virtually obliterated the possibility for American youth to experience something without a numbing deluge of media references and contexts, and therefore with any impulse at all to take responsibility for themselves, much less acknowledge that there are repercussions at all.
All of which is why Spring Breakers will make you hate teenagers, but understand them as well.
On a purely experiential level, it’s hard to develop much sympathy for the four girls at the center of the film. Although they’re playful and naïve at the beginning of the film, their indifference to the prospect of staging a robbery in order to get the money that they want – not to mention their delusional desperation to “see the world” via a week in, of all places, St. Petersburg, Florida – makes it difficult not to judge them as ignorant, if not just plain stupid. But what’s interesting about writer-director Harmony Korine’s film is that he sort of expertly allows reality to infiltrate their ambitions, becoming an encroaching reminder that there is a world out there where they may eventually have to answer for their behavior."
Opening statements from the article before it goes further into the plot of the movie.
"The most important thing to understand about Spring Breakers is that it’s exactly what it is, and it’s also a lot more. Unquestionably, it’s a leering, hedonistic celebration of teenagers objectifying and dehumanizing themselves in the name of adolescent, boundary-testing rebellion. But it’s also, in both form and content, an objective portrait of the way that popular culture has virtually obliterated the possibility for American youth to experience something without a numbing deluge of media references and contexts, and therefore with any impulse at all to take responsibility for themselves, much less acknowledge that there are repercussions at all.
All of which is why Spring Breakers will make you hate teenagers, but understand them as well.
On a purely experiential level, it’s hard to develop much sympathy for the four girls at the center of the film. Although they’re playful and naïve at the beginning of the film, their indifference to the prospect of staging a robbery in order to get the money that they want – not to mention their delusional desperation to “see the world” via a week in, of all places, St. Petersburg, Florida – makes it difficult not to judge them as ignorant, if not just plain stupid. But what’s interesting about writer-director Harmony Korine’s film is that he sort of expertly allows reality to infiltrate their ambitions, becoming an encroaching reminder that there is a world out there where they may eventually have to answer for their behavior."
MFP 2020
Sr Member
Harmony Korine is a male? Oh, I see: two girl names make a double-negative. :facepalm
Well played, sir.
Well played, sir.
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wuher da brewer
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I'd like to counter. I thought it was an excellent movie. I thought it was told in a very appropriate music video ADD style that is told in exactly the right way to reach the audience it's intended for. I liked all the filters and such they used for fast edits as if to suggest an altered state. I thought James Franco was brilliant, and while I thought all the girls who weren't Selena Gomez looked a little too much alike, making them interchangeable, I thought they were decent. I thought the over all story was fitting. I'm in video production, and I work with a lot of young interns, and many of them are these types of empty-headed morons. Yet having said all that, despite all the bouncing little hard bodies and bare breasts on display, I'm in no hurry to see this again because at it's heart, it's a very ugly movie.
JD
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Interesting to read a counter, I still don't like the film. I thought Franco tried a little too hard at times, but was very solid... I was very careful in my initial post not mention acting when I stated stated 'bad writing, directing, editing.'
As far as the other non-Gomez girls, I only recall only one of their names mentioned once in the movie. If it weren't for the IMdb, I wouldn't know that they had names - and I still don't know which is which.
The reviews I've read on it have been very mixed and I guess I can understand why after reading your two cents.
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Yeah yeah - is there any famous skin show ? Selena of Vanessa? If they showed their ta-tas - I be there.
Wakeem
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I don't know why this movie is getting good reviews. It seems really stupid. I've met these low quality type of girls before and have no interest in paying to see a movie about them. Probably the funniest thing I've seen recently is this video with a judge and a bad girl.
Penelope Soto Full Video- The Flip and the Apology - YouTube
Penelope Soto Full Video- The Flip and the Apology - YouTube
I just watched Spring Breakers.
Hands down, it was the worst movie I have ever seen.
It made SyFy original movies look like Oscar-worthy masterpieces.
Even the copious amounts of nudity and sex in the movie could not save it. Hell, there was a threesome with Vanessa Hudgens, and it still could not overpower the bad taste the movie left.
I feel mentally violated after watching this movie, as if a piece of my soul said "Screw you, I'm outta here!"
Hands down, it was the worst movie I have ever seen.
It made SyFy original movies look like Oscar-worthy masterpieces.
Even the copious amounts of nudity and sex in the movie could not save it. Hell, there was a threesome with Vanessa Hudgens, and it still could not overpower the bad taste the movie left.
I feel mentally violated after watching this movie, as if a piece of my soul said "Screw you, I'm outta here!"
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