[reply]I think someone on the board saw this in the theaters. he said it was truly awful. can you confirm or deny?
Spring Breakers is the best film of 2013 so far.
By a mile.[/reply]
I never heard of it, but just watched the trailer.
It looks awesome.
I fucking loved Spring Breakers…what an awesome sensory trip that film is…the liquid narrative,the way the thing moves is just amazing…beautiful color scheme and off the charts cinematography by the guy who did Enter the Void…the movie moves like a musical piece…and speaking of the music it is great…the stuff by Cliff Martinez is outstanding…and even the silly dub step shit that I usually hate,worked perfect in the context of this film…in fact,I can’t think of any other music that would have been as effective…
The James Franco character is funny,scary,ridiculous,sad,stupid and awesome all at the same time…I loved the film and will be buying it on Blu-ray very soon…if any film was meant for the big HD surround sound experience,it is this one…5 stars…
lowelly didn’t care for it
march 30th: The last three flicks I saw… and Spring Breakers (walked out on it - I have plenty of porn at home, thanks, and none of it features James Franco in cornrows).
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grmpysmrf
I fucking loved Spring Breakers…what an awesome sensory trip that film is…the liquid narrative,the way the thing moves is just amazing…beautiful color scheme and off the charts cinematography by the guy who did Enter the Void…the movie moves like a musical piece…
Which is why Korine should have done On The Road. The book isn’t just about a couple of dudes traveling across the country and their encounters with friends and females. It’s about language and feeling and a kind of passion that just wasn’t present in the film. Korine would’ve treated it less like a narrative and more like a visual poem - which would be the true Beat approach.
[reply]I fucking loved Spring Breakers…what an awesome sensory trip that film is…the liquid narrative,the way the thing moves is just amazing…beautiful color scheme and off the charts cinematography by the guy who did Enter the Void…the movie moves like a musical piece…
Which is why Korine should have done On The Road. The book isn’t just about a couple of dudes traveling across the country and their encounters with friends and females. It’s about language and feeling and a kind of passion that just wasn’t present in the film. Korine would’ve treated it less like a narrative and more like a visual poem - which would be the true Beat approach.[/reply]
Yeah,I haven’t seen On the Road yet but the trailer I saw left me a bit cold…
lowelly didn’t care for it
march 30th: The last three flicks I saw… and Spring Breakers (walked out on it - I have plenty of porn at home, thanks, and none of it features James Franco in cornrows).
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grmpysmrf
Porn? Huh? Wha?[:/]
I too will echo the Spring Breakers praise. Great film.
Harmony Korine is completely and totally devoid of any talent what so ever. He should never be allowed near a camera.
Oh man Prologue and grmpy are teaming up!!
I agree brother, testify!!
Korine sucks!!
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grmpysmrf
Oh man Prologue and grmpy are teaming up!!
I agree brother, testify!!
Korine sucks!!
Says the man who claims that Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantoms Menace is more of an artistic triumph than Pan’s Labyrinth.
Face it Grmpy, arthouse cinema ain’t your forte. Stick to Bruce Willis, Michael Bay, chicks with big boobs, people blowing up shit, films with linear, predictable narratives and Pixar.
UPDATE: Nah, now that I’ve read that back, it sounds nasty and pretentious. Korine is certainly an acquired taste - a bit like Bergman or even Woody Allen. He approaches cinema from a somewhat unusual angle that is more random and emotional rather than telling a story. He finds beauty amongst the ugliness and absurdity. As someone else pointed out, he approaches a film more like someone would approach a painting or a poem.
It’s difficult to get your head around if all you’ve ever really experienced is American mainstream cinema - which in my opinion, often treats the audience like idiots.
Probably one of the greatest films of all time:
Werner Herzog’s 1970 cinematic masterpiece - Even Dwarves Started Small.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWz-R104X7Q
Highly recommend it. BIG influence on directors such as Harmony Korine.
I’d love to sit and watch it with (a rather perplexed)Grmpysmrf at his house.
“Hyuck…hyuck…this fillum be dey stoopidest thang I ever’n did saw. The stoopidest thang I ever’n did saw what sance muh cousin Goober dad peed off’n that thar barn roof on top them thar checkens!”
I am not familiar with Korine’s catalogue as a whole, but I LOVE “Gummo”, and “Kids” (yeah, I know he didn’t direct it, but he always gets mentioned along with it for whatever he did – writer, I think?).
Gummo is so eloquent. Sad, depressing, hopeless, and ugly . . . but yeah, also completely beautiful. Not at all a “story” but more a cinematic “painting”. Abstract in its thematic topics and message, but very real in its imagery. Kind of shocking, but it never felt exploitive.
It’s a hard movie to describe, but I really dig it.
I am not familiar with Korine’s catalogue as a whole, but I LOVE “Gummo”, and “Kids” (yeah, I know he didn’t direct it, but he always gets mentioned along with it for whatever he did – writer, I think?).
Gummo is so eloquent. Sad, depressing, hopeless, and ugly . . . but yeah, also completely beautiful. Not at all a “story” but more a cinematic “painting”. Abstract in its thematic topics and message, but very real in its imagery. Kind of shocking, but it never felt exploitive.
It’s a hard movie to describe, but I really dig it.
Korine was the writer of Kids, yes.
Gummo reminds me of the town I lived in my last year of high school. Only with hurricanes instead of tornadoes and more Mexicans.
korine’s movies are anything but art house. he’s a pretentious ass. how lame and predictable was kids? and I completely disagree about Gummo. I think it was completely exploitive and shock for the sake of shock. it might as well have been a movie of some ass rubbing shit on his face… sophomoric and completely uninspired and juvenile.
Not only will I take Episode I over Kids, I’ll take carrie fisher singing on the star wars christmas special. korine is fucking terrible. /rant
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grmpysmrf
I’d love to sit and watch it with (a rather perplexed)Grmpysmrf at his house.
“Hyuck…hyuck…this fillum be dey stoopidest thang I ever’n did saw. The stoopidest thang I ever’n did saw what sance muh cousin Goober dad peed off’n that thar barn roof on top them thar checkens!”
Oh dear me, I do declare, I don’t know how my shoes would stay on my lil’ ol’ feet if it weren’t for the veclro!
Thank god peligro is here to tie my fuckin shoes for me! [rolleyes]
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grmpysmrf
Stick to Bruce Willis, Michael Bay, chicks with big boobs, people blowing up shit, films with linear, predictable narratives and Pixar.
Nothing wrong with that stuff at all. People like to be entertained, but they don’t always want to see a 4 hour film about incest and black magic among depressed, jungle-dwelling South American dwarves. I love Michael Bay’s brand of nonsense (and hate some of it), but i do enjoy world cinema too. Actually, i’ll be honest, when i say “world cinema” i really just mean action/martial arts stuff from other countries. While we’re talking about Bay, may i humbly suggest that his film The Rock is the most entertaining film ever made? [:)]
a 4 hour film about incest and black magic among depressed, jungle-dwelling South American dwarves.
I want to watch that film.
[reply] a 4 hour film about incest and black magic among depressed, jungle-dwelling South American dwarves.
I want to watch that film.[/reply]
Myself and Werner Herzog have chartered a boat to take us deep into the Peruvian jungle to make such a film. We’re bringing the reanimated corpse of Klaus Kinski and plan to force him to drag the ship, filled to be brim with incestuous black magic midgets, over a mountain. It’s called Fitzcarraldo 2: The Midgeting.
While we’re talking about Bay, may i humbly suggest that his film The Rock is the most entertaining film ever made? [:)]
+100
I would watch Klaus Kinski read the phone book…that guy was so outstanding…not the best human being it would seem but man when he came on the big screen you couldn’t take you eyes off him…
Trashing Korine and saying he is garbage or praising him as a genius,both seem ridiculous to me…I think he is somewhere in between…his films are definitely an acquired taste and I think he would be the first to tell you he doesn’t care if they are praised or ridiculed as long as there is some sort of reaction…for me,his films are unforgettable,regardless of what I may feel about the content,story line,imagery,plot(or lack therof) etc…I can’t wait for the next one…
I would watch Klaus Kinski read the phone book…that guy was so outstanding…not the best human being it would seem but man when he came on the big screen you couldn’t take you eyes off him…
Definitely, especially in Codename : Wild Geese [;)]
The Herzog documentary about him, My Best Fiend, is hilarious, well worth a look if you haven’t seen it. The recent revelations about him have certainly soured me on him to be honest, the dirty creep.