A family film, for those kind of families.
Genuinely fucked up movie. Got in a car accident on the way back from watching this (I’ve been bike-bound for the past month) and somehow the accident seemed like the natural outcome of having watched this.
FOOOOOOOOOOOK.
I’m dying to see it but I certainly won’t drive to see it now. [:(]
Should’ve guessed it was one of HIS films.
That kid bugs me!
Late,
grmpysmrf
Maybe I have no sense of humor but it’s neither amusing, nor terribly shocking. If I had to guess, I would say it was made by a couple bored high school kids who are trying too hard.
Haven’t a clue who Harmony Korine is.
Yawn inspiring stupidity.
Yeah, you’re actually not too far off with your “bored high school student” assessment. He’s just some rich kid that used his parents connections to have a film made and that got his foot in the door and he’s been churning out crap ever since!
His other films include
Kids (a comedy which is not supposed to be comedy-but you can’t help but laugh at it!)
and Gummo
and now apparently
Trash Humpers
I think he tries to justify his crap as “art” because it gets a visceral reaction but really it’s just crap!
“Kids” was horrendous, Bad dialog, bad acting , bad story…just bad! (I’m talking on par with “Plan 9 From Outer Space” Horrible) if it sucked any less it would be unwatchable but it sucks on a scale that is so sucky you can’t help but watch it (once.)
and “Gummo” is worse than that!
Late,
grmpysmrf
^
I don’t agree with you but I don’t disagree with you.
Even my ‘weird’ friends find Gummo too much.
Kids wasn’t very good.
I like Gummo and I like Julian Donkey Boy.
I won’t see Trash Humpers.
My American ex girlfriend hated Harmony Korine with a passion - almost as much as she hated Jodorowsky.
Harmony Korine’s book ‘A Crack Up At The Race Riots’ is a scream though. I have a copy. Gonna hold onto it too 'cos apparently it’s worth a fortune as it was very limited.
I think “like” may be too strong a word for what I feel about our pal Harmony, but I really respect him as a filmmaker. He definitely makes you feel something and “Trash Humpers” has a real “evil be thy my good” attitude that isn’t done to that level very often at all (frankly, grmps your favorite “Salo” is one of the few other movies to take it this far).
I mean come on, after watching “Gummo” I’d felt happy that a disaster wiped out all these people and that’s a place I’d usually never go (I’m not much of a misanthrope).
“Trash Humpers” is probably his most surreal movie, just watching the folks in the geriatric masks fuck around like really nasty teenagers is a trip in and of itself. The movie starts pretty damned funny and then proceeds to get darker and darker. Again I don’t know if I’d recommend it to anyone but there’s no doubt it is a powerful piece and on a budget that wouldn’t cover the pre-production of most moderately priced films.
My American ex girlfriend hated Harmony Korine with a passion - almost as much as she hated Jodorowsky.
I don’t know if I could date a girl who hated Jodorowsky with a passion… Hope she was hot to make up for it.
I’m with Peligro, I liked Gummo and Julian Donkey Boy but Trash Humpers doesn’t interest me. To me it seems like he’s trying to one-up his previous works by turning the shock value up a higher notch but it just seems forced, kinda like Chuck Palahniuk’s literary career where he too tries upping the shock ante with every book he writes.
And what’s to hate about Jodorowsky? The only thing that offends me is the animal abuse in The Holy Mountain, but the man certainly has a unique vision. I think I prefer his graphic novels to his movies, but I enjoy them both. As much as I love David Lynch I wish Jodorowsky’s Dune would have been the one produced, his style lends itself to science fiction so much better than Lynch’s.
Once you get past the initial shock of the concept and the opening scenes (which you can pretty much see already in the trailer) there’s very little traditional shock in Trash Humpers. It’s pacing is slow and strange, I’d say it’s much more interested in capturing a mood than shocking people.
…He definitely makes you feel something and “Trash Humpers” has a real “evil be thy my good” attitude that isn’t done to that level very often at all (frankly, grmps your favorite “Salo” is one of the few other movies to take it this far).
I’m confused. How has anything Korine has done compare to anything Pasolini has done, especially Salo? (Btw, i know that sounds condescending but it’s not and I don’t mean it to be rude)
How does a bunch of geriatrics humping garbage=4 libertines that use people as disposable playthings?
I mean come on, after watching “Gummo” I’d felt happy that a disaster wiped out all these people and that’s a place I’d usually never go (I’m not much of a misanthrope).
I thought Gummo was unimaginative and exploitative at best. Kinda on level of that show “cops” it only serves to push an agenda. Mainly for “Cops” the agenda was"fear the black man." How many times did they choose to run the black criminal over the white criminal? and then when they did show white criminals they were of “Gummo” status.
“Gummo’s” agenda… “Aren’t you glad you aren’t one of these fucked up people?” So, what do either of these two shows have to offer anybody?
“Gummo” people don’t exist. I mean they do, but they are so few and far between… their shitty lives are not my entertainment and putting a camera on them is not creative or groundbreaking.
Just because something or someone is not the norm does not automatically mean it/they is/are “art.”
I just don’t find Korine all that great. I’ve seen a couple of interviews with him and he comes off so pretentious it’s nauseating! To me he is a snotty little rich kid that looks down on us regular people and it seems he puts no thought into his movies at all. He just comes up with something stupid/odd ball that all of us regular people will will just marvel at because “He’s so profound.” When in actuality it’s just some nonsense that he and a few of his buddies have hyped. Very “Emperor Wears No Clothes” he is to me.
Glad to see he’s lost his looks and looks like a tubby old man now.
Late,
grmpysmrf
Y’all should not take films so seriously. I’m not that familiar with Korine but I like the way he shoots films. Don’t let the fact that he’s a spoilt rich kid turn you off his films. Many filmmakers are dickheads but their films can be great, let their work do the talking. People are too obsessed with idolising directors (and musicians). As for Trash Humpers, it has a disturbing quality that I find compelling. Making it with the shitty 8MM is the right choice. And there are plenty of white trash families that do worse than hump garbage. I can’t say more on the film having not seen it but I will get around to it at some stage. I think people in general are too used to glossy productions that when a grainy shitty looking film like Trash Humpers comes out they turn their noses as if it was a piece of garbage… that they’d like to fuck!
plus, a girl who hates Jodorowsky with a passion is a girl NOT worth keeping
“Gummo” people don’t exist. I mean they do, but they are so few and far between… their shitty lives are not my entertainment and putting a camera on them is not creative or groundbreaking.
There are a lot more Gummo people than you think there are.
Hmmm… What little I’ve seen is just plain stupid. I mean it’s not terribly shocking, at least in a new and original way, just dumb. There is no “art” just bored kids doing idiotic stuff trying too hard and failing utterly to shock.
I’m happy to report you and I are in complete agreement on this one.
Late,
grmpysmrf
I think Gummo is way more real than the vast majority of movies out there, Kids too for that matter. I think Korine and Passolini have similarity in that they assault the audience rather than entertain and yet both also have dark senses of humor.
I agree with Mick too about the lo-fi look of the movie turning people off. It really is not a movie that needs the technology of 2010 to be made, which I say “Thank God” for. How many movies that came out this past year could have been made 10 years ago? Not many, I suspect. On one level that’s kind of cool but on another it is a sign that these current movies are going to be like D&D nerds in that they won’t date well. “Trash Humpers” will be equally disgusting and funny 50 years in the future as it is now.
Also for those who watch a trailer and say “Meh, not shocking to me”, watch the movie and see if you keep that attitude. It’s pretty unrelenting stuff and hard to gauge your reaction based on 3 minutes.
Is it the same sort of stupidity for the entire movie? If so, I’ll pass. Lo-fi I don’t mind, but just because someone can’t work a camera and has zero talent doesn’t mean it’s good.
Yes it’s like that all movie, but it builds with a brilliant sense of slow dread. Obviously I have no taste though, so take my opinion for what it’s worth and feel free to smugly let this one pass you by.
What other movies look and act like “Trash Humpers”? Is there some strange influx of lo-fi nutso movies invading the theaters and catching me unaware? No joke, but what are other movies that remind you of this one?
Obviously I have no taste though, so take my opinion for what it’s worth and feel free to smugly let this one pass you by.
No way dude, you got taste! I’m just bashing it because I have a severe personal dislike for Harmony Korine. I mean I thought his movies sucked before but then the personal impression he gives off just made them that much worse. If he were humble and a cooler dude I’d probably still think his movies sucked but I’d still give his new flicks a chance (hell I gave m night shamma-what-ever-the-fuck-his-name is 4 chances just based on Sixth Sense Alone) but I refuse to do that for Korine because both he and his films suck!
Late,
grmpysmrf
I didn’t actually mean the self-putdown above, I was just fucking with prolog.