i wonder if that was franco's idea
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 04:27 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i was wondering that toofelt kinda franco
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 04:35 (eleven years ago) link
Plans to go hotbox and then go see the early show of this with friends Friday. Fuckin Amped.
― Lambo Sedan (Whitey on the Moon), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 06:31 (eleven years ago) link
no-consequences crime drama
no spoilers intended but tell that to franco and gucci mane's characters!
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
i meant more the girls but yeah point taken lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
The disparity of consequences is one of the main points, I think.
― alternately mean and handsy (Eric H.), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
my main problem with the film is that korine's arthouse tics are so transparent
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
did anyone see the bit (clipped on the soup) of korine talking about meeting his wife?
― goole, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 15:13 (eleven years ago) link
the looping got a *little* tiresome by the end
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
so did old ppl humping trash, thats the point think abt it
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 15:16 (eleven years ago) link
old ppl humping trash prob find that humping trash gets tiresome, too. unless you meant that figuratively.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
great roundup:
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/what-does-the-conservative-media-think-of-spring-breakers/
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 21:17 (eleven years ago) link
four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens!
― his girlfriend was all 'ugh and he wears a solar backpack' (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
the american conservative is such an amazing meta-troll publication, and it does it by being straightforward
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Wednesday, 27 March 2013 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
this was really bad & tedious
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
maaybe if harmony made this 10 yrs ago it wouldve been effective, both in regards to harmony possibly actually writing provocative content and that the culture itself was less saturated w/ this actual vibe & maybe itd seem genuinely fresh and satirical, rather than just less interesting than like an ep of 'bad girls club'
i did lol @ the extent they had to go to to cut around how bad of an actor gucci is
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 23:02 (eleven years ago) link
the multiple voiceovers and floaty non-linear editing its really much closer to malick than any obvious mann/depalma/tarantino comparisons (or korine for that matter), but a bizarro world malick where ~oneness~ is replaced by ~endless tension~
i thought this too, re: the malick parallel, but theres no tension @ all imo
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 27 March 2013 23:16 (eleven years ago) link
maaybe if harmony made this 10 yrs ago it wouldve been effective, both in regards to harmony possibly actually writing provocative content and that the culture itself was less saturated w/ this actual vibe & maybe itd seem genuinely fresh and satirical
...so it'd be more satirical if the subject being made fun of was less already in-your-face and needing to be made fun of? nah.
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 28 March 2013 13:54 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe the point was that it's more difficult now to decide to what extent this is satirical. Which imo is what makes it even more impressive and what sort of gives some of those conservative critics a leg to stand their arguments on.
― alternately mean and handsy (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 March 2013 13:59 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe the point was that it's more difficult now to decide to what extent this is satirical.
...no it's not this is the guy that made gummo.
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 28 March 2013 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
I'm only speaking about the people approaching this movie with no prior knowledge of Harmony Korine.
― alternately mean and handsy (Eric H.), Thursday, 28 March 2013 14:03 (eleven years ago) link
its also less far from my memory of 'mr lonely', widely considered a critical failure right? than ppl might want to remember -- very aimless w/ a decent color palette & ok music but wholly lacking tension/characterization/purpose (imo)
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 28 March 2013 14:09 (eleven years ago) link
― fauxmarc, Thursday, March 28, 2013 4:01 AM (59 minutes ago)
i feel like 10-15 years ago we would have heard the mom/grandma side of the phone conversations, but that would have been a very different film
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
― goole, Wednesday, March 27, 2013 11:13 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha yessss this was amazing, was shocked/disappointed to not find the footage or any similar commentary on it online (basically he talks about how his wife is 26 and "we met about 10 years ago [akward pause], actually we met 8 years ago")
― Diddy-Drugs A. Money (some dude), Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:26 (eleven years ago) link
can't wait to see this, hopefully it achieves the same heights as gummo's chair wrestling scene
― Spectrum, Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:28 (eleven years ago) link
lol who is jordan bloom, this guy is good
Debbie Schlussel says, with her usual blend of moderation and critical insight, “every single person involved with this movie is a complete scumbag unworthy of human life” and gives it “four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens” which must mean it’s really bad. Some Breitbart guy didn’t really get it so he isn’t worth quoting.
― goole, Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens walk into a bar
― Diddy-Drugs A. Money (some dude), Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
if I have four Marxes and suzy has four bin ladens and tommy has four bin ladens...
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:52 (eleven years ago) link
...and would you be surprised to hear that circa age 20, Mrs Korine was doing an internship (arranged by hubby) at a certain Edgy Style Magazine?
― karl lagerlout (suzy), Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
ugh im so tempted to parse and analyze that weird conflation of obama/marx/bin laden since it's totally incoherent but it's just fucking stupid and for my own sake I'll have to leave it at that.
― ryan, Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
take three qualities you don't like in each (marx = communist, bin laden = 9/11, obama = black), generalize it, and it all fits nicely together.
― Spectrum, Thursday, 28 March 2013 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
haha thank you that quiets the cognitive dissonance i was experiencing.
― ryan, Thursday, 28 March 2013 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
jeff jarrett as the youth pastor = MEGA lols
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 28 March 2013 17:46 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that was great -- his sermon gave me so many lols
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 28 March 2013 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
jeff jarrett was perfect
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Thursday, 28 March 2013 18:37 (eleven years ago) link
not seen this but doesn't ryan trecartin satirise/celebrate contemporary youth culture in a pretty delirious and artful way? can't get over a family finds entertainment, doubt i ever will
― delete (imago), Thursday, 28 March 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
imagine trecartin watered down abt 98% and youre close
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 28 March 2013 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
http://emilianogranado.com/projects/beach-party/
― 乒乓, Friday, 29 March 2013 13:48 (eleven years ago) link
that reminds me that i have this art book
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51v9qZ8rm8L.jpg
― johnny crunch, Friday, 29 March 2013 13:52 (eleven years ago) link
nice, any good?
― 乒乓, Friday, 29 March 2013 13:58 (eleven years ago) link
p cool i guess, its exactly what youd expect but well done
― johnny crunch, Friday, 29 March 2013 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
Ok, I have finally seen this. The hype outweighed the movie itself by a pretty wide margin -- this was not particularly sensational in content unless you live under some kind of blandness dome.
I thought it was sign-o-the-times noteworthy that Faith/SG (the only character whose name I can remember, outside of Alien) kept going on and on about how beautiful and magical and spiritual and transcendental she felt spring break was, how she had found true enlightenment in this paradise of good wonderful kind generous people...who, when you looked at them, were constantly flipping off the camera while literally having alcohol funneled into their naked bodies both before and after playing with guns. Not that the latter was surprising at all (except for the fixation on guns, not sure what that was about), but the stuff about how ~magical twinkle star soft grunge love people~ everything seemed very zeitgeisty.
For better or worse, the twins were classic Korine. The Britney montages and gun blowing were memorable. Vanessa Hudgens was my favorite character because I could see in her eyes when she was lying to her parental figure on the phone that she really dngaf.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 29 March 2013 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
She was the Telly of this movie, I guess?
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 29 March 2013 14:28 (eleven years ago) link
this was not particularly sensational in content unless you live under some kind of blandness dome
<3
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Friday, 29 March 2013 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
I still think that the movie is some good intentional/unintentional trolling of kids who think they're going to get a dumb teen/heist film and end up with Korine-lite instead.
The kids behind us at the theater who kept grumbling, especially the guy who exclaimed, "That was the dumbest movie I've ever seen!" are probably evidence of success.
― ☠ ☃ ☠ (mh), Friday, 29 March 2013 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
oh i think that's undeniable given the casting
― staten island on my pinky, queens on my (some dude), Friday, 29 March 2013 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
hobes: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/mar/29/girls-gone-wild
― Mordy, Friday, 29 March 2013 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
Opening with an Ed Hardy Christian t-shirt was great.
― munching of foods in my ears etc etc (Eazy), Saturday, 30 March 2013 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
question: how does this compare to the cheerleader bank robber movie "Sugar and Spice."
― ryan, Saturday, 30 March 2013 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
haha i was just talking to someone on twitter the other day about how much i love that movie and don't think i could enjoy Spring Breakers as much
― rocker, edgy, tight, bad boy, hip, stylish, flamboyant, unafraid (some dude), Saturday, 30 March 2013 22:00 (eleven years ago) link