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hammett-esque noir in a high school, starring joseph gordon levitt, lukas haas, richard roundtree, etc...

everything i've heard about it makes it sound great.

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:43 (twenty years ago)

I'm so there. Fantastic trailer.

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:49 (twenty years ago)

http://www.apple.com/trailers/focus_features/brick/trailer/

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:50 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I'm definitely anticipating it. FCF said it was fantastic.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:51 (twenty years ago)

who's this FCF?

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 18:56 (twenty years ago)

David Denby, obviously.

All the reviews online so far make a big deal about how it's noir transferred to high school, like updating genres (or, quite often, 400+ year old material) to a teen/young-adult setting is a new concept.

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 19:01 (twenty years ago)

who's this FCF?

Ask Adam.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 19:02 (twenty years ago)

like updating genres (or, quite often, 400+ year old material) to a teen/young-adult setting is a new concept.

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000089ASU.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― phil d. (Phil D.), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 19:05 (twenty years ago)

Looks like way too overdetermined a concept. Noir is about desperate adults doing nasty things which desperate teenagers can't conceive of.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 20:10 (twenty years ago)

man, you didn't go to my high school

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 20:12 (twenty years ago)

saw the trailer for this a little while ago, yeah the whole high school noir idea appeals.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 20:17 (twenty years ago)

there's a good very long interview w/ director at the official site. (go to 'missing love' then 'about the production')

― tcm, Tuesday, 28 March 2006 20:18 (twenty years ago)

I saw this this evening. It gets a thumbs up from me.

― theantmustdance (theantmustdance), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 20:30 (twenty years ago)

High school kids and movies need discipline.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 20:33 (twenty years ago)

High school kids are better than us.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 20:34 (twenty years ago)

no Larry Clark-style sex, no deal.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

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― gear (gear), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 20:39 (twenty years ago)

That one went over my head.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 20:46 (twenty years ago)

when you're older, maybe

― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 20:47 (twenty years ago)

But then the Larry Clark-style sex won't be so appealing.

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 20:48 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, noir is dead.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 20:50 (twenty years ago)

Except as a fashion template. If this movie is just kids walking around and posing, then I could imagine liking it.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 20:51 (twenty years ago)

a la

http://www.filmdeculte.com/photo/film/elephant/2.jpg

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 20:52 (twenty years ago)

shhh.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 20:52 (twenty years ago)

http://buddy.tgnet.co.kr/bbs/data/media/cartoon_quiet_faggot.jpg

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 20:57 (twenty years ago)

J G-Levitt walking around bruised is a decent start, perhaps.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 21:05 (twenty years ago)

kudos

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 21:08 (twenty years ago)

Do Joseph Gordon Levitt and Lukas Haas make out in the front seat of Haas' car?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 21:44 (twenty years ago)

High school should be the province of snarky horror films; they deserve each other.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 13:53 (twenty years ago)

ooof, worst score ever. So inappropriate and unnecessary to have cheap music played over every scene in the first half (possibly the second, but I might have tuned it out by then).

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 00:27 (twenty years ago)

hey, you arrived

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 00:52 (twenty years ago)

oh sorry, i thought this was the "come anticipate 'Prick' with me!" thread

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 00:52 (twenty years ago)

;-)

― gear (gear), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 00:52 (twenty years ago)

She's a prick and I'm drowning slowly.

― Big Willy and the Twins (miloaukerman), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 00:55 (twenty years ago)

I loved it (score was annoying at times though...). Not an updated noir at all, just a noir. Or more acurately, probably the most literal translation of Hammet/Chandler I've ever seen, so what if they're teenagers in modern day california? Very much Red Harvest/Glass Key, would make a nice double feature with Miller's Crossing, which shares much of it's slang, and quite a bit more. I found the dialogue a bit distracting, though wonderful, while I could handle the teenagers experiance paralleling the Continental Ops, and respect all the modern slang, found it weird to hear everyone talk like a 30s gangster. But everything about it is 100% the books in a way no film noir movie I've ever seen totally is. All those scenes of getting beat up, getting knocked out, waking up disoriented and so on...I like how it was handled here better then Murder, My Sweet.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 11 April 2006 02:47 (twenty years ago)

More Brick talk plz. I thought it was fucking great.

Not an updated noir at all, just a noir.

Exactly. Minimally ironic (which is not to say that it's not capable of being funny, like the scene with the vice principal), very sly, incredible dialogue, and very well-directed. I admired it a whole heck of a lot.

― Gilbert O'Sullivan (kenan), Saturday, 15 April 2006 02:23 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

Dan OTM; about 10 minutes in I thought that this was the closest I'd ever seen anyone do Chandler; because it wasn't iconic actors like Bogart, you really got the dialogue and its rhythms. Fantastic fantastic film.

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 12 May 2006 23:09 (twenty years ago)

This was just kind of a joy to watch.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 12 May 2006 23:43 (twenty years ago)

this is indeed great. the score didn't bother me at all, really.

― gear (gear), Friday, 12 May 2006 23:46 (twenty years ago)

C'MON YOU KNOW THIS MOVIE SUCKS.

― city of gyros (chaki), Saturday, 13 May 2006 04:49 (twenty years ago)

I saw it a couple weeks ago and unsuccessfully tried to start an ILF thread about it (c'mon people, keep ILF going!)

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 14 May 2006 06:52 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, I liked it a lot.. Despite the dialog it didn't feel particularly retro or consciously ironic. Couple of scenes had that "first time director" look, but honestly I'd rather see sometime different that doesn't quite make it versus the some-ol cliche factory.

This year's Donnie Darko?

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 14 May 2006 06:53 (twenty years ago)

And yeah, it seemed like they were trying for a Morriconesque theme for every character but it was so loud that it got on my nerves.

I loved hearing VU in the credits though.

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 14 May 2006 06:54 (twenty years ago)

The other hilarious thing for me was that all of it was filmed in San Clemente (the Inland Empire of OC beach towns) - just a couple towns down PCH from here.

― LOL Thomas (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 14 May 2006 06:55 (twenty years ago)

OH WHAT A CRAPPY MOVIE

― city of gyros (chaki), Sunday, 14 May 2006 20:04 (twenty years ago)

It was very enjoyable, but did anyone else have difficulty actually understanding it? OK I had a hangover that day, but the plot was wildly convoluted and a lot of the plot development was played out in the dialogue, which I found hard to follow at times because of the language, the speed at which they spoke and the sheer volume of dialogue.

― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 14:09 (twenty years ago)

yeah, it was pretty complicated. but that's something that either hampers one's enjoyment or doesn't, and it certainly didn't for me. The sound design especially was excellent, though it was hard to hear some of the dialogue.

― lemin (lemin), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 14:38 (twenty years ago)

I think that's part of the fun, and part of the authenticity. What's the story, about Faulkner calling Raymond Chandler because he's not sure who killed the chauffer in the Big Sleep an Chandler not being sure himself?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 14:53 (twenty years ago)

going to see this in 35 mins

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 23 May 2006 14:55 (twenty years ago)

Yes, Lemin and Dan, I didn't let the plot machinations get too much in the way of my enjoyment. I was merely making the observation that I found myself actually straining to understand at times. Talking of which, there were times when I actually couldn't hear. Was this a deliberate ploy by the director?

As I say, there was lots to savour. Like the camera - still a lot of the time, but jump-cutting when the detective (whose name, actor or character, I've clean forgotten) was starting to feel the effects of losing blood.

― Daniel Giraffe (Daniel Giraffe), Wednesday, 24 May 2006 06:26 (twenty years ago)

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don't remember a thing about it

― akm, Monday, 10 August 2009 20:43 (sixteen years ago)

definitely more skeptical about recommendations from whomever it was that said this was a really great, innovative movie (not an ILXor). It wasn't awful, but it wasn't great.

― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Monday, 10 August 2009 20:44 (sixteen years ago)

Loved this in the cinema, thoroughly enjoyed it on DVD. Will watch again. The scene that clinched it for me was the one halfway in when JGL faces off with the headmaster - can't remember exactly what it was, but have a feeling that one line in that exchange made me totally fall into this film's world.

― Sickamous (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 10 August 2009 20:45 (sixteen years ago)

i liked it a lot as an exercize -- trying to pull off something a little silly and difficult, that's not a bad thing at all. but i think the big problem was the "noir" plot wasn't that interesting. oh, the girl did it? wow, didn't see that coming.

― Baitullah Sumdud (goole), Monday, 10 August 2009 20:49 (sixteen years ago)

yeah, it definitely conjured up images of youth theater with kids wearing fedoras and trenchcoats that didn't quite fit.

― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Monday, 10 August 2009 20:52 (sixteen years ago)

Made it about 30 minutes in before I was tired of the shtick and hit eject; vaguely interesting concept hung on a weak coat rack of a story.

― EZ Snappin, Monday, 10 August 2009 21:03 (sixteen years ago)

yeah, it definitely conjured up images of youth theater with kids wearing fedoras and trenchcoats that didn't quite fit

but that's kinda awesome!

― thomp, Monday, 10 August 2009 21:15 (sixteen years ago)

i keep expecting the revive on this thread to be about the brothers bloom and then get annoyed when it's all ppl explaining how clever they are for not liking it tbh

― thomp, Monday, 10 August 2009 21:16 (sixteen years ago)

brothers bloom sucked too

― o comely wite kidz f8 has it in for u (Lamp), Monday, 10 August 2009 21:18 (sixteen years ago)

was Ornaldo Bloomps in it

― Obama Death Panel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 10 August 2009 21:19 (sixteen years ago)

^^ off topic here, but that guy just does not make a credible blacksmith.

― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Monday, 10 August 2009 21:21 (sixteen years ago)

yeah, it definitely conjured up images of youth theater with kids wearing fedoras and trenchcoats that didn't quite fit

but that's kinda awesome!

Only in Bugsy Malone (which, by the way, was much better than the part of this I was able to get through).

― EZ Snappin, Monday, 10 August 2009 21:22 (sixteen years ago)

i think i said this upthread but i'm a sucker for hammett ripoff dialogue no matter the context. it's just mega mega fun to me.

― BIG HOOS's wacky crack variety hour (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 10 August 2009 21:22 (sixteen years ago)

bugsy malone is deeply unsettling

― Baitullah Sumdud (goole), Monday, 10 August 2009 21:23 (sixteen years ago)

Johnny Dangerously is seriously unsettling.

― EZ Snappin, Monday, 10 August 2009 21:26 (sixteen years ago)

Bugsy Malone shits all over this movie from a great height

― Obama Death Panel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 10 August 2009 21:31 (sixteen years ago)

diffr'nt movies doin diffr'nt things. would rather watch this at least twice as often.

― ledge, Monday, 10 August 2009 21:40 (sixteen years ago)

Shakey Mo channeling Alex In NYC speaking truth to power.

― EZ Snappin, Monday, 10 August 2009 21:48 (sixteen years ago)

love this movie. hate brothers bloom.

― Simon H., Monday, 10 August 2009 22:57 (sixteen years ago)

oh there is a brothers bloom thread i didn't remember

I may be the only person anticipating The Brothers Bloom

― thomp, Monday, 10 August 2009 23:21 (sixteen years ago)

thought the way cars were shot in this was really awesome jsyk the bit where the cigarette gets thrown is kinda scary even though you don't know why yet and also the face off in the car park is top five. kinda like how the pin's mom was the oblivious edie falco character, a lot of really nice little stylish shots too, the bit where the football player puts on his jacket is okay. full of eye candy too if you know what i'm saying i think you do you dog you

― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:30 (sixteen years ago)

two cents on bugsy is that its highly disturbing how hot they try to make jodie foster in it and also how freakishly adult like she is in it, sortof condoning pedo impulses implicitly

― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:34 (sixteen years ago)

have you heard of this movie Taxi Driver

― Obama Death Panel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:40 (sixteen years ago)

saw a friend in a production of bugsy malone as an actual child, have trouble mentally overwriting this with film version

kind of wanting to rewatch brick now

― thomp, Monday, 10 August 2009 23:42 (sixteen years ago)

jodie foster plays a precocious 13 yr old whose taxi driver father suffers a heart attack and can't continue to work, so she takes over his taxi business in his stead.

― omar little, Monday, 10 August 2009 23:42 (sixteen years ago)

prequel to Herbie Goes Bananas...

― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:45 (sixteen years ago)

some interesting stuff here about Jodie and her role: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgzGqO07yzI&feature=related

― Obama Death Panel (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:45 (sixteen years ago)

r u sure? iirc her and her father mysteriously swap places and he is a taxi driver and she is a teenage hooker lolz include her bad driving skills and his zany attempts at turning tricks

― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:45 (sixteen years ago)

... with Danny Devito as the manager of the cab company.

― free jazz and mumia (sarahel), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:46 (sixteen years ago)

do not even slightly believe that scott baiou and the fost were making out

― ❊❁❄❆❇❃✴❈plaxico❈✴❃❇❆❄❁❊ (I know, right?), Monday, 10 August 2009 23:50 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

hey Dr. Morbius quick question: do you hate Joseph Gordon-Levitt?

― ellj versus deej (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 6 February 2011 21:50 (fifteen years ago)

(purely out of curiosity)

― ellj versus deej (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 6 February 2011 21:50 (fifteen years ago)

its cool how clicking on this thread gives me a malware warning - prob a commentary on the film if u think about it

― My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 6 February 2011 21:55 (fifteen years ago)

get rid of Google Chrome

― ellj versus deej (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 6 February 2011 22:01 (fifteen years ago)

why, chrome owns

― My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 6 February 2011 22:01 (fifteen years ago)

right on

― ellj versus deej (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 6 February 2011 22:04 (fifteen years ago)

I don't understand... you'rs edning mixed mesagges Drugs A. Money...

― My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 6 February 2011 22:08 (fifteen years ago)

when I opened this thread in chrome I got the malware warning, but I now have it open in Opera and it's working fine for me...

so that's why I said it. but I also noted that you thought the malware warning was a little bit cool & lolworthy, so I figure if you dig Chrome, and you think the mware warning is symbolically appropriate, then have at it.

― ellj versus deej (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 6 February 2011 22:17 (fifteen years ago)

oh word son

― My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Princess TamTam), Sunday, 6 February 2011 22:23 (fifteen years ago)

― ellj versus deej (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 6 February 2011 22:26 (fifteen years ago)

five months pass...

really love the scene with the assistant principal, underlines the absurdity of the whole enterprise of a high school noir while also making it work completely

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 23 July 2011 16:23 (fourteen years ago)

six years pass...

love how when direct language is used in this it cuts through the coded world we're presented with. like the scene with Laura where JGL says he needs her. a lifting the veil moment

― Week of Wonders (Ross), Monday, 18 September 2017 22:51 (eight years ago)

hey Dr. Morbius quick question: do you hate Joseph Gordon-Levitt?

― ellj versus deej (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, February 6, 2011

I would do all kinda sexy things to him, mostly bcuz i stopped watching his godawful movies like this one and that Nolan dreck w/ Leo

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 02:07 (eight years ago)

Likewise. Sigh.

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 02:34 (eight years ago)

two years pass...

First watch in years, still love this thing.

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 01:21 (six years ago)

Still one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 1 January 2020 01:32 (six years ago)

Lol at that 1-2

― looking for Mon in Alderaan places (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 01:32 (six years ago)

Happy new year shakey

― Swilling Ambergris, Esq. (silby), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 01:33 (six years ago)

its magic imo

― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 01:37 (six years ago)

You knowwwww

― looking for Mon in Alderaan places (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 January 2020 01:38 (six years ago)

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