SPRING BREAKERS (2013) GUCCI MANE, SELENA GOMEZ & JAMES FRANCO (as Riff Raff?) DIR. BY HARMONY KORINE

haha thank you that quiets the cognitive dissonance i was experiencing.

jeff jarrett as the youth pastor = MEGA lols

yeah that was great -- his sermon gave me so many lols

jeff jarrett was perfect

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

imagine trecartin watered down abt 98% and youre close

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that reminds me that i have this art book

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nice, any good?

p cool i guess, its exactly what youd expect but well done

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.

She was the Telly of this movie, I guess?

this was not particularly sensational in content unless you live under some kind of blandness dome

<3

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.

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.

oh i think that's undeniable given the casting

hobes: http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2013/mar/29/girls-gone-wild

Opening with an Ed Hardy Christian t-shirt was great.

question: how does this compare to the cheerleader bank robber movie "Sugar and Spice."

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

i've heard this described as the white 'set it off' but i've never seen set it off

this was great!

Dunno yet if it's great but it's the Korine film.

*the best

ha, prob didn't need the amendment.

no direct korine connection (i think) but how's it compare to bully?

I've never been to Florida but love this, Magic Mike, and Miami Vice about equally.

i really enjoyed this but i thought the first half was better than the last half, which needed someone better than gucci mane imo

Saw this today; my wife and I were the only people in the theater. I loved it. The student has surpassed the teacher - Larry Clark hasn't made anything 1/8 this awesome since Bully. Just about every element - the music, the photography, the performances (Hudgens in particular) - was perfect. Could have done with a little less repetitive looping of the dialogue, especially in the run-up to the climactic raid on Gucci Mane's compound, but overall it was extremely tight in its drifty way, and it looked phenomenal.

will be really sad if this doesn't come to the theatre here. but somehow i doubt it will. its playing in normal movie places, right? not just arty places.

yep, normal places

so many confused teenage girls last night

its playing in normal movie places, right? not just arty places.

Yep, I saw it at my local 12plex. Trailers for the new Marky Mark/The Rock movie (which looks fucking awesome), Iron Man 3, etc.

yeah the teen audience gave a WHOOP with the opening credits & then stunned silence with the boobs + bong hits, lol. But they warmed up pretty quick

some girls in the bathroom afterwards were like 'ugh it was like a porn, too many boobs'

but then another group were like 'it was cool! there's no way that would ever happen tho'

made at my arthouse spot we just got boring trailers (except for the silence) and of course no PAIN & GAIN or iron man 3

Nelson George ‏@nelsongeorge 1m
'Spring Breakers' is exploitation with art house pretensions. Didn't believe or enjoy James Franco's "white Negro." Nicely edited. But trash

I take it Nelson George is unaware of the existence of Riff Raff, then?

Loved the piano/Britney Spears bit.

Yeah the multiplex crowd I saw with it seemed to find it amusing, especially Franco's "sprang brake" refrain.

Previews at my multiplex for Kick Ass 2, End of the World, etc.

sprannnng breaaaaak

franco's white rapper accent wasnt perfect but he was still awesome. got a lot of mileage out of those fronts. made me wonder if channing tatum could've pulled off Alien. probably not, he's too square, not slimy or weird enough - hes the guy who goes on spring break, he doesnt rob SBers

sprannnng breaaaaak

sprannnng breaaaaak

i loved this. it was a 90-minute montage that a plot kinda flickered through and it was hilarious and boring and haunting. i loved the repeated shots of girls on the bus being carried out of the movie until all that's left are the two girls selena gomez's friend says have demon blood. the others couldn't hack it in the abyss. audience was clearly a mix of high school musical types and film kids and everyone seemed to enjoy it just about exactly the same amount, which was a nice populist thing.

meanwhile the two girls who stay can hack it so well in the abyss they, like, ascend. into empty cinematic invulnerability. last couple shots of lips kissing franco's + girls walking away down gatsbyswag pier were totally eerie.

Pool scene caught me offguard by how hot it was

gatsbyswag pier lol

I still haven't seen it yet. Here's the take of another critic with doubts:

I think that Korine is a talented filmmaker in the way he conjures atmosphere. I think Benoit Debie is one of the most exciting working cinematographers. I am not trying to say that I found nothing here to think about, to be entertained by, even in some ways, to enjoy (I am not going to act like the Britney Spears montage was not grotesque/sublime/something I will Youtube in the future). But I do want to question what people find so subversive or rebellious or “intellectual” about this reductive ogglefest in arthouse’s clothes. I want to ask you to think about what you think radical art looks like to you in 2013, and how (or if!) it is at all different from what mainstream “pop” art looks like to you. Which is a really long-winded way of saying: Meet the art boss. Same as the old boss with the combover and the (“ironic”) Penthouse subscription and the self-satisfied air that everything he’s doing is New and Edgy and Never Been Done Before, ‘cept he knows Werner Herzog so I guess he’s cool.

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film critics are so lame.

they can't just say that they loved the boobage and the swank look of the movie so they make up lame hemming and hawing arguments and say they don't trust harmony. as if anyone has EVER trusted him. i mean he's not to be trusted. who cares. who is trusted? probably someone really lame.

just relax & enjoy the (boob) show

95% of all film critics working today are lame crybaby nags and nobody listens to them and they are the least influential critics on earth. and they can't write. and they have horrible taste. and they are wrong all the time. and they hate fun.