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

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SPRING braaaAAAaaAAaaAAEEaaAAaeeaAAkkkkkkk

v corny movie.

you're a corny movie

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my people call it maize

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Irvine Welsh + Jonas Akerlund ... holy.

what a world

kinda bummed Welsh is making a movie of his worst book

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kinda bummed Welsh is making a movie of his worst book

― stadow shevens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, May 6, 2014 6:19 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

have you read anything he's written since? Cos let me tell ya

yeaaaahh i dunno about this

Cos let me tell ya

I liked Glue and Porno but that's where I stopped.

oh I thought you were referring to the movie of Porno

wait, is there another one? I was referring to "Filth".

man i thought that url meant gaspar noe and paul verhoeven were co-directing the sequel to spring breakers. instead it was the guy who made spun.

well Porno is supposed to be happening

Filth has been and gone. It's really awful unsurprisingly

its coming out in the US at the end of this month

I saw this recently. It was bad. I laughed at the faux-seriousness-in-a-jokey-way-criticism of 'popular culture' scapegoat/as an excuse to not dive deeper. They barely scratched the surface.

the movie was a big old surface, no scratching needed

I hate this guy after Interior. Leather Bar.

Not the Irvine Welsh thread, but no way is Crime worse than Skagboys.

Pushing this further off-topic, I actually thought Skagboys wasn't as terrible as it could've been given the prequel context. Of course I haven't read anything else since Porno put me right off him.

Bedroom Secrets: this is Welsh by numbers. A cool drug taking alkie (not unlike Ray Lennox is at the start of Filth) and a stereotypical fat spotty geek are linked in a Dorian Gray way. Bits of it are really REALLY shite, but as ever bits of it are really well observed. The geeky guy is obsessed Harvest Moon but way too accurately for a casual observer to pick up. It's a lengthy version of the relationship between Lennox and Cliff Blades in Filth I suppose. The search for the father feels rehashed too, although I can't think where from. Maybe bits of it are Juice Terry in Glue, he had a weird Father Complex.

Crime: A pretty slight story padded out, but half-decent nonetheless. Part of it smacks of "I've just moved to America" (which he had) and sexual abuse as a child leading to adult issues show their face again (like in Marabou Stork Nightmares, to name but one), but the plot is pretty believable up to the final act. The weakest thing about it is that it's clearly supposed to be a redemption piece for Ray Lennox, and I didn't think he needed one.

If You Liked School: the pieces are short enough not to get boring, but it's another tirade of stereotyped grotesques in search of a plot which they don't always get. The Korean chef one is particularly tired if memory serves correct.

Reheated Cabbage: Pretty successful in that it's reprints of old, rare stuff from before these ideas just became recyclable tropes for Welsh. Except the Miami novella, which is new. And shite.

Skagboys: I could have loved this at 100 pages. Instead it's repetitive and unenlightening; on the skag, off it, on it, off it. Rinse, repeat. Exploit a girl, dump her, exploit a girl, dump her. The Renton in love section could have been great but as a prequel it's doomed to failure before it starts and knowing that takes away the joy of reading it. Best bit was working on the ship I thought.

man I had no idea he had churned out so many since Porno, I just lost track I guess

I put them in "let me know when this is under £1" on CamelCamelCamel so I can be sure I'll get my money's worth no matter how awful.

Franco was so bad in this. Leave it in the improv class dude.

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what, you didn't like all his shit?

this movie was great

Trash Humpers is on Mubi, so I thought I'd check it out. But it seems like the worst film ever, people in silly masks doing sub-jackass stuff while shrieking for ten minutes. So I bailed. Does it get better?

I didn't see that one. But Korine will always have a special place in my heart because of Gummo and Julien Donkey Boy and, to a lesser extent, this one

I love Trash Humpers. It doesn't get better though... you get better.

This movie was a complete waste of time. Nice to hear that Verhoeven might possibly get a film off the ground in the near future, tho.

spring break... forever

this is one of those things where I just marvel that it was made. It was v consistent with Korine's other films - more about impressionistic images than plot, naturalistic performances that verge on grotesque - that someone thought they could make a blockbuster out of anything he does AND get him to cast A-listers, especially in the current film industry climate, is a minor miracle. Would that studios took more crazy gambles on ridiculous ventures like this. I don't know if I need to see it again or anything, but it achieved its aims afaict, a dreamy, dayglo teen girl fantasy of "being bad"

The high school/early college kids behind us at the theater being annoyed at the film became more hilarious with every exclamation

LOL Shakey are u serious?

what do u think

Like there is absolutely nothing challenging or outside of Hollywood about this movie, a few vastly overrated montages aside.

James Franco and Selena Gomez starring in a movie about rebellious kids? A movie that glorifies violence, sex, and money, often at the cost of it's own coherence? What a crazy gamble!

Good thing they hired a no-name musician like Skrillex to do the soundtrack, hopefully he will get some attention from this. This dubstep thing might catch on.

idk maybe you watch different Hollywood movies then I do but this resembles no typical major studio fare that I know of, either formally or visually. oh sure, the PREMISE seems like its garden variety mainstream fodder, but the delivery and execution are what counts, and this seems like one of those scenarios where studio execs greenlighted it strictly on the pitch of "Franco/Gomez Spring Break Crime Spree" w/out having ever watched anything Korine has ever made.

xp

I have no idea how the actual mechanics of the financing/production/distro of this got done but Harmony Korine's ouevre and style does not exactly have MAINSTREAM BLOCKBUSTER written all over it, it's hard to imagine his style having any appeal whatsoever to the movie's ostensible demographic (teenagers) cf mh's post

shakey otm

Right. This is a Malick movie with venereal disease.

It's amazing to consider if you watch Trash Humpers. But taken apart from the rest of his films, this movie in particular seems like the easiest sell of a lifetime.

Like, he probably didn't walk into an office with a copy of "Trash Humpers" on VHS, he probably came in with a photo similar to the one on the top of the thread and movie exec instantly starts seeing $$$.