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[WorldStar]

Harmony Korine delivers once again. This movie is amazing. Visually, the film is shockingly beautiful. Starts off strong as fuck and doesn't let up. It's on Amazon Prime Instant watch, so I highly recommend you check it out if you haven't yet if you have Prime.

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[Aesius]

Love the movie.

Fun fact: I walked past the house they filmed as Alien's house today.

 

[Reckoner]

Definitely one of my 2013 favorites.

 

[dekline]

I liked the boobs and the visuals.

I still haven't seen julien donkey, mr lonely or trash humpers.

 

[gosox333]

God damn the one who isn't pink hair High School Musical or Selena Gomez is so fucking hot.

 

[sn00zer]

Has really low expectations going in and kinda blew me away. Was expecting some teeny bopper summer movie and got something more akin to Drive. Lots of issues in the movie, but a pleasant surprise

 

[kai3345]

this movie is pretty great. i just wish the deal to get riff raff to play riff raff had come through. franco does ok, but the real thing would have made the movie that much more incredible

 

[Charcoal]

Not fantastic, but not horrible either. It just sucks that ol Selena left half way through, but what are ya gonna do.

 

[Manu]

God damn the one who isn't pink hair High School Musical or Selena Gomez is so fucking hot.

Ashley Benson and yes, yes she is.

 

[Lemon Crest]

Spring break

Spriiiinngg breaaak

Spring break forever

 

[dekline]

I'm just now realizing werner herzog is in two harmony korine films.

 

[VARIA]

Even as a work of science fiction the picture fails to be believable or entertaining, but that's just me.

 

[dorkimoe]

easily in the top 1 worst movie i have ever seen in my entire life.

Boring, had no story, stupid. the only good thing about it was the hot girls..and even that couldnt make me force this movie upon someone

 

[Oersted]

Just pretend it's a video game.

 

[PassiveObserver]

This movie is so with it that I am suspicious of anyone who hated it.

 

[Foaloal]

I felt like it was the kind of movie I had to go back and watch a second time to really get, but I didn't care enough to watch it again. Maybe I'm just bad at understanding movie plots though.

 

[_RT_]

Movie gave me the creeps.
Turned it off 30 minutes in.

 

[Bloodrage]

Worst movie ever made. Even as a joke it sounds weird to say the movie was good.

 

[Rembrandt]

Amazing movie. I loved Franco, Korine is a genius and I see why people hate it, but it's so fucking good. Bound to split the audience, though.

 

[Red]

Watching on Amazon Instant right now (didn't know it was on there, thanks OP).

Reminds me of spring break in Panama City Beach while I was still in school. The good ol' days.

I have a love/hate relationship with spring break culture.

I expect the movie will get much weirder as it goes.

 

[Succinct Verbosity]

Somebody needs to post THAT GIF. You know the one.

 

[jaxword]

Movie gave me the creeps.

It's supposed to.

It's a great movie in that it gets across the message: "spring break" culture is actually really creepy and insane and dangerous.

 

[TAJ]

Worst movie ever made. Even as a joke it sounds weird to say the movie was good.

That drive-by was weaker than Big Arch's.

 

[NEOPARADIGM]

Has really low expectations going in and kinda blew me away. Was expecting some teeny bopper summer movie and got something more akin to Drive. Lots of issues in the movie, but a pleasant surprise

yeah definitely. was expecting total garbage and was more like, "hm, not bad." I'm not in a hurry but I'd watch it again for sure.

 

[Dai101]

Somebody needs to post THAT GIF. You know the one.

 

[Guevara]

Incredible movie, so good. Really captures the "not a girl, not yet a woman" paradox of growing up (which is why it's so great that later Britney Spears features so prominently). At times the girls are forceful and violent, but at other times they are very childlike in their innocence.

Even Alien is straddling the adult/child line pretty hard: at times he's basically an eight year old without supervision. (His ridiculous house full of guns and nunchucks; his feud with his only real friend).

It nails a lot of things: Spring Break, that area of Florida, what Florida can be like away from the beaches, "hood rich", the seductive power of breaking the law. Not kidding, really enjoyed it.

 

[l Zealot l]

I don't understand how someone could possibly like this film.
I couldn't get into it. The plot was ridiculous, the characters were essentially nothing but "oh look beeeewbzzzzZzZz". It was just boring in general, what do people see in it?

And that part when spring break is repeated 5735 times in a row really slowly, that was the only highlight because I laughed so hard at how stupid it was.

.5/10

 

[cheststrongwell]

Damn, it's like a Korean mmo in real life.

 

[BLACKLAC]

Came here for this.

 

[NEOPARADIGM]

I don't understand how someone could possibly like this film.
I couldn't get into it. The plot was ridiculous, the characters were essentially nothing but "oh look beeeewbzzzzZzZz". It was just boring in general, what do people see in it?

And that part when spring break is repeated 5735 times in a row really slowly, that was the only highlight because I laughed so hard at how stupid it was.

.5/10

It's definitely kitsch, man. I'm not sure people actually like it in the normal sense one likes, say, Schindler's List or something (I certainly don't). But as kitsch, it's totally watchable and, as you suggest, damn funny in spots. I don't think the lady and I ever agreed on whether it's supposed to be hilarious, but we were laughing the whole way through, more or less. That makes for an enjoyable movie.

 

[ralexand]

Such a shit movie.

 

[GalacticToast]

All of sudden I feel the need to watch this movie.

 

[OrlanisWorks]

-Cut url-

I remember this being brought up in a past thread about this movie. Some good insight.

And I like it.

Edit: apparently movie Bob's blogspot sucks ass when it comes to URLs, so gooogle it.

 

[old]

I went in thinking it would be a cheap disposable comedy. Was pleasantly surprised. Disturbingly dark. Has a beautifully realized artistic exploration of identity and morality.

 

[Lambtron]

It's definitely kitsch, man. I'm not sure people actually like it in the normal sense one likes, say, Schindler's List or something (I certainly don't). But as kitsch, it's totally watchable and, as you suggest, damn funny in spots. I don't think the lady and I ever agreed on whether it's supposed to be hilarious, but we were laughing the whole way through, more or less. That makes for an enjoyable movie.

In all seriousness the only other movie released since 2000 I like as much as Spring Breakers was Mulholland Drive, which is my favorite movie ever. It's a brilliant film. And I don't mean in a kitschy way. I laughed a lot too, but it is a seriously brilliant movie. It's so good.

 

[l Zealot l]

It's definitely kitsch, man. I'm not sure people actually like it in the normal sense one likes, say, Schindler's List or something (I certainly don't). But as kitsch, it's totally watchable and, as you suggest, damn funny in spots. I don't think the lady and I ever agreed on whether it's supposed to be hilarious, but we were laughing the whole way through, more or less. That makes for an enjoyable movie.

That does make more sense, also would explain why I didn't get it. I tried to view it with a funny note , like the girls during their party antics and francos ridiculous "white gangster" character. But it had to many darker undertones for me to find it humorous.
Idk not my sort of thing I guess.

 

[Ultimadrago]

Spriiiiiing Breaaaaaaaaak

I wouldn't go as far as "the worst film ever made." But yeah, the film was not very amusing to me (tits/ass aside, but the best of that stuff is long gone by the first third of the film). That said, it certainly does have an interesting direction visually that I did not expect from the film. However, it didn't feel cohesive with the film in the least. What's left ia a cartoonish film of several girls having the "craziest spring break evar" (with a surprisingly lengthy amount of dull downtime) portrayed in cinematography you'd expect from an indie film festival placer.

I suppose I'd call it "weird" before calling it "horrible", but that's hardly a compliment.

 

[Blablurn]

I didnt like it when I watched it but I started to appreciate it more afterwards. Very strange movie.

 

[Red]

Just finished it. Couldn't have been better.

Exactly what I expected, which was good in this case... didn't let me down, didn't compromise on story or character.

The comments on "tits and ass" really miss the point. This was a scathing movie.

 

[mysocksarepink]

 

[Sectorseven]

I guess I have to be the first one to post this.

 

[mysocksarepink]

I guess I have to be the first one to post this.

I cannot unsee this, thank you.

 

[Rembrandt]

It's definitely kitsch, man. I'm not sure people actually like it in the normal sense one likes, say, Schindler's List or something (I certainly don't). But as kitsch, it's totally watchable and, as you suggest, damn funny in spots. I don't think the lady and I ever agreed on whether it's supposed to be hilarious, but we were laughing the whole way through, more or less. That makes for an enjoyable movie.

It's far from kitsch and I think that's why a lot of people were disappointed. They were expecting something totally different. That Britney Spears montage is GOAT, too.

 

[NEOPARADIGM]

It's far from kitsch

Well I guess we disagree on how good it is then. I'll side with the "it's shit" crowd if we're talking genuine quality. Closer to Point Break or Fast and the Furious than, say, Goodfellas or Snatch (arbitrary comparisons, I know).

 

[PaddyOCanager]

Just watched it based on this thread. Loved it, thanks for the recommendation.

 

[Dennis]

And people recommended Nashville over Florida to me......

 

[Aurongel]

Shprengg braaaaaeeeekkkk...

 

[Red]

And people recommended Nashville over Florida to me......

That's Trash Humpers.

 

[ReturnOfTheRAT]

It got better when

Spoiler

Gomez

exits the movie. Korine made it hyperreal and that in itself is too much for some people.

 

[impact]

And people recommended Nashville over Florida to me......

Have you seen Nashville Wives?