Escape to the Movies: Spring Breakers

[Monsterfurby]

Wait... what?

' . '

Weeelll then....

Also: Shouldn't that be Generation Z already? Millenials (GenY) didn't grow up with Hannah Montana and stuff. Millenials/Ys are the Sarcastic Brony generation. GenZ is the "raised by Facebook and Disney DVDs" generation.

 

[daibakuha]

Spring Breakers

Disney meets Natural Born Killers in the latest Harmony Korine film.

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I'm part of generation Y [born in 1994] However as a extremely awkward loner I never really got into the whole teenage party thing [in all my life I have only been to one event that could be considered a "party"] and really hated the jock/cheerleaders growing up,so my question to you mister moviebob: Will I still be able to get/understand/like this movie.

You don't have to have lived this life in order to understand the movie. I seriously doubt Bob did, and he understood it just fine.

 

[Robot Number V]

Oh, and obligatory "In my opinion" statement. Although the fact that everything I just said is my opinion should really just be assumed.

I think you're missing the point of the statement. The point of 'in my opinion' is not to inform everyone else that what you're saying isn't gospel truth, it's a device to demonstrate that you're willing to allow others their own points of view. Without qualifiers such as 'in my opinon', 'I find that' etc many people will find you antagonistic, arrogant and closed minded every time you're expressing an opinion they find controvertial.

Well, that's a fucking crazy assumption to make. Saying "I like blue" does not somehow imply that I hate red and anyone who likes red.

 

[knight steel]

Spring Breakers

Disney meets Natural Born Killers in the latest Harmony Korine film.

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I'm part of generation Y [born in 1994] However as a extremely awkward loner I never really got into the whole teenage party thing [in all my life I have only been to one event that could be considered a "party"] and really hated the jock/cheerleaders growing up,so my question to you mister moviebob: Will I still be able to get/understand/like this movie.

You don't have to have lived this life in order to understand the movie. I seriously doubt Bob did, and he understood it just fine.

Hmmm maybe.......but just maybe.....BOB actual did live this type of life O_O

 

[daibakuha]

How can you claim this to be the defining movie a generation you weren't a part of?

Because he doesn't live in a vacuum.

 

[Timmey]

Sounds alright, didn't expect him to rate it so highly, sounds like it will be worth a watch.

 

[marscentral]

I probably won't see this film, it's not my cup of tea, but I'm also really hoping that Man of Steel doesn't suck.

 

[lesterley]

So, is this movie going to make ANY sense to a 46-year-old GenX-er like myself?

Because I'm still trying to understand the appeal of Napoleon Dynamite.

 

[daibakuha]

How can you claim this to be the defining movie a generation you weren't a part of?

Because he doesn't live in a vacuum.

Translation: He's guessing.

That's one, very simple, way of putting it. Another would be to say he's making a cultural observation. One you can't disprove because you haven't seen the movie and you don't have the same background in film he does.

As a side note: it's passive aggressive attacks like these that make me loathe my generation. You wanna say you think he's wrong, just say it.

 

[hentropy]

I have paid attention to this movie since it became a story, and it has been a story, simply because the critics are completely polarized by it. As Bob said in one of the credits of a previous show, critics are split between "utter shite" and "masterpiece". It's hard to say whether the ones panning it are just a bunch of retirees and don't "get" it or whether the people praising it so highly are the ones sort of "falling" for the pretentiousness.

Unlike Sucker Punch and a few of the other not-so-great movies Bob has hailed as masterpieces, this one is at least fresh on the tomatometer. So if that's your only hangup, I'd say go for it. It seems like most of the negative reviews mostly come from a place of "what was the point of that?" which is sort of missing the point if you're looking for a... point.

 

[Daaaah Whoosh]

From the first time I saw this film advertised, it felt a bit strange to me. I couldn't tell if it was just a really stupid idea aimed at the members of my generation that this world could do better without, or the complete opposite. From this review, I must say that I still don't know which one it is, although I kind of want to see it now.

Btw someone said something earlier about Halo 4 being better than the previous Halos, and I have to disagree with that. But that is an argument for another day.

 

[Darklord008]

Well, considering I hate everything involved with the movie (Harmony Korime, the actresses, Franco [although I hate him less after Oz], the soundtrack, and the plot), not even the prospect of ponies could get me into the theater for this one.

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

Wow, this sounds....... Brutally uninteresting.

Seriously. I couldn't care less about "my" generation's nonsense and this just sounds pretentious and annoying.

Also the ponies thing. I was [i/]almost[/i] considering seeing it until you mentioned that.

Well, thanks for keeping me from wasting my money, Bob!

Besides, if I want barely legal porn, I can certainly do better than some artsy James Franco movie...

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

That sure sounds like a fantastic, insightful and subversive movie that i would absolutely hate.

If it's anythink like Bob described it it's probably the exact antithesis of my personal philosophy on life. And there's nothing wrong about it but i wouldn't be able to enjoy it.

 

[Evilpigeon]

Oh, and obligatory "In my opinion" statement. Although the fact that everything I just said is my opinion should really just be assumed.

I think you're missing the point of the statement. The point of 'in my opinion' is not to inform everyone else that what you're saying isn't gospel truth, it's a device to demonstrate that you're willing to allow others their own points of view. Without qualifiers such as 'in my opinon', 'I find that' etc many people will find you antagonistic, arrogant and closed minded every time you're expressing an opinion they find controvertial.

Well, that's a fucking crazy assumption to make. Saying "I like blue" does not somehow imply that I hate red and anyone who likes red.

It's not an assumption, without qualifiers you allow no room in your statement for disagreement. Using your example, it'd be like saying "blue is the best colour". The nobody cares about that is the debate over whether or not blue is in fact the best colour is so insubstantial and petty that nobody cares/ assumes you're aware of that.

Now, someone who read my last sentence and strongly disagrees with me and believes that debating which colour is best is a deep and stimulating use of their time will probably be quite annoyed because I ignored their point of view and stated my own point of view as though it was undeniably true. It doesn't matter that I think their view is rather strange, they are entitled to it and it's very easy to annoy people over petty things that they consider to be important.

For instance, I hate it whenever I see people refusing to acknowledge that others can find meaning in somethign that they themselves don't see. It's a petty thing for me to get annoyed about but it can make me instantly dislike somebody simply because they're expressing their opinion in a way I find arrogant: "I don't see what you see in this, therefore it doesn't exist because I am always right".

Is that a clearer way of explaining the purpose of phrases like "in my opinion" to qualify statements?

 

[Dangit2019]

You sold me even before ponies. Now I just want to pay money to see how they even put that in the context of this movie.

 

[Steve the Pocket]

I kept waiting for Bob to say "Ha ha ha, just kidding; it's a pile of shit" or something.

How did that moment never come? I'm ... still not sure what's going on here.