Escape to the Movies: Spring Breakers

[Dangit2019]

Wow, 2 hours in and there are already over 60 comments? I bet they're about confusion regarding what makes this movie so special that Bob and other critics find it at least intriguing; I guess it has to be seen to be believed.

*checks comments* Really, guys? A large fraction of you care about the reference of MLP:FIM in this? Hasn't the fandom sorta died down?

Actually, if google trends means anything(it's not exactly a census), it's only gotten more popular.

 

[Dangit2019]

Btw, I'm loving everyone here who are furious that any movie would include a cartoon show they don't like instead of, you know, judging it on what it is actually focusing on. I mean, really guys? From what I've read, there's just shots of them watching the show in the background of some scenes. That's it. Fucking calm yourselves.

 

[lostlevel]

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

I would agree, I spent a lot of time watching (and enjoying some of) the films of the previous generations although I'm technically Y generation, as I a child of the early 90s. Also I suppose there is an established stereotype or idea of the sort of spring break perpetuated in media that means although I'm from England and we don't have quite the same thing I understand to an extent where I can still watch the movie without detailed exposition. However if movie bob lived this kind of life I would be curious to know more.

Worse case scenario you see a movie you don't enjoy all that much but it can't be any worse than Timecop =]

 

[Loop Stricken]

Oh fuck, there are poines in it? I don't want them fucking everywhere.

Somehow I don't think they're going to be an integral part of the film.

The fact that you mentioned there is an MLP reference in this film made me drop this off my list faster than rancid badger vomit containing swine flu, mad cow disease, H5N1, TB and the ebola virus.

So in short, this might be a good movie, but no thanks.

I don't like smoking, but you don't see me Zero Dark Thirty any film that shows it.

 

[Screamarie]

Yeaaahhhh...I...know what trash humpers is about...I've learned a little about Harmony Korine too...no. I don't trust Harmony Korine behind a camera and I don't see how any movie company can trust Korine with their money.

I don't know, haven't seen the movie, Harmony could have grown up a bit, but from all I know of the man he's pretenious idiot with his own head up his ass. So I simply can't see the value in his work.

 

[tarnim80]

I feel like there should have been some sort of spoiler warning in this review at some point

 

[Loop Stricken]

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.

As an '85 Sarcastic Brony... what the hell am I?!
Label me! Dear God someone label me!

 

[Tanis]

Well, it's not a surprise Movie Bob did find also "Suckerpunch" to be a "great" movie.... So desperately trying to find any substance when there is none, it's reeaally pathetic.

Sorry Bob, but that sounds pretentious as FUCK. And this wouldn't be the first time you went nuts over a movie that turned out to be a near miss for me. Sometimes you kind of....ignore a film's problems if you really like the idea they were GOING FOR, even if they didn't quite pull it off. (Sucker Punch, Daybreakers, and Splice, for example.) I have a pretty strong feeling that this is one of those.
Oh, and obligatory "In my opinion" statement. Although the fact that everything I just said is my opinion should really just be assumed.

Like all those reviewers praising "Spec Ops: The Line" for its story.
After all, it's really just a mediocre 3rd person shooter where the evil American Empire strikes again against brown people.

Nope. Nothing deeper than that.

 

[Rad Party God]

I don't think the ponies are there for a shameless cash-grab, maybe they are, but as Bob describes the movie, maybe one of the girls has something pony related in her belongings, you know, because it originally was intended to be a girls cartoon* and somehow I think it represents their sudden maturity from ponies to, well, reality itself.

[small]*brony here, don't get mad at me.[/small]

 

[kickyourass]

I have never had the words 'there are ponies in it' invoke a legitimate feeling of dread before, now I just gotta see this thing.

 

[l3o2828]

I don't care if the film speaks about my or the generation that's next. I hate both because they are insubstancial as fuck, so even as deeply meningful as the film might try to be i'm going to hate it for it's message that is nowhere near directed at me and that the target audience will ignore and the subject matter who i also have interest about.

I might see it, but i will avoid it as much as i can.

 

[ThePuzzldPirate]

Wow, 2 hours in and there are already over 60 comments? I bet they're about confusion regarding what makes this movie so special that Bob and other critics find it at least intriguing; I guess it has to be seen to be believed.

*checks comments* Really, guys? A large fraction of you care about the reference of MLP:FIM in this? Hasn't the fandom sorta died down?

Died down? Not really, In between seasons 3 and 4. Waiting it out and making content/doing charities like we always have. Just less vocal minorities fighting it out with half-ass opinions and poorly written/voiced words as it should be. Even if it helped with the fan base's growth, it is not something to be proud to look back too...for both sides.

 

[Clankenbeard]

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.

Leslee! I thought I might be the oldest person here at The Escapist at age 44. I thought I was definitely the oldest Texan that still actively games and produces dopey humorous game-related content for the internet. Now all I have is my appreciation for Napoleon Dynamite. Way to kill my dreams.

 

[Ishal]

Wow, 2 hours in and there are already over 60 comments? I bet they're about confusion regarding what makes this movie so special that Bob and other critics find it at least intriguing; I guess it has to be seen to be believed.

*checks comments* Really, guys? A large fraction of you care about the reference of MLP:FIM in this? Hasn't the fandom sorta died down?

I don't like to keep tabs on what the majority of the fandom does, as I don't really care. I can only answer for myself, this movie about dudebro spring break debauchery is the last place I'd expect to find anything having to do with MLP, thus I am intrigued. It just added one more reason to maybe check out the movie, and I always like watching these things to see what exactly may be there to make it "deep".

 

[Robot Number V]

Well, it's not a surprise Movie Bob did find also "Suckerpunch" to be a "great" movie.... So desperately trying to find any substance when there is none, it's reeaally pathetic.

Sorry Bob, but that sounds pretentious as FUCK. And this wouldn't be the first time you went nuts over a movie that turned out to be a near miss for me. Sometimes you kind of....ignore a film's problems if you really like the idea they were GOING FOR, even if they didn't quite pull it off. (Sucker Punch, Daybreakers, and Splice, for example.) I have a pretty strong feeling that this is one of those.
Oh, and obligatory "In my opinion" statement. Although the fact that everything I just said is my opinion should really just be assumed.

Like all those reviewers praising "Spec Ops: The Line" for its story.
After all, it's really just a mediocre 3rd person shooter where the evil American Empire strikes again against brown people.

Nope. Nothing deeper than that.

Well actually, I think Spec OPs had some pretty serious problems as well, but that's a different discussion. Look, I saw Sucker Punch. I thought it did a lot of things surprisingly well, and I thought it had a lot of problems. I also think it didn't quite succeed in what it set out to do (according to Bob, anyway). Just because a movie (or game or what have you) is deeper then it first appears, that doesn't somehow make it impervious to criticism. Obviously a lot of people saw Sucker Punch, totally the missed the point, and passed it off as a shallow, teenage boy-pandering action-porno. But I got the point, and I still think it had some pretty serious problems. In short, "You just didn't get it" is NOT a valid response to any criticism leveled at the movie. Or game, as the case may be. Hell, even Bob said as much in his Sucker Punch analysis.

 

[snowfi6916]

Your review was linked on Equestria Daily for the Spring Breakers pony reference Bob.

You guys might want to prepare for a few more of us than usual. You've been warned =P.

http://www.equestriadaily.com/2013/03/ponies-invade-painkillers-ad-spring.html

 

[omegawyrm]

Well, it's not a surprise Movie Bob did find also "Suckerpunch" to be a "great" movie.... So desperately trying to find any substance when there is none, it's reeaally pathetic.

Sorry Bob, but that sounds pretentious as FUCK. And this wouldn't be the first time you went nuts over a movie that turned out to be a near miss for me. Sometimes you kind of....ignore a film's problems if you really like the idea they were GOING FOR, even if they didn't quite pull it off. (Sucker Punch, Daybreakers, and Splice, for example.) I have a pretty strong feeling that this is one of those.
Oh, and obligatory "In my opinion" statement. Although the fact that everything I just said is my opinion should really just be assumed.

Like all those reviewers praising "Spec Ops: The Line" for its story.
After all, it's really just a mediocre 3rd person shooter where the evil American Empire strikes again against brown people.

Nope. Nothing deeper than that.

Guys, guys

I have a crazy theory.

What if...

movies and games....

are about things?

 

[thisbymaster]

There is just something about this that screams don't go to me. All the deep ideas the Bob goes on about I just don't see in the trailers or even his description. I was born in 84, I had no teenage years, no spring break and little time before getting a job and an adult life. Nothing about the pretty/rich people interest me in the smallest way.