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 Spring Breakers 

What grade would you give this film?
A 50%  50%  [ 8 ]
B 19%  19%  [ 3 ]
C 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
D 19%  19%  [ 3 ]
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 Spring Breakers 
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It goes to pretty ridiculous places but some of them (the scene w/ Everytime in particular) are pretty fascinating. I think one of the weak points of the movie is that every girl besides Gomez was pretty disposable, and the ending w/ Hudgens and Benson doesn't really have the effect it could've had. Franco was a riot. It's a movie that roams towards brilliance and never gets there but I enjoyed myself.


This sums up my feelings very well. I did not expect it to like it nearly as much as I did.


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I think I'm gonna take back my statement of this film never getting towards anything brilliant 'cause the 1-2-3 punch of the 'look at my shit' scene, the gun BJ scene and the Everytime sequence has to be one of my favorite stretch of scenes in a movie this year.


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Well, then it doesn't sum up my feelings as well anymore. :P But I do agree on the Everytime sequence.


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The bedroom scene with the gun is my favorite in the film. It is such a fascinating, tense, and strangely sexy moment: the way the girls flip the power dynamic and reduce him to next to nothing, and then the way it seems to only intensify his interest in them rather than anger him.

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no rape... spring break my ass.

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wut


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^ Not surprising at all - - he seems exactly like what I imagined the guy who wrote Spring Breakers would be like.


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Clearly not the interviewing type.

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His interviews with Letterman are golden. He has a Woody Allen quality. Woody Allen on drugs.

"I wanted to write the Great American Novel... Or a novel... Uh, I just wanted it to be American."

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also, how is it that we never see any of the main girls naked? complete bullshit.


One of them for sure showed her tits. When she was like, "You're never gonna get this pussy."

Anyway, just watched it and holy fuck was it awesome. I absolutely loved the hypnotic, dreamy style. Very cool film. The "Everytime" scene was great. Could be one of my favorite movie scenes of the year.

9/10 (A-)


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Venessa Hudgens was also partially naked in the hot tub scene.

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The Everytime scene is my favorite scene of all times.

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It remains the most interesting movie of the year.

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Overall it's a fantastic film. Some elements are absolutely terrific and right up my alley. Other things; not ideal. The film has amazing music, and it's constant throughout the film. James Franco is sensational as the druggie, whiteboi gangsta...so believeable. The girls are hot, and there's a lot of nudity. The story is a simple one (which is probably why it's only a 90min film) and it's shot very well. The film is giving more credit to its subject than it deserves, but I didn't mind so much because its beautiful cinematography provides such a rich, euphoric experience. I imagine in a cinema, it would flat-out rock.

The first 40 minutes until Franco are in it are good, but it gets better after that point. The first 30 minutes is basically scenes of constant partying. I got a little annoyed that whenever something bad happened, it was deemed ok because, well, you know...SPRING BREAK, WOOOO! Got a bit tiresome. The ending is also a bit unrealistic how 2 girls can take out an army of niggas and come away unscathed. But again, it didn't bother me too much because the scene just takes you with it so much, it wouldn't benefit me to stop and complain about that because the whole ending is so hypnotic and engrossing (as is most of the film). I adored the repetitive voice over dialogue from Franco and the girls. Especially the "spring break" from Franco, which must have been said about 15 times in total, and the phone call home to Mom from Gomez, which was a complete lie. Awesome stuff.

I was a little bit disappointed that despite two of the girls writing messages like "I want penis" and "Springbreak Bitch" and then licking a drawn penis...none of them actually had sex or even gave a blowjob. That would have been awesome to see. Especially from Ashley Benson and Vanessa Hudgens (the two girls that were the hottest and felt mature enough to give a good time). I suppose what's missing is a more important subject matter than just 'some girls need to kill people in order to know that it's wrong and they should really be knuckling down in school instead of wanting to partaaaaaay'.

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Just looked it up and no wonder I loved the music; it's by Cliff Martinez. For me, he's the best film composer out there. The work he did on Drive, Only God Forgives and Spring Breakers is simply fantastic. In this, he works a dreamy score into popular party tracks, and with a sense of Orbital-style beats throughout...so beautiful. Not to mention that he was also a Red Hot Chili Pepper. I love the guy.

I look forward to seeing Contagion more than ever now. And I've been wanting to see Arbitrage and The Company You Keep since they came out too.

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Ashley Benson and Vanessa Hudgens had a three some with Franco's character...

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Wow...that was not a threesome. That was called 'spooning in a swimming pool'.

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Probably the film that most uses "Y'all". I must've heard it about 700 times.

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Ashley Benson is quite the looker.

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Ashley Benson would be great in porn.

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Man Jennifer Lawrence would've been hot in this movie.


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I'd rather fuck James Franco than Jennifer Lawrence.

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I'd rather fuck James Franco than Jennifer Lawrence.

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I'd rather fuck James Franco than Jennifer Lawrence.

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