Spring Breakers

Harmony Korine's film SPRING BREAKERS (2012) is wayyy underrated. Has anyone even seen it? I saw it in theater with my dad four years ago when it came out. Only on second viewing does its significance resonate.This is serious 1990s-2000s zeitgeist material. Read that sentence twice.Funny, disturbing. Sexy, horrifying. Fiction-flashy, hyper-real.Glib MTV product one minute, deep critique of same the next.What's so amazing about many scenes is you can take what's being said literally and feel it and believe it from a teenager/early 20s in 90s point of view, and at same time see it ironically and as absurd from an adult perspective (eg when Faith is reflecting about how spring break epitomizes the beauty and ultimate meaning of life and spirituality -- it's done as satire, but I remember feeling exactly like that in perfect moments on hedonistic vacations with my friends in teens and 20s).Ambiguous and complicated depiction of 90s/2000s hip hop culture and psyche. "Pretend it's a videogame. Imagine you're in a movie or something." And yet entertaining throughout, never seeming pretentious or "arty". It's an action comedy after all, just so dark and satirical and ... something ... that it is so much more.Albert Camus would love this movie. And be horrified by it. 1950s post-war nihilism ain't got nothing on contemporary consumer culture and celebrity worship."Why did this happen? We were just having fun. We didn't do anything wrong. This was supposed to be forever. This can't be the end of the dream."The overvoice narration punctuates themes in a natural, unobtrusive way.The character "Alien" is James Franco's most ambitious role by far. Brave acting. What actor in their right mind would take this role? Should have gotten an Oscar.Great writing. Beautiful cinematography.Franco's exhortations about "All my sh*t! Look at all my sh*t!" -- ie clothes, shoes, colognes, guns, high tech apartment accoutrements -- is pop culture gold.Universities should be holding conferences on this movie.See it.Or see it again.This is art.5 Stars.

Harmony Korine made something very unique and special. A movie with an underlying sub context of the drug underworld that somehow got mixed up with young and pretty college girls. The movie plays as if it is a drug trip, so I recommend being high while you watch it. Real life rapper dangeruss, the local St. Pete rapper is among this cast of depraved drug lords like Gucci Mane and Franco's character Al (Alien). The movie doesn't get into depth about the situations these drug criminals are in, or any history, but some of the scenes like the one with Franco and the girls singing Britney Spears is really trippy. (youtube search Spring Breakers Britney Spears)All in all, it's worth adding this to the collection, cause it has some awesome parts.Also checkout Dangeruss on youtube for an inside look at the world of South Saint Petersburg crack life.

Lot of T&A, mostly T. And astonishingly, the film managed to make that dull, repetitive, and ultimately boring. I suppose that is an achievement. That it was all largely irrelevant was also, I guess, a victory of sorts. Not much in the way of scripting. Dialogue - what little there was of it -was largely pre-pubescent and cringe-worthy. Lots of mindless, and again repetitive, drunkenness and stoned non-action, just ongoing sloppiness and dumbness. The camerawork is just a mess.And nothing, absolutely nothing of consequence - except that you couldn't believe any of these alleged students was bright enough or could have stayed sober or straight long enough to have survived more than a semester or two or at school before flunking out - happened in the first 20 minutes or so.I couldn't bear it any longer, so didn't stay around to whatever point the action might genuinely begin. Nor did I think that whenever it might, it would be handled in any way better than those first 20 minutes or so.And no, some previous reviewers to the contrary, there wasn't any subtle subtext here, or clever, insightful social commentary. Just a kind of mess.

I really did not want to like this movie. I didn't even want to watch it, but people kept recommending it and insisting that it was surprisingly deep. Once you get past the overall corny I'm-so-sexy-horny-and-bad attitudes of the main characters and all the bouncing titties and party derps everywhere scenes, there is a message. I wouldn't call this a deep movie, but it conveys what it's trying to say in a unique and interesting way. Don't take it too literally, it's not a typical over-sexualized teen movie (though I'm sure 13 year old boys everywhere will manage to love this movie without ever grasping any true meaning from it). It's meant to be a satire on young american values and what our society considers normal or prized. There's maybe one or two scenes that will really stick in your mind afterwards. I wouldn't watch it again, but it wasn't a total waste of time.

I read the screenplay before watching, wanting to see the difference for a movie I knew nothing about. The screenplay isn't half bad. There are a LOT of montages, but there is also characterization, if not character development. The scriptwriter also made the movie. So why was the screenplay butchered into this train wreck of montages, flashbacks, flash-forwards, and voice overs? If you're curious, just read the script online. That will give you a better appreciation of the story than this debacle. The only thing I got out of this is that Gomez has been grossly underutilized as an actress. This movie is a war crime: An okay-to-good script, fantastic talent, and the director whizzed it down his leg. Such a shame.

I watched this because it includes the ATL Twins as drug dealers. Otherwise "Four little girls they came out to play" didn't promise much but how wrong can you be? This is a journey into the dark side of the American Dream. An impressionistic mix of film types, saturated colours, realistic, dreamlike, poetic, cutting back and forth, looping, using voice over, and with a stunning soundtrack. The girls' spring break from reality is an opportunity to find themselves but when their partying ends with arrests for drug use and no money left to pay the fines hustler and rapper Alien bails them out. He encourages them: "Let's cause some trouble now, live life to the fullest". Faith returns home as everything becomes "too weird". Cotty is wounded and does the same leaving "bad bitches" Candy and Brit who goad "scaredy-pants" Alien to kill his enemy Archie. The result is a neon lit finale with Candy and Brit wearing bright yellow bikinis with pink balaclavas and wielding machine pistols. "Spring break forever, spring break forever bitches".

I love this movie. My friends don't, but I do, and by now I've seen it 12 times. I never get tired of it, because it's always an experience. The soundtracks, the filters, the hypnotic and dreamy nature of the lines delivered multiple times, draws me in and makes me feel like I'm there. And there's always something new to discover. A reference, more symbolism... I mean I still haven't figured out the meaning of the gunshots. This movie isn't for everyone, but it's for me. And the service was as good as I had expected, but that's because amazon is always great;D So five stars from here:)

Don't get why people hate on this film. As soon as I saw the trailer on TV when it was it theatres I knew it had to be good. Unfortunately didn't see it then as I was 17. Fast forward 3/4 years later I regret not seeing it sooner.The cast is superb especially James Franco, who takes a break from starring in s***ty stoner films to give a performance that I can see in time will be the role which will define his career the same way Travis Bickle defined Robert De Niro's.And it's not just the cast that is perfection, the music, the cinematography, the acting all deserve a round of applause.

Great fun and some gorgeous girls involved in holding up stores. There's a darker side to this but I really enjoyed it. Glamorous and fun.

Pretty good film, Very seedy little world that these girls come across, but they are more than up for the challenge. If this sort of thing happens on a regular basis - then look out! Great performance from James Franco - very versatile actor.