Gummo

Rating:
Summary: god awful
Review: I can't believe they didn't print my last review of this. I probably swore in it. Well, it made me that mad, and I only rented it. IF you're considering buying this, I seriously hope you have rented it. I enjoyed Kids, and could not sit through much of this. Just goes to show, Larry Clark was the force behind kids.

Although I have Korine's script, and it's not half bad. I mean, it has a story and the characters are more interesting. However, this movie is only for those who a) want to punish themselves B) want to feel superior because they can force themselves to believe they like garbage.

Rating:
Summary: aw mannnn!
Review: I really loved this movie my brother made it and my mom got to be in it.

However I was really mad because where is that funny green clay dude?

I really wonder where that green clay boy and his little donkey, "Pokey" are, since the movie is named after him. I reccomend you rent "Gumby goes to the mall" instead of this trite bull.

Rating:
Summary: it gets no worse
Review: I can't improve much on what's been said before. But I want to spare you the waste of time of this film.

The rating of this film, in my opinion, reflects a group of people who are blindly lashing out at the garbage that is peddled on us by other sources. However, they have missed the fact that we don't want to replace garbage with bland business such as this. A movie devoid of character and content.

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Summary: THE WORST FILM I HAVE SEEN IN YEARS
Review: I really wish I could give this film less than one star. It was painful, pointless, and brutal without meaning. I could have driven to my local trailer park or watched Fox if I wanted to see this many shiftless hicks. However, on Fox they would get attacked by wild animals or chased by cops. The acting in this film is marginally good, but it is otherwise abysmal. I have really lost all my faith in the American public. Saving Private Ryan got HALF A STAR more than this film. Schindler's List got HALF A STAR more than this film. The English Patient got HALF A STAR *LESS* than this film. Citizen Kane got the SAME NUMBER OF STARS. This ludicrous tripe which seeks to pass itself off as film is not even on par with anything I can think of that has been released in theatres in the last five years. It is boring. The plot wanders without purpose. I have seen disjointed films which are constructed in such a way that the broken sequences have an EFFECT. Kids was an excellent film, but this one does not even come close; it is the cinematic equivalent of being dragged over shards of glass and dipped in iodine. (Kids, by the way, also got four stars, even though it is far superior film to this one. I now believe Nietzsche's assertion that "God is dead.") The film is not unimportant because it concerns itself with the mundane events of daily white trash life; it is unimportant because the treatment of the subjects is tiresome after about three nanoseconds. I am INSULTED by all the reviewers who suggest that those who disliked the film did so because they lack the ability to appreciate art. I beg to differ. I appreciate art. I do not appreciate the sort of art which is made by an artist defecating in a jar and selling it for the market price of gold. (This really happened, but it is actually a lot more innovative then Gummo because it is self-deprecating and forces one to think about what art IS. < I would've given that guy two or three stars.) Documentary? No! Brilliant indie film? No! This is a sad, sad attempt to present senseless brutality and mind-numbing slowness as things worthy of deeper investigation. The only good things I can say for the film (aside from my comment about the acting) are that it has fairly good music and that it makes you feel how boring it is to live in Podunk, Ohio. I believe it was Peter Steele (Type-O Negative fans forgive me if I am wrong) who once warned, "Do not mistake lack of talent for genius." Nothing is more applicable to this movie.

Any Hollywood film with a trite plot, poor acting, and deus ex machina conclusion is preferable to Gummo. It is my opinion that the majority of people who saw this film hated it. They were probably too disgusted to come here and trash it. I could be wrong. Just remember that I warned you and remember Peter Steele

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Summary: This, then?
Review: Is not a gob of spit in the face of mankind, but I do not stand by my statement without wavering. After viewing GUMMO over a hundred different times, and in as many situations and settings, we, appropiately enough, come out with more questions than answers. Riddle me three, but don't riddle me many. How many is too many? When should we say when and why? I was drawn to the film after reading Harold Lewis Mencken's review of the film. In his article, Mencken writes, "Korine evidently has two hearts and no brain, and that's what makes this so unintellectual yet emotional." What Mencken overlooked was the fact that Korine, a son of the both the New Left and Whig Party, had parts of his cerebellum surgically removed to direct this movie more to his liking, a tactic first employed by Franz Schiniss when he directed his apocalyptic thriller "Under the Canopy, Under the Stars," in 1915. Korine, like Schiniss, sided with most ideologies formulated by Frederic Stagg, one of the first elder statesmen to support the revisionist take on cinematic theory. Korine, however, draws tangents from where even the most devout heretics dare not tread. GUMMO was made not to inspire, but to simply exist. It wants to be put back on the shelf of your video library after you're done with it. It is not to be seen in the traditional sense, but what then is traditional? In each subsequent viewing, images conjured up in a boiling pot tend to spill out and stick to surrounding surfaces. They are hard to scrub off, not because they are adhesive but because one is reluctant to scratch at something so delicate in fear of finding beauty under the surface. There is not much beautiful here, just enough to help you realize Korine's main point-Man is free, yet everywhere he is in chains. We, as is man, are free, but we are nevertheless arrested by GUMMO and a man named Harmony.

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Summary: It twisted my soul
Review: Gummo signifies all that is NOT mainstream and all that is, it takes you on a dark journey through the casm's of society and dances you shaking across your fears, all the times youv'e looked at poor white children and Felt better about yourself, because you didn't share thier life and all the things you laughed at in high school when the phrase Gay midget crossed your lips with a curly smile , your mind was stuck in Gummo , and everytime you you feel dirty because your social skills were to run down to maintain upper thought with prospective buyers of your soul you screamed Gummo , stop , pause , Sedate and breathe in gummo,

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Summary: EXCELLENT
Review: Extremely sordid and dirty. Tells of drugs, animal abuse, incest told shockingly in vague images. Not much plot at all but fascinating to watch.

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Summary: If you like this. . . then you need therapy. . . NOT!
Review: You must see this amazing adventure of a town that almost wasn't, but now miracuosly is!!

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Summary: this movie is a masterpeice
Review: to everyone who watches this movie and believes it's pointless: this movie displays harmony korine's veiws on life.. he uses characters and situations to show you what is wrong with the world today through symbolism, it isn't a movie that you can watch without looking past the surface..this movie is more like a peice of art

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Summary: Bored and drunk with your friends? Watch Gummo!
Review: If you want to sit down and watch a "good movie" with a good plot and keeps you enthralled, DO NOT watch Gummo. If you want to watch a cool movie where people are just hanging out and doing nonsense (like 'Kids') then Gummo is one of them. It is definately a party movie where I come from. Something that you just pop in and sit back and laugh with all your drunk(etc.) friends. I don't care do delve into any deep meaning this film has. I'm sure it has it, but I don't enjoy it for that. Selling dead cats to Chinese restaurants, albinos with 'phat' rides, prostituting handicapped people, and gay midgets are some of the gritty scenes in this movie. If you find any of the above funny, you will love Gummo!