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Summary: Bully
Review: This was a fine movie. The characters were realistic and believable. The biggest problem I saw was editing and continuity of the plot. Also, certain character elements were left in precariously ambiguous states throughout the movie. Homosexual overtones existed strongly, yet only "aloof" homosexuality existed, leaving the viewer wondering (1)why the scene is in the movie, or (2)how much it would have shaped the actual characters if the reason for the overtones had been explained. In addition, the relationship between the antagonist (Bobby) and his father was introduced at the wrong time in the plot. Overall I followed the story well, but found myself wondering/wandering about the plot of the movie as it played out in front of me...with little rhyme for so much reason. I recommend seeing this movie for its realistic social impact (based on a true story incidentally).
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Summary: Held under mud for two hours--from the uncompromising ba--rd
Review: If you believe this movie is sensationalistic, think again. Anyone who would like to emulate these kids is brain dead. And if you think teens like this don't exist, harken back to the flower-child days of "hippie love" and drug experimentation, before it was realized how many brain cells could be permanently flambeed. As a worker in a psych center, I've seen too many adolescents make themselves permanently schizophrenic with one bad hit that altered their cerebral wiring. The only difference between the behavior in this movie and the free love movement is that we get to see it, with our faces shoved in the cesspool. It's dirty and grungy, but fascinating to the lurking Id. People who condemn it must walk through urban ghettos with a titanium blindfold. If anything, this movie shows what can happen to bored, apathetic, unmotivated, narcissistic teens from inattentive families. None of these kids had any hobbies. They lay in the sun, have raunchy sex, abuse each other, smoke pot, and add new corpses to the limbo-esque world of the disenfranchised. What a drag. How deadly boring. As I said before, if you want to imitate these delinquents, you must be half in the coffin, nails hovering over the lid.
The director is "interested" in teens and the way they live, but he shows only the amoral, street-smart population. He wields the camera like a voyeur, homing in on sexual dysfunction like a peeping Tom peering through a window. It's accurate, sure, it's disturbing, yes. But the movie could have been shortened with no effect on the plot. Too much sex, too many gyrating naked bodies, too much self-fixation. It's one thing to document something, it's quite another to wallow in it. Believe me, I "got" the point he was trying to make after watching only one orgasmic scene with the hungry teens nearly grinding a hole in the mattress.
Adolescents like this do exist. To want to hang around with them is like taping a razor blade over your jugular every morning. They desperately need help, but does anyone care enough to sacrifice the time? Are they worth it? Only they know.
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Summary: Loved it!
Review: I loved this movie. I saw it twice in Berkeley, California. It was a really intense, movie, disturbing movie in one. Loved everything about it. Can't wait for it on dvd!
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Summary: Please DON'T see this movie
Review: This film is by far the worst movie I have seen all year. The only thing holding me down in my chair during what seemed like years and years in the theatre was the thought that i had paid nearly ten dollars to see it. pornographic camerawork and shoddy production (at one point i could definitely see a boom mike) aside, the characthers and plot of this movie is entirely inconsequential. the stupidity and one dimensional nature of the kids in this movie are never condemned while careful, almost reverent attention is paid to their bodies. the result feels like the director planned to slap the audience in the face with the raw, blank, frustrating animal nature of these teenagers. not entertaining, definitely not thought provoking and revoltingly unsexy, this movie is even too bad to be treated as a joke.
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Summary: IT HAPPENED IN FLORIDA
Review: The shag-haired bow-tied kid at the concession stand in the theatre where I saw "Bully" loved this film, saying he had been to suburban Florida and kids there are capable of murder due to the extreme Summer heat and boredom. Larry Clark's disturbing true life drama of a group of middle class druggie white kids who plot murder against one of their own has that effect on viewers. Like the high school tragedy at Columbine and the similiarly paced murder by young people in the film, "Boys Don't Cry", these things only happen in other neighborhoods. In "Bully", parents muse to their drugged out doom plotting children about week-end happenings and college preparation while the kids stash their pockets with knives and family handguns and announce they are going to a movie. Sounds ironic and amusing like an Oliver Stone "Natural Born Killers" psychedelia but it's played with a deft realism that exposes these killer's intent as a very ordinary response to a frenzied teenage angst as hot as the Florida Sun. This film is uncompromising in it's documentary-like execution, never probing deeper into it's character's motives than the one-dimensional killers one would imagine upon hearing this real life tragedy.
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Summary: Tried too hard to be shocking...
Review: There were times when I liked this movie and it felt real to me. There were other times when I thought, "this acting is really bad" and "this is dragging." I thought that Nick Stahl (the actual bully) was amazing as always, but there were times when i didn't believe the Brad Renfro character and his girlfriend. Too much of the movie spent time talking about killing the guy and not enough time doing it and dealing with it. I don't believe that throwing a lot of sex, drugs, and kinky behavior can take the place of a good story and acting. I recommend that you watch Larry Clark's "Kids" instead, which is so real that I thought it was a documentary rather than fiction.
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Summary: Bully-Stunningly Acurate
Review: I'm no writer, and I posess of-average eloquence, but my need to express my personal impressions of this movie far surpasses my embarassment to write a review. "Bully" was an amazing film. For those who believe Clark was doing the film for shock value are confusing the sex and violence for what really goes on in this town and towns across America. Actually living in the area where the movie was filmed, I experienced what was my middle and high school years all over again (sans murder). The film also captures the mood of the area. The long, hot, boring Florida days that invite any activity to pass the time. The increasing number of high school drop outs in the area only aggravate the the possiblity of kids following in the same footsteps, and believe me, they already do. Clark managed to capture, what I believe to be, an essence as well as recreate a tragic story.
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Summary: Fantastic!
Review: I had the pleasure of just catching this flick last night & I must say what an incredible, powerful film! It's sexy, yet disturbing, it's humorous, yet violent & disgusting. Larry Clark manages to conjure up all these emotions in you as you sit and watch this film in awe. It's a great story based off a true one, almost follows the book exactly from what I've read. Well acted w/ a perfect cast, music that fits to the tee & beautifully filmed (with the exception of one particualr scene where the camera moves so much you want to vomit).Not a film that you will catch at the local suburban cineplex, but it should be shown to every teen AND adult everywhere.
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Summary: Best Film of the Year!
Review: I am 12 years old. I can't even begin to explain how accurate this film is about kids. I've grown up in a nice lifestyle, but I have always been surrounded by this kind of behavior. I'm not some prude kid believe me. I just have a concience about certain things... I have written many short films and I am working on a feature length picture. I hope that my films are even half as good as this. Brilliant. A work of art. Ths film will stick with you well after you have seen it.
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Summary: Bully Review
Review: I saw BULLY today, and I feel that is a great movie. It was disturbing in some spots with the drug use ,sex, and violence. The actors did a superb job, and Brad Renfro was great. He also was the Associated Producer of the movie. So he is exploring new opportunities. The movie was gripping, and it will stay with you a while. It is a little hard to find, but I recommend the movie for the realistic view of kids today. They are not taking the abuse that we did years ago. Today, they are fighting back, and this movie shows just how far you can be pushed around.
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