[Review] Brick

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 12:41 am

I went a long time in my life without seeing many movies. Now I just like something new in them. "Give me something new," I'll say. Sometimes that means a left testicle in the buttered popcorn. That's a way where we make our own fun at the movies. Something new.

I knew absolutely nothing about this movie, Brick, before we started it. I, ah, grabbed it off Usenet and my PC plays letterboxed Divx movies so that they take up the entire screen. This is normally OK because the likes of movies we acquire this way share swarthy characteristics like Spider-Man 3. Sweaty, dirty, meaty characteristics.

Brick is definitely deserving of a better movie atmosphere. Not stretched out. Without shitty volume controls. Without washed-out Divx color.

From what I did see, Brick was an amazingly unexpected film noir set in a modern-day high school. For fuck's sake, that's something new. I looOOOoove the genre, so I especially thought it was brilliant.

***** out of 5. Best movie I have seen since The Fountain.

ViagraCialis · Post by **ViagraCialis** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:21 pm

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: ***** out of 5. Best movie I have seen since The Fountain.

wow, awesome. "This restaurant was great, it was the best meal i ate since I had a bag of cheetos on the bus last week."

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:54 pm

If you didn't like The Fountain, you're probably an intellectually stunted piece of shit. What's wrong with you?

Death is a disease, and in The Fountain they cure it. Having terrible opinions on the Internet is not a disease, so a sequel to The Fountain cannot help you.

CiagraVialis · Post by **CiagraVialis** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 1:20 pm

Fountain looks like just what it was, a pretentious pseudointelectual piece of fluff that the studios pulled out of halfway through leaving him to finish it with like 1/10 the budget and talent available..

glad YOU liked it tho

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 1:57 pm

You think Brad Pitt, the actor originally tapped for the role, would have done a better job than Hugh Jackman?

EnzyteCialis · Post by **EnzyteCialis** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 3:30 pm

I dont know if he would have been better, that's not the point... the point is that what aronofsky wanted to do he could Not do because it was a movie he wanted to make when he was a kid

Well you know some ideas which sound really cool as a kid, turns out not all that great when you grow up.. It is like a movie that really wants you to think its deep but when you step back, uh, it isnt.

Vitriola · Post by **Vitriola** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 3:59 pm

I don't mind style over substance when the style is tweaked in a new way and the substance is at least respectfully entrenched in acceptable stereotypes.

I gave that movie a 3 out of 5, though. It was far too forced for me to like it as much as Robb did.

ViagraEnzyte · Post by **ViagraEnzyte** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:47 pm

yeah 3 out of 5 is probly about right.. I didnt really hate it but "best movie since Fountian" just struck me as... i dunno, 'less than persuasive'?

Viagagaga · Post by **Viagagaga** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:48 pm

tho maybe I need to check imbd.com to see if anyone DIED while the movie was being made, maybe thats why he likes it so much

(I still think you are sick ice cream jonsey for what you said about saun taylor)

EnzyteBob · Post by **EnzyteBob** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 9:33 pm

So what, we're done here?

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:50 pm

Viagagaga wrote:tho maybe I need to check imbd.com to see if anyone DIED while the movie was being made, maybe thats why he likes it so much

(I still think you are sick ice cream jonsey for what you said about saun taylor)

I think you butchered his name up there in a far worse manner than the guy who actually did him in. Lay low for a while, the Miami Police might be looking for you.

CiagryteVialen · Post by **CiagryteVialen** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 5:03 pm

okay well I guess we're done here.

Bye!

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:42 pm

CiagryteVialen wrote:okay well I guess we're done here.

Bye!

I don't know what got into me. I might be bi-polar, somewhat. (In this thread.) I'm sorry, my friend.

bruce · Post by **bruce** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 10:26 am

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:
CiagryteVialen wrote:okay well I guess we're done here.

Bye!
I don't know what got into me. I might be bi-polar, somewhat. (In this thread.) I'm sorry, my friend.

I dunno.

With that bleached hair and that enduring love of Mr. Do, I'm thinking "bi-curious" is the word you're looking for.

Bruce

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Sun Dec 02, 2007 12:44 pm

Mr. Do got woken up in the middle of the night by those unicorns messing with his garden. I think he got a bad rap all these years. He's not some slutty boytoy, always ready to be used and thrown away... he was asleep!

And frankly, if I could find a knit sleeping cap like he had, I'd be asleep with one as well. Those things look comfy!

... I may be helping your argument here. I'll just leave the thread.

Roody_Yogurt · Post by **Roody_Yogurt** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 1:07 pm

I liked this movie a lot halfway through, but I thought it ended up trying to be too badass in its violence. I mean, you have these kids talking like this guy has been off the face of the earth because he has been eating his lunch in a new place and the film imitating the physically taxed element of the noir detective by giving the guy a cold or something that is getting worse as the film goes on. I'm not saying I hated that stuff, but if you're going to have that and then the level of enraged depravity it had later on, it just because sort of ridiculous to me and damages the overall styling of the film.

Oroth · Post by **Oroth** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 3:27 am

I like that the film continues the tradition of people way too old to be teens, playing teens. I mean Noah Segan is like 26 or something now, but is 16/17 in the film? He should look how he did in early third rock from the sun. Thats how teenagers really look - gormless - not haggard and world-weary (not matter how much I tried when younger)

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 3:56 pm

Oroth wrote:I like that the film continues the tradition of people way too old to be teens, playing teens. I mean Noah Segan is like 26 or something now, but is 16/17 in the film? He should look how he did in early third rock from the sun. Thats how teenagers really look - gormless - not haggard and world-weary (not matter how much I tried when younger)

Er, I think Joseph Gordon-Levitt was the name of the guy in 3rd rock, who also played Brendan in Brick? But there were two Noahs in the movie and I couldn't tell which was which by going to their Wikipedia page, thanks to Wikipedia's idiotic policy of removing all pictures of people, everywhere, unless they are dead.

But your point is well taken. Gordon-Levitt was 24 in Brick. On the other hand, I don't mind too much if the chicks were older than the parts they were playing: if I am going to oogle women in movies, it's better for everyone involved, but mostly me, if they are in their 20s.

gsdgsd · Post by **gsdgsd** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 9:42 pm

Kind of blindly ignoring everything that's come in this thread since, I watched this 99% on Robb's recommendation (1% on vaguely remembering the trailer and thinking that was kinda interesting), and it was fucking awesome. So, thanks, Robb. You're now 1 for 1 as far as recommended movies turning out awesome, from which I can only assume that you're ALWAYS RIGHT.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 9:30 pm

gsdgsd wrote:Kind of blindly ignoring everything that's come in this thread since, I watched this 99% on Robb's recommendation (1% on vaguely remembering the trailer and thinking that was kinda interesting), and it was fucking awesome. So, thanks, Robb. You're now 1 for 1 as far as recommended movies turning out awesome, from which I can only assume that you're ALWAYS RIGHT.

Thank you. I wish there were more movies like Brick.

(Er, I guess that means I should watch more film noir.)

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