Did anyone else see this as a sort of black comedy? Like the characters were all like so ridiculous and even kinda retarded and the plots just too unbelievable and far fetched to be taken seriously that I didn't know if the film was supposed to be doing it but I thought it was kind of satire very much in places.
shareit follows the book closely. So I guess if movie is satire, so was book.
shareexcept for the fact that bobby was really this AC Slater buff body builder.
and what they did to the retarded man.
this movie was so tame in regards to how much of a douchebag the real bobby was.
Oh God. Fortune vomits on my eiderdown once more.
yes...that and other stories of his and Puccio's fuc -ked-up-ed-ness were not included in movie, I'm torn whether I'd have liked to see that in movie or notm, it is a heart-wrenching scene, even in book.
It would have swept away all sympathy for Bobby...you consistantly see more sympathy for him in people who have only seen movie. Everyone who reads book wants him dead...even though Puccio is almost as pathetic, for ever being led around by him..and he participated in the attack on the retarded man.
If he was willing to defend himself from time to time vs Bobby, why not make one of those occasions that attack.
It felt to me weirdly comedic once the murder had taken place.
shareit is probably as stupid a group of people as you will see in a straight movie which is not a comedy...
shareNo, there really are people that dumb in real life . . . like all of those who voted for Trump.
When I first saw this film, I was truly in shock over how stupid these kids were. Braindead zombies, the lot of them, I thought. Then I read the book and realized that, holy crap, there really are people this dumb in real life. My mind was blown. Their stupidity is not as incomprehensible to me now.
If I could have voted I'd have voted for Trump, I was LOL when he won..
But if I participated in a brutal murder of a bothersome abusive teenage peer-group member, I would not go virtually broadcasting it all over town by loudhailer.
Yes, there are such people irl, because this was irl.A movie is a movie, but this happened, about like this.
Their stupidity is still incomprehensible to me, but it's some time since I was a teen, and I was never a tweaker brain-fry..
"Then I read the book and realized that, holy crap, there really are people this dumb in real life."
Ever seen video clips of people interviewed at CPAC rallies?
Absolutely terrifying.
that's what i thought
shareThis is how it was in the book. Donny especially was on dope and acid throughout, and the rest weren't far behind. They just decided to go along with the plan for something to do. Intentional or otherwise, the film shown the ridiculousness of what happened.
sharePfffft. It's one of the most accurate portrayals of teenagers in the 90's I've ever seen. I mean short of the murder, lol. But the characters were very realistic of the posing, the wandering purposelessness, and the stoned dumbness of idle American teenagers.
shareAfter the murder it felt like they were in a real rush to finish filming.
it feels every dialogue is poorly written (dumb) and the acting is mostly really bad, especially when they are in groups talking to eachother, the "mafia" guy is an awful actor.
the second part of the movie even the script is weird and bad, like when the girl throws the knives "in the ocean" like she says, basically 2 meters away from shore on a swimming beach, how smart is that... and the kids confessing to other kids, etc...
i still really like the movie