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This is a great film.

posted 13 years ago by Vikingsrock158
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Sorry you actually have to listen and watch a film rather than glance at action sequences in between text messages. This is a brilliant homage to the old days of detective movies. Humphrey Bogart films. The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, and other Sam Spade type of noir thrillers. Just by looking at some of these threads I can see the main complaint is boring/confusing. And that makes me very sad and fearful of the film industry's future. This movie should be making money, not garbage like Safe House.

Brick is a smart and unique take on the noir thriller. If you don't even know what "noir" means, then Act of Valor comes out on Friday. Maybe that will entertain you.

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[–] dragoncaine 13 years ago

I love movies like this, but I am in the same boat. I find it incredibly confusing, unnecessarily so. If you could explain it, I would greatly appreciate it!

[–] Vikingsrock158 13 years ago

It's too lengthy of an explanation, it's a very jam packed film, but if you need a summary you can go on Brick's Wikipedia page.

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[–] dragoncaine 13 years ago

ok will do thanks! Sorry, I don't dislike the movie, I just find it convoluted, hopefully it'll be cleared up!

[–] Vikingsrock158 13 years ago

Watch it a 2nd time, I hope your opinion changes! And you don't have to say sorry. I'm never going to apologize for hating Avatar, hahaha.

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[–] dragoncaine 13 years ago

Hahahhhahha well it looks like we are in the same boat I despised Avatar!

[–] Vikingsrock158 13 years ago

By far the biggest sell-out in history. James Cameron's sell-out, that is.

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[–] jec54 12 years ago

I love this movie and Avatar. This a little more, but come on. Cameron is what Cameron is. I don't think he had anything left to sell out by Avatar. He even sold the set of the Abyss to the Navy.

Ok, that's a pot shot. This movie deserves much more of an audience. The dialogue is fantastic. Three outstanding performances that spring to mind, and I haven't seen this in at least 5 years. I was watching Witness tonight, and it reminded me of Brick (The Pin is the kid in Witness) and how I can never convince anyone to see this. It was my favorite movie of 2005/6, and I haven't had many to top it.

People are screaming pretension here, but it's a murder mystery, not Un Chien. Chinatown with teenagers, what's not to like? It's confusing, so what? You've got a Blu-ray, rewind it. You're supposed to think about a good movie after you leave it. The solutions are all there in the film, and there's no "who's driving the car" moment like Fight Club. If you want to know why people love this, it's the dialogue, just like any noir. For sheer pleasure, watch Double Indemnity, tell me why that type of writing could possibly have gone out of style. Then watch Brick 60 years later and ask me why I'm happy to see it again.

[–] chelseymorgan 13 years ago

I agree. I thought this movie was absolutely brilliant!!!! It blows my mind to find people who have never seen it. The world is falling into a funk in which people have forgotten how to use there brains.

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[–] ciamae_paraiso11 13 years ago

Love the fact that this film is from the first person point of view. :))

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[–] GoingNowhereKid 12 years ago

You've seen 250 noirs? can you list all of them because i feel like you're just pulling that out of your ass.... I did not find the film confusing at all i felt as though everything flowed perfectly and I was at the edge of my seat the entire time... If you've seen so many noirs than how can you find it confusing it was a very similar formula to every noir I've ever seen and the cops became involved later on because Frye didn't want them involved getting his VP involved was a safer bet it took away the heat that comes along with getting the police involved did you even watch the movie to its entirety? They literally said it 4 or 5 times now if you can come up with more reasons as to why the film was "unnecessarily confusing" i would love to hear them.

[–] hecantune 12 years ago

We're still eagerly awaiting your response FINSLAW. :)

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[–] GoingNowhereKid 12 years ago

Checkmate.

[–] Jweeo 12 years ago

Good movie. Liked it.

[–] andrewtilling-586-256157 12 years ago

Totally agree. Great and unique movie, and especially so considering the budget. And Johnson really delivered on this promise with Looper, which is phenomenal.

[–] maz89 11 years ago

Definitely one to watch. His direction of the Breaking Bad episodes has been impressive as well.

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[–] clerlic 12 years ago

I and two of my friends enjoyed this movie very much.

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[–] deRider84 11 years ago

Eh, it's not exactly great. It's certainly a very good one, as aesthetically and stylistically accomplished as any neo-noir I've seen since Chinatown or The Long Goodbye. The thing is, it's compromised by the very thing that makes it so distinctive in the first place. The teenage conceit is initially clever and cute, giving it a peculiarly off-kilter and unsettling edge, but I ultimately couldn't view these characters as anything but stylistic constructs. There was absolutely no believability, and therefore barely any emotional involvement whatsoever. I appreciated it (quite a lot) at a kind of remove, but couldn't bring myself to love it.

Regardless, it's a fantastically shot, very well written tribute to Dashiell Hammet and Raymond Chandler, as well as a startlingly precocious debut film. Rian Johnson is one of the most talented and interesting young directors working today, as he further proved with the intermittently fascinating Looper, and his Breaking Bad episodes (particularly Fly).