I should note I've loved his style from the first day I encountered it. But that's more because his subjects are familiar to me than anything else.

The only thing I dislike about Spring Breakers though is that now I really like Ellie Goulding. Damn it I can't be as crotchety now!

Who says they have good tastes in film?

Yes, that seems the best way to describe it. It had enough plot/style for a half hour show, not the hour we got.

I agree totally. I think in his use of the surface he accomplishes some very great things (tied as my favorite film of the year with Pain and Gain and Upstream Color) and makes one of the very few Art films as art to come out now a days. I's an outrageously gorgeous and perfectly made film. The Britney Spears montage…

I think he still has lots of talent if he chooses to use it. It's just a sad case where he swore off being creative ever again because he felt so badly betrayed by the Weinsteins.

It's probably procedural fatigue, but I didn't like The Bridge at all.

Be like Alien and just fuck the barrel.

And as time goes by there will be more and more until we all become Ted. On of us, one of us.

I think that works since the film is so much about the failure of the system to work and the abuse of power which obviously means an ineffectual police force.

Since you liked the Varda film (her best feature is Vagabond, but I think her shorts are the best) you should check out Resnais who was her maestro. He's actually still directing with a career that goes back to the '30s. It would probably be best to start with either his documentaries or his recent exercises in…

Spring Breakers intentionally is all surface. The girls are shallow to the point where their 'dramatic' actions hold no weight and contain no meaning. They're the villains after all.

That's true and I hope that the citizens of Florida will push to change legislature to prevent this abuse of power from ever happening again.

I finally  got and saw Rosetta which was great. This is true especially in the lead performance which just moves ahead like a demon taking care of herself in a way that single handedly removes the misery porn you so often see in this sort of story. Just perfect. Also I have to say the interview with the Dardennes is…

Justified fear under Florida law would actually mean the body language could be the only thing to suggest violence. The presence of a gun only adds to that.

I wasn't saying that Zimmerman's actions before firing was illegal. Florida does have such a law as you describe and my description just now was an attempt to avoid that. Essentially in a self defense case the aggressor is the first to suggest violence as a force (it contradicts the stand your ground law on a certain…

The prosecution could have argued that following with a gun appears as an act of physical aggression which would give Martin stand your ground rights making what happened between the shooting and the call irrelevant. The prosecution simply wasn't doing its job.

Yes, and I agree that the prosecution/ state is the primary failure of this incident, but it is common in criminal cases for the prosecution to list a series of possible lesser charges if the primary charge (murder 2) is found to be not qualified.

I mean this sincerely cool story. I remember Burroughs talking about something similar in Europe when he was trying to get off his dope addiction and it seems like something that eventually does help cure junkies or at least keep them functioning within normal society on a basic level.

As a kid I was unnerved by them. Wasn't allowed to watch The Simpsons, but always snuck the Treehouse ones. The Gremlin on the bus in particular got me.