Brick

[picolas]

i saw it in theatres and it was good but i didn't post a review for some reason. i half-saw it at work again today.

semi-spoils

- visually, musically, and almost always pacing-wise, it's perfection.
- this is truly a movie's movie. hundreds of other movies/movie parts were squeezed/pulped to make this one. i wonder what a movie's movie's movie will be like. maybe this is already a movie's movie's movie and i need to brush up.
- i loved the transformation back to his old wardrobe/self.
- this guy knows how to use the sun.
- unfortunately, some gaping things stop the movie from being amazing. like it's hard to understand what people are saying.
- i'm not a good story-follower. so i was lost for the last quarter or so. and i only half-understood the ending. but i was still enjoying it for its pacing/ideas.
- sometimes i didn't like the dialogue. i can't remember an example though.
- i think Levitt was better in the trailer but he was still good here. i didn't like most of the performances, now that i think of it, but they weren't annoying. except for sometimes Stoner, Brain, Dode. i guess Haas was the best overall.

fun fact: i sent Rian Johnson the trailer for Jo (which uses the EWS theme) through his forum and he said he used the theme extensively in the rough cut.

[The Perineum Falcon]

are you drunk again?

[modage]

are you all on crack? this movie was not good at all. it's this years 'crash'.

are you on crack?  how is this anything like 'crash'? 

[MacGuffin]

It'd say Brick is this year's 'Miller's Crossing'. This year's 'Memento'.

[RegularKarate]

all of you, go reconsider.

done... I've reconsidered and I'm still sure you can't explain why you didn't like it and therefore have no valid argument as to why it's not a really good film.

[Pozer]

it's this years 'crash'. this years 'donnie darko'. this years 'napolean dynamite'.

most people i know have never even heard of it. 

[pete]

i hate you flagpolespecial.

[Chest Rockwell]

What an elitist thing to say, especially for a movie no one's fucking heard of.

[NEON MERCURY]

What an elitist thing to say...

[cron]

*with a werner herzog impersonation:

i , too, would like to step on this film's defence. why can't all teen movies be this smart and cool? i'm sure everyone i'll recommend it to will like it.

[MacGuffin]

On Main Menu, click on Bonus Features. With Deleted Scenes highlighted, press arrow left twice. The A Midnight should turn blue. Click on it to watch the easter egg.


EDIT:

It'd say Brick is this year's 'Miller's Crossing'.

MC is mentioned within the first minute of the commentary.

[samsong]

*with a werner herzog impersonation:

i , too, would like to step on this film's defence. why can't all teen movies be this smart and cool? i'm sure everyone i'll recommend it to will like it.

oh shut up.  you liked Miami Vice.

[pete]

I now hate you too.  you fucking douche.

[samsong]

you're a sweetheart.

[elpablo]

I'm slow.

I love that this wasn't just noir for the sake of being noir, but used the heightened drama and near impossible to follow connections to parallel the drama and gossip of high school. As far removed as the story and dialogue are from high school, the characters still feel like they belong right where they are.