[McLovin]

H.D., on 30 March 2012 - 06:28 AM, said:

Can't wait to watch Bully. The MPAA wanted to give pre-teen/adolescent reality a rating that under 17s couldn't see without an adult. It's comical.

Because I'm fundamentally a contrarian, I'll take up for the MPAA:

A lot of arguments against the R rating have been to point to other films like Hunger Games, where children literally kill each other, that have a PG-13 rating.

Yes, but Hunger Games is fiction. Bully is real, and that hits home more intensely.

I don't think a kid should see Bully without an adult who can discuss with them afterward what they saw and how it relates to actual events in their lives. Even if you haven't been bullied, you probably had a classmate who was. So there is more potential for ripping open of old psychic wounds here than most fictional stories have.

[HoosierDaddy]

The point remains that it is their reality well before they ever reach 17.

I don't disagree that it would be best viewed, understood, and the message absorbed with an adult present and further discussion about what it says. But, pretending that children need an adult to understand something they experience everyday is, imo, moronic.

I think we forget how awful children are to each other.

[worry]

An R rating would effectively ban it from being shown in pretty much any public school, including high schools. The rules differ from school district to district, I suppose, but the R rating one seems pretty universal. The only exception I've ever heard of really is Schindler's List.

[amphibian]

worrywort, on 30 March 2012 - 08:38 PM, said:

An R rating would effectively ban it from being shown in pretty much any public school, including high schools. The rules differ from school district to district, I suppose, but the R rating one seems pretty universal. The only exception I've ever heard of really is Schindler's List.

Saw Black Hawk Down and Shogun in school. Also, the Zapruder film because my American History teacher was/is a conspiracy theorist homer.

[worry]

Good lord. How did your class handle that? I still find it harrowing after maybe a few dozen times seeing it.

[SylvanShade]

I've seen Bully. I loved it, it really stuck with me after it ended. Not in a bad way.

I just watched Seven Samurai by QuickTidal Akira Kurosawa.

[amphibian]

worrywort, on 30 March 2012 - 10:41 PM, said:

Good lord. How did your class handle that? I still find it harrowing after maybe a few dozen times seeing it.

I don't think anyone freaked out. I was in a bunch of advanced classes though - AP/honors everything throughout my middle and high school time. Almost everybody there was pretty smart and pretty self-absorbed, being teenagers and all. Probably most of the kids thought in the back of their heads that anything they saw on the TV or screen was fake or not real in the way that real life things are.

Teenagers are such a-holes. This probably segues into the Bully thing pretty well and I bet most viewers of that movie would have few problems with the actual movie.

[amphibian]

For all: Watch The Guard with Brendan Glennon and Don Cheadle.

The Irish accents may take some getting used to, but think of it as an In Bruges-type of movie and it'll be awesome. Opening scene is killer too.

[QuickTidal]

SylvanShade, on 31 March 2012 - 03:10 AM, said:

I've seen Bully. I loved it, it really stuck with me after it ended. Not in a bad way.

I just watched Seven Samurai by QuickTidal Akira Kurosawa.

Oh man, I flat out ADORE THE SEVEN SAMURAI. What an amazing film.

[Macros]

amphibian, on 31 March 2012 - 05:46 AM, said:

For all: Watch The Guard with Brendan Glennon and Don Cheadle.

The Irish accents may take some getting used to, but think of it as an In Bruges-type of movie and it'll be awesome. Opening scene is killer too.

same writer or something I think as in bruges.

brilliant film, BG is fantastic as always.

Watched blade trinity.
should have left it after blade 2

[amphibian]

Macros, on 31 March 2012 - 01:58 PM, said:

same writer or something I think as in bruges.

brilliant film, BG is fantastic as always.

He's the brother of the In Bruges guy. Similar tones, but I think The Guard is a better comedy - more laughs for sure.

Gleeson (I called him Glennon above) is superb. Everything he does is just rock solid and the timing is perfect.

[Coco with marshmallows]

Macros, on 31 March 2012 - 01:58 PM, said:

Watched blade trinity.
should have left it after blade 2

I respectfully disagree.
Proof:



and some of Ryan Reynolds lines cracked me up.

[worry]

I liked Blade Trinity too =/. Blade 2 was by far the best in the series, but I liked the first movie the least of the three. I just didn't like Stephen Dorff's character, and I did like Parker Posey a ton.

[HoosierDaddy]

Retreat: quiet vacation to a cottage on a remote island to hopefully bridge the gap in a failing marriage becomes psychological thriller/drama when the couple take in a man who collapsed a little way from the cottage.

7.5 out of 10. Good acting, great story.

This post has been edited by H.D.: 31 March 2012 - 08:45 PM

[Macros]

I like seeing biel in leather trousers ae much as the next man, but it doesn't stop it being the worst in the series.
And Ryan Reynolds is my man crush (along with Sean bean) and he does have a few killer lines, but raise your game writers, you're paid pros, every sentence doesn't have to be punctuated with fuck and fucker, raise your game, get creative with the cursing.

[Tsundoku]

amphibian, on 31 March 2012 - 05:46 AM, said:

For all: Watch The Guard with Brendan Glennon and Don Cheadle.

The Irish accents may take some getting used to, but think of it as an In Bruges-type of movie and it'll be awesome. Opening scene is killer too.

Saw that the other day, really enjoyed it. But yeah, it took about 10 minutes to tune in to the accent.

[polishgenius]

Macros, on 01 April 2012 - 12:24 AM, said:

get creative with the cursing.

That's your complaint about the film that delivers the best cinematic insult of all time,

Spoiler

you cock-juggling thundercunt?

[SylvanShade]

SylvanShade, on 31 March 2012 - 03:10 AM, said:

I've seen Bully. I loved it, it really stuck with me after it ended. Not in a bad way.

I just discovered there's a new movie called Bully that was probably what you guys were referring to.

I was referring to an older movie called Bully...

[worry]

The Larry Clark "Bully" is just so scuzzy. I don't mean that as an insult, since it was interesting and pretty gripping, but I found it waaaaaaay more skin-crawling than Kids, for comparison.

[Macros]

polishgenius, on 01 April 2012 - 01:05 PM, said:

Macros, on 01 April 2012 - 12:24 AM, said:

get creative with the cursing.

That's your complaint about the film that delivers the best cinematic insult of all time,

Spoiler

you cock-juggling thundercunt?

Words are for reading.
Ryans has some killer lines.
Would you like me to bold it for you?