tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33861011.post6493511914863477653..comments2008-04-07T19:41:27.085-05:00Scott Nehringhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17860832695314575052noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33861011.post-81742081886391966192008-04-07T19:41:00.000-05:002008-04-07T19:41:00.000-05:00Don't get anything snagged on that fence you're straddling. <BR/><BR/>I'd steer clear of the comments at IMDb unless you really need to find out what high school kids are thinking.Scott Nehringhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17860832695314575052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33861011.post-33853037643443267462008-04-07T19:00:00.000-05:002008-04-07T19:00:00.000-05:00OK, there are going to be lots and lots of arguments made in favor of this movie that have "because I want to believe there's a *reason* to show repeated and brutally exploitative partial nudity of a simulated 15-year-old" written all over them.<BR/><BR/>Then there are the ignorant, like the first comment on IMDB I saw:<BR/><BR/>"the unusual formal nature of the film" in having a divided screen.<BR/><BR/>Obviously from someone wanting to sound cultured, but whose culture doesn't even reach the 70s, when such things were common enough....<BR/><BR/>geez<BR/><BR/>And, of course, there will be those which are both.... and those voices within us all....<BR/><BR/>But here's the rub: at the end of the day, does that trailer give me any reason to believe there's story inside the flavor? Or is it telling me, from the very beginning (even assuming the IMDB tagline is just a terribly, terribly ill-conceived teaser), that the flavor is it, the seeming "point" and "edge" being nearly as much a non-issue as notions like plot and plausibility?<BR/><BR/>It's gonna suck. And if it doesn't, I'll get blown away by it.<BR/><BR/>Do I win an equivocation prize?<BR/><BR/>Cheers,<BR/>PGEpgeppshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00778075334003141988noreply@blogger.com