I place it at no.2 position of the worst movies i've ever seen !!!
the first one being 'napolean dynamite'
and wat sort of bloody english accent were they using anyway?
I just finished watching Brick. I did so after reading some rave reviews of it and also noting its appearance on quite a few top 20 cult films of all time. I literally forced myself to watch the last two-thirds for two reasons. First, because I have this strange ethic that a person should not rate or comment on a film unless they have watched it from a-z and I definitely wanted to rate and comment on it here on imdb to save like-minded people from having to endure it and/or waste the money and valuable time. Second, because I was convinced after all that I had read that it was bound to improve. What a disappointment. The dialogue was absolutely ridiculous. I understood the film and what it wanted to be when it grows up, but despite some very good photography, it was absolutely boring. What kid today calls people saps? Yeah yeah, noir, right, I get it. I also get that Lukas Haas (who I usually really am impressed by) just looked ridiculous riding around in the back of the minivan with the living room lamp next to him. Yeah yeah, I know, I get it, noir. The thing is, folks, if the film had not taken itself so seriously, the gimmicks just might have worked. I think this is just another perfect example of people trying to establish their identities by promoting lousy films because of some trendy cult status. What I have found is that many if not most cult films are lousy films and that is why they have cult followings.
OP, I am with ya, man. Brick should be flung out into the nearest lake to sink to the bottom where it belongs. I suggest a lake like Loch Ness or somewhere very, very deep. We owe it to our children's children to spare them such atrocities. Don't let the "mob" affect you with their warped sense of adoration. I hated Transformers, but I'd gladly sit through it another dozen times before agonizing through the first 15 minutes of Brick again.
Hey, all you folks putting down the Op for voicing his valid opinion, look in the mirror. You're a bunch of self-proclaimed intellectual "saps" heh.
By the way, I loved Napolean Dynamite. Just watched Batoru rowaiaru aka Battle Royalle. Now there is a movie!
"I also get that Lukas Haas (who I usually really am impressed by) just looked ridiculous riding around in the back of the minivan with the living room lamp next to him. Yeah yeah, I know, I get it, noir. The thing is, folks, if the film had not taken itself so seriously, the gimmicks just might have worked."
Facepalm. The entire film didn't take itself seriously, and proof of that is a kingpin riding around in a car with a lamp, idiot. I know those of us who really understand the irony in clever films such these are supposed to roll our eyes at comments like this, but sometimes you just want to physically shake the stupidity out of these people. It's like being a comedian in a room full of retards who don't get the jokes.
Hey Ether, track this- I don't buy into that whole enlightened sense of cinema so many of you profess around here. If you are correct and this film was intended to be a comedy (I said comedy, not black comedy) then it only degrades itself further.
By the way, you have a spaghetti stain on the back of your bright white cloak there. Also, your halo is a tad bit bent to the left...
The movie portraied charicatural characters typical of certai noir movies.
Have you ever seen those noir movies where they have all those weird character, like the gangster who is baby faced or the granny who is a killer or the boss with iron sharp-bladed teeth?
They're supposed to be funny and disorientating at the same time.
They're typical cliches of this genre, an exaggeration. Charicatures indeed.
If you can't understand this, you can't understand the movie at all.
i really don't get the comparisons to Michael Bay movies either.
Brick was as BORING as watching paint dry. I turned it off about an hour into it because i couldn't see wasting any more of my time on it.
if they hadn't of done what i told them not to do, they would still be alive. - mr. blonde
Feel fee to attack me. This movie was recommended to me by a lot of people and I have to say, I just didn't like it. I've watched it three times and I just don't care for it. The lead character is played by an actor I find dull in the extreme. I've never gotten why this guy is supposed to be so watchable. I don't want to see it again and I don't need any of it explained to me. I have no idea why people on here take so much offense when someone doesn't like a movie that they like. There are plenty of movies that I like other people don't care for, but I'm not going to tell them they're stupid or that they didn't understand the movie. Some of you are taking this too personally.
When the wind blows it's almost like I see her in the Hamptons...
I agree, this movie was crap, and Napolean Dynamite was crap too.
-the new movie critic
+2 It was style over substance. I will grant that young watchers will think things are "deep" and "fresh". But thats just because they havent been around long enough to see how this movie rips off Maltese Falcon and noir-cloned anime.Please, enlighten me, reziztor. What is it this "depth" which the Maltese Falcon is rooted in, & which Brick, you say, lacks? What's the relationship between Brick being derived from the Maltese Falcon & Brick lacking "depth"? And I'm afraid "noir-cloned anime" has me at a loss. How is anime cloning noir? What's the relationship between anime & noir, anime & Brick & anime & "depth"?
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Brick is a book. Well, actually a novella by Rian Johnson. You can read it here for free: http://www.rcjohnso.com/BrickScript.html .
As for it being a good movie or not, I think it really just depends on what kind of person you are and what kind of movies you like. Personally I really like whodunit stories, and this one was very well done in my opinion. I can understand if someone thinks it's boring or dull, and it's probably just because of what their taste in movies is like, not necessarily based on their intelligence or ability to "get it." Some people will like Brick and others will not, that's just how it is.
Wherever you are, you're not funny.
Its probably a good novella then. I like whodunit stories too, if they're not too obvious as to who actually did it.
I don't like how people think they're intellectually superior due to their taste in movies, and this particular movie is a good example of it. Its supporters can't accept that people just don't like it and instantly just claim that they don't get it. Lame.
Dante: Hey, try not to suck any dick on the way through the parking lot!
Agreed man, agreed. I know plenty of people who are intelligent and like Transformers for goodness sake. Taste in movies definitely does not equate how smart you are!
Wherever you are, you're not funny.
Well using the word "equate" incorrectly certainly does. Moron. Films are indeed a matter of taste, but certain films are obviously better than others. Brick is obviously better than Transformers, and you are stupid for disagreeing. I'm not insulting you personally, just stating a fact. If you had compared it to, say...The Matrix, you'd have a much better argument. But Transformers is trash. Brick is not.
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Congratulations, mongoloid. We know exactly what kind of movie viewer you are. and your opinions are now invalid.
shareYet to see Brick, but I am personally very disappointed in the reviewer who said Transformers was 45 minutes of staring at Megan Fox's breasts.
So I got it out!
Please don't wite teasers like this unless they are rooted in reality.
I found Transformers only had about 7 minutes 45.3 seconds worth of Megan's breasts in shot a goodly amount of that was clothed cleavage.
I am despondent.
This sort of review is not on and I will report you in future if you continue such gross fabrications.
As to the OP he is probably As Thick as a Brick.
Hope you don't mind if I sit this one out.
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