Honest discussion about this movie?

Uhhh, cuz it had no plot, storyline, or reason for being? If I want to watch "art", I'll go to Moma. Fortunately, it was free on Amazon Prime. Otherwise I might've had to kill someone for my $10 back

I suppose you're gonna say, well, it was about 4 girls who go to SB and find and learn about themselves, and that there's no place like home. Keep in mind, you're 27, and that means, for many reasons, you don't know beans yet. I've passed more interesting gas than this garbage. There was no quality to it whatsoever

I thought it was garbage. Poor script, ham acting (from Franco), wooden acting from the girls, horribly repetitive voice over, ridiculously contrived shoot out at the end.

A nice little T & A movie would have been much more preferable and no more shallow than the actual film.

What was wrong with the other three girls getting their tits out?!

Rated 3/10.






Looks bobbins.

Man IMDB posters are retarded these days. I thought it as pretty good, absolutely stunning visuals and the whole tone of the movie is surreal, like moving through a dream. The people who say that it doesnt have a plot etc have no *beep* clue what they are talking about, its just one of those internet phenomenons where they get on the hate bandwagon because they cant think for themselves. If you want a plot, try following the religious sub-plot that is heavily integrated throughout the whole movie.

Unless you just want to see girls in bikinis there really is nothing much to like in this movie.

It really wants to have some deeper meaning, some reflection on today's youth culture, but it fails miserably. It is no better than the trash it tries to satire.

I just can't imagine that anyone over 16 actually takes this movie seriously. And trust me, it's not that those of us significantly older don't get it. We've just been around long enough to see plenty of movies that brilliantly pull off what this movie wishes it could. I could make some pseudo intellectual argument for meaning in just about anything, but it is just not there in this sad excuse for art.

To me this was an hour and a half music video. I liked the cinematography. I liked how they overlaid music that contrasted with the mood of the scene. James Franco was entertaining but overall I did not care for any of the characters. I did not buy into these girls going into self discovery. I appreciate the artsy fartsiness (the slow motion and repeating of lines) but dragging that out through the whole movie made it so bland and boring.

Boring, long and drawn out, no real storyline, just an excuse to let four famous young girls grow out of their clean girl images.

And there was just too much nudity and too much of the same old rubbish I'm always seeing in every movie nowadays, especially those aimed at the younger generation - look at us we're getting drunk, we're getting high, we're walking around naked, we're going crazy, we're having sex, we're flirting with everybody and anybody, we're partyin', someone told me to kiss another woman so I'm doing it wooooooooooooooooooo!

Quite sad to think how many teenagers are going to watch movies like this and think 'This is how we HAVE to behave'.






Ashmi any question

I thought it was a great satire; it's everything wrong with the youth culture – the stuff I may rarely acknowledge but am constantly aware of and surrounded by – made hilarious. The voiceover of the girls talking about (for example) how this is the most 'spiritual' place they've ever been to, while the camera shows them pissing on the sidewalk... and James Franco (the only actor I knew prior) is genius casting and ceaselessly amusing ("Look at my s...!") and then there's the Britney Spears scene, which is... there are no words...

The whole thing's all so trashy but it comes together into something brilliant and oh so funny to me in that dark comedy way I love. It's a cult film, and I'm not surprised people are gonna react to it differently – especially if you do find something glamourous or 'sexy' in the culture the film depicts (or worse, if that's why you checked out the movie). But yeah, I honestly just thought it was a wickedly enjoyable and hilarious... psychedelic head-trip of a movie.


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Besides the ludicrous plot, the pretentious, self-satisfied writing, the sexism, the racism, and the ridiculous number of times the viewer has to suspend disbelief, the movie committed the cardinal sin of being boring. It's nothing more than a middle-aged man's wet dream.

The only reason I decided to watch it is because Manohla Dargis put on her year's best list. This is the last time I take her seriously.