I saw it last night and I really enjoyed it!



Brick


Go see it now, here I've made it easy for you :


http://www.movietickets.c...e_id=48558

Here's some reviews:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/brick/

You all stink!

Hell, I saw some previews of that, and the thing looks amazing, the way Requiem For A Dream gets you.

This is on my list. I may go tomorrow.


M

it kept tellin' me that it doesn't open until the 21st.

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AnckSuNamun said:

It is only in select theaters now, maybe it's opening the 21st where you live???

What's it about?

jerseykrs said:

It's an old fashioned detective story in a lot of ways... you'd love it.


A detective story set around a contemporary California high school, BRICK dares to combine the teen and film noir genres. In mixing these two disparate worlds, Director Rian Johnson creates many comically jarring and ironic moments. When loner Brendan Frye (a barely recognizable Joseph Gordon-Levitt of THIRD ROCK FROM THE SUN) gets a desperate-sounding call from his ex-love Emily (Emilie de Ravin), he feels compelled to help her, plunging himself into the seedy world of teenage crime that pulled her away from him in the first place. Throughout this journey, Brendan plays a hard-boiled type reminiscent of Humphrey Bogart's iconic Sam Spade character. Johnson's script invests heavily in the fiction of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, and is filled with other archetypical characters like the femme fatale (Nora Zehetner), the eccentric crime lord (a brilliant Lukas Haas), and the dame in distress. As teens trade in their cell phones for things as old-fashioned as pay phones and 1940s gangster vocabulary, occasional references to detention and first period provide a humorous contrast with the otherwise unbelievable complex, precocious, and largely parentless world that these teens inhabit.

With its heavy reliance on references to old noir classics like THE MALTESE FALCON and THE BIG SLEEP, the film may risk alienating viewers not familiar with these older films. Seeing teenagers speaking in coded detective-movie-style lingo is entertaining, but mixed with the often overlapping, fast-paced but muttered dialogue, it also proves to be distracting at points. People eager to see a predictable teen drama may be confused by BRICK, as its goal is the turn the genre on its head, earning inevitable comparisons to films like 2001's surreal teen fantasy DONNIE DARKO. Because of the film's attention to detail and witty yet hard-to-follow dialogue, BRICK may be better appreciated on second viewing.

I'm going to see it on your recommendation.

GREAT sig.

jerseykrs said:

great it's playing in NYC and LA


I rather like my sig too.

Love film noir. I definitely want to see this, but it probably won't be playing in my area by the time I can see it.

I had a dream with Joseph Gordon Levitt or whatever his name is. I think it involved stopping at a Mexican restaraunt. And lots of driving around. Not sure what that's about.

I need to see this! I don't think it's playing in Detroit, though

Sweeny79 said:

It's playing in San Jose, woohoo!!!!!

M