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Trash Humpers trailer, you guys:
Uh. I would say that I consider myself a Harmony Korine "fan," but this looks completely unwatchable. It's just a trailer, or something that is supposed to resemble a trailer, so I could be wrong! But I could just as easily not be even close to wrong. And what is this official description?
A film unearthed from the buried landscape of the American nightmare, TRASH HUMPERS follows a small group of elderly Peeping Toms through the shadows and margins of an unfamiliar world. Crudely documented by the participants themselves, we follow the debased and shocking actions of a group of true sociopaths the likes of which have never been seen before. Inhabiting a world of broken dreams and beyond the limits of morality they crash against a torn and frayed America. Bordering on an ode to vandalism,it is a new type of horror; palpable and raw.
That is easily the most pretentious paragraph that has ever been copied and pasted into a YouTube description field ever. Crash THIS against a torn and frayed America. (Thanks for the tip, Lidia.)
Posted by Gabe at 4:00 PM in Trailer
Tags: Harmony Korine | Trash Humpers
The title shot looks like a poor man's Pon De Floor.
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Trash Humpers? Isn't that what you call Tara Reid's boyfriends?
Whammy.
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YES, this looks like the perfect film to take Becky, the prom queen from my high school, out on a first date. Sure she's now 33 and married and doesn't know I'm alive but we'll work things out.
Score = 6
Alex and his droogs haven't aged well.
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This, out of all things, didn't garner a "nightmares" tag?
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Opening night! Videogum Movie Club?
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I wish he'd finished making Fight Harm. This movie looks even more absurd than his usual efforts. According to an earlier interview, the characters in the move are based on "the neighborhood boogeymen who worked at Krispy Kreme and would wrap themselves in shrubbery, cover themselves with dirt, and peep through the windows of other neighbors." Right, those people, about time they got their film.
Score = 11
Oh shit, they're onto me
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Harmony Korine and fights should forever be associated with "Barfunk." For anybody that hasn't watched his '95 Letterman interview, you should do yourself a favor and watch it now. The fight talk and Barfunk glory is around the 1 minute mark. I'm an internet cripple so I really hope that link works.
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I usually find it very difficult to believe that Korine has any talent but after seeing this trailer, his genius has come into light. I'm glad that's cleared up... It was the dragging baby dolls on bicycles that did it for me.
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I would rather gouge my eyes out with a sharp rock than witness more shit from Harmony Korine.
Done! Print!
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Gummo and Kids fucked me up for life. I will not see this.
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anyone who pays to see this, should be forced to be a member of a Glenn Beck audience for life
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Throw the new Depeche Mode song under it and it's gold, right?
Score = 6
Gummo and Kids fucked me up for life. I WILL see this.
Score = 5
Looks like a lemonparty.
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I thought Gummo was actually pretty great. And I happen to have a Mister Lonely avatar as of this last weekend. What I'm trying to say is, I'll probably watch it, be initially dissapointed and grossed out. Then think about it for the next two weeks, watch it again, like it, think about it some more, watch it again and love it all while comma splicing the shit out of my sentences.
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Yeah, this will be boring and horrifying.
Still, I like the trailer, if only for its commitment to the "20-year-old found videotape from the basement" aesthetic.
Score = 3
I enjoyed Gummo, but I walked out of Mister Lonely. It will take some convincing to see this.
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What happened to liking things Videogum?
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Says the guy with an avatar making fun of somebodies involuntary twitch.
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Touche,
although to my defense i honestly like the kid. Or think I would like him if I met him, and probably consider his involuntary twitching one of those endearing details that all of us smile together at. But i would tell him to cool it with the pokemon stuff. For the kids.
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That description applies equally well to the current season of "Real Housewives of Atlanta."
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Off topic, but whenever anyone mentions pretentiousness, I always think of this write-up for a friend of mine's pretentiously-named band 'Aria Tari'-
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"Aria Tari. Let that one roll off the tongue.
The name teases and plays like the hard drum rolls and bass rhythms of a heart-pounding rock band. And Aria Tari is just that—an alternative rock band that creates music to tease emotions and instigate movement. All that insinuated by the enunciation of a name—Aria Tari."
(the rest of that description can be found here- http://www.hi-dive.com/artists/detail/aria-tari )
Score = 4
That IS really bad. They didn't even get the memo that alternative is dead.
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No bullshit - I worked on a film with the kid from Gummo (he's about 25 now) and at a crew party he vomited with his hand over his mouth and it sprayed all over the room. The vision haunts me. Welcome to my nightmare.
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I would say that I consider myself a Harmony Korine "fan," = worst first date talk ever.
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New party game: Add any logo to the end of this "trailer" and make it something new! A Microsoft commercial perhaps? Or a feminine hygiene ad? The new season of the Bachelor!
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Brilliant idea! I'll start:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBO4pwMADrA
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several years ago, i briefly stayed at this house in nashville that was populated by a lot of korine's friends. this was... right after julien donkey boy came out, i think. anyhow. these kids were all extras in his films and talked about how much korine had sort of cannibalized the weird stories of their circle of friends for his films, and there was a lot of resentment about that, from what i could tell. and they had tapes and tapes and tapes of all of them doing crazy, whacked out shit, sort of like jackass, but far drunker/more nihilistic, in a sense. like people setting themselves on fire and eating glass. it was... an experience. i have a feeling that these weirdos in this trailer are all those kids. they were, in the end, pretty nice (if crazy) dudes.
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