Film Kids

[inmymindimeveryone]

It's a decent movie. Nothing more, nothing less. Could have been much better.

 

[LuGoJ]

That movie is terrible. The acting, dialogue, and production are lame. The movie might have been better in the hands of a competent director but as it stands, it sucks pretty mightily. I dig skateboarding, nitrous, blunts in the park, and sex as much as the next guy but the movie, at the time I saw it for the first time was almost like filming my party crew for a weekend so my thinking was "why watch this shit when we can just go smoke and skate in the park for real?"

For the record, Wassup Rockers sucks too. The only value in Kids is that it helped launch Chloe Sevignie and Rosario Dawson plus Harmony Korine helped write it. Later, Korine went on to make Gummo, which is like a Hillbilly version of kids and infinitely better than its predecessor.

You have to understand a few things about this movie going into it.

A- For the most part these people weren't actors when the movie came out, Most of them were actually kids that hung out around NYC.

B- As far as I know this wasn't meant to be anything more than "a day in life of" type movie. If they were to act it would have taken away from what the movie was trying to show, at least that's how i feel.

When this came out it was ground breaking shit because most people in the mid nineties had no clue what we were up to and this a pretty good fucking depiction. I know because I was there, in washington square park smoking weed, at NASA every friday night, breaking into pools over the summer and hopping turnstiles to get around. Sure it may not be as relevant and poignant to people that weren't in NYC or growing up during this period but it really doesn't get any more real than this as far as what a lot of lower/middle class kids were up to.

Also i feel it's important to mention that the club they showed in the movie was not actually NASA, it was a place called Tunnel. The real NASA was held at a club called Shelter from 92-93 and was the first place to really play rave music and have a rave vibe aside from outlaws here and there.

Here are some videos of the real NASA, with the kids this movie was based on. Chloe included, she was a door girl there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5iTs1-61mI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LklmLdH3TUs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kACAHf_Th08

 

[His Name Is Frank]

I wasn't aware maybe meant a definitive answer here. Christ it's just speculation what's the big deal anyway

There's no big deal at all. Any movie thread is a good movie thread when it invokes discussion.

 

[puke]

I keep up on Harmony Korine who wrote this movie at an early age. Heres his link http://www.harmony-korine.com/news/. Speaking of Leo/Telly I just saw him in an episode of My Name is Earl

 

[malakaix]

I had never seen this until i saw this thread, which encouraged me to go watch it.

I enjoyed the style of cinematography.. the opening scene was so different from conventional movies, the long pauses on characters faces and scenario's seemed to give this film a sort of uniqueness. I wasn't to impressed by the dialogue, it seemed 'over-done' to me.. i understand the emphasis was on how kids would talk and relate to each other.. but i found it frustrating that it took 20 sentences to get a single point across which was more or less established within the first few seconds.

If i had seen this during the 90's i may of had a different view.

Despite this.. i went and watched Larry Clarks more recent film 'Bully'. Another film in which one of the main stars died several years after the movie was released.

I found this movie to be alot more interesting, maybe because of the fact it was based off a true story.. the dialogue again frustrated me in some scenes, but also seemed really disturbing in others due to the naivete of the kids in the film.

If you liked 'Kids' i would recommend checking out 'Bully' aswell.

 

[Wolfmans_BrothEr]

I wasn't to impressed by the dialogue, it seemed 'over-done' to me..

If you liked 'Kids' i would recommend checking out 'Bully' aswell.

Bully is a good watch

And if you wanna talk about overdone dialogue have you ever seen Brick? I mean does anyone really talk like that?

 

[vegan]

The only value in Kids

the real motivation of larry clark was the safe sex message [source : interview]

but there was also the part about being the first movie (as far as i know) to crudely remind adults what they try to forget about how some teenagers really are when they are not watching

 

[hydroazuanacaine]

^that the concept of "childhood" does not protect children from the consequences of reality.

 

[JoeTheStoner]

Legends Never Die
by Caroline Rothstein
Two decades after a low-budget film turned Washington Square skaters into international celebrities, the kids from "Kids" struggle with lost lives, distant friendships, and the fine art of growing up.

http://narrative.ly/keep-calm-and-carry-on/legends-never-die/

good read.

 

[LOGan1314]

This movie's awesome, I really like Harmony Korine's writing. 4 stars from me.

 

[Pharcyde]

Bully was great

Kids was meh.

 

[23536]

Among the five greatest works of art in human history--the others being the ceiling of the Cistine chapel, the Haggia Sophia, King Lear and Lebron's play in game 6 of last year's Eastern conference finals.

 

[kc2729]

It's a great movie in that it definitely sticks with you. That's not really what its about either. It's worth a watch, but its definitely not a fun movie.