i loved brick. and i think your mom is wrong. its modern noir. if she doesnt like film noir, thats her loss.

edit: i answered this post twice. i think im senile now.

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by pure force of will
i look down on the world
from the top of this lonesome hill
and you can run, and run some more
from here all the way to singapore
but i will carry you home in my teeth
-mountain goats

I remember seeing this sometime last year. I loved it! I watched it with my mum and we were sitting there throughout the movie looking at eachother thinking wtf. I never once felt sorry for that guy, I got terribly excited when she was about to cut him. I thought it was pretty clever that scene. I didn't think it dragged on too long. I think it was the right length given the material.

Um, I love noir, and I hated it. Hard Candy is not noir. It's just badly made sleaze. Sleaze without even the courage of its convictions: "Sure I cut off your balls, but then again, not really! Surprise!" There's a lot of that going around these days.

I only got excited during that part because it was really funny when he says, "Does your mother know you cut off guys' (or maybe mens?) balls?"

That was the second-funniest line in the movie next to "I fucking hate Goldfrapp."

why does she torture him, what the hell did he do besides meet her?

umm KILLED someone?

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I am still not sure what I think about this movie. It definitely didn't end up being what I thought it was, and its was much darker than I expected but rather slow and semi-predictable. With that said, I would still recommend seeing it if you haven't cause it is interesting and not like much else out in the past couple years.

i'm watching it right now and it's nearly over, and SO overrated.
it's slow, and the dialogue is predictable, and it's not even scary or much of a thriller. the psychological element is very bland.

it has like 15 minutes left.
i'm unimpressed.
or maybe i'm just very hard to shock/scare

if anything, i feel bad for this guy. and bad for ellen page's character for being so token, and the same type of character she ALWAYS plays; sassy jaded teen too wise for her years, with hip tastes in music and movies, a bad attitude and an agenda.

i didn't think it was that good either, definitely not shocking. maybe if they had used different, less recognisable actors i might have been on the edge of my seat. maybe.

Ellen Page wasn't recognizable when this movie was first released. I loved this movie, I thought it was great, and I cringed at "the scene".

exactly id never seen her before that film actually.

and i walked in the theatre knowing nothing baout it and it was pretty fucking great.

__________________
the cave mouth shines
by pure force of will
i look down on the world
from the top of this lonesome hill
and you can run, and run some more
from here all the way to singapore
but i will carry you home in my teeth
-mountain goats

oh right, sorry, i only watched it a couple of months ago.