I really liked it. I think a lot of people won't though. Its not very mainstream and its really more about character than plot.

Yes, it's very much more of a character study (I always like those types of movies better than plot-driven ones).

Timberlake is in it? I wanted to see it..now I don't know.

samuel l was going for a theme in his titles

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what is it with you and ugly shrill white trash characters?

im sry i don't speak to ppl that have shitty taste in movies. you are free to skip around in your SCI FI CLASSICS all you want.

Shows how little you know about me. I only like about 2 and a half sci fi movies.

well really that's more than enough.

Well Aliens has a 100% on Rotten Tomatoes and Terminator 2 has a 97%

Devil's Rejects has a 53% and BSM has a 66%.

I'll take my shitty classic sci fi movies.

do you know the demographic of Rotten Tomatoes? fucking ultra geeks, like yourself. go get another tattoo of Ghostbusters.

actually it is based on professional reviews. tard. IMDB would be the geek central. (where, btw, both Aliens and T2 have made the top 100)

btw I used the wrong percentages before. those where the overall ratings (which includes the fanboy moview review websites)

The cream of the crop rating only includes the pros (Ebert, Maslin, Berardinelli, etc) and by using those ratings Aliens retains it's 100, T2 falls to a respectable 88, BSM and TDR both fall to a 50.

Shouldn't you be busy posing with a Skynard shirt with a cig hanging out of your mouth? Poser.

my favorite movie since amelie.

so i guess the best movie since 2001

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and where BSM get a 7.5 out of ten which is exceptional. shut yer fuckin mouth

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from here all the way to singapore
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I finally watched this the other night. I wanted to see it for Ricci, but I ended up really liking it. It was really sad to watch somebody care so little about themselves. And Justin was so freaking naive it was crazy.

the whole point was that IMDB isn't a reputable rating systerm. Example, the new Die Hard is in the top 250 movies of all time already.

have tyou seen the new die hard movie? do you know its trash? bc the first die hard movie is fantastic

or are you one of those disgusting snobs that needs to have everything handed to them in french

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from here all the way to singapore
but i will carry you home in my teeth
-mountain goats

this movie is so fucking awesome. its too bad that elistist assholes wont ever see it bc of the marketing

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Black Snake Moan

/ / / March 2, 2007



Cast & Credits
Lazarus: Samuel L. Jackson
Rae: Christina Ricci
R.L.: John Cothran Jr.
Ronnie: Justin Timberlake
Angela: S. Epatha Merkerson

Paramount Vantage presents a film directed and written by Craig Brewer. Running time: 116 minutes. Rated R (for strong sexual content, language, some drug use). Opening today at local theaters.

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by Roger Ebert

I had never really heard many half-snorts before. Snorts, yes, and silence. But what do you make of an audience that has no idea how to react? "Black Snake Moan" is the oddest, most peculiar movie I've seen about sex and race and redemption in the Deep South. It may be the most peculiar recent movie ever except for "Road House," but then what can you say about "Road House"? Such movies defy all categories.

The movie -- I will try to be concise -- stars Samuel L. Jackson as a broken-down blues musician and vegetable market gardener whose wife has just walked out. On the road leading to his property he finds the battered body of a young white girl, whose injuries hardly seem curable by the cough syrup he barters fresh vegetables for at the drugstore. The girl is Rae (Christina Ricci); it is no coincidence that Jackson's character is named Lazarus, and Lazarus determines to return her from near death or whooping cough, one or the other. No saint himself, he wants to redeem her from a life of sluttery.

His technique, with a refreshing directness, is to chain her to a radiator. Good thing he lives way out in the wilderness. Lazarus and Rae have no sex per se, but they do a powerful lot of slapping, cursing and chain-rattling, and the reaction of the blue-collar town on Market Day is a study. I think the point is that Lazarus and Rae somehow redeem each other through these grotesqueries, a method I always urge be used with extreme caution.

The performances are very good: Hell-bent for leather, and better than the material deserves, there is much hysteria and snot. The writer-director, Craig Brewer, made that other splendid story of prostitution and redemption, "Hustle & Flow," with its Oscar-winning song ("It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp") In fact, I pretty much enjoyed the whole movie, with some incredulity and a few half-snorts.

Both "Black Snake Moan" and "Hustle & Flow" are about neglected characters living on the fringe who find a healing in each other. Both movies use a great deal of music to illustrate the souls of their characters.

We sense that the girl has never been treated other than in a beastly manner, and that the man, having lost his wife, is determined not to allow sex to betray his instincts to do good. Yes, I think it is probably against the law to chain a drifter to a radiator, but in a sense these people exist outside the law, society and common or any kind of sense. Their society consists of the usual locals who seem clueless and remarkably unobservant, leading to remarkable non sequiturs.

There is another woman, the middle-aged pharmacist named Angela, played by the sweet S. Epatha Merkerson, to provide Lazarus an alternative to a life of sluts and tramps. But, as for Rae -- well, I gather that when compulsive nymphomania passes a certain point, you're simply lost.

After Rae says goodbye to her boyfriend Ronnie (played by pop star Justin Timberlake), who has enlisted in the service for cloudy reasons, she immediately falls to the ground and starts writhing as if under attack by fire ants. This is her way of conveying uncontrollable, orgiastic need. A girl that needy, you'd approach like Miss RoboCop.

I love the way that both Samuel Jackson and Christina Ricci take chances like this, and the way that Brewer creates characters of unbelievable forbearance, like Ronnie, who is in a more or less constant state of panic attacks and compulsion. And I like the understated way the rural Tennessee locations are used. You have never seen a movie like this before. Then again, you may not hope to. Some good blues music helps carry the day.

I heard some days after the screening that Jackson considers this his best performance. Well, maybe it is. He disappears into the role, and a good performance requires energy, daring, courage and intensity, which he supplies in abundance. Few actors could accomplish work at this level with this screenplay. As for Christina Ricci, she is the right actor for this role; she embodies this poor, mixed-up creature and lets you experience both her pain and her hope. Her work defines the boundaries of the thankless.

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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

i hated it.

i don't even know why i paid to watch it.

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