Synopsis
We're just here for the bad guys.
The line between reality and fiction starts to blur when two best friends start making a movie about getting revenge on bullies.
Directed by Matt Johnson
The line between reality and fiction starts to blur when two best friends start making a movie about getting revenge on bullies.
Самые грязные, Kevin Smith Presents The Dirties, Гадёныши, 고딩감독, 脏货恶人帮, The Dirties - A Mocskosok, 髒貨惡人幫, המטונפים
"Hey, Owen, what does the word arbitrary mean?"
So many quotable lines in this film, both poignant and hilarious (the above one being the former). I stayed up way too late watching this... I didn't think that I was going to admire it as much as I do. The first thing that shocked me about the film was the Irreversible reference toward the beginning, but that most certainly wasn't the last shocking, or the last memorable moment.
I can't even describe the ocean of mixed feelings that I was experiencing during the very brief "Soundtrack 2 My Life (Remix)" montage; the juxtaposition of the events that were transpiring with not only a tremendously utilized piece of popular culture, but also…
The Dirties suckerpunched me completely.
I had heard nothing about it other than that it was a great found footage film and a very impressive debut. From the synopsis and poster it is not that difficult to ascertain what the film is about, but I was not really prepared for the way writer/director Matthew Johnson goes about telling this story.
These two friends are real. I know, because I see them so often in front of me when I teach. Good kids that get shunned and even bullied because they have different interests and are not concerned with conforming to the social common denominator. What they lack in physical strength they make up with creativity and wit. More often than…
I’ll always respect this movie for the insane blending real life settings and people. I think it’s a very important movie for that aspiring movie lover and possible filmmaker in their teens doing shit all guerrilla and low budget. The movie references and passion being constructed with genuine problems and necessary escapism, I think it’s beautiful. It’s fucked up but it’s crazy getting nostalgic by feeling like walking through a twisted memory of genuine high school days, stuck in those claustrophobic classrooms. Only difference is I’m not Canadian. Important movie tho
This absolutely crushed me, immensely sad. That last scene, that last line. Will be thinking about this for some time.
The school shooting movie people should be talking about. Terrifyingly realistic and a complete lack of heroes, just like in real life.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Still not sure this completely nails the transition to school shooter thriller but the meta-cringe-comedy stuff has aged pretty well into the era of online ironic detachment and speaking as a Canadian movie dork in high school around this time it gets a lot of this specific milieu alarmingly right. One of the better things that's had Kevin Smith's name on it in 2 decades.