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Anyone else see this movie? Thoughts? I was struck by how Irvine asian gangsta-cultcha is actually way *more* than the movie deals with and also the similarities to eg. Roth's Portnoy's Complaint and the history of the jewish "model race" stereotype and finally I coined a new term "asian rage" to capture the theme of the movie.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 21 April 2003 04:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked it. The problem is that I have to write a review of it for a local paper by tomorrow and I have no clue what I want to say.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Monday, 21 April 2003 04:52 (twenty-two years ago)

who's planning to see 'better luck tomorrow' this weekend?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 21 April 2003 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I was struck by how Irvine asian gangsta-cultcha is actually way *more* than the movie deals with

You've been, Sterling? I knew you lived more in the Santa Barbara area, I didn't think anyone would willingly come to Irvine just for a visit.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 April 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I lived in Irvine for part of Jr. High.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah, understood.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:22 (twenty-two years ago)

The nearest movie theater playing this is 40 minutes away from me. Guess I'll wait until it comes out on DVD. (However, if I wanted to see Anger Management, I'd have my pick of 300 show times/per day)

― buttch (Oops), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

i havent seen it yet, but it looks somehow a dramatized/romanticized yet still cleaned-up vision of Asian bad boy youth. and in my experience the good-at-math thing and the drug/car-jacker thing overlap less than the film seems to want to believe.

― Honda (Honda), Monday, 21 April 2003 19:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Having them overlap is much sexier, though.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 21 April 2003 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

it's actually not about your typical asian thug kids, in my opinion. the movie deals more with studious types that find themselves getting involved with crime. i mean there's actually a scene in the movie where some actual bonafide thugs roll up next to them while they're driving, so the movie consciously highlights the disparity. the movie is influenced by an actual event that happened in sunny hills, orange county, where some asian kids, one of them a valedictorian candidate, murdered some kid in someone's basement.

also, buttch, the movie's being released a lot more widely this coming friday, so you might have a chance to catch it.

― edgor, Tuesday, 22 April 2003 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

five months pass...

I'm watching the DVD. So far this movie is really depressing and it makes me feel really old for some reason.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 14 October 2003 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I did wind up seeing it. Yes, depressing. I had no interest in any of the characters, couldn't understand their motivations.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Who wants to buy a copy of the DVD? I'm never watching this piece of shit again.

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 14 October 2003 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh no. You *bought* it?? I've done a good job of never thinking about it until this got revived.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 23:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah. Impulse buy. Now it goes in the stack with 'Requiem For A Dream' and 'Pollock.' ARRGH. Maybe I'll watch 'The Sum Of All Fears' again, get the taste out of my mouth.

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 15 October 2003 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha. My friend and I bought 'Requiem' cause it was only 8 bucks or something. That movie makes "Better Luck Tomorrow' look like Mary fucking Poppins. Same friend warned me about 'Pollock.'

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 02:15 (twenty-two years ago)

It was awful, imo. Another Goodfellas redux w/ "AZN characters" who have absolutely nothing to do with the real Asians or AZNs you encounter in life/SoCal.

― Vic (Vic), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Is Requiem For A Dream the ultimate "favorite movie" for people who don't really watch a lot of movies but want to impress people?

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Sterling's initial post is classic in its Sterlingness.

― barf (Oops), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Does he do Barmitzvahs?

― adaml (adaml), Wednesday, 15 October 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

It was awful, imo. Another Goodfellas redux w/ "AZN characters" who have absolutely nothing to do with the real Asians or AZNs you encounter in life/SoCal.

― Vic (Vic), Tuesday, October 14, 2003 11:02 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this was not the point

im not sure if i think this movie was A+ or C-

― joe 40oz (deej), Wednesday, 8 October 2008 07:14 (seventeen years ago)

it was clearly taking potshots at the worshipful notion of 'model minority'

what a queasy film
its cynicism feels right in cult-of-palin times like these

― joe 40oz (deej), Wednesday, 8 October 2008 07:21 (seventeen years ago)

five months pass...

it's pretty funny how when justin lin came out with better luck tomorrow everyone was throwing around comparisons to scorsese and the like, and ever since then he's proved that was just a calling card for him to become an anonymous bullshit hack

― hello my name is peter francis geraci are you in debt (omar little), Friday, 3 April 2009 18:49 (sixteen years ago)

I only just learned he did The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift the other day and I was all 'whuh?'

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 April 2009 18:50 (sixteen years ago)

he did the new one too. and "annapolis"!

― hello my name is peter francis geraci are you in debt (omar little), Friday, 3 April 2009 18:51 (sixteen years ago)

Hahah Annapolis. My dad's a USNA grad and I have a guess he'd laugh his way through the whole thing.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 3 April 2009 18:51 (sixteen years ago)

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