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This movie was great!

posted 21 years ago by AngelGirL3000
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I love randy quaid from the Vacation Movies playing cousin eddie. When I saw this movie I roared with laughter as it is set in the ealy 60's or late 50's. all their furniture is retro modern and they seem like normal parents except they are cannibals. Their son is on to them and is alienated by other classmates because they think he is odd. only one girl likes him and he gets along with her. I laughed and still got creeped out the first Time I saw this and think it one of the best dark comedies of all time. almost like a SNL skit made into a movie. The misic in it made it all more the fum. I can't beleive there are no other posts on here about this freaky flickorama! Anyone who likes dark comedy would enjoy this. I also like American Psycho and even legally blonde too. So I have a taste for all sorts of movies. though Harry potter actually put me too sleep as well as Lord of the rings though I enjoyed the books as a kid.

[–] dumbledore_623 20 years ago

Wow... I'm sorry, but if you don't like Fantastic pieces of art like Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings and you like this trash, something is seriously wrong with you...

[–] peechee 20 years ago

dumbledore 623 needs to get a life.

[–] dumbledore_623 20 years ago

I think you need to get a life if you like this trash. I liked Strangers with Candy... it's hard to believe that something that funny could come from the same mind that produced this garbage.

[–] parodic 20 years ago

The film wasn't meant to BE funny, for your information. The entire film porbes the inner thoughts of what we perceive. (spoiler alert)I mean, you don't actually see the face of who killed the social worker, or, for that matter, understand why in one scene, the boy hits his father's legs with a bat, and then it cuts to the circling table part with the parents convincing him to eat his meat. For all the camera tells us, it could have been another one of the boy's imaginations. You don't really know.

Sure it ain't funny, but who gives a crap? The use of the color red during editinghelped to recreate the imagery throughout the film, not to mention the notions of sex which acts correlative to the symbol of blood, that is, the transfer of fluids. The entire film has all these psychoanalysis images, it boggles the mind completely. It was never meant to be a comedy.

I saw it during Film and Theory, so it was free.

[–] parodic 20 years ago

You know, it's things like this that make people think films like "Very Bad Things" is a comedy.

[–] dumbledore_623 20 years ago

I don't care... It's still trash.

[–] parodic 20 years ago

Your opinion. I just wish it wasn't mislabeled as a comedy.

You plan on having Thanksgiving after seeing it?

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[–] basik9 18 years ago

Dumassdore...man, you are a mental midget...

[–] mmaranger 16 years ago

What a loser.
Stay in school 13 yo.

Lmao, Harry potter, thats a great movie........ if your 12.

[–] Danimal_77 10 years ago

HA. A troll from 11 years ago!!!

[–] thomkennedy1983 17 years ago

Which it is. A black comedy. Numpty.

[–] sccergal 19 years ago

hmmm considering the fact that you watched the movie in Film and Theory kinda gives away that Parents was probably mentioned in your textbook... Because this review clearly came from one

[–] Greaserdemon 19 years ago

Hey, dumbassdore, just shut up already and go watch your pansy young wizard flick okay, and sccergal, very funny! Seriously, lol

[–] starlovesdeath 18 years ago

Just because you did not like it does not mean it was trash. Apparently alot of others can appreciate this movie. It is one thing to state your opinion, but to expect everyone else to believe as you do is very small minded of you and says to us all that we shouldn't respect any opinion you might have. Perhaps the movie isnt trash, just your attitude.
Live or die trying.

[–] Greaserdemon 19 years ago

Yeah Dumbledore, Lord of the Rings is cool but Harry *beep* Potter??? Those films suck.
Look Parents has so much going for it, and though I think as a whole it does fall short in certain aspects, it has other aspects worth respect. It is creepy as hell, great performances, very cool editing and design and is a risky, brave, weird cool work of art, that does unfortunately drag in areas. But deserves respect. So to call the film trash, Dumbassdore 623, means you are full of *beep*

[–] imdK 20 years ago

dumbledore, you are one sick fuc|<

Though (...) you can shake my hand and feel flesh gripping yours (...)... I simply am not there.

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[–] NukeyShay 20 years ago

lol
Sorry, but your lack of credibility is showing.

This movie really gives you a sense of how young children with very vivid imaginations think. How they interpret what they see.

Now the bad news:
It throws it all away with the comic book-style ending...when his fears turn out to be correct.

Watch the movie...skip the ending.

[–] shadow13_6 20 years ago

actually, the ending is really important. the setting of 1950s suburbia and the fact that the parents were cannibals just goes to show you that you don't really know what's lurking beneath the surface.

[–] rogerbrent 20 years ago

You make me sad dumbledore_623.

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[–] rogerbrent 20 years ago

When you're older you'll see what we mean.

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[–] mc_swirl_girl 20 years ago

well, it wasn't very funny to me when i saw it as a kid 15 years ago. really creepy!

[–] shadow13_6 20 years ago

that's just it, the movie IS creepy. to some of us it's funny in a sick, twisted way, which is what makes it black humor.

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[–] Greaserdemon 19 years ago

Yeah, dumbassdore is just a mainstream yuppie, forget him.

Anyway, all the approval and disapproval and theory and discussion I think just goes to show that the film is a powerful one, perhaps not in every moment (I do think it has its fair share of flaws) but overall leaves a powerful imprint on the viewer. To dive into the 50's Suburbia, from the child's perspective and not, say, the moral father trying to raise a family, or teens where some silly monster is on the loose, but a (seemingly) normal child's viewpoint amidst the 50' decorations of perfection and american wholesomeness, and to see the darkness that always haS been creeping around the corner in essence, the hidden sickness, indulgence and grime in everyone and to feel alone like all children do at one point in their lives, exposed to sex and concepts of murder and death for the first time....I'm not sure exactly what I'm trying to say but the film has a powerful effect if you allow yourself to be taken into to it for only the hour and a half or so of its length. I think the cannabalism is just metaphoric for the concepts a child is exposed to for the first time that I already mentioned; the film takes the concept of perfection and indulgence (lust/ death) and creates extremes for the sake of art (sort of like in Blue Velvet when the guy is watering his lawn on a beaiiful sunny day only to have the hose suddenly attack and we see hungry evil ants below the surface of his lovely lawn; evil always hidden away by prizes cheaply representing goodness). Alright, I'm done now.

[–] DingleDootie 15 years ago

I'd like to point out that Harry Potter is overrated tripe.

*disappears again*

[–] grrrdevin 11 years ago

Harry Potter is only fantastic in the literal sense.

"I've been living on toxic waste for years, and I'm fine. Just ask my other heads!"

[–] Adque_Kuma 8 years ago

that's certainly preposterous; any judgement based on stereotype would never be a wise one.

I love Harry Potter (books and the first three film productions only) as well as Lord of the Rings, along with Jim Jarmusch and Alejandro Jodorowsky; I also consider this comedy-noir film a brilliant one that consists of great imagination, solid emotion expression, and nice camera manipulation.

Whatever you think is purely your own stupidity; don't speak for any fantasy fan.

[–] write4ever 19 years ago

lucky me, i don't eat meat, and i didn't when i saw this movie, so i have nothing 2 worry about. :) this was an okay movie...i saw it at like 1 in the morning on i forget which channel on digital cable, so maybe my judgement was a lil off since i was exhausted, lol. we definitely flipped out at some parts, and the music WAS pretty freaky. but as to it being "mislabeled" as a comedy...i don't really think that's right, because it was quite funny. dark, but funny. basically: we laughed a bit more than we screamed. im thinking im gonna go back out and rent this to watch again...since it seems as if a lot of people really liked it. maybe i missed something and didn't get the same effect i did when i saw it the 1st time. it's always worth a second try.

oy, please leave dumbledore alone already! people's opinions aren't there for you to bash, they're there for you to learn from.
...just a bit of advice. im working on it myself :)

*~*No Day But Today*~*

[–] parodic 18 years ago

As for me, after the film, I still ended up stopping at KFC.