bristol is NOT like this at all! - Bristol Boys (2007) Discussion

I fully agree. bristol is nothing like that at all.

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BEEWCAR, ITS KARL. Dude absolutely, bristol isnt like it all. Our mayor does suck and sure there are a few rough patches but its a quiet little suburbia.

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[–] fungsheu 18 years ago

Actually, I live in Bristol and way more *beep* up *beep* goes on here than you'd ever imagine. Are you guys forgetting that someone(a 19 year old no less) was just arrested here not 6 months ago for possesing 2 kilos of marijuana? And that's only what you HEAR about! There is a methodone clinic on Farmington Ave(it is the blank, unlabled building by taco bell) that is PACKED in the morning. There are drug dealers all OVER the town, and some of the more serious ones do have dreams of making it big, just like the kids in this movie. Sure, Bristol is pretty much a suburbia, but lots of *beep* up things go on here under the tuxedo, Albeit these dirty things also go on in MANY more cities across the U.S.

I also heard the director of this film claim that Bristol is a white trash, blue collar town. I'd only about 15-20% of Bristol is truly white trash/blue collar, the rest are upper middle class *beep*

The only thing that is really inaccurate in the preview is the line that says "the only people who drive nice cars in Bristol are factory owners." All the factories in Bristol are closed down except for a few, and the few that are still open are dwarfs compared to what they used to be. Bristol used to be an industrial town back in the 30's and 40's, but to even consider Bristol a "factory" oriented town is ridiculous.

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[–] themuffinman290 18 years ago

Bristol is like this in places, and it's not in others. It's pretty rough down by the hospital.

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[–] zipponxx 18 years ago

your obviously blind to some other aspects of bristol. yeah its a suburbia aside from a couple places, but most of the people i know are going out and getting *beep* up most nights of the week, and with that come the drugs and the dealers, which theres more of them then you realize apparently. If you were ever around some of the places ive been and some i havnt that there more *beep* going on then you think

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[–] nicman-2 17 years ago

You dont know *beep*
Youre all probably a bunch of rich kids from Chippen's Hill, living in a fantasy world of free golf and mommy and daddy's spending money.
Come on down around The Centre Mall area around 12-1 am, then tell me *beep* isnt *beep* up.
Bet you didnt know Bristol has 3 well known whore houses.
Of course not, why would anyone living in the shelter of Mommy and Daddy know anything about that.
What about the guy that got shot up by a group of dealers with an AK?
No?
Bristol isnt like that?
There are so many stories you know nothing about, so dont go sayin "Bristol is nothing like that!"
Cause trust me, it is.
The cops are up and around my apartment building here in downtown 3-4 times a week.
A dude got gunned down by police officers after holding his wife at knife point 50 feet away from where i sleep at night.
So yea, im sure you know all about the underside of Bristol.
Great post.

-Nick-

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[–] jayandbobfan91 18 years ago

fungsheu you are doop, and a moron, it isnt like that. sure methadone clinic but we're okay, your an ass

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[–] smontesi81 18 years ago

I agree. I grew up in Bristol as well. Although it has gone downhill slightly over the past few years, I wouldn't consider it a white trash town with drug dealers and crack houses. If it is, society has done pretty well for the past 24 years of keeping it a secret! More than half of Bristol is upper middle class...its one thing to say these parts exist, but to say the whole town is this way is Bull!

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[–] patmanorama 18 years ago

karl, you definitely live in upper middle class suburbia, but you also live a half mile from burlington. and while I don't think Bristol is as bad as the movie seems to make it, I do imagine there is a lot more crime than you realize. I see cops raiding buildings right next to my house (corner of summer and main, and lower high street) every couple weekends. plus, if you remember, there was a man stabbed right in front of my house last year, not to mention the registered sex offender who lives 15 feet from my backdoor and throws cats out his windows. keep in mind, the area where i live isnt even considered the bad part of bristol. even you dave live in a pretty secluded street. just because you guys don't see drug dealers and barefooted prostitutes where you live, it doesn't mean they're not here.

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[–] orpheus2003-1 18 years ago

I was going to say.... a person who DOESN'T believe Bristol is like that lives on Chippens Hill or has never been outside of Bristol to know that other places can be better.
The movie may be a slight exageration, but that's why it's a comedy... comedy's exagerate things, it is what they're suppose to do.
I am a native Bristolite.... I moved out and I don't plan on returning. If you went to the Boulevard... then you understand the concept behind this movie. I think I may even know a few people the characters are based on, frankly.
Connecticut has always had two sides to it. I think Bristol, in many ways, while it is segregated from much of Connecticut because of its lack of highways, is kind of the epitomy of what Connecticut really is.... ritzy suburbs with splashes of horrible ghettos.
Let me put it this way though... I now work in Northeast Washington, DC... and there are neighborhoods in Bristol I'm more afraid of... not that Bristol doesn't have it's nice parts... but this is a reality check kind of thing...
That being said... Bristol will always have been my home and you have to respect your home. I will always be a "Bristol Boy" of my own right and I'll never forget the heart aches and successes I had growing up in a community like Bristol. I will also never move back, nor will I want my kids to be exposed to some of the things I was exposed to.
I am interested in seeing this movie though if, for no other reason to say... hey, that's about my home town.

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[–] fungsheu 18 years ago

A doop? I've never heard that one yet. We have a lot of drug problems in this town, so do many other towns. That's all I was saying. Okay, maybe only 5-10% of Bristol is white trash, I guess I DID exaggerate in regards to that.

We're okay? We don't have a bookstore(we are a city of nearly 70,000 people and our library still blows), We don't have highway access(70,000 people!)we don't have a movie theater, we don't have a DOWNTOWN anymore for pete's sake! Sure, all cities are starting to become more sprawled and androgynus in this way, but that doesn't mean we're an 'okay' city. There are people in this town that I love, but if it weren't for a lot of my friends and family living in this city, I would never set foot in it unless I had an urge to visit a carousel musuem or because it was en route to another destination.

And don't just say "It isn't like that." You didn't even say why it isn't like "that." Whatever "that" is.

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[–] hardcoreskater6987 18 years ago

ive been living in bristol too my whole life, and like everyone else said, there are parts like that. im on park street myself, and right next door a drug dealer moved in, and theres one across the street too. a few months back a couple houses down from me was just robbed. and down on west end is pretty bad too. there are parts like that, like you've all said. but not ALL of bristol is like. on chippens hill, those are all people with decent money, and cedar lake like someone else mentioned.

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[–] patmanorama 18 years ago

i dont think the trailer is saying ALL of bristol is like this. there are nice parts of EVERY 'bad' town--hartford, bridgeport, etc... but remember we are are a pretty big town. 60,000 people are A LOT of people. And i don't think mentioning Cedar Lake or Chippens Hill (both on the outskirts of Bristol) justify any of your arguments. Bristol's largest age group? the 25-44 yr olds. there arent a lot of people in this group living on chippens hill or cedar lake, especially the 25 to 35 yr olds. A lot of them live in all those *beep* apartments downtown that no one seems to know about, and thats where this happens.

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[–] oxlatinbabixo 18 years ago

hahaaa this movie sounds funny :]
but i have to admit that most of bristol is preppy white rich kids. yea i kno i live in a pretty desent area but ive lived all over bristol and i hang out all over bristol and its alot worse than the kids from the chippens area think. not to say that all of them are like that, but being in such a sheltered area, you don't experience what the real world is like. there are plenty of drugs and dealers and all that *beep* all over bristol. there are twelve year olds on bikes that go around asking people to buy weed. thats seriously *beep* up. plus i can name plenty of hardcore drug addicts in this place.

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[–] jayandbobfan91 18 years ago

i say this there are several rough people, and a few tough places but not ALL BRISTOL is white trash and drug dealers.

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[–] td-jmiddleton 18 years ago

I don't believe any one person can have an experience to be able to justify that a whole town is or is not a certain way. Bristol is a large town. Chippens Hill, Cedar Lake, as well as many other little neighborhoods are not a significant part of Bristol as a whole, even when they are all counted together.

To be honest, most of the people who live here are blue-collar, and most of the white-collar residents work out of town.

In either case, there isn't enough shown in the minute-long preview to show that the movie portrays Bristol as "white-trash". There was one line mentioned about factory-owners being the only people with nice cars.. Bear in mind, this is a movie. If the characters in this movie didn't exaggerate and inflate things (as kids in real life do), then the movie would be a documentary... not a bread-and-circuses flick, as most big-budget films are.

A lot of all of your claims are quite outrageous, considering that what you're saying is based on a trailer.

Contrary to popular belief, Bristol is a big industry town. Those of you who don't think there are a lot of factories simply don't know where to look. There are a few hotspots across town that have dozens of blue-collar businesses.

What I got from the trailer is that they're portraying Bristol as Blue-Collar. I agree with this (keeping in mind that Hollywood will most certainly exaggerate things... this is a movie, not a documentary). Just try to realize, people, that Blue-Collar doesn't translate to white-trash.

If you're angry about a movie portraying Bristol as white-trash or a druggie town (even though you're basing this on what you've seen in a minute-long preview), then don't blame the movie. Blame the fools who take the movie seriously.

Then again, I'm looking at the preview as an open-minded film-maker, not a biased critic.

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[–] littlelady01011 18 years ago

I agree i live in bristol to and they make it seem like it is the next Yonkers. It is not a bad place at all. I mean there are drugs don't get me wrong but that makes me mad that they think that we are white trash and everyone does drugs. But in movies they do make it seem like it was worse off then it really was to grab the peoples attention. I dunno...... Just my thoughts.

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[–] DCulver83 18 years ago

This movie is a travesty. Bristol is in no way a drug town, or have a drug problem. Growing up in it and experiencing much of what it has to offer i've come to realize that if anything the only problem that revolves around bristol is a problem with drama. You all love it drama so god damn much. Personally i wouldn't waste a minute of my time, or a dollar of my own at the box office on any film based on bristol. Leave the legend to die. Booyackashaw bitches, big it up for my main man dante cimadamore. The real bristol legend. Chimney Crest Bitchessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.

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[–] beewcarsmells 18 years ago

I'll end it with this, we definitely do have rough patches of town, just as any suburban town would have. our mayor sucks, the centre mall is nothing like it used to be. and the city wants nothing to do with moving forward because theyre afraid to pay a few "taxes". My advice: get out of this town while you still can, because soon it will be overrun with apartment complexes, fast food chains and pharmacies(and I work in one). Stortz sucks, and this movie is hilarious.

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[–] rdklepps 17 years ago

ill be honest.. i think most of the people saying how hardcore bristol is are just trying to pretend it is for the sake of saying "I grew up in a *beep* up neighborhood". Bristol is no different from every other 60,000 person town/city. There are drugs everywhere, and drug problems are especially prevalent in richer towns in connecticut where people have less to do and more money to spend. The difference is it stays quiet because when they become junkies and *beep* they just go to rehab, in hartford the junkies wander the streets. Bristol is getting worse by the day no doubt, but this movie is a ridiculous over exageration.

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[–] dancusson 17 years ago

Have any of you idiots actually seen the movie?

I was at the premiere, and Brandon David himself announced before the movie "This movie is not about Bristol. It's about a group of guys."

There. From the man himself: The movie is not about Bristol. Now shut up.

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[–] meldog1851 17 years ago

Seriously? Don't think that Bristol is at all like this? I didn't grow up here, but I've lived here for 4 years. In that time I've had my share of scary experiences. Try inviting some friends over after a night at the bar and walking downstairs to find four average joe, just like me, middle class white boys blowing lines on the table and then offering up some like they were offering you a glass of water.

I'm not saying everyone here is like that, but you have to take it with a grain of salt. Think about some of the movies and TV shows you've seen in the past. Do you think all women in New York City live like the girls in "Sex and the City" or all Italian men in New Jersey are 'made' like the guys in "The Sopranos"? Certainly not, but I'm sure there groups of people who closely resemble them.

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[–] spirks008 17 years ago

for all u who say bristol isnt like this at all, u need to take a deeper look around guys. i personally never really thought it was remotely as bad as i know it is now, i just thought it was the occasional pot head here or there. but about a year ago i found out just how bad it really is. yall say its all the dumb ass teenagers who make up the "bad drugee" part of bristol, but take it from me it goes WAAAYYY beyond that. i know alot more upper class richy types of ppl here in bristol that are potheads, coke heads and dope fiends than u can even imagine.in fact id say that the older ppl take up more of the percent of drug users than teenagers do in this town. take it from sum1 whos in there, theres alot more goin on that u can possibly imagine at this point...

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