Bully (movie)

[Rex]

This is one of my favorite movies. My favorite parts is everything leading up to the murder and Bobby's death scene.

I sort of feel bad for the kids in this movie. Even though they killed someone, they all had messed up lives. I don't know why the parents were letting their kids turn into drug addicted high school drop outs.

This is really sad too that the actor who played the main character died last year of an overdose.

Did anyone else watch this movie and what were your favorite parts and what did you think? I liked it much better than "Kids".

Anyone who hasn't seen it should check it out. It's really good.

Snopsis: Bobby Kent (Nick Stahl) is not a nice guy. He beats up his "best friend" Marty every chance he gets, he abuses Marty's girlfriend Lisa, and he rapes Lisa's friend Ali. From director Larry Clark (KIDS) and screenwriter David McKenna (AMERICAN HISTORY X) comes this gruelling thriller based on the true story of Bobby Kent, a bossy Florida teenager who was beaten to death by a group of his peers. There isn't a lot to do in the suburban Florida town that Bobby and his "friends" inhabit. They play violent shoot-em-up video games, they work at the Pizza Hut, they go surfing at the beach, and they cruise in their hot rods. But mostly, Bobby and his friends have lots of sex. The film is drenched in graphic shots of barely legal naked teenagers. (This has been Clark's favorite subject matter since his days as a photographer, as illustrated in his 1997 book TEENAGE LUST.) Sexual identity is an undercurrent in Bobby's story: he watches gay porn while he rapes Ali, and he forces Marty to dance with him at a gay club. Some of the other teenagers think that Bobby and Marty are a couple. But this is a minor issue. They decide to kill Bobby because he's a bully who has hurt and angered them; and because they're bored and desensitized to violence. In BULLY, Clark provides another hard look at the hard lives of American teenagers, in all their confusion. It isn't pretty.


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[jimm04]

I really like the scene before they murdering the kid on the beach when they're all outside, in front of the house, and they are forming a circle and the camera shot them from the centre point. You can feel all the madness. Larry Clark's only film to be seen.

 

[Rex]

My favorite scenes are probably after the murder, when the kids can't help but tell people about what happened and how everything falls apart slowly, they're arrested, etc. There was one scene in particular where Marty gives his little brother his earring and hugs him like it's the last time he'll see him and his brother just looks freaked out.


Here is a trailer/tribute video thing someone made:

 

[VaseFace808]

I really enjoy this movie as well, pretty intense - I never see it for sale at stores so I'll probably have to order it online

The only chances I get to see are whenever IFC airs it.

 

[Rex]

I really enjoy this movie as well, pretty intense - I never see it for sale at stores so I'll probably have to order it online

The only chances I get to see are whenever IFC airs it.

You can find it online. Even on youtube I think it's split in parts but you can definitely find it online.

 

[bostonboy20]

meh...I didn't particularly care for it....pretty much all of these types of movies that came out in the mid to late 90's that seemed to all star Brad Renfro, Bijou Phillips, Dominique Swain and others were all pretty graphic for the sake of being graphic....not that I mind graphic movies...but sometimes it's just overwrought and takes away from the movie itself for me. Just because a movie is gritty doesn't make it more realistic most of the time.

 

[Rex]

Well, it wasn't 'pleasant' to watch but I think that was the point. I appreciate how they didn't glamourize (Scarface) these people. They all came across as nasty and disgusting. I mean really disgusting.

*SPOILER ALERT*

You've got the ratty clothes on the girls, the guy throwing-up, liking the dog in the face. The sex scenes were gritty and unemotional. Slitting the guy's throat was very detailed special effects work. The entire film was told from the teenagers' point of view. All of the adult characters were in the background and rather annoying and two-dimensional, probably the way the teens saw them.

"Trans" is another film that didn't shy away from showing the ugly side of life.

I think Marty came off as nice. I really sympathized with his character. Most of the others came off as disgusting though and sadly remind me of a lot of teenagers I know today.

meh...I didn't particularly care for it....pretty much all of these types of movies that came out in the mid to late 90's that seemed to all star Brad Renfro, Bijou Phillips, Dominique Swain and others were all pretty graphic for the sake of being graphic....not that I mind graphic movies...but sometimes it's just overwrought and takes away from the movie itself for me. Just because a movie is gritty doesn't make it more realistic most of the time.

Hmmm... I completely disagree. I think "Kids" was overly sexual but the sex and violence was done for a purpose in this movie and was well done and it wasn't just for the sake of being graphic. It was based on true events and the lives of those kids revolved around drugs and sex for the most part.

This also came out in 01 so it wasn't the late 90's.

 

[SexyKev]

This is a great movie. I saw it last year on tv and loved it.

 

[Rex]

I loved that film. It had so many unintentional (at least I think) funny scenes. I laughed out loud when Bobby was punching Marty when they were driving (and then Marty returns the favor by slugging Bobby in the gut).

Don't know how you found that funny. He was being abused lol. I felt sorry for him in that part.


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he Heather/Feather chick seemed to have this goofy perma-sneer going on, which when combined with her crooked grin, just looks ridiculous. I liked how Donnie/Lonnie kept rehearsing his lines so he could explain that Heather was his girlfriend, but then couldn't say them when the time finally came.

Ha, I really liked Donny. Heather was cute in an ugly, trailer trash sort of way.

"You kids don't work. You don't go to school. You don't do anything. All you do is lay around, drive your cars, and eat us out of house and home. You know how that makes me feel?" (pause) "Bad!"

LOL, actually Donny said "mad" but I agree, that part was funny.

I don't think most of those scenes were intentionally funny. I know teenagers who act just like these kids in the movie. It's actually kind of frightening more than it is funny, just how aimless some kids are with no direction or ambition in life.


On a side note, Brad Renfro is very cute.

I think Bobby was meant to be gay or bisexual and Marty was straight. Some parts were kind of creepy how Bobby made Marty have phone sex with old men and strip in the gay club, and they video taped an old man playing with dildos. I read reports on the true story and they tried selling the video tapes to local porn shops.

 

[thelaw18489]

fav movie of all time, rip brad refrno

i loved micheal pitt and every other guy in this film except the person who played the fatty i forget his name

 

[SFLMAN]

I remember reading about this true story in the newspaper. It was a very sad movie showing how some kids just waste their lives doing nothing constructive or meaningful.

I saw the movie a long time ago when it first came out in the theatre's.