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This video is up in your gutz, Eminem. Because you can jump-cut your way shirtless through a spooky forest soundstage all you want, it will not be as unsettling as cherubic Icelandic teenagers in Gap clothes happily throwing blood balloons at each other and giggle-swinging around half-dead almost corpses. This is like Funny Games without all the college.
Or, wait, is this just that terrible UK anti-texting-while-driving PSA that has been going around all week? Yuck on that as well, btw. (Thanks for the tip, Spencer.)
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When those two guys spit at each other, they totally each got spit in the other one’s mouth. Gross, right?
Gabe… I like you. I know, that’s so weird, but I like to think that if you were on a bus or a sidewalk in Boston (mah home) I could be like “Hey Gabe!” and you could be like “Hey reader!” And that’s bad and ass-kissy and I know. I really hate that you saw Funny Games. I hate that 73% as much as I hated that movie. I can’t offer an explanation.
Grant Marley, Bob’s forgotten son, really likes Gabriel.
Maybe I’m just having a hard time handling my hate for Funny Games. Grant is eerily close to my actual name though. Something’s going on.
Ok, I’m putting it out there. I liked Funny Games, I liked the original and I liked the re-make. Wow. I’m so glad I came out of the closet. Everyone can know now that I am a friend of Haneke!!
And I won’t judge you! It just made me unbearably sad. And I know, why doesn’t all violence in all violent movies make me sad, I don’t get it either.
I’m not trying to be snarky, I swear, but you’d rather sit through a movie where horrific violence has little physical and emotional consequence and is treated as a stylistic choice? No offense, but that’s a bit scary. What about 2012, a PG-13 movie where millions, maybe billions of people are killed? The way most people digest on-screen violence is mind-boggling. I say that not as a judgment on you or anyone else, but as an honest curiosity.
No it’s a totally good question. It’s odd you mention 2012, because when I saw the scene where the dome of Saint Peter’s rolls on top of the crowd, I was mortified. Why doesn’t it always bother me? I don’t have an easy answer. Now, I’m NOT going to pull the “I’ve seen some shit” card, because that’s disrespectful to the people who I know who have been involved with violent tragedy, but Funny Games just hit too close for my brain to tell me “This isn’t how the world is.” There were too many emotions that were too identifiable for too long a time in Funny Games. This is all a confession, not a boast.
That’s a totally respectable position, but it’s strange that you and I have completely opposite reactions. Not to get all livejournalgum, but I’ve been a victim of terrible violence, and when I see people get shot in action films and yell a bit before they quickly die a bloodless (or comically bloody) death, I feel like it’s a slap in the face, a terrible insult to people who have actually experienced the horror of that kind of pain – physical and otherwise.
I know it’s uncomfortable to sit through something that brings up those ugly emotions you’ve worked so hard to get through, but to me it can be cathartic when you force yourself to stare realistic violence in the face. It’s one of the many reasons that cinema is literally a form a therapy for me.
You’re not alone, my friend. Us Haneke apologists have to stick together!
Um, isn’t Gabe doing Funny Games for the Hunt? So, yeah, cool
I had a weird day, on the lonely-but-busy side (i’m self employed) so I just was very susceptible to reaching out to anyone. And it turned out weird. Internet weird even. Oh well.
*hug* I know how that is. It’s okay. I hope your day was better today.
UGH! I realize how creepy that was. Sorry. That time of the month.
You know what prepped my appreciation for such an extremely frustrating film that is Funny Games?
Jean-Luc Godard’s Week End.
I swear if I watched these two films back to back I would be in a funk for at least a week.
These films are great examples of other legitimate emotions films have the right to make you feel. Happily Ever After is the oddity in real life.
Misery is the norm.
Those Euros do the darndest thing!
Ugh.
More like an anti-white-people-making-music-videos PSA. What a bunch of polyps.
You’re right. White people shouldn’t make music videos.
I concede, white people have made some decent music videos.
How does someone even think to do this kind of thing?
Icelandic Music Video Director; ” Due to all our banks plummeting our country into catastrophic debt, we are going to have to make this video with relatively no budget”
Band Member 1; “Well I’ve got a pretty cool Ringmaster costume, complete with tophat and beard”
Band Member 2; “My Auntie works in a blood donor clinic, she said she would give as the rejected diseased blood in water balloons for free”
Band Member 3; I crashed my car and have obtained a pretty serious head injury”
Icelanic Music Video Director;“Then you shall be spun around! We could pull this one off guys!!
i disagree, friggin candy bra is pretty creepy.
More music videos need to be just like this.
Sam Raimi presents… Mentos: The Freshmaker.
Careful! Blood balloon fights gave Magic Johnson HIV.
I thought Saw was Funny Games without college?
I just watched this without sound because I’m at work, so maybe I’m missing something but…
Huh??!
Reykjavik Juggalo Fest ’09, fools. You shoulda been there.
The only reason why they made a video this weird is because they knew the song wasn’t enough to capture people’s attention.
…And that, my friends, sums up today’s indie rock in a sentence.
Huh?
Oh, I guess my pithy statement wasn’t clear enough. I meant to say that this music is boring and unimaginative, and the only way for the band to create buzz about it is to make a weird-ass video for it, so people will be like OMGZ ZOMBIEZ *forwards to friends*.
This is exactly right. I feel like crappy indie bands have been doing weirder and weirder “performance art” type of stuff to make up for what their music lacks for years now.
You don’t listen to a lot of music, do you?
Well, no. I’m more of a talk radio geek. I did listen to “The Best of Cream” last Thursday though.
don’t watch them both in a row. ::shuffles off to vomit::
Jesus. This back-to-back with the human hand gloves post? Why don’t you use this weekend to kill hobos or whatever it takes to get this out of your system. Meanwhile, I’m going to watch slow loris videos on youtube until I start feeling like a person again.
At least this video made me aware of Zach Galifinakis’ singing career.
Slip ‘n Slide in blood? Perfect summertime activity!
New Life Game: Find the most inappropriate time to play air guitar on someones leg, and do it. Because playing air guitar on someones leg any old time is so two thousand and late. It’s time we up the ante.
Weekend At Bernie’s Part Three: Islandic Vacay: Teen Edition!
Oops, I meant Icelandic.
What is up with this site? Am I signed in? Not signed in? Is it just me?
Not just you. You need to sign in for every session. If you shut your browser you need to sign in again, even if it shows you as signed in. Just don’t click “Remember Me” and only sign in by clicking the link at the top of the page.
I didn’t know there were any more boundaries left to break. And then I watched this video. And they missed that one.
Straight out of Mad Max.