>Leonardo Dicaprio in his prime
>Legendary soundtrack by Moby
>Directed by Danny Boyle
>Appealing premise
>Adventure/Survival so it's not boring for brainlets but with enough Drama/Seriousness to be enjoyed by pseuds
>breasts and Sexo
Why is this film completely forgotten? It might not be the greatest film but there's enough ingredients there for even zoomers to enjoy. I tried to look up youtube reaction videos and there was virtually nothing.
What gives?
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This movie makes me HAVE SEX.
that's nice
what point was he trying to convey? there's plenty of questionable book adaptations that still get all the attention
Modern consumerist society is le bad
the movie clearly conveyed that point though, the ending explicitly states as much while Leo pretty much looks into the camera
funny because there are now entire industries built around the idea of an isolated tropical island
no, the message is that you can't escape to paradise and expect everything to be okay, your problems come with you too, he literally says "desire is desire wherever you go" and then he fricks his friend's gf
“Wherever you go, there you are”
Am i right gang?
The book really themes around Gen-X wanderlust, and the dark corners created by checking out of civilized society. Except for the sharkbite scene, almost everything else about the slow collapse of the island utopia was swapped out for luaus and romantic trysts in order to put butts into theater seats. Basically, it got Hollywooded
Lord of the Flies but druggy backpacker SEA party island?
Yeah but Lord of the flies was based on the negative ideas about humans of the author.
Years after the publication of the book, a group of teenagers were stranded on an island and they cooperated and were founded relatively easy.
I know, it's a very nasty and stupid book. We all know what really happens to stranded westerners on deserted tropical islands.
the blue laGOON
>it got Hollywooded
DId it really? I watched it a long time ago but was surprised it was about Leo acting schizo while the community breaks down and not some romantic getaway movie.
Leonard Cappuccino had girls in love with him from Romeo + Juliet and more importantly Titanic, and so they wanted it to soak up all that wet-panty money and marketed it hard to chicks. You get a movie pulled in two different directions, where on one side it's a bunch of executives looking at a heartthrob beach movie, and then there's what the people making the film wanted it to be.
Nobody won, everybody lost, and the disconnect between the marketing and the film had everybody disappointed and weirded out.
weird coz I remember the movie being received as an edgy, successful thriller that elevated DiCaprio to his next roles. was seriously all anyone talked about for months. Didn’t help that Survivor was new at the time and Castaway had come out not long before.
I feel like your timing is off, at least in America. The Beach was dumped in February where movies went to die; Survivor was the summer sensation; and Cast Away was December, award season, Christmas, that kind of thing.
I don't recall Leonardo being taken seriously until he started working with Scorcese and Spielberg, and I remember The Beach, with the marketing at least, shooting for his teenage hearthrob audience.
timing not off, things didn’t vaporize from consciousness in a month. Survivor was insanely, massively huge and in the media all the time. The timeline you’re presenting just shows how The Beach was part of a wave happening at the time.
it ended up morphing into survival horror toward the early-mid 2000s.
I'd just take it as a loss. The Beach came out February 11 with $15.3 million domestically from 2,547 theaters as the #2 movie in the country, then dropped to #7, then #11, and a month after it released it was making less than $700,000 and well on its way out. Weekend of April 21, it made $32,186 in 56 theaters nationwide as the #62 movie in the country. After that, it's not even tracked.
Survivor premiered on May 31st, watched by 15 million, then next episode 18 million people, then into the 20s, until the finale on August 23 was watched by 51 million people.
Cast Away came out Christmas weekend, made more domestically on that weekend than The Beach made in its entire run, and stayed in theaters until the end of June, 2001.
You have these linked, but The Beach slipped through theaters making $39.8 million domestic; Survivor was a sensation of the whole summer as more and more people jumped onboard every week; and Cast Away was a genuine hit that made $234 million domestic.
The Beach was #60 on the US Box Office for the year, one slot ahead of the Director's Cut release of The Exorcist that came out in way fewer theaters, whereas Cast Away was the #19 movie of 2000 despite opening on Dec 22 of that year. It made more more money in the US than Mission Impossible II. Maybe everybody you know loved The Beach, but it's not representative of how it was received generally.
>id just take it as a loss.
I didn’t state my memory to get into an argument with a moron, I simply remember the media campaign that went on for months, references to DiCaprio and the film when survivor was being talked about, etc
nothing you said disproves that it was part of a wave, within the same year even.
it’s okay if you don’t understand how long shit stayed in public consciousness back then. I didn’t make my post for you to agree, disagree, or lose anything. feel free to respond with more seethe about timelines and losing.
Okay, well so on the one hand, there's your memory, and on the other side, there's my memory, and all the dates and information that can be looked up matches my memory.
Oh shoot, you called me a moron though, so I guess my memory and all the facts are wrong.
nothing you said changed what I said, simple as that. you’re arguing nothing except details that don’t even change the point. whichever came out first, they all did around the same time and fed into eachother. And regardless of box office, DiCaprio was making headlines and his movie was getting media coverage, which is literally all I said.
youre moronic because you don’t even understand what you’re arguing, you’re just in it to win or lose. and worse, you have no idea what you’re talking about because you probably weren’t even alive then.
I mean, you said that Cast Away had come out not long before, and that Survivor was new at the time, and both of those are wrong. Maybe you and you were friends were sitting around watching the Survivor finale talking about it has sorta a superficial resemblance to that Beach movie that you saw six months ago, or when everybody was talking about how Tom Hanks should get an Oscar because the film is literally just him for so long, and it's riveting, you and your friends were like, yeah but what about that Leonardo DiCaprio that isn't like that at all and isn't nominated for anything and came and went like a year ago.
People were talking about Gladiator, talking about Julia Roberts, and Steven Soderbergh having two nominations for best director and two movies nominated for best picture, talking about Crouching Tiger, talking about a whole lot of things that weren't Leonardo DiCaprio and his movie that people didn't like. Less popular than Vertical Limit.
>you and your friends
Creepy headcanon. didn’t watch survivor or beach at the time, couldn’t stand DiCaprio. Everything he did was covered excruciatingly after Titannic
>blah blah these other movies came out and had buzz so that precludes anything else from being talked about
Not surprised you have an argument that delusional, especially if you think more people knew or cared who soderbergh was vs the big names in the movie, ie del toro, Douglas, zeta jokes, grace, etc
It’s too late for this bullshit, you outed yourself as trying to “win” over a random comment.
The fact you think your little Wikipedia hunt is convincing as a “I was totally there!” credibility moment only makes it more pathetic.
You have 0 concept of what it means for shit to be covered in media or pushed for PR, because you simply weren’t there.
none of this even merited an autistic debate where you larp as some internet historian, but you wanted an argument and to feel you “won,” no more, no less. You will never actually understand what people watched or cared about at the time, you weren’t there.
now go make another cringe “zilennial” thread.
People did care about Soderbergh. Erin Brockovich was a huge movie, and Traffic was pretty popular too.
Your little rants about how I have to be lying about being old as frick pushing 40 years old on Cinemaphile to make myself look/feel cool are just wrong. Covered by whom? The local paper? Tiger Beat? It wasn't like it is now where articles and shit trend on Twitter and every day there's a new story from some outlet. I had a subscription to Entertainment Weekly, which would come in the mail.
But to follow up, the reason I'm "in it," is because I was alive and going to see these movies in the theaters, and Man in the Iron Mask before, and Catch Me if You Can later, and giving lots of shits about movies and actors and Oscars, and it bothers me when I read revisionist history type stuff.
You when I watched it a long time ago I remember that it felt simultaneously too dark and not dark enough.
There is no love triangle in the book. MC is a semi-sociopath autist and lusts idly after some French girl.
The breakdown in the book is also much more violent and paranoid.
The writer, Garland, disowned it after production because it was a pop culture island party with oopsies, and had missed the entire point of the story he tried to convey
Can Alex Garland be taken seriously as a thinker? He's a dreary director.
He is a much better director than he is a thinker. He has a cool recognizable slick visual style that most of the time carries the mediocre material.
Say what you will about garland but he always seems to find very interesting subjects, it’s just the execution that needs work.
Both Boyle and Garland are hacks beyond measure.
ding ding ding
here's the answer you were looking for OP.
Danny only directed two "good" movies : Shallow Grave and Trainspotting, both of which are laughably dated and cringe when you look back at it
All of Alex's projects suck ass, pure unredeemable bullshit (yes, even Dredd and the zombie thing that gets shilled here for no reason)
They both belong to that very category of midwit directors like Aronofsky, Snyder, the Russo Bros, JJ Abrams, David O Russell and Waititi. they think they know cinema, but they really, really, REALLY don't.
unironically this whole movie is on the same level than something like Now You See Me or Requiem For A Dream. it's not mind blowing or interesting in the slightest, and the production trashed a fricking natural reserve.
nice blog. the beach is kino and not in some pretentious way it's just a fun travel coomer film with 2000 vibes
>what is 28 Days Later
>what is Slumdog Millionaire
>what is 127 Hours
>what is Yesterday
He is far from a midwit, he has done one great film after another. Aronofsky and Boyle are a cut above the other morons that you listed.
none of those movies are good tho?
all reddit crap
>Yesterday
Poo dies getting hit by a bus.
Wakes up in a Heaven where he writes all the Beatles songs.
...I'd rather just listen to my Beatles album than endorse that fantasy-shit.
What if you died many years ago, and this is your subconscious which can be shaped to anything, and your choosing to not take control, to instead be boring, sitting staring at a screen all day.
Yesterday kind of stinks, but Millions is really good. I agree Danny Boyle is definitely a notch above shitty directors like say Brett Ratner.
>Yesterday stinks
Based, friends recommended it to me and I had to tell them it was garbage. Well, I didn't have too, but I felt it was important that they knew how abysmal their taste is.
The craziest thing about that movie to me is that he never gets returned to his original timeline. He’s seemingly stuck in the alternative universe for good.
Boyle occupies that middle ground where he’a kind of a hired hand who makes normie friendly movies which are occasionally interesting. there should be more directors like that, just for variety’s sake.
Jesus Christ
I certainly see the aronofsky comparison, but your post loses a lot of credibility by lumping in Dredd with stuff like ex machina and requiem. It’s one thing to not like it, but describing Dredd as “pure unredeemable bullshit” makes you sound like a histrionic autist. Makes the rest of your post and opinion (which I mostly agree with) weaker.
He's right, Dredd is schlock. One of the most overhyped turds I've ever wasted my time watching, it's a tenth of the movie that the crappy Stallone movie was.
Shallow Grave was great, your a gay
Worst thing I've read all day.
How dare you compare Garland and Boyle to JJ Abrams, Russell, and Waititi.
I'm pretty sure you're memeing, trolling, pretending to be moronic, but seriously go frick yourself you unbelievable idiot.
Shit taste, shit opinion, shit post, shit (You).
Sunshine is Danny's best work you pleb
Filth was good.
forgotten?
I rewatch it every summer.
I would bury my dick in this movie so hard that whoever could pull it out would be crowned king arthur.
*berry
I'M MOVING
I'M COMING
CAN YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR
IT'S CALLING YOU MY DEAR
when you're in the jungle
GIRL CARESS MY BODY
YOU GOT ME GOING CRAZY
TURN ME ON
TURN ME ON
I love that friggin' song because of this movie. It was like on a loop in GTA V lol.
This song is actually quite enjoyable for a 2000s pop song, remember it being on the radio a lot and actually liking it.
I listen to it almost every day
i'm about to put it on while i lift
Out of reeeeeach...
TAKE ME TO THE BEEEEEACH
For me it's Melanie Blatt.
DEMIGODS AND HUNGRY GHOSTS
OH GOD GOD KNOWS I'M NOT AT HOME
YEAAHHHHHHHH AYYYYYY HEEEEE HEEEE
For me, it's Black Coffee
Goddamn it had such a Kino soundtrack
Is this an accurate depiction of swedish men?
Prob not average these days, but they look pretty swedish
2/3 would be black nowadays
Right doesn't look Swedish at all.
How is this any different to the baby crawling on the roof scene of Trainspotting?
It's not, it's in keeping with Danny Boyle's tradition of being a really shitty filmmaker.
Whenever anyone mentions this movie, this is the first thing that comes to mind.
Literally me after eating an entire packet of Fruit Pastilles.
not enough sex scenes with the hot french girl
did he really eat the caterpillar?
the beach is top tier leo kino
Oh wow, cuckold the movie. No thanks homosexual. Literally goyslop
>cuckold the movie
>when the protagonist literally steals 2 women from 2 other men
lmao
You are what’s wrong with society today. Degenerate and disgusting. Never thinking what it feels like to be the other guy. Morally bankrupt and fell right in the israelites hands.
Are you a virgin? Will you be able to find a virgin wife? Serious questions
filtered
Early internet gen-x digital nomadism. I don't think there is nostalgia for that yet, it isn't new enough or far enough away, it's just something that happened 20 years ago.
It's not forgotten, lot of us love it. But Boyle disowns it because there was a lot of far left anger toward him for bringing a british crew instead of hiring natives on that island. He also resented casting Leonardo DiCaprio in his boy band phase instead of Ewan McGregor who was his first choice. DiCaprio is also embarrassed by the film due to the videogame magic mushroom scene. For these reasons, the film has been memory-holed and why it never had a blu-ray release.
>bringing a british crew instead of hiring natives on that island
>casting Leonardo DiCaprio in his boy band phase instead of Ewan McGregor
> the videogame magic mushroom scene
these were all good decisions
Everything you just said is part of why it’s a good movie
>embarrassed by the film due to the videogame magic mushroom scene
wtf thats a great scene
This. Lol it was the only good part of that pompous wanker movie
i rewatch this every year, i find it extremely comfy
>i rewatch this every year, i find it extremely comfy
Glad Im not the only one. Its a "summer movie" for me getting my hyped for travel and warm weather.
this movie ruined an entire country
the movie didn't make those people fat and chinese
How do they keep it clean with so many tourists?
They shut it down. Basically banned all boat traffic and limited visitors because the beach and lagoon was getting fricked up
No Black folk
They don't. Plastic garbage everywhere. Native sea chinks can't into throwing stuff in the garbage themselves so the entire region is polluted as hell.
Yea ive been there
Went there years ago on a cheap day trip when I was in Thailand for 2 weeks. After this we went to another tourist island that was just a bar. Met a Japanese broad that barely spoke English but had an ass like a chubby Mexican teenager. Got her number but we never met up. I would have tongued her butthole for hours. But anyway, island was way too crowded with other tourists and there was nothing there because the reef was destroyed and no fish go there anymore; it was a mix of tourists just doing Instagram shit and others who were uncomfortable with hie obviously fricked the island is now because of shitty tourists and lazy/greedy locals. Thanks for reading my blog.
>Thanks for reading my blog.
you are my window to the world, anon.
Going to tourist traps and eating ass makes you sound low iq.
Still not as obnoxious as Cinemaphileners that go to Japan and won’t shut up about how they discovered some quaint little town 'off the beaten path'.
This photo fails to capture the obnoxious diesel fumes and obnoxious Chinese tour guides yelling into megaphones a couple of metres from your ear.
thats fricking horrible. seen this shit happening to other places that were hidden gems, specifically spots in the Bahamas and Costa RIca.
China having a middle class was a mistake. They really ruin everything
better than Kaleesi suffocating Karl Drogo
I saw this in the theater. My takeaway was the American fricked it up for everyone.
Why the frick would he let them go? With them leaving the hippies no longer had any reason to keep the island secret, they kept it secret to prevent others from ruining their paradise, so if they were no longer allowed to stay it was no longer in their best interest to keep it secret and with so many idiots upset their little community got ruined it's pretty easy for some of them to expose the asiatic's drug business to everyone out of resentment
makes no sense
He didn't. Leo never made it out of the fields with his friends in the beginning of the film.
All of them were spoiled westerners that wouldn’t gain anything by trying to report the island to the local police though. Caspere knew this.
>I tried to look up youtube reaction videos and there was virtually nothing.
because it's not available on streaming platforms
It is in Canada I've seen it on Crave and Disney Plus, pretty sure it's on Netflix here too
The Beach is Titanic Isekai for Xennials
>Why is this film completely forgotten
because it was made for 17 year olds who just discovered philosophy
>Leonardo Dicaprio
I find him sickening and homosexualy. I wish Danny Boyle didn't sell out and instead fought to keep Ewan McGregor as the lead. Would have been a much better film.
I just remember the talking shark.
Fricking degenerate hippies.
The moment they took the dying swede into the woods and only the french cuck stood by him I lost any sympathy for the main character
It is the best movie ever made so there is no point in further discussing it. Now listen to the The Beach (2000) soundtrack and shut up
One of my highest autism moments was listening to the soundtrack while reading the book.
DAFFY
WAS
HERE
I'm disabled and poop myself so I can never do stuff like in this movie or go out in the real world, nevermind in bodies of water, so this movie makes me sad
I thought movies would be a good avenue to live vicariously through them
sure
and then the movie is over
and I am left with the knowledge that for most people, even if they won't do it, going to some far away paradise and meeting women is something they could do if they really wanted it
just put on another movie
and another
and another
at least you get disability money
>all he can think about is pussy
Its all so tiresome
>for most people
It absolutely is not most people unless you're just talking about desperate prostitutes. This is a fairy tale movie
Why do you poop yourself?
>soundtrack by Moby
Did he write the All Saints track?
If I'm not wrong it included the best of electronic music from that time. So it wasn't only Moby.
>Moby
no thanks
Play is a 10/10 album
Alternate ending
>Sal unalives herself
based or cringe?
Honestly don't really care either way
Oddly enough, there was a thread about this movie on Cinemaphile back in 2022 and an Anon said the book was way better. That post inspired me to buy the book and read it within 3 days. It is definitely one of my favourite books. Anon if you're reading this, Thank you. You were right, the book is way better
>Directed by Danny Boyle
This movie is objectively bad but it has an 'adventure' quality that is completely lacking today.
i remember the video game scene
pure kino
Why do old movies look so much better? do they use different cameras now?
They'd probably film it inside a pool surrounded by green screens and CGI the island today, making the entire movie look like a bad video game.
They did use CGI for the island
They used film.
It was actually shot on 35mm film back then. Now it's all digital
why go from better to worst? isn't technology supposed to improve with time?
I can't believe I'm old enough to have to explain this to someone but the reason is that digital saves a ton of time and money over film and yeah it looks worse. When film was used and it was expensive, filmmakers had to take much more care with the process. Now they can film as much as they want and fix whatever they don't like in the edit. Not in my day
studio executives will find a way to ruin everything
>isn't technology supposed to improve with time?
This is a question a child might ask.
to combine what everyone else said
they use film
they use actual locations
makes a HUGE difference, especially in the age of 4k
the sun and earth were brighter and clearer, and vision was less obstructed, colors were more vibrant in real life and on film. yet another example of how our minds shape reality, and how the shape of reality was better. i can hardly believe how much better things were, but it wasn't just my memory or perception at the time, observable space existed differently
meds
you just didn’t have to pay rent yet
People said film gives things a warm glow, but the aggressive color grading you see now wasn't really a thing.
Soderbergh's movie Traffic came out later that year, and made a big splash because it had different storylines happening in different places, and it used color grading for them, so the scenes in Washington DC are all tinted blue, and I think it was the first movie to have the scenes that take place in Mexico all yellow.
It was just unusual. The movie Three Kings from 1999 had a notice at the beginning of the VHS telling audiences that the picture was supposed to look washed out in parts, that it wasn't a broken tape or problem with their televisions.
so Soderbergh is responsible for the piss filter? fricking hack
pre digital piss filters
unironically lower resolution which makes bits of colors and contrast appear washed out but smoother and warmer in the end, also more grain. also probably different kind of go-to filters opposed to the ones they use today.
semi-related topic:
reminds me of the technique unrecord uses. applying some sort of camcorder-like effect which makes it appear way more realistic than it would be without it
in a similar vein older movies often had different lighting techniques and filters applied to them so they looked more homely on the screen
The camcorder effect in a game is there to hide hints that it's a 3D engine
Add blurr to an film picture and you only frick it up, because it is already more than photorealistic by default.
>lower resolution
Film has a higher resolution than 4k my friend.
>Film has a higher resolution than 4k my friend.
It doesn't. You can scan it at a resolution that high, but silver halide crystal size means all you're really capturing is more noise, not signal.
Truthfully, it’s difficult to compare 35mm and native 4k resolution. Technically, 4k should have more resolution and absolutely more sharpness, and yet every new scan of 35mm reveals new details previously thought unlikely. Sciencegays can be so smart, they swing right back to dumb and think the lab and field are the same thing. Remember when they argued the human eye can’t see beyond 2k? Lel.
movies now are fake slop, cheaper to make that way
its not forgotten, its a great film
>Why is this film completely forgotten?
It isn't, moron. Danny Boyle commissioned amy Seimetz to write a prequel series.
https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/the-beach-prequel-tv-series-amy-seimetz-1202152884/
that four year old news article about a project by a woman will happen any day now
Apparently there's a Six Million Dollar Man movie coming any year now...for the last 20 years.
Hey guys, after Top Gun 2 coming out after 20 years of talking about it, I don’t write anything off.
>why was this forgotten
>here this proves it wasn't
>l-l-let me move the g-goalposts a bit
She recently got ousted from The Idol
I remember in Australia back in the day this film was on SBS at like midnight every other week and my best friend and I would always catch it.
So I find the film very nostalgic
recommend me some nature kinos
loathe this director
only movie i kinda enjoyed was his first one
you say all that like it's good things
It's a great movie but it's not an enjoyable movie.
It's an enjoyable movie but it's not a great movie
how do you respond without sounding mad?
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Being stuck on that island with a bunch of college dropouts, gen x'ers who think missing out on flower power was their generations greatest loss, weedbros, backpackers and vandwellers seems like it would be a fricking nightmare after about a week.
yeah but if you were a college dropout stoner it would be cool
>seems like it would be a fricking nightmare after about a week.
Isn’t that kind of the point of the film?
>I tried to look up youtube reaction videos and there was virtually nothing.
you should probably have a nice day
this thread is beachin
Me as a kid watching
>he would be facing the other way in a real video game
BEACHED
>Danny Boyle
I fricking hate that guy.
yeah we know, you've said so about 5 times in this thread all ready
I remember seeing the trailer that came before the feature on VHS's. The trailer made it out to be this action packed, survival movie about a bunch of people in some island paradise getting attacked by cartell members or some shit. Then I watched it and it's just some twerp having an existential crisis on an island with a whole bunch of other rejects who think smoking weed is the pinacle of life and their petty infighting.
>I still believe in paradise. But now at least I know it's not someplace you can look for. Because it's not where you go, it's how you feel for a moment in your life when you're a part of something. And if you find that moment, it lasts forever.
It's a nothing burger, just isnt a movie worth remembering.
It's Travel porn, before tik-tok and onlyfans was a thing,
Who doesn't want to be whisked away to SEA to pure white sand beaches and have sex with french girls and literally live 'free'...?
I figured The Beach would get the same sort of cult following Into the Wild has
shill related
The movie's fricking boring.
>group goes to beach
>drug dealers on other side
>"Hey, don't come over here, or we're going to ask you politely to leave."
>group goes over there
>"You have to leave."
>they leave
THE END.
sexo with Tilda Swinton
Was the Pickled Punk involved?
No likeable characters.
90s and early 2000 t shirts are so much more effey
false
The black cricket guy was nice
Moby without Moby is the best beach tune
Faithless was better
UNCLE had a great song too.
BRAVO HOLLYWOOD
Controversy arose during the making of the film due to 20th Century Fox's bulldozing and landscaping of the natural beach setting of Ko Phi Phi Le to make it more "paradise-like". The production altered some sand dunes and cleared some coconut trees and grass to widen the beach. Fox set aside a fund to reconstruct and return the beach to its natural state; however, lawsuits were filed by environmentalists who believed the damage to the ecosystem was permanent and restoration attempts had failed.[18] Following shooting of the film, there was a clear flat area at one end of the beach that was created artificially with an odd layout of trees which was never rectified, and the entire area remained damaged from the original state until the tsunami of 2004.[19]
The lawsuits dragged on for years. In 2006, Thailand's Supreme Court upheld an appellate court ruling that the filming had harmed the environment and ordered that damage assessments be made. Defendants in the case included 20th Century Fox and some Thai government officials.[20]
The large increase in tourist traffic to the beach as a result of the film resulted in environmental damage to the bay and the nearby coral reefs, prompting Thai authorities to close the beach in 2018.[21]
The restoration period for the bay was lengthened due to travel restrictions during the COVID pandemic. Blacktip sharks began breeding there again. In 2022, the bay reopened to tourists, under strict protocols of no boats, no swimming and no more than a one-hour visit per person for a limited number of visitors at a time.[22]
>and the entire area remained damaged from the original state until the tsunami of 2004
lol then who gives a shit?
>Make love to me
How do you respond without sounding desperate?
you're not my type
>Y-y-you too.
Do a 360 and swim away
>yes sir
Didn't she just bluntly say I wish to have sex and I may wish to have it in the morning again LOL. Was it understood she wouldn't take him back with her if he didn't?
At that point just beat her to death with a rock if she's going to be unreasonable
Can someone summarize the plot to me?
Tilda seemed to be on something about communism. Kind of a Lord of the Flies type, don't let in the normies type thing. I have no idea why that guy was delirious and killed himself though. He wanted too much?
Try asking r*ddit.
Basically it was a commune where you were free to do whatever you wanted and made you happy as long as you didn't ruin things for others. Don't screw with the drug growers on the other side. It was a benelovent dictatorship. Don't break my rules, don't tell the public about this place etc.
It showed the darker side though when the collective needs and wants of the whole outweighed that of any individual. When Christo got bitten and refused to go to the mainland for help they wouldn't let a doctor come to him for fear of discovering their paradise.
I never found Leo sexually attractive. I can't fathom how the french girl would trade her hot boyfriend for him
I think he's charming and good looking in this. Was it a comment on betraying your ethnic countrymen and trading up for something exotic like the capitalist system?
Americans have always had the advantage with stealing women, traditionally they always blame them being richer but it really comes down to them being taught how to court women and not make things a bigger deal than they are.
t. Australian
Saw this as a 7 year old. Dead daffy duck jumpscaring back to life in the hallucination gave me nightmares
that book is really good, read it a couple years ago.
Movie is trash, though the All Saints song is insanely good
Cringe kino
Fuark this movie was my childhood. It would play so often in my country and it made me want to move to Thailand and just chill some day instead of wagecucking in the west
EYYY
EYYY
EYYY
WOMANN
This movie seems to make a lot of chuds with maymay vocabularies seethe really hard so I'm going to download it now
we got another one, boys
>People who love nature are chuds
Book was way better.
I liked the film but whoever was in charge of this scene fricked up. You have like 5 litres of blood in your body and there's easily double that on the sand alone
just saw it... was avoiding it for decades because by its poster it seemed to be a cringe survival movie... it's actually pretty refreshing!
thanks OP
The posters and trailers really don't do it justice. Many such cases for movies back then. Dunno why they were so shit at marketing pre 2000
>gays smoking dude weed
No.
The first act of this flick is so comfy and makes me want to hop on the first flight to SEA. Once he gets to the hippie backpacker commune it loses my interest, but the feeling of adventure and youthful excitement, the feeling that anything could happen if only we said yes to certain urges and compulsions that terrified us, THAT is what this movie captures so well.
There are still places in SEA where such an adventure could happen, but Thailand had such a unique combination of factors that made it so special even just 15 years ago. It's totally changed now though.
>Thailand had such a unique combination of factors
The only unique thing about Thailand was being a country of brown people too weak and cucked to be dangerous to tourists and poor enough to attract every poorgay backpacker.
No, there was more to it than that. If that was all there was to it then Cambodia and Laos would be just as goo to travel to. It wasn't perfect by any means but it really was an exciting place to be in your early 20s circa 2010 and earlier
> Cambodia and Laos would be just as goo to travel to
They were, but most people had all the genocides in their minds so bad associations.
> then Cambodia and Laos
They wouldve been, except one is landlocked and the other one has a marshy coastline. Okay let me ammend "poor, cucked and with beachline"
All I'm saying is it was the white man's playground, and you agree
Yeah, what I mean is that a lot of people talk about Thailand as this "mystical revelation" and a "magic place", when all it was is that now you could afford shit because everyone around you was poorer and subservient.
Its a great movie, never understood the hate
Don't talk about this hidden kino or normies will ruin it
OP watches Deux Princes
I read the book in my early teens and really enjoyed the prose but holy frick the ending sucked ass. I don't remember shit from the movie except that it had some solid Moby songs
I like that it's stuck in a time period too. Pre-smartphone and internet cafes etc. You could literaly go out, escape and no one could reach you.
The whole nihilism turned to finding meaning in shared experiences and that paradise can be connectedness not just a place.
>Pre-smartphone and internet cafes
>internet cafes
Final scene of the movie literally takes place at an internet cafe, bro
dicapiro was a high pitched voice homosexual
Wasn’t the theatrical release 90 minutes long and about the little blonde homosexual rescuing people from human traffickers?
Why didn't they just euthanize the swede right away instead of leaving him to die in the jungle
they were all too pussy to do anything and just wanted to chill and have fun all day like immature manchildren trying to escape responsibility and in broader terms - reality, it was made pretty clear to be tbh
it's ok, the only reason to watch is that early 2000s aesthetic
The aesthetic and the music, too.
Beginning of the movie had that one banger theme that's not on the OST for some reason.
When he meets the French girl, drops spaghetti and cue the title screen.
https://streamable.com/4o88j0
yeah the movie looks and feels right, Boyle's later movies used this same title text and transitions etc but it feels dated
yeah they nailed the whole tourist sense of adventure aspect. if you wanna read asian sex tourism in that era platform by houellebecq is all about it
also south-east asia as portrayed in early 2000s movies was homey as frick, i totally get why millions of western tourists flooded the place, fricking brown chinky hookers and getting shitty tattoos while being drunk or high 24/7/365. must've been paradise back then before it eventually became too crowded when chinese bugmen began visiting as well.
also i guess the internet ruined the long held positive perception of those shitholes, showing how poor and shitty everything actually is mere meters away from the tourist hot spots, full of fatass sexpat boomers and other morons instead of the perfect picture shown in the movies like the beach
>Leo turned down American Psycho for this film. Kek
good choice, it's a modern classic, even if it's relatively unknown.
also i can't even imagine leo doing a better job than bale at that time. twinky psycho would be utter shit i think
Post breasts and sexo
Im late to this thread but I love this movie. Living on the island would be awesome. This movie gives me a sense of wanting to travel and leave the world behind kind of thing. Plus lusting after a friends girlfriend reminds me of my teen years.
The book is kino and worth a read. Richard is based
The cgi where they make out in the water on bioluminescent shrimp is cringe
she was the best part of the movie.
woah this thread is still here
You gave them a map??????