Less than Zero

[Expertise]

Just watched "Less than Zero". Kind of a cool flick..... makes my nicotine addiction seem kinda' candy assed. One of the few movies where I actually enjoy a Robert Downey Jr charachter.

Thoughts, feelings.......do you even remember it?

 

[Rosebud]

yes and i liked it too...good movie makes you think twice before getting addicted to the hard stuff maybe they should show that one in schools

 

[bluntforcemama]

I've never seen it, actually. Are you tipsy again, Expertise?

 

[Expertise]

Nahhh. I only have one beer in the fridge and I don't feel like rum or wine. Actually I feel like going out but i'm not sure i'm that bored.

Just sitting here watching Bat-21..... woohoo

 

[shadowsource]

Can't show it in schools!

The only movies they can show in schools without controversy are those where drugs just suck from moment one. Look at how they banned kidws under 18 from seeing REQUIEM FOR A DREAM last year, notwithstanding that it was an incredibly powerful critique of lots of drugs. The drugs looked like fun for awhile (and the idealistic director refused to yank a shot that wasn't sexy at all, but depicted a sexual act committed by a girl desperate for heroin), so they gave it the kiss of death NC-17. If I'd had a kid or young friend who was drifting into a stoned mess, I'd have begged them to watch that movie.

Same basic problem as sex education and AIDS - these days you have to teach Abstinence, not useful logic. Somewhat like the stem cell shite.

 

[bluntforcemama]

I want to go out, but the friend I want to see the most is working! So, I'll go out with her on Monday.


I LOVE YOU ABBYCADABRA!

 

[Expertise]

I want to go out, but the friend I want to see the most is working! So, I'll go out with her on Monday.


I LOVE YOU ABBYCADABRA!

I don't wanna' see a friend.... I wanna' make a new friend or two for that matter.

 

[Laurel]

The scariest part of that movie is the soundtrack.

I was a teen during the 80s, listened to 80s music, wore 80s clothes, and had no clue how silly I looked or how bad the bands were.

Dead or Alive? Bananarama? Psychedelic Furs? WTF were we thinking?

Veering back on topic, that movie scared the piss out of me as a kid.

 

[Expertise]

The scariest part of that movie is the soundtrack.

I was a teen during the 80s, listened to 80s music, wore 80s clothes, and had no clue how silly I looked or how bad the bands were.

Dead or Alive? Bananarama? Psychedelic Furs? WTF were we thinking?

Veering back on topic, that movie scared the piss out of me as a kid.

I look back on those days and think "Jesus.... was I mixing my pain meds"

 

[Siren]

Yea I saw the movie, it is really good

 

[InternationalFunboy]

Maybe someone can settle this for me once and for all....

Is this movie based on the Bret Easton Ellis novel of the same name?

 

[Laurel]

IFB - Yes.

Siren - totally true! Odd how life imitates art...(if you can call 80s pop art, which I can, being the pop culture junkie that I am)

 

[Ticklish Girl]

The scariest part of that movie is the soundtrack.

I bought the soundtrack just for the Slayer cover of "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida."

 

[Bob Peale]

Maybe someone can settle this for me once and for all....

Is this movie based on the Bret Easton Ellis novel of the same name?

IFB,

Yes it is, but if you've read the book (which it appears you have), they definitely sugar coated the movie. The book is truly disturbing.

The other thing is, the book Less Than Zero occurs concurrently with Jay McIneray's Bright Lights, Big Cities. Later on, Bret's American Psycho actually intersects with Jay's The Story of My Life

 

[InternationalFunboy]

IFB,

Yes it is, but if you've read the book (which it appears you have), they definitely sugar coated the movie. The book is truly disturbing.

The other thing is, the book Less Than Zero occurs concurrently with Jay McIneray's Bright Lights, Big Cities. Later on, Bret's American Psycho actually intersects with Jay's The Story of My Life

Thank you both Bob and Laurel.....
Some people say it was, some people say no, some people say "sorta"....

I've read three and a half of Ellis' books (never got through Glamorama) so I knew about some recurring characters, but i had no idea about the tie in with McIneray's books. I'll have to check it out...thanks

 

[Bob Peale]

Thank you both Bob and Laurel.....
Some people say it was, some people say no, some people say "sorta"....

I've read three and a half of Ellis' books (never got through Glamorama) so I knew about some recurring characters, but i had no idea about the tie in with McIneray's books. I'll have to check it out...thanks

IFB,

Bret will tell you grudgingly that it was SUPPOSED to be based on his novel, but he had huge problems with the license the studio took (basically, to tone it down so that audiences didn't register en masse for therapy! Plus, it was as much West Coast as Bright Lights was East Coast, and they were afraid that a lot got lost in the translation).