THE BLING RING

Starring Emma Watson. Written and directed by Sofia Coppola. It's just a teaser trailer but Watson looks fantastic. After Perks of Being a Wallflower, I think I'm a fan. Coppola? Eh, she's hit or miss, really. The movie is based on a true story about a bunch of girls who would break into celebrities houses and go "shopping". Sounds like something Lindsay Lohan would do.

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• The only thing that could save this is that it's based on true events. That will at least give Coppola's story some structure. Her Academy Award for 'Lost in Translation' is just a complete mystery to me.

• Lindsay Lohan was one of the celebrities robbed. As well as Audrina Patridge, Rachel Bilson, Orlando Bloom, Megan Fox and Paris Hilton.

• That link is fucked.

• Try this:

  http://www.aintitcool.com/node/61352

• not good

• Neither link works

• The link at r4 works, I just checked.

• Coppola needs to make movies about something other than how teenagers cope with the privileges and pitfalls of celebrity.

• She needs to work from someone else's material, like she did with The Virgin Suicides and Marie Antoinette. Lost in Translation was such a non-event for me.

• Looks good. Doesn't look like the typical Coppola snorefest. Watson looks really pretty.

• How can you tell? The trailer is a music video with almost no dialogue.

• Looks like a movie Gus Van Sant would make if he were a lady...

• I loved Lost in Translation and The Virgin Suicides. Looking forward to this. Emma Watson seems to be taking some good movie choices.

• Coppola needs to retire.

• I like Sofia, but I tire of movies like this that are pretty much lifestyle lists of the rich - where to go, what to do, clothes, drugs, attitudes - with very little real attack or rage, aside from some wan criticism. It's like bragging with a dash of brooding. I think I'm ready for a movie about terrorizing the 1%, something with more contempt.

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• That's a lot of assuming, R15.

• I know I'm projecting, R16 - I hope it's different.

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• Emma filming

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• I was home with the flu a year or two ago, and saw a cheapass made-for-TV movie about these spoiled little sociopaths. So, Coppola is taking Lifetime's sloppy seconds now, is she?

• Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe are getting a lot of work, and both have big projects coming up. What happened to Rupert Grint?

• Rupert Grint is doing a pilot for CBS. Probably a wise career move. And it's a good pilot -- Greg Garcia is exec prod/creator.

• Bling is one of the tackiest words ever to enter the language. So ghetto.

• That's good to hear, R21. Out of the three main actors from HP, Watson and Grint are much more talented than Radcliffe.

• I'm a little bitter about Radcliffe's casting in Horns.

• "I like Sofia, but I tire of movies like this that are pretty much lifestyle lists of the rich - where to go, what to do, clothes, drugs, attitudes - with very little real attack or rage, aside from some wan criticism. It's like bragging with a dash of brooding. I think I'm ready for a movie about terrorizing the 1%, something with more contempt." Gillo, have you seen the movie? Because from the trailer, I have no idea if this movie has very little attack or rage.

• Miss Granger!

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• Emma Watson needs to finish her degree,

• She's got one more year at Brown, I'm sure she will.

• I'm looking forward to this film. I'm surprised the thread hasn't had much of a response as Sofia usually gets DL going. Real life blingleader Nick Prugo (pictured) is a major hottie.

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• One last bump for the midday crowd. I read the script last night and the main character is gay.

• R30, is it a comedy, drama? And are we talking R-rated, or more teen-friendly?

• Bit of both, really r31. It's heavy on the satire and Leslie Mann's character (Watson's mom) has some really hilarious lines. Deffo an R rating, lots of drugs, light on sex but the story is about celebrity. This script was dated late 2011. It could have expanded since - it was only 82 pages. But Coppola is different than most writer/directors and 82 pages could be all she needs.

• Watson left Brown and started studying at Oxford. How seriously, I don't know.

• New trailer, looks good! Watson has that priveledged white girl voice down perfectly!

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Ffeature%3Dplayer_embedded%26v%3DEJs8ZTWqPSI

• Didn't Lifetime make this movie about a year ago?

• Looks like a good film from the trailer. Loved the comment from Emma's character about how she might want to run a country some day, while standing in from of the camera with her cig and pearls.

• She has vocal fry down pat.

• She does. I hated Sofia Coppolla's last movie, Somewhere, but this looks muchg less dull.

• Emma Watson's impression of Alexis Neiers is spot on. I hated her in Perks but this looks good. The spoiled rich girl reference point is great because it's Sofia's shtick. She writes/directs based on what she knows and Marie Antoinette proved she's good at it.

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• How could you hate Watson in Perks???

• Alexis Neiers, the girl Emma's character is based on, is clean and sober now. She's also married and expecting a baby. I have to admit I was really skeptical that she could stay clean, especially getting involved with someone so soon into her recovery, but it seems to be working out for her.

• You mean, if Gus Van Sant had the lady bits R12?

• Alexis Neiers Calls Nancy Jo

  http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DclFh2ypnuWc

• Why the hell would anyone want to see this? I don't get the appeal. Maybe to watch Emma Watson be slutty?

• R44 - Why not?

• "Didn't Lifetime make this movie about a year ago?" Yeah, I ended up watching it when I couldn't sleep. It was okay, but someone could do a much better job with the material. I hope Coppola has.

• I'm glad that this movie has a queer character. The guy in the trailer seems to be the most compelling in his time on screen.

• Guy is not cute enough. Real one was hot.

• I agree, r48, about the real one.

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• Virgin Suicides, Marie Antoinette and Lost in Translation were good. Somewhere was ok, quite light. This one looks like it is going to be in this vein.

• Uhh...what, R48?

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• Unfair, r51. Few look great when they are deposed. I'm judging based off of r29.

• Still not seeing it, R52. In some pics I've seen he might verge on cute[ish], but hot? The actor is totally "in league."

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• Maybe it was the robberies that fueled his good looks. He looked bloated and stressed after he was caught, but before he was cute.

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• Is Nick Prugo gay? I'm just wondering, since his character was portrayed as straight in the first movie (although it was a Lifetime aka frau movie), and now he's portrayed as gay. I've seen some clips of him, and he does seem gay, although I'm not sure.

• There is not anyone famous with better fashion sense than Emma Watson! I always wonder why more people don't notice.

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• Really looking forward to this one. I'm not a Sofia Coppolla fanboy but I must be one of the 6 people who liked Somewhere. Think it helps if you saw it in the theatre. After Wallflower I've decided I really like Emma Watson, not that I had an opinion before. She's spent a lot of time in the US since the Potter days and went to Harvard, good for her I say. She seems likeable and is really intelligent obviously, even one junket as a a 12 year old she made the interviewer look a moron and was very mature. DanRad seems a limited actor but I dunno, never was that interested in HP, the books yes. Anyway I've been waiting for a film like this. Celeb worship and stalking keeps getting more and more out of hand and worse than ever in the 21st century. As technology and cell phones and internet keep improving it has developed a sinister edge as the trailer shows. It is most impacting the media savvy new generation but even people in their 60s all you hear about is Facebook. The world was a very different place before web 2.0 and social media. I believe another film on the current celeb culture is due this year - Fincher? My only criticism of The Bling Ring trailer is that it gives that hasbeen Paris Hilton more relevancy, but that POS is so dumb she doesn't realize the joke is on her.

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• It premiered at Cannes yesterday and I've already read a few reviews that say not only is the film empty and meaningless, but essentially BORING. [quote]But there’s nothing revelatory about the idea that young people are indoctrinated into celebrity worship and designer-label envy from an early age, so The Bling Ring amounts to little more than a group portrait of exceedingly shallow teens who rifled through the drawers of some equally shallow adults who’ve appeared on television. To be blunt, who cares? Coppola might perhaps have stirred some interest via sensuous camerawork, but the dreamy quality of her previous work gives way here to such hackneyed visual ideas as teens walking abreast in slo-mo to Kanye West’s “Power.” I suppose one could argue that these interludes represent the hackneyed dreams of the film’s subjects, but that’s like arguing that a movie’s tedium signifies the real-life tedium of some circumstance. At a certain point, thematic relevance no longer matters. You’re just plain bored.

  http://www.avclub.com/articles/cannes-2013-day-one-sofia-coppola-offers-the-first%2C97832/

• Oh dear, shame. So Cannes has started then, interesting.

• I can't fucking wait.

• Why glorify the escapades of the no-good kids? That's exactly what they crave.