This eyeball-melting trailer may be the best way to experience Harmony Korine’s Aggro Dr1ft
Uh oh, the trailer for the Spring Breakers director's new movie is sick as hell
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You can get pretty much everything you need to know about Spring Breakers and The Beach Bum director Harmony Korine’s Aggro Dr1ft from looking at one still image—which will most likely feature an infrared image of some kind of masked soldier dude holding some kind of gun, like you got bored with regular Call Of Duty and decided to try playing on a broken TV. Actually, scratch that: You can get everything you need to know about Aggro Dr1ft from its title. If the title doesn’t do it for you, then nothing else about the film will.
And yet… this trailer for the film is kinda… really sick? Like, maybe sick as hell? Like if you were hanging out with some bros and one of them said “I saw a movie trailer that was super sick,” you’d be able to conjure this exact thing in your head? Like if you opened up the dictionary to the entry for “the sickest shit you’ve ever seen in your damn life,” it would show this trailer?
Filmed entirely in infrared (so this movie is like how the Predator sees all movies), Aggro Dr1ft is about an assassin trying to kill some kind of demon in some kind of fantasy version of Florida. It seems like there’s not a ton there, other than the visuals, and that means it might all be a little insufferable as a full feature film (even one that’s only 80 minutes). But that just makes this trailer even better, to the point where we can’t help but wonder if this trailer is the ideal way to experience Aggro Dr1ft. It’s only one minute long, you get to see the weird infrared shit and some bizarre demon imagery, and then you get to go back to your normal life. If you want more, just watch it again!
But if you really want more, Aggro Dr1ft will be screening at a strip club in Los Angeles in February. Tickets are available now for $100, and there will be “exclusive merch” at the event. Would we wear a t-shirt with the Aggro Dr1ft logo? Yes, we would. Just throwing that out there in case anybody buys a ticket to this thing.
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> Filmed entirely in infrared (so this movie is like how the Predator sees all movies)The Predator wouldn’t be able to watch movies; the screen would be one single color (maybe warmer/colder at the edges).
Okay, then, it’s how the Predator watches plays. When he’s in the audience. Where nobody wants to sit behind him, ever. Honestly, I’d love to see an adaptation of some 19th century novel adaptation from the Predator’s point of view. Jane Austen, say. I’d imagine that the actors would just be big heat blobs and that you’d know that they were “in love” when they heated up a bit and maybe Mr. Darcy got a erection that Elizabeth Bennet would probably miss, but not our friend the Pred. There could also be some indistinct mouth sounds involved, but they wouldn’t be too necessary. Maybe you’d get to hear the sound of the actors slowly digesting their lunches? You could even go for a smell-o-vision sort of deal because the Predator can probably smell fear, romantic apprehension, sexual excitement, and British anxieties surrounding property and social status during the Victorian period that reflect a rapidly industrializing society.
Okay, then, it’s how the Predator watches plays. When he’s in the audience. Where nobody wants to sit behind him, ever.“Hey, buddy, can you quit firing plasma blasts at the orchestra?”
That’s what the bassoonist gets for constantly coming in late.
I’m still mad this never happened:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/feb/17/pride-and-predator-to-give-jane-austen-extreme-makeover
Oh, my. And I thought I was being all creative.
this trailer for the film is kinda… really sick? Like, maybe sick as
hell? Like if you were hanging out with some bros and one of them said
“I saw a movie trailer that was super sick,” you’d be able to conjure
this exact thing in your head? Like if you opened up the dictionary to
the entry for “the sickest shit you’ve ever seen in your damn life,” it
would show this trailer?
No, and watching a full movie like this would make me feel actually sick.
The film’s website is EDGLRD.com, which is just perfect. Is there an Oscar for domain names? Because there should be.
I saw that and that it was perfect.Unlike the actual trailer , which has a synthwave/90s FPS/weirdness for weirdness sake thing going on and I dont know , I like those 3 things , but all not together…
Oh yeah, will not be watching this.
The best way to interact with anything Harmony Korine does is preferably not at all. If that’s not an option, then mediated through the mockery of braver souls.
Best thing he’s done was Gummo, IMO. The insufferable, art kid weirdness REALLY worked there.
I like Julien Donkey Boy a lot too; the limits of Dogme 95 curb his impulses a little bit.
That just lead him down a path to Trash Humpers. I think he exhausted what he could do with that sort of plotless filmmaking, and each iteration got uglier and uglier. All his later stuff reads like a guy who got sober, but kept doing the same things (I mean this metaphorically. I don’t know if he’s sober). Spring Breakers wasn’t bad, but The Beach Bum felt like coasting.I was going to see Agro Dr1ft at Midnight Madness at TIFF, but then I saw the trailer and decided it wasn’t worth being tired at work the next day.
and that means it might all be a little insufferable as a full feature film So most Harmony Korine movies, then.
I actually watched The Beach Bum, and the only thing I can remember about it is Martin Lawrence’s foot getting severed by a shark.
One minute too long. My head hurts after watching the trailer.It’s only one minute long