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BRICK

BrickIn the latter part of 2005, film geeks in several forums I frequent started to to rave about this movie. Words like “Awesome!,” and “Highly Original!” were used liberally when describing this movie.

The thing about film geeks is that you have to take what they say with a grain of salt. Because film geeks are notorious for being overzealous at times. They rally behind a small independent film that’s the least bit different and say that it’s the “BEST.MOVIE.EVER.LOL.”

But then again, them film geeks aren’t all that stupid. Annoying yes. But not entirely stupid. So I wasn’t too quick to dismiss all their frothing because truth be told, the concept behind the movie was enough to give me a massive boner even without any endorsements from any kind of geek:

“It’s Noir, but set in High School!”
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