Synopsis
Thirteen friends. One night to get it right.
In a small town, a young, tight-knit group of friends fall in and out of love over the course of one intoxicating, music-filled summer night.
2019 Directed by Joseph Cross
In a small town, a young, tight-knit group of friends fall in and out of love over the course of one intoxicating, music-filled summer night.
The live bands?! 🤮
95% white characters who fall in love?! 🤮 SUCH DIVERSITY.
Some of the lines said are so lame and so badly delivered. Whyyyyyyy did I watch this.
The cast for this is:
👨 - unidentified blonde white guy
👨 - unidentified blonde white guy who looks exactly like the first guy
🧑🏻 - young derek hale
🧑🏻 - this nerd guy who always has a bike
🧑🏻- this guy who looks like someone from iasip but it’s not him
👩🏼🦱 - a girl who does the debby ryan face the whole movie
👩🏻 - tori from victorious
👩🏻 - a girl who looks like tori (who is under 21 dating someone over 21 but we never find out her age?)
👩🏻 - the girl from crazy stupid love
👩🏻 - lara jean covey
Anyways, thinking about that twitter thread of how all white people look alike.
Ellar Coltrane mugs off Victoria Justice in favor of... some girl who is not Victoria Justice, mirroring his career trajectory of going from working with Richard Linklater to working with a guy who watched Dazed and Confused too many times and thinks he’s Richard Linklater.
Side note: it’s time to temporarily retire the word “summer” from being used in movie titles unless it’s spelled “sommar.”
I’ve said it many times and I’ll say it again - Victoria Justice is SEVERELY underrated. I love these all-in-one-night type of teen movies and I really liked this. the perfect film to watch on a hot summer day inside a cold theatre
(update: legend Victoria Justice herself just responded to my tweet about the movie!)
feels telling to say that this ensemble film was advertised by the festival as being the "best" depiction of classic Georgia summer nights - muggy, hazy, and fraught - but the director then went on the record to clarify saying that he and the cast believe the story to be set in a small town in california
the movie can't overcome the script. that said, justin chatwin shines! he's in rare form. lana candor was another cast highlight for me, but she's given very little to do.
mobs said it well: this is the story of a group of girls, told through the men's perspective.
Why is Victoria justice in so many trash coming-of-age movies?
This movie had no central plot. All of the scenes were meaningless. The acting was pretty shitty. I barely liked any of the relationships because none of them are even developed. Like it felt like I was watching a movie that was trying to be deep and relatable but it was just a hot mess.The only reasons why I gave this movie a 1.5/5 is because I like Lana Condor and the music from the bands was good.
hey...sometimes i just wanna watch bad movies. i know they're bad but sometimes they can be enjoyable. this one wasn't particularly enjoyable though. nothing much happens. it's all a bunch of who's sleeping with whom nonsense. not particularly funny either. so there's that.
it is poorly shot, but it is also somewhat charming? i like movies that are just character based, although it did take me some time to distinguish the abundance of white men
Umm. So this was a movie. I feel like it was supposed to be like this mixture of American graffiti, dazed & confused, and he’s just not that into you, but rushed and poorly written. None of the conversations or scenes were really that deep, clever, or even meaningful. I don’t even under stand the point of that love triangle that was going on. The drama was so non dramatic and the movie kinda reminds me of the opens pop bottle you let sit in the fridge that you try to drink the next day: when you open it the next day your here it fizz and you get excited, just to take a sip and realize it’s flat. But you drink the pop anyway because you already started, and you hate every second of it.
Interesting cast though.
Didn't even really have a plot to be honest. I finished the movie and felt like nothing actually happened the whole time.
I can’t decide whether Ellar Coltrane’s low key performance is the best or the worst acting in this film. Either way, he stands out in the shallows. An ensemble of one.
Coltrane unadorned naturalism runs counter to the mannered posturing of his photogenic co-stars, hinting at a feckless despondency of small-town youth that first-time director Joseph Cross probably envisioned, but failed to achieve.
I can’t make up my mind about Coltrane because his energy is on such a different plane as to be almost spectral. He’s in a different, far more interesting, film. Without him, however, what remains might be passably, if forgettably, diverting.
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