Summer Night

Watching this was purely a fluke. It was on Netflix, newly released and well, since I'm stuck inside, I thought "Why not?" It is so bad that I couldn't even make it through the whole movie and I usually suffer through to the end even in the worst of films. When the faux band starts playing and one of the tools is chewing gum so much it was like watching a cow chew cud, well, it rankled me so much that I had to stop the film and post my disgust here.

Do not waste your time. Unless you want a good lesson about the me, me, me, me generation with a huge chunk of patriarchy is alive and well. Big eye rolls over the weakness of the characters, their shallowness and inability to show even a little of compassion for the rest of humanity.

With everything else going on in our world right now, this film is pure torture to watch.

Hard Pass.

I strangely liked this movie a lot. No, it's not particularly smart or interesting in any way. You don't really connect with the characters either since you don't spend much time with any of them and there's no real character development.

BUT -- it really brought me back to a time when I and people my age really cared about music, and being in a band, and we built this entire activity up to become something solid and tangible for us to hang the other parts of life, and as an excuse to develop our personalities. I was never in a band myself but it still brought me back. The movie was made in 2019 but really it's a movie about the mid-to-late 2000s. It's not really a teen movie. It's for people who were teens fifteen years ago.

I felt a general, low-key buzz of pleasure throughout this movie. The plot and dialogue are mostly inoffensive, and the people are pretty, and the tunes are perfect in that quintessential 2000s indie rock way -- catchy and good but not really very memorable when divorced from the personal context of your life.

I understand that Dazed and Confused is a better made movie, but what can I say? I didn't grow up in the 1970s.

It's a bunch of cliches stitched together in a ensemble piece with a bunch of actors you've seen in other things.

Also this movie has Ella Hunt (who I Love) and Victoria justice (who I also love). And they don't share a scene. Like missed opportunity!

This film wants to be dazed and confused so badly it's embarrassing. They did zero character or plot development. I'm about halfway in and I don't know anyones name or have a connection to anyone. There is zero chemistry between these characters, the friendships or the romantic relationships. We get zero background on anyone. I can't find one thing good to say about it. I don't think I can finish it.

No middle ground.

You will either relate to the relationships as I did, or you won't and you will find it boring,

6.1