Movie #795 "The Spectacular Now" is not that spectacular. Not at all. And I'm in a minority here, I think. I just got done looking at the posts on rottentomatoes.com (which gave it 93% and was the reason I suggested to see it for my movie club) and they all seem to be in agreement that the mundane, can I use the term "awesome" dialogue?(because that's the adjective primarily used) is sooooo realistic. I thought it seemed forced --------let's interrupt each other so it comes across as realistic ---- let's use the word "awesome" as many times as we can, because we want to suggest we are improv-ing here; let's giggle, because isn't that what a teenager would do? As one critic put it, the "movie is just the two of them really with no sense of the community around them" --- and I didn't find them or what they say very interesting at all. Why do a movie on these two? we are given background info, but the father stuff is just a plot device, so wouldn't you have to have two in-depth characters to focus on? They talk a lot, which I guess is better than the alternatives (like the sex scene in it that really wasn't necessary, thank god for the blackout which could have come sooner . If that happened then maybe teenagers could see the film.... why wouldn't you make it for the demographic group? What are we adults getting out of the film, really?) or all the drinking --- but when they talk, they really don't say much that is compelling. At least to me, anyway. I blame it mostly on the script, but the actors, if they are good enough, can sometimes rise about the script. In this film, it just doesn't happen. And all the conflict and excitement happen in the last couple of minutes ---- for it to be compared to the two other MUCH BETTER coming of age films so far this year is a huge mistake. Go see "Kings of Summer" and "The Way, Way Back" --- both of which are Way Way better! (or rent, stream "Perks of a Wallflower from last year" to see something much more compelling and REAL about teenagers! I guess this is film's answer to reality t.v. ---- a reality movie that is staged, but is not supposed to appear that way!
The Spectacular Now2013R I rated it 2 star s out of 5
When high school loner Aimee Finicky finds her classmate Sutter Keely passed-out drunk on a lawn, it marks the start of an unlikely friendship. After deciding to help Aimee raise her social confidence, Sutter finds himself falling for his creation.
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