A-TO-Z CHALLENGE:
DAY TWO
I pulled double-movie duty yesterday with Aladdin and now with today's Day Two movie, Behaving Badly*. I figured that I should probably watch these movies the night before so that I can sleep on them... So that's my new plan of approach.
But Behaving Badly was an all right movie. I sorta went into it not expecting much. I mean I expected exaggerated shows of "teen stupidity", a nerdy/incompetent best friend, some sort of crazy plot that includes criminal activity, and the unattainable girl for the plain male protagonist.
I got all that and I'm also fine with it. It was sorta annoying, but I didn't exactly feel like I was wasting 90ish minutes of my life. And that's always a good thing.
The actors were all right. I was surprised to see Ashley Rickards playing a porn star. Since I'm in the middle of playing catch up with her TV series, Awkward it was pretty weird seeing her in a dramatically different role. Weird, but still cool because she worked the stereotypical absentminded stripper...
I didn't get the whole saint thing either. I mean, were the saints invisible? Or just crazy ladies helping underage males? Was I supposed to read an Oedipus complex into the situation?
I don't know, but I do know my head's hurting now...
My favourite character was Karlis Malinauskas, the son of a Lithuanian crime boss.
Very funny, very strange character who acts as the catalyst for the hero's crazy adventure in the film.
Overall, not a bad movie, not a great movie it was just so-so for me. But I do have a feeling I'm going to avoid teen movies for a bit before I become too cynical...
*FUN FACT: this movie is based off Ric Browde's autobiography, While I'm Dead Feed the Dog. Makes me really curious as to how much of this story is really nonfiction. Mhmm...
I pulled double-movie duty yesterday with Aladdin and now with today's Day Two movie, Behaving Badly*. I figured that I should probably watch these movies the night before so that I can sleep on them... So that's my new plan of approach.
But Behaving Badly was an all right movie. I sorta went into it not expecting much. I mean I expected exaggerated shows of "teen stupidity", a nerdy/incompetent best friend, some sort of crazy plot that includes criminal activity, and the unattainable girl for the plain male protagonist.
I got all that and I'm also fine with it. It was sorta annoying, but I didn't exactly feel like I was wasting 90ish minutes of my life. And that's always a good thing.
The actors were all right. I was surprised to see Ashley Rickards playing a porn star. Since I'm in the middle of playing catch up with her TV series, Awkward it was pretty weird seeing her in a dramatically different role. Weird, but still cool because she worked the stereotypical absentminded stripper...
I didn't get the whole saint thing either. I mean, were the saints invisible? Or just crazy ladies helping underage males? Was I supposed to read an Oedipus complex into the situation?
I don't know, but I do know my head's hurting now...
My favourite character was Karlis Malinauskas, the son of a Lithuanian crime boss.
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| The creepy one in the back. That guy. |
Overall, not a bad movie, not a great movie it was just so-so for me. But I do have a feeling I'm going to avoid teen movies for a bit before I become too cynical...
*FUN FACT: this movie is based off Ric Browde's autobiography, While I'm Dead Feed the Dog. Makes me really curious as to how much of this story is really nonfiction. Mhmm...
I haven't watch this one Hana or even heard of it. But I'm going to add it to my list for when I want to watch a teen flick.
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen this one - definitely sounds a bit 'weird'!
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