I see a lot of extremely bad reviews on this movie and as usual, I don't blame them, they just review a movie different from how I like to do it. I like to put the movie in its context first, it makes a lot more sense to me and it refrains me from losing interest in potentially overlooking a very good movie in the same "genre".
This "genre" of movies I tend to call "High School" movies will 90% of the time never do super great. There are some examples like The Breakfast Club, Project X,... etc. who did very well. But I couldn't count them on one hand. So that's something I like to keep in mind as well.
I put these kind of movies all under the same umbrella but just to be specific this was clearly a more drama/romantic one of its kind. So.... All in all, I've seen way worse than this.
The acting was good, during the more emotional scenes I didn't feel like there wasn't any unintentional weirdness or awkwardness or anything like that. The lead roles were well casted, I read some people found Elle annoying...? I disagree but oh well. People oversee that these actors are young in a very hard industry. They're not gonna win oscars straight from the bat. They all have to start somewhere.
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Now as for the story, as per usual in these kind of movies stated above. Same old, same old. Two very best friends, undividable. Along comes the most popular dude from the school.. Happens to be her best friends brother and there you have it. Which is FINE. You don't watch this movie and expect something else. At least.. I don't? But to be fair, there were quite some things that actually didn't make it that mainstream and made it tad bit different from those other movies which I liked.
I agree with a lot of people about the potential message it could send to younger girls though. It's all meant well, love this that, blabla. But there were some moments I didn't like where I also thought, hmm... that's a bit aggresive or unusual for this kind of movie. I just hope younger girls who watch it don't realise it. So that makes me think they tried to aim a bit higher when it comes to age category. (Not that it's vulgar, lewd,...)
Overall, an okay movie for THIS KIND. But will obviously never get an oscar, which probably isn't the makers their intention.. o/
This "genre" of movies I tend to call "High School" movies will 90% of the time never do super great. There are some examples like The Breakfast Club, Project X,... etc. who did very well. But I couldn't count them on one hand. So that's something I like to keep in mind as well.
I put these kind of movies all under the same umbrella but just to be specific this was clearly a more drama/romantic one of its kind. So.... All in all, I've seen way worse than this.
The acting was good, during the more emotional scenes I didn't feel like there wasn't any unintentional weirdness or awkwardness or anything like that. The lead roles were well casted, I read some people found Elle annoying...? I disagree but oh well. People oversee that these actors are young in a very hard industry. They're not gonna win oscars straight from the bat. They all have to start somewhere.
---- SPOILERS START HERE ---- ---- SPOILERS START HERE ----
Now as for the story, as per usual in these kind of movies stated above. Same old, same old. Two very best friends, undividable. Along comes the most popular dude from the school.. Happens to be her best friends brother and there you have it. Which is FINE. You don't watch this movie and expect something else. At least.. I don't? But to be fair, there were quite some things that actually didn't make it that mainstream and made it tad bit different from those other movies which I liked.
I agree with a lot of people about the potential message it could send to younger girls though. It's all meant well, love this that, blabla. But there were some moments I didn't like where I also thought, hmm... that's a bit aggresive or unusual for this kind of movie. I just hope younger girls who watch it don't realise it. So that makes me think they tried to aim a bit higher when it comes to age category. (Not that it's vulgar, lewd,...)
Overall, an okay movie for THIS KIND. But will obviously never get an oscar, which probably isn't the makers their intention.. o/