Agh it's so hard because so many people really love it and I don't want to sound like I'm judging everyone. :( BUT I WILL ATTEMPT TO GIVE YOU AN ANSWER. Keeping in mind it's nearing 2am and I'm probably not at my most coherent...
I definitely thought it was a good movie, technically, like, I can't argue with that at all. The acting, the script, the pace and the way it was filmed - all of that was amazing. It's just that I didn't enjoy it. I think it was partly that I didn't feel any sort of emotional attachment to any of the characters, like, Eduardo was the only likeable one to me, but I honestly found it hard to feel sympathy for him and didn't feel that affected by the whole break-up thing because I didn't feel like I understood why he and Mark were friends in the first place. Like, if I felt like that made sense, it might have had more of an emotional impact, but as it was...I don't know, I just wondered why he was friends with him at all. Idk. I was vaguely intrigued by their relationship, but not as much as I expected to be from what I'd heard about it. I just...hated Mark sfm that it made it difficult to care about him and his relationships, I suppose. It just made me angry.
Plus, I hate Facebook with like a burning passion, and idk, the movie sort of made me hate it more, and also college, and also people a little bit. Gah, it's so hard to explain my feelings on it because I don't think I entirely understand them - I just know that I actively disliked it, but I know it's not that it was actually a bad movie. It just didn't do it for me. It sort of seemed like there was just this overriding theme of 'rich white guys being assholes to other rich white guys' and maybe I couldn't see past that and appreciate other aspects of the movie, or something.
I actually have been thinking about this a lot, lol, because so many people that I have things in common with have become obsessed with it, and so I'm surprised that I've had this opposite reaction and I sort of want to understand that. And it's weird, because I can sort of see why the Mark/Eduardo relationship is interesting, and why that might be what makes the movie such a THING, but even though I see that objectively I just don't feel it. And that makes me sad, because I wanted to. :(
I definitely thought it was a good movie, technically, like, I can't argue with that at all. The acting, the script, the pace and the way it was filmed - all of that was amazing. It's just that I didn't enjoy it. I think it was partly that I didn't feel any sort of emotional attachment to any of the characters, like, Eduardo was the only likeable one to me, but I honestly found it hard to feel sympathy for him and didn't feel that affected by the whole break-up thing because I didn't feel like I understood why he and Mark were friends in the first place. Like, if I felt like that made sense, it might have had more of an emotional impact, but as it was...I don't know, I just wondered why he was friends with him at all. Idk. I was vaguely intrigued by their relationship, but not as much as I expected to be from what I'd heard about it. I just...hated Mark sfm that it made it difficult to care about him and his relationships, I suppose. It just made me angry.
Plus, I hate Facebook with like a burning passion, and idk, the movie sort of made me hate it more, and also college, and also people a little bit. Gah, it's so hard to explain my feelings on it because I don't think I entirely understand them - I just know that I actively disliked it, but I know it's not that it was actually a bad movie. It just didn't do it for me. It sort of seemed like there was just this overriding theme of 'rich white guys being assholes to other rich white guys' and maybe I couldn't see past that and appreciate other aspects of the movie, or something.
I actually have been thinking about this a lot, lol, because so many people that I have things in common with have become obsessed with it, and so I'm surprised that I've had this opposite reaction and I sort of want to understand that. And it's weird, because I can sort of see why the Mark/Eduardo relationship is interesting, and why that might be what makes the movie such a THING, but even though I see that objectively I just don't feel it. And that makes me sad, because I wanted to. :(
I HOPE THAT MADE SOME SORT OF SENSE.
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