movie review plus griping
have you ever gone to the movies and realized three movie trailers in that you were smarter than 3/4 of the rest of the audience? went and hung out in emeryville today and decided to go see 'whip it'. i wasn't really sure if this was gonna be like a 'juno' kind of good hipster movie or a tragic 'nick and nora's infinite playlist' kind of movie, happy to report that it was definitely more of a 'juno' kind of movie. so anyways, i mean i know the people in there weren't dumb, at least i would like to hope that, but the pandering from some of the trailers was just too much. the trailer in particular that brought me to this conclusion was 'the tooth fairy', yet another one of dwayne 'the rock' johnson's family friendly tough but cuddly movies. the audience just kept right along with the laugh track and i was really worried that 'whip it' would be ruined by a whole bunch of sheep laughing at all the wrong parts.
as usual my fears were unfounded, i only laughed at a couple parts where the people around me didn't seem to get the hilarity, major point being when har mar superstar made a cameo (i was really hoping for a sexy dance but he wouldn't oblige me). all in all i have to say the movie was enjoyable and i would totally see it again. drew's got the directing thing pretty much in the bag, just needs to work on her endings- it seemed like she just didn't know what was the right way to finish the film and just kept adding little tableaus until the magic 8-ball said enough already. 'whip it' is definitely a member of the hipster movement, complete with radiohead and peaches tracks, shaky hand-cam, celebrity friend cameos, and poignant bittersweet moments. and as much as drew tried to stay in the background her character came pretty close to stealing the show, mostly cause we're use to seeing drew playing cute/quirky loveable goofball, whereas in 'whip it' she just let her freak flag fly and you were rabidly waiting/ anticipating what she would do next.
OT: back to the whole pandering to the audience thing i'm probably just testy or my rabid fan side has the upper hand, but i was watching 'bones' the other night and literally wanted to reach in and smack the actors. the whole lead-in to the mystery was so painfully obvious as to be insulting. "hey look guys we found a body that can't be more then two months old but the physiological markers show that he has never come in contact with electricity, floride, or processed foods" -he's amish- "i would swear he grew up in the early 1900s" -he's amish- " and look it would appear he grew up somewhere in the mid northeast (let's depict that area on a map without borders or state names so people can't tell he's from philidelphia)" -he's amish you retards!!!- "oh look he's amish" - blows brain out, did we really have to take 20 minutes to get to this conclusion!?! and to make sure this was a thoroughly disappointing episode lets drive home the message that the amish have it right even thought during rumspringa they drink, smoke, snort, shoot-up anything they can get their hands on, and have sex with anything the moves. and having the bad guy be some joe schmo that we've never met instead of the partying amish kid we met in the beginning nullifies any viewer satisfaction of figuring out the case along with/before the whole crime fighting team. lame.
as usual my fears were unfounded, i only laughed at a couple parts where the people around me didn't seem to get the hilarity, major point being when har mar superstar made a cameo (i was really hoping for a sexy dance but he wouldn't oblige me). all in all i have to say the movie was enjoyable and i would totally see it again. drew's got the directing thing pretty much in the bag, just needs to work on her endings- it seemed like she just didn't know what was the right way to finish the film and just kept adding little tableaus until the magic 8-ball said enough already. 'whip it' is definitely a member of the hipster movement, complete with radiohead and peaches tracks, shaky hand-cam, celebrity friend cameos, and poignant bittersweet moments. and as much as drew tried to stay in the background her character came pretty close to stealing the show, mostly cause we're use to seeing drew playing cute/quirky loveable goofball, whereas in 'whip it' she just let her freak flag fly and you were rabidly waiting/ anticipating what she would do next.
OT: back to the whole pandering to the audience thing i'm probably just testy or my rabid fan side has the upper hand, but i was watching 'bones' the other night and literally wanted to reach in and smack the actors. the whole lead-in to the mystery was so painfully obvious as to be insulting. "hey look guys we found a body that can't be more then two months old but the physiological markers show that he has never come in contact with electricity, floride, or processed foods" -he's amish- "i would swear he grew up in the early 1900s" -he's amish- " and look it would appear he grew up somewhere in the mid northeast (let's depict that area on a map without borders or state names so people can't tell he's from philidelphia)" -he's amish you retards!!!- "oh look he's amish" - blows brain out, did we really have to take 20 minutes to get to this conclusion!?! and to make sure this was a thoroughly disappointing episode lets drive home the message that the amish have it right even thought during rumspringa they drink, smoke, snort, shoot-up anything they can get their hands on, and have sex with anything the moves. and having the bad guy be some joe schmo that we've never met instead of the partying amish kid we met in the beginning nullifies any viewer satisfaction of figuring out the case along with/before the whole crime fighting team. lame.