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Young Adult
WHY'D I WATCH IT?
Dog, Ice Cream, KFC, Kissing, REREREREREREbound sex.
Alright, well, right off the bat let me just say that this movie is nowhere near as unpleasant as Juno and frankly, the poster is incredibly misleading. It looks like it's going to be millennial comedy drek, but it's not, it's a legit drama.
Now, if you know me, I'm pretty harsh when it comes to dramas because they're contingent upon realistic and engaging characters and a consistent compelling narrative.
How does it do here? Eeeeeggghhhh~ I don't get it.
The premise, which takes more than my standard 15 minute "SELL ME" window to properly establish the direction of the story is: Furiosa hasn't matured past high school and in the face of a struggling writing career she picks up on a message that approximately says, "BTDubs, your Ex had a baby" and decides to go back to the suburbs to take back her high school crush.
The BIGGEST **** up Young Adult manages to miss right off the bat is keeping Furiosa at arm's length throughout the movie, particularly at start. A detached sense of silent observation helps to establish that while we're following this character, we're not meant to be rooting for her, which is good because she's massively ****ed in the head which Patton Oswalt is helpfully around to point out in favor of the audience's sanity.
I've thrown around the term "Monogamy Syndrome" a few times in these reviews and let me just say that while it is deeply rooted problem I have with narratives involving marriage, it does not strictly apply here.
Monogamy Syndrome is when characters act irrationally for no other reason than because they can't accept someone being in a relationship with more than one person. It would apply here IF the driving conflict was purely with Buddy and his family, that they're closing ranks around themselves but that's not what this is. This is Furiosa being a selfish bitch.
She's completely deluded herself into believing that Buddy is unhappy and wants her back and in that spirit she urges him to leave his wife and new baby to go back to the city with her where she wastes away in a dark messy apartment writing horrible YA novels.
They probably weren't intended to sound horrible, but they're the very kind of self-obsessed **** I hate reading when I'm looking for new books with female protagonists. Oswalt makes a laser-guided "vampire" joke in this regard.
Really the whole movie is build up to the obvious letdown and I thought the movie was pretty boring, if admittedly well paced. A bright spot comes into view when the horrendously cringey and awkward dialog like "I used to sleep in his t-shirts and boxers" gives way to an upset at a "Baby Naming Ceremony" (which is total ********, no one does that) where Furiosa flips her **** at Buddy's wife and it comes clear that she had a miscarriage with Buddy's first baby and she was only invited out of pity and concern for her assumed mental illness.
Wow. That's... that's pretty sucky.
She finds her way back to Patton's character who's been established to be more level-headed if equally entrenched in the past and REBOUND SEX I HATE THAT.
I don't get this ****. What's this phenomenon where peoples' negative emotions get them REALLY HORNY??? I don't get this. What is this? Does this happen? Why would this happen? Why do you want to have CRY SEX?? You know what really turns me on is when my partner has just been EMOTIONALLY DESTROYED, that's hot ****, yo.
You think you've bagged the best with crazy sex, but you've never had SAD SEX. Murder her puppy and you'll make her drip like Niagara Falls.
LUBE IT UP WITH HER TEARS- It's ****in' stupid. So what, is... is she and Oswalt a thing now? That'd be kinda cute.
NO? Instead she has a breakfast table conversation with his sister who just feeds her ******* ego?
"Yeah, all these suburbian peoples aren't really livin' they all might as well DIE, **** all of them."
"I know, right? So take me with you?"
Final Verdict: [Meh...]
Young Adult
Drama / English / 2011
WHY'D I WATCH IT?
For TONGO's Movie Forums Challenge.
WHAT'D I THINK? *SPOILERS*
Originally Posted by Tugg
Have you seen "Young Adult" (2011)?
Originally Posted by Omnizoa
OH GOD, THE WRITER OF JUNO.
"Heyyy! Congrats on the little one! What a wonderful PERMANENT commitment to make!"
Dog, Ice Cream, KFC, Kissing, REREREREREREbound sex.
Alright, well, right off the bat let me just say that this movie is nowhere near as unpleasant as Juno and frankly, the poster is incredibly misleading. It looks like it's going to be millennial comedy drek, but it's not, it's a legit drama.
Now, if you know me, I'm pretty harsh when it comes to dramas because they're contingent upon realistic and engaging characters and a consistent compelling narrative.
How does it do here? Eeeeeggghhhh~ I don't get it.
The premise, which takes more than my standard 15 minute "SELL ME" window to properly establish the direction of the story is: Furiosa hasn't matured past high school and in the face of a struggling writing career she picks up on a message that approximately says, "BTDubs, your Ex had a baby" and decides to go back to the suburbs to take back her high school crush.
The BIGGEST **** up Young Adult manages to miss right off the bat is keeping Furiosa at arm's length throughout the movie, particularly at start. A detached sense of silent observation helps to establish that while we're following this character, we're not meant to be rooting for her, which is good because she's massively ****ed in the head which Patton Oswalt is helpfully around to point out in favor of the audience's sanity.
I've thrown around the term "Monogamy Syndrome" a few times in these reviews and let me just say that while it is deeply rooted problem I have with narratives involving marriage, it does not strictly apply here.
Monogamy Syndrome is when characters act irrationally for no other reason than because they can't accept someone being in a relationship with more than one person. It would apply here IF the driving conflict was purely with Buddy and his family, that they're closing ranks around themselves but that's not what this is. This is Furiosa being a selfish bitch.
She's completely deluded herself into believing that Buddy is unhappy and wants her back and in that spirit she urges him to leave his wife and new baby to go back to the city with her where she wastes away in a dark messy apartment writing horrible YA novels.
They probably weren't intended to sound horrible, but they're the very kind of self-obsessed **** I hate reading when I'm looking for new books with female protagonists. Oswalt makes a laser-guided "vampire" joke in this regard.
Really the whole movie is build up to the obvious letdown and I thought the movie was pretty boring, if admittedly well paced. A bright spot comes into view when the horrendously cringey and awkward dialog like "I used to sleep in his t-shirts and boxers" gives way to an upset at a "Baby Naming Ceremony" (which is total ********, no one does that) where Furiosa flips her **** at Buddy's wife and it comes clear that she had a miscarriage with Buddy's first baby and she was only invited out of pity and concern for her assumed mental illness.
Wow. That's... that's pretty sucky.
She finds her way back to Patton's character who's been established to be more level-headed if equally entrenched in the past and REBOUND SEX I HATE THAT.
I don't get this ****. What's this phenomenon where peoples' negative emotions get them REALLY HORNY??? I don't get this. What is this? Does this happen? Why would this happen? Why do you want to have CRY SEX?? You know what really turns me on is when my partner has just been EMOTIONALLY DESTROYED, that's hot ****, yo.
You think you've bagged the best with crazy sex, but you've never had SAD SEX. Murder her puppy and you'll make her drip like Niagara Falls.
LUBE IT UP WITH HER TEARS- It's ****in' stupid. So what, is... is she and Oswalt a thing now? That'd be kinda cute.
NO? Instead she has a breakfast table conversation with his sister who just feeds her ******* ego?
"Yeah, all these suburbian peoples aren't really livin' they all might as well DIE, **** all of them."
"You know what? That completely validates my point of view."
"I know, right? So take me with you?"
"No."
THE END.