Mainstream

It's honestly impressive how a movie can be so weird, yet very predictable. It all started of so simple and honestly pretty interesting. Garfield plays an outsider who is just so fascinating and entertaining to look and listen to. He is by far the best thing to come out of this as he gives more than 110%. He shows the light and fun side, but also the dark places that an internet star can go to. On the other hand, the rest of this movie is just not on his level at all. I know Maya Hawke is a very good actress, but this just wasn't it for her. Her chemistry with Garfield just wasn't there and in general her character was just very of to me. But the main problem with this movie is definitely the story. I like the message that it's trying to tell us that we should all just put our phones down and be ourselves, but it's just the execution of that message that is so wrong. The exaggeration and unrealistic moments are so bad in this movie. This is not how the internet works, and we all know that. It's kinda like are writer went on YouTube for the first time, clicked on a couple of channels, and made a movie about it. It's just too much for me. It kept me entertained enough all the way through, but it's just not that good.

48/100

It hurts, doesn't it? Seeing one of your favorite actors carry an entire film that just doen't hold up. What's way worse, though, is seeing that movie -even though you'll regret it- just because of that same actor.

A tiny bit part about Mainstream actually knew what it was doing. It understood that, inside influencer culture, some of the people out there making content aren't the problem, but that they all share the chance of becoming emotionally-manipulated in a matter of seconds while also passing that onto their audience -and practically everyone around them-, creating a self-destructive yet stable community. But that was virtually it, despite some of the performances, of course.

From emoji-vomiting to 8-bit music, the movie acknowledges its natural weirdness, but fails at taking advantage of it. It was like watching a YouTube video without a structure, which could've been great to make a statement through its editing if it hadn't played it safe throughout the whole film.

Effectively everything in Mainstream feels like a mess for better or worse but, for neither cases did writer/director Gia Coppola could prevent from getting old since that ability to manipulate the subject matter to one's liking lacked the most.

First I gotta say Andrew Garfield is marvelous in this movie. His mimic and his movements are crazy and you're buying every part of his character. Maya Hawk is also good and Jason Schwartzman is solid as always. But now to the movie: the first 30 minutes started off great and I had very high expectations for the rest of the movie. It was funny, interesting and most importantly kind of making fun of influencers and social media. But then, the movie turned in another direction and was only filled with stereotypes like a 2000s high school movie. Suddenly there was only love and jealousy on the one hand, and on the other heartlessness and making big bucks. The movie could've definitely turned out better, but Andrew Garfield safed the day with his acting!

This movie caught my attention because of Andrew Garfield, who pour his everything in this somewhat of a mediocre movie. Though it had an interesting premise, the execution was just...bad. If you have one and a half hours to kill, you could check it out, but you'll surely get frustrated by the end of it.

Mainstream is an interesting and strange film. Also, I understand why there are so many negative reviews, However, is it possible something has been overlooked? In my opinion, the simple fact that they created such stupid(and I say that with peace and love) content, adds to the overall message. In some ways it's actually pretty genius. After considering new sides and upon rewatching, people are famous for nothing. The pressure of that is so misunderstood.