Amy's F-It List

You can make a movie about how crummy a single women's life is. You can make a movie about a terminal cancer diagnosis. You can make a movie about a bucket list. You can make a movie about hookup culture. You can make a sexual assault revenge movie. You can maybe make a movie with two or three of these plot points. But you cannot make a movie with all of them.....with a budget as low as this.......in seventy eight minutes.

This is a bad movie not because of all the above but the sheer hubris of a writer director that should know better. The direction and editing are weak, the acting is corny and if you think the viewing public will accept 'boss babe gets her revenge on a bunch of white guys' storylines anymore, then you are very much mistaken and will soon join the queue at the employment centre nearest you soon enough.

I liked the two lead actors. They did a good job with poor quality material. Their characters were the only believable ones - all of the others were caricatures.

There were abundant holes in the storyline. It never felt "real" and often moved into fantasy. There were a few good laughs but not enough to compensate for blandness of everything else. Sound quality was inconsistent and sometimes very poor - particularly in dialogu-heavy scenes. The "shock" ending is ludicrous and totally unbelievable.

This movie is just about watchable the whole way through, but at the end you'll definitely wish you picked something better to watch.

So I now have a crush on Alyson Gorske after watching Obliterated on Netflix, so now I am obligated to watch everything she has ever been in. Amy's F-it List has a premise that could go in a lot of directions and I had no idea going in what kind of tone this movie would have. I expected a light hearted drama which seems like what they were aiming for, but it misses the mark

For a brief synopsis, basically our heroine is living a dead end life after the death of her father when she finds out she has a terminal brain tumor, so she and her sister go on a quest to check off her f it list. From the moment the list is introduced everything just feels rushed and nothing is given the weight it should have given the circumstances involved. The moments that should be funny just come off as corny and the moments that should be heart wrenching just feel like nothing. There's no weight to the subject matter. Much like Amy, it feels like the film makers had a list of scenes to get through, but not enough to connect them and better understand the characters. It doesn't evoke any emotion for the heavy subject matter

This feels like a rough draft of a better movie. Honestly this seemed like a movie I could have seen in the 90s. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but the direction, script, and acting all do not seem in line with modern film making and cultural sensibilities. One egregious example is the final list item that is just sort of thrown in like an after thought when it should be a huge all encompassing topic. I think we are supposed to surmise that this is the reason Amy's life goes off track, but the whole movie pins this on her father's death, so it just doesn't work and feels like a cheap ploy to shock the audience

Alyson Gorske and Angel Prater who plays her sister are fine actors, they just didn't have the right ingredients to make this work. It all just comes off as a senior year film studies project. However, I like the idea and think it could work in a more refined movie, and given my new crush on Gorske I can't give this less than a 5. If you have nothing else to watch on a Sunday afternoon it might help you pass the time while scrolling on your phone and folding laundry.

So here's the concept. A 25-yr-old lady working as a dollar store employee has an episode at work, she sees a doctor, she gets the bad news. She has a brain tumor, a Glioblastoma, and she will die in three days. (In reality the condition is NOT that deadly for an otherwise healthy person.) So she decides, with the encouragement of her sister, to make her F-it list (rhymes with bucket list). But the first five are trivial things, like the people who use the phone when in line, or mistaken fast food orders, or the people who bring 20 items to the 5 item line, or misbehavior at the school drop off lane. And she eats cake and ice cream for breakfast instead of healthier oatmeal.

Number six on her list is a big one but we have no hint of it until, literally, the last minute of the movie. Most of the movie seems to just be killing time, like the several slow conversations with her sister, or between her pregnant sister and her husband.

The actresses who play the two sisters are very capable, Alyson Gorske as the dying girl, Amy Taylor. And Angel Prater as her pregnant sister, Mary Taylor. The plot also contains a scheme to get back $300,000 that they considered "stolen" from them by a businessman. But truthfully, the script is awful, sophomoric, several scenes are played out in a cartoonish manner.

No, not a good movie at all. Filmed in the year 2000 during COVID time, much of it in Sacramento and nearby cities. I watched it streaming on Amazon Prime.

"Amy's 'Eff It List" is an ambitious comedy with lots to say, especially as it cruises along to it's interesting conclusion. Also, this film isn't easily classified, because the are so many concepts presented throughout. But it's mostly about the freedoms one may consider taboo when someone has all the time in the world, but are FAR from taboo when there are only a few days left on this earth. As I watched, I asked myself and my wife about the things we might do if we ever discovered we had an acutely terminal illness. It was with great interest that I discovered there is a HUGE difference in perspective between genders, and this film shows what a woman might consider. Some things were totally apropos, others...not so much. Some of the concepts stick, others are a little more obtuse or perhaps out of place, but this film definitely has its own viewpoint, and if there are any real gripes or misgivings about the broad range of the story, the performances more than make up for that. The film is shot and directed well, and there were good laughs to be had throughout...which to me, makes for a successful comedy. 3 1/2 stars.