Summer Night

Every character in this film is a loser, in some way or another.

I chose to watch this film because of Victoria Justice but she were hardly in any scenes. She did good though. But she couldn't lift the entire movie.

All characters are in their 20's but they act like they're teenagers experiencing things for the first time and doing the worst thing possibly. Just such losers.

At least the actors were good enough to play that stupid.

I strangely liked this movie a lot. No, it's not particularly smart or interesting in any way. You don't really connect with the characters either since you don't spend much time with any of them and there's no real character development.

BUT -- it really brought me back to a time when I and people my age really cared about music, and being in a band, and we built this entire activity up to become something solid and tangible for us to hang the other parts of life, and as an excuse to develop our personalities. I was never in a band myself but it still brought me back. The movie was made in 2019 but really it's a movie about the mid-to-late 2000s. It's not really a teen movie. It's for people who were teens fifteen years ago.

I felt a general, low-key buzz of pleasure throughout this movie. The plot and dialogue are mostly inoffensive, and the people are pretty, and the tunes are perfect in that quintessential 2000s indie rock way -- catchy and good but not really very memorable when divorced from the personal context of your life.

I understand that Dazed and Confused is a better made movie, but what can I say? I didn't grow up in the 1970s.

The only thing I have to say about this movie is that it was BORING as hell.

This film wants to be dazed and confused so badly it's embarrassing. They did zero character or plot development. I'm about halfway in and I don't know anyones name or have a connection to anyone. There is zero chemistry between these characters, the friendships or the romantic relationships. We get zero background on anyone. I can't find one thing good to say about it. I don't think I can finish it.

Originally this film had intrigued me due to the fact that Victoria Justice is in it. She was hardly in any scenes. Anyways, I finished watching the movie because of how horrible it was. It was so bad it's good. 😂😅