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(SPOILERS AHEAD) This film is very impatient when it comes to telling its story. We know that one of the main characters dies within the first five minutes of the film and the film tries very hard to make us care. The problem is that both main characters are very unlikeable and not believable as real people. David rescues Alex from the water, invites him to his house to take a bath?, they fall in love within a month but suddenly David sleeps with a girl (for seemingly no reason), tells Alex that he stopped loving him and when Alex reacts angrily David goes on his motorcycle and basically kills himself. Even though he initiated the argument???? And Alex feels so bad that he thinks about killing himself? Makes absolutely no sense. The mother of David is unbearable as a character and only exist to add unnecessary conflict to the movie. The only positive thing I could say is that the movie is visually appealing but other than that this movie fails to be a tale of two lovers because it prioritizes drama/ conflict over logic. I don't recommend and have no desire to give it a second watch.

Summer of 85

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Waste of time to be honest. With the cast that the movie has I was expecting a great film. Unfortunately the story did not know what it was trying to do. From the beginning, I could not understand the familys relentless negativity towards Meredith. Shes obviously nervous about meeting family yet they go above and beyond to make her feel like garbage. I could not be convinced that their attitude was justified in any way. Honestly, it seems like all the movie did successfully was irritate the viewer for seemingly no reason. The point that made me give this movie one star was the dinner table scene. Meredith's point was "why would a parent wish for their child to be gay when being gay brings a lot of difficulties and prjudice". Its honeslty like saying that you wish your child was born with a disability. Like, yeah I get it, you accept and love them regardless but to wish that on someone is wrong and selfish. Notice how the mother wasnt saying she wished all her kids were deaf. Then the dad proceeds to yell at Meredith to stop talking as if this is the first time the son's sexuality has ever been brought up. I myself am gay and dont really understand why that was as offensive as they found it. Oh yeah that weird swap they do at the end adds nothing and makes me upset that people were paid to produce this.

The Family Stone

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An album two years in the making that disappoints all around. When the cover art for "Guts" was released, it was clear that Olivia did not want to stray away from what she knew worked for her. This is definitely reflected in the 12 songs added to her catalogue (no, I did not listen to the bonus tracks off the deluxe edition as the original 12 were more than enough for me). While listening to each track I could not help but compare to the singles that were shoved down my throat off her debut album. I could almost predict that the next song would open with a repeating single note introduced by Olivia's whispers about an ex-boyfriend who treated her poorly. Copy and paste, copy and paste, copy and paste... Keeping in mind that Olivia Rodrigo recently turned 20 and has been a global phenomenon for about three years, I can't help and think of her lyrical decisions as painfully juvenile and predictable. She had all the time and resources in the world to produce a new and fresh take on her life since gaining stardom but all we get is another look into what sounds like a teenage girl's entry in her Girl tech Password Journal (iykyk). Meh. Also, something I noticed prior to the full release of "guts" was a couple of rip-offs of Fiona Apple(my opinion: I truly believe that she knows her main audience doesn't know Fiona Apple so she took some visuals and a song title that she liked, that's probably not illegal, just annoying especially since the they were poorly used imo) Get Him Back is a song off of Fiona's 2005 album Extraordinary Machine and the scene of Olivia rising at the end of the Vampire music video was directly taken from Fiona's music video for Never is a Promise in 1996... I was not sure of these comparisons until a performance where Olivia is seen wearing a Fiona Apple t-shirt and that killed any doubt I had. Overall, this album fails to bring anything new to what we already have heard from Olivia Rodrigo and any interesting ideas can easily be traced to a previous artist who already did it better. I have no intention of revisiting this album in the future but I am sure that I will be subjected to it in grocery stores for the next couple years. Lucky me :)

Guts

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Sydney White

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