Micransix Crappy film

Micah Lloyd Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Wyatt There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

SnoopyStyle It's the modern world for a group of Texas high school teens and their parents. Celebrity obsessed Donna Clint (Judy Greer) is the mother of mean girl Hannah (Olivia Crocicchia) who puts her on a website. Patricia Beltmeyer (Jennifer Garner) is the over-protective mother of Brandy (Kaitlyn Dever). Don Truby (Adam Sandler) and Helen Truby (Rosemarie DeWitt) are parents struggling with two boys and internet porn. Allison Doss is struggling with body issues and anorexia. Kent Mooney (Dean Norris)'s son Tim (Ansel Elgort) quits football.It's all very sad and tiring. The cold narration from Emma Thompson does not help. Jason Reitman dresses up this jumble of Lifetime scary stories into a tapestry of modern isolation and sadness. I'm not invested in any of these characters. The whole movie leaves me cold and uncaring.

sexwizardmoustache It never fails to astound me when over a hundred movie critics bash a movie that isn't half bad. The poor rating for this movie almost deterred me from watching. Many critics have said this has been done before and it's predictable. I disagree.Romantic comedies and action movies have been done many times before and are totally predictable and no one is complaining. We know that based on the formulaic plots in the aforementioned genres that girl will meet boy and they will wind up together and live happily ever after or good guys will get bad guys in the end. But these timeless genres continue to be replicated in new movies again and again.I think in this technological age, the effects of technology on our lives and relationships is an important story to tell. And despite the fact that there are a handful of movies that have already addressed the topic, it's still a relatively new genre and I am most certainly not bored of it any more than I am of romcoms and action movies. On the contrary, a movie like this to me sticks out from the pack of predictable Hollywood dribble as something unique and worth watching, and it was certainly not predictable. At no point was I able to guess the outcome for any of the characters and that's what made it so interesting. A further note I have to movie critics in general is if you think this movie is so bad, how about you try making a better one. There are far worse movies out there with much better ratings and this baffles me. The narration is heavily criticised and I actually thought it was one of the movie's strengths. It puts a humorous spin on an otherwise serious drama and also engages the viewer in the story. Emma Thompson is possibly the best narrator ever. There's nothing quite like hearing her quote crude pornographic material in her proper English accent. Hilarious. I thought the references to voyager were cool and tied into Tim's story; his realisation of the insignificance of earthly life which led him to be fearless in making decisions. Quitting the football team he never really enjoyed despite his talents and pressures and approaching his crush and ultimately forming a bond with her. Sharing this with the school counsellor, who misinterprets Tim's profound revelation as depression leads to a prescription for antidepressants. This also ironically results in Tim's suicide attempt later in the movie when he loses the only two things of value in his life, the online role playing world he's created over many months and his soul mate. The latter at the hands of Brandy's overprotective mother who, fearing the evils of the Internet ironically winds up using it as a tool to push a vulnerable teenager over the edge who is just reaching out for human contact and companionship. This in turn makes Brandy's mother realise that in trying to protect her daughter from the dangers of the Internet, she has prevented her from living a normal life as a teenager and ultimately "unplugs" herself. The other stories involve a loveless, sexless marriage ultimately leading to acts of indiscretion, a teenage boy who has become so desensitised by the availability of sexual content on the Internet that he has lost the ability to have an erection with flesh and blood women, a teenage girl battling anorexia and another whose mother unwittingly exposes her underage daughter to the world of online porn while attempting to boost her profile and land her the acting job she never did. The criticisms are that adultery, eating disorders and porn aren't new problems. This is true. But the film does demonstrate how they can be exacerbated or perpetrated by the Internet which has never made having an affair so easy, with pop up ads for escort hire and the Ashley Maddison site which helps married people cheat on their spouses. Previously you might have had to go out of your way to seek out these indiscretions whereas today it's never been so convenient. Anorexia is certainly not a new problem but the availability of an online "support group" ready to dish out instant advice on how to refrain from eating in order to remain thin such as "drink a glass of water and wait 5 minutes" serves to perpetuate the problem. In attempting to groom her daughter to become a famous actress and live out her own failed dreams, Donna takes half naked photos of her underage daughter and posts them on her website. This ironically leads her daughter to miss out on her big break as a reality TV star when the network are put off by the indecent material on the website, which despite Donna's intentions to showcase Hannah's "versatility" is a skip and a jump from child pornography. This may not be any different to mothers listing their young children in beauty pageants and having them parade in swimsuits on stage in front of an audience and a panel of judges, however the Internet has made this more perverse with pornographic content being so readily available online, so is perhaps the worse of the two evils. The latter does not discriminate its audience and one doesn't know what kind of perverts are perusing the material. Donna also draws a parallel to Patricia, one mother protecting her daughter against the dangers of the Internet and another exposing her daughter to them. Both are opposite extremes and neither end in good outcomes. So perhaps the message is not that the Internet is inherently evil but that we should be aware of the pitfalls and make a conscious effort to lead more balanced lives between the online world and RL.

rumrolf This film shows the way the Internet changed the relationships people have in real life with others and with themselves. I didn't feel like the Internet was being blamed for those changes, but instead it just gave possibilities that people could take or not. This film is about how insignificant we all are, it makes you put things in perspective and analyze your priorities. Also, you end up having the feeling you don't really know other people even if you live with them.The story centers around a group of teenagers and their parents. I liked the way they took stereotypes of teenagers and showed them in a different light, outside of high school. You have the cheerleaders, the jocks, the loners and they are all complex people instead of just good or bad. I got a "The Breakfast Club" feeling because you see them as people who deal with personal issues and are not as perfect as they might seem. When it comes to the adults, it centers around their romantic relationships and their problems. In all the situations, the Internet functions as an scape from reality, a way to explore new things, being someone different and getting the kind of support they couldn't find in real life. That's why I think the portrayal of the Internet was realistic and not just plain negative. I think this film is a dialogue starter, a great film to be watched by parents and their children. It gets uncomfortable at times but if you talk to each other about your own experiences with the Internet you might end up knowing your family better.

tarchon If you like cautionary melodrama laid on so thick that you aren't sure if it's supposed to be a joke, this movie is for you. It reminds me a little of Crash and (if you go way back) Mazes and Monsters. It seems to want to be an exploration of how the internet collides with teen angst, but it weirdly seems to have been written by someone who was never a teen and only knows what the internet is from 2nd hand descriptions. Aliens maybe? I really don't know who could have come up with this script in earnest. It's full of weird misconceptions about things that I previously assumed were part of commonplace experience. I'm pretty sure the actors were taking it seriously though. Wow, is there a lot of Serious Acting being Acted here.