Summer Night

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This movie looked promising but quickly I realized it was going nowhere. Unlikable characters with no personalities that can't connect to the viewer. I had to fast forward and shut it off early after giving it about 45 minutes of my time. My girlfriend said the whole movie seemed to be made just to promote the bands/songs in it. Notice how all the older reviews are 9/10 and 10/10 and the newer ones are more like 1/10? The old ones are fake reviews by people who worked on the movie. Their reviews sound more like the plot of the movie and encouraging others to watch their less than mediocre work instead of a legit viewer getting enjoyment from a movie they happened upon.

This movie has no plot to it AT ALL. The acting is bad, it's painful to watch, all of the characters are annoying, and nothing really happens. There are so many characters that the movie is trying to give you a story for, that you don't ever know what the characters stories are or their connections to each other and I'd say 75% of the movie is the bands playing while everyone else watches lol. I wasn't connecting with any of the characters and at 1/4 of the way through I wanted turn it off but I stayed to see if MYABE something would happen but it never did.

It's a bunch of cliches stitched together in a ensemble piece with a bunch of actors you've seen in other things. Also this movie has Ella Hunt (who I Love) and Victoria justice (who I also love). And they don't share a scene. Like missed opportunity!

This movie was slow and made no sense at all. ALSO made me want to set my TV on fire. FIRST OFF) Why did the live music "segment" consume 3/4 of the movie's run time?? the camera continuously, and painstakingly, panned to "Dana" dancing alone in a corner, while, "Jameson" (who don't even get me started was the blandest person I have ever seen on my TV screen and actually make want to punch him in the face because he was so dull) was conflicted over two girls (oh no!). And what's up with this whole teacher thing??? He looks like he is on drugs and how old is heeee and also that one girl is 32 and she's a college student or something?? No way JAMEson!! The way he drove made me want to cry!!! Also why did it take 5 minutes for each person to respond to each other-made me want to pick up a can of sardines and throw them at the TV. I can't even. What a waste.

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.

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. 😂😅

This film has many characters, but none of them are memorable or are developed at all. I don't care about any of them. I don't connect with any of the characters or what happens with them. I find this a waste of time.

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.