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Slash (2016)
This is NOT a teen comedy
Paid for this on demand. I liked the premise, liked the lead characters and the actors that played them. Michael Ian Black was good as well. Couldn't get into the characters motives. Weak screenplay or direction or both. Wait for this to come to Netflix and judge for yourself. It's like a movie anyone could basically make on their iPhone. The question is should they. There's much better teen comedies out there than this wannabe. I really wanted to like this and the redeeming parts are because of the genuine warmth and chemistry of the two leads. Felt like the slash part was written in for the sake of being different. It was irrelevant and almost upstaged the characters and story. If it was just another element of story it could've been something better and maybe an actual teen comedy.
Arrival (2016)
Tree of Life put. 2 ????
Lots of potential, that never quite delivered. Similarly it reminded me of another such film, Tree of Life. If you like films that hint, provoke, allude, but ultimately decide to become an open ended philosophical, pretentious, snooze fest, you will love this. I loved the sci-fi bits and elements and was really disappointed it copped to the human spirit and man helping man. Maybe I believe people are more complex. It seemed a very cynical take then to wrap it all in a Beatles song..... (Spoiler)
All you need is love. At 10:30pm on a Saturday night the crowd of mostly 30 years and older were quiet and confused. Nearly half way through all I could think about were those awful CGI dinosaurs from Tree of Life. Worth a Netflix watch. If you liked Tree of Life see it at a matinée or cheap show.