Before entering the cinema, try and imagine what you would with a title 'Project X'. I can guarantee you, that will enhance your experience. By the end of this, I thought 'now THAT's a party'. Truth be told, it was the wildest, craziest romp, a 'soiree' (as termed by one of the characters) of epic proportions.
Unrestrained and out of control, this 'home video' had everything you've seen in a high school party, plus, everything you haven't. There was no tangible story and it felt like there was no definitive script either, it definitely seemed improvised, like a bunch of random clips put together on a DVD. As if it was very real. It was to an extent, some of the clips were supposedly taken through cast using iPhones and Blackberrys in case they could get footage the cameras couldn't. Yes, it was THAT large and the filmmakers were looking for THAT detail. And I think that director Nimah Nourizadeh's choice to film it like this made it look like quite the blockbuster event.
Without a doubt though, it was hedonistically extreme and just the promotion of hooliganism and absolute debauchery. There's no morals, there's no social acceptability, there's no legality. It's all about a bunch of adolescent teenagers congregating with an intention to create havoc, after all, that's just another way of saying 'having a good time'. I don't know if it was supposed to be inadvertently didactic or a satire on generation Y youth, but it went to lengths which were so extreme that you got that kind of feeling.
But did I like it? Hesitatingly, I will say that I really did. It was just a thrill ride, I won't spoil it but it's just raw, juvenile entertainment. It's insanely different, quite the endeavour for producer Todd Phillips and I'm sure he would feel that this is what he envisaged.
Oliver Cooper I believe has a promising future in the comedy genre. Whether you found his character Costa awesome, despicable or annoying, he was the ringleader and perpetrator of the spectacle/disaster (depending how you want to look at it) and owned his scenes. It was through him that we saw some comedy as well amidst the widespread chaos. I'm not sure that anybody else mattered. It wasn't as much about the people as it was about the bash as a whole.
Ultimately, this would not be for everyone, least of all for more traditional previous generations who would probably find this 'misbehaviour' quite appalling. But if you'd like some comedy and some thrills, rock up to the mysterious 'Project X' and see what you get. If you aren't surprised, I look forward to your 'Project Y' to show me how its done.
Unrestrained and out of control, this 'home video' had everything you've seen in a high school party, plus, everything you haven't. There was no tangible story and it felt like there was no definitive script either, it definitely seemed improvised, like a bunch of random clips put together on a DVD. As if it was very real. It was to an extent, some of the clips were supposedly taken through cast using iPhones and Blackberrys in case they could get footage the cameras couldn't. Yes, it was THAT large and the filmmakers were looking for THAT detail. And I think that director Nimah Nourizadeh's choice to film it like this made it look like quite the blockbuster event.
Without a doubt though, it was hedonistically extreme and just the promotion of hooliganism and absolute debauchery. There's no morals, there's no social acceptability, there's no legality. It's all about a bunch of adolescent teenagers congregating with an intention to create havoc, after all, that's just another way of saying 'having a good time'. I don't know if it was supposed to be inadvertently didactic or a satire on generation Y youth, but it went to lengths which were so extreme that you got that kind of feeling.
But did I like it? Hesitatingly, I will say that I really did. It was just a thrill ride, I won't spoil it but it's just raw, juvenile entertainment. It's insanely different, quite the endeavour for producer Todd Phillips and I'm sure he would feel that this is what he envisaged.
Oliver Cooper I believe has a promising future in the comedy genre. Whether you found his character Costa awesome, despicable or annoying, he was the ringleader and perpetrator of the spectacle/disaster (depending how you want to look at it) and owned his scenes. It was through him that we saw some comedy as well amidst the widespread chaos. I'm not sure that anybody else mattered. It wasn't as much about the people as it was about the bash as a whole.
Ultimately, this would not be for everyone, least of all for more traditional previous generations who would probably find this 'misbehaviour' quite appalling. But if you'd like some comedy and some thrills, rock up to the mysterious 'Project X' and see what you get. If you aren't surprised, I look forward to your 'Project Y' to show me how its done.