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Teenage Kicks (2016)
Very well acted movie, kind of bad message
I'm going to keep this very short. I liked the movie personally but at the same time, I really didn't. It's a good movie, the actors are fantastic but the storyline doesn't end very well in my opinion. Miklòs does go through his venture to find himself, his sexuality, and confront his feelings for Dan, but it all happens at the end and seems semi-rushed. Also multiple horrid things happen in the plot that are either brushed over or too easily forgotten.
Miklòs' father beats him to get his sorrow out, I know he was mourning his son but that doesn't give him the right to beat his other child. We never see him apologizing or getting better, we're just expected to brush it off as mourning, feel bad because he is hospitalized, and still be happy when Miklós gets close to him.
Miklós' mother is verbally abusive and hits him as well, but at the end he just forgives and forgets and we're expected to see them and be happy for them as well.
And don't get me started on Dan, I love Daniel Webber, he is the only reason I watched this movie, and he acted his part well. But Dan as a character is just about the worst best friend a person in Miklós' situation or in general can have. He almost ditches him for a girl and won't let Mik explain himself, he repeatedly sets Mik's feelings aside and puts his "girlfriend's" feelings in front of Mik's, and the r/pe scene at the ending. I get it, he instantly feels bad but he still did it. He apologizes but again, he still did it. We're supposed to see him as troubled and at the very end, we're supposed to root for him and Mik to be close but he still r/ped him.
Overall, as I said it's a good movie, very well acted, and interesting but it seems to be too light on the traumatic experiences that happen.
Summer '03 (2018)
Was this supposed to be entertaining?
Now I absolutely adore Jack Kilmer, he's an amazing actor and Joey King is a fantastic actress, but this whole move was an absolute waste of their talent. When I first started the movie, I was laughing a little, maybe a chuckle here and there but then everything went downhill after the two "love interests" Jamie and Luke actually started hanging out.
So you're telling me if she's grounded and she sneaks out, she gets caught and has no repercussions?
She disobeys her parents more times than I can even count and yet they're still not as harsh on her as they should've been. She basically tells them to screw off and yet when she comes back she isn't in any kind of trouble for yelling at them, calling them horrible parents, storming out the house while being told she can't go anywhere, and much more.
Also when Luke tells her he doesn't love her, she gets upset and suddenly he's the bad guy for the rest of the movie that we're supposed to be against? I don't see what he did wrong it just seems like the movie is saying she has the right to throw a tantrum because someone doesn't like her the same way she likes them. Now if he would've said he loved her and then told her he was just saying that so they can have sex, then he would've been the bad guy. The ending really upsets me, she goes on stage, blames her actions on her dead grandmother, and then exposes Luke (who I still don't think did anything wrong). I guess since Luke doesn't love her she doesn't care if she ruins his life anymore because she told EVERYONE in the church what he did after telling her mother not to because it would ruin his life. She then feels she has the right to PUNCH him and yet at the end he's still the one saying sorry over a letter and getting ignored? Overall this movie was absolutely a mess in my eyes and I would only recommend you watch it if you like cheesy rebellious comedies.