meh.

Rating: 6/10 (22 April 2008)

I can see why people like this movie, honestly. Its well done for what it is. The problem for me is that it felt forced. Lets make a movie that seems like this movie or that movie. Lets make sure it has this visual style, this simple music soundtrack, lets make the soundtrack important like the soundtrack from Garden State. It all fit, it was fine but the characters and their talking and their persona's didn't click for me. Maybe it was the over abundance of subculture references. Seriously people, stop adding punk band names into your movies to get "street cred" or to make people who are not in the know wonder whats so special. Every gdamn magazine in the past 7 years has done a history of punk special. There is no underground anymore, go find something new to add character to your.. characters.
Anyway, I know film and theater and writing in general is about building substance out of stick figures. I'm not naive, but when all the characters like talk exactly like the writer, it makes me want to shoot myself. Eh.. Im not much of a movie cricket. But I sure know how to chirp.