Give Me a break

Rating: 1/10 (28 March 2015)

Thank God I didn't pay money to see this exercise in narcissism. The leader notes say six friends so I was expecting fictional characters. Instead, as soon as the film opened with Rogan being himself, I was tempted to push the off button. I suppose it helps if you know who these "stars" are; I do vaguely (Franco anyway)so .....
Was the film supposed to poke fun at today's Hollywood in a satyric way? I don't know. I mean, the party scene with the coke and bathroom orgies and all. As the kids say, waaaaaaaht!
As someone else has reviewed, if this is what passes today as a money maker, it just shows how vapid the mind of the average moviegoer is. Was the movie poking fun at religion? Again, I don't know. Was it poking fun at homosexuality? You got me. Rhianna? Seriously. Emma Watson? Seriously? I came away with the feeling this is really the way these kids are and if so, how sad. I actually fell asleep on my couch only to wake up with them going to "Heaven" where of course dope is available and halos given out like Mardi Gras beads.
The film's psychology is telling in the sense that when the one character tries to convince the others that this just may be the "end" as described in Revelation (he finds a Bible and reads from it,) he is pooh poohed by the others even as the beast himself appears as well to rape one of them. It just shows how, for this generation, even seeing is not believing. Did he enjoy being raped? Again, your guess is as good as mine.
I suppose it is also instructive that all of the players are rich and have more time and money than they know what to do with and have no real life experience but attempt to be deep and extremely judgmental towards each other - again the Millennial attitude.
Like the current generation of which these guys are a part, they have created their own reality. Franco is often touted as somewhat of a torchbearer - Yale and all of that - but I think it is premature, or rather, as these "stars" illustrate, just immature.