A Better Place

Plot synopsis:
Barret Michaelson is an unwelcome newcomer in a public high school, often bullied by his new classmates. He has no friends until another misfit with a bad reputation, Ryan, saves him from a beating in the men's locker room. Ryan is a misanthropic existentialist with violent tendencies and a dark past. It is revealed that Ryan's father murdered his mother and then committed suicide in front of Ryan when he was only ten years old.
The two become fast friends who spend much of their time together engaged in philosophical conversation, but their friendship comes to an abrupt halt when the two are involved in an incident with a local landowner who claims they are trespassing on his land. Ryan throws a rock at the man, causing him to fall and break his neck on a rock. The two manage to successfully make it look like an accident, but the incident forces Barret to pull away from his friendship with Ryan. This causes Ryan to become very emotional, and to purchase a black market gun. Barret soon agrees that they should put the incident behind them and continue to be friends, but Ryan becomes increasingly morose and attached to Barret.
When Ryan suffers a brutal beating at the hands of the bully against whom Ryan had originally defended Barret, he is consumed by a will for revenge, and makes it clear to Barret that he intends to shoot the bully to death. Barret tries as hard as he can to dissuade Ryan, but Ryan says it's his "destiny" and insists that there is nothing Barret can do to stop him. As the moment of truth approaches, Ryan forces Barret at gun point to accompany him to the would-be crime scene. Ryan finds his enemy in a secluded area, smoking what is probably a joint (marijuana cigarette). Barret tries to warn him, but it is to no avail, and Ryan kills him. After the killing, Barret tries to incapacitate Ryan by hitting on the head with a rock, but it doesn't work. In a struggle, the gun goes off, claiming Ryan's life. Barret then shoots him once again, and tries to turn the gun on himself, but by that time the gun is out of bullets.

Tags: psychedelic

Review:
Quite possibly the worst film you will ever see.
I am a nice person.
I am kind.
I do not like to criticize because I know that when people create things, they put their energy, their creativity, and their time, money, and wishes into them.
But this movie is so terrible I must criticize it.
My apologies to the gods of film review kindness.It starts with a fantastic story idea.
I love the story idea and somehow I had it in my head that this would be like one of those wonderful Stephen King stories that are about kindness and the good things in mankind that contrast with the bad things.
I think this story idea had that same sort of thing in mind, but the screenplay was so terrible, I sat here thinking it is quite possible that my cat could've written a better screenplay.
She is a smart cat, although I have never seen her writing.I utterly despise soap operas and have never made it through one episode of one though I gave it a valiant effort.
I would rather watch a soap opera than a movie like this.
The story was probably at the level of a fourth or fifth grader.
I am not making a joke.
It was incredibly juvenile with the characters completely flat and one-dimensional.
There was not a molecule of good or of inner conflict in any of the truly evil characters.
And the good characters were saintly.
There was no real motivation for all of the horrible things the evil characters did.
The motivation that the story did provide would've been carried out very different ways.
The actions of the antagonists in this story were ridiculously evil at a level that you just don't see in real life.
No adults would take in this story and say, "yes, those bad guys really need to be stopped!" Indeed, what an adult would wonder about is exactly what kind of brain injury the antagonists in the story had sustained to cause them to be so simpleminded and illogical in their evil doings.
And there were so many of those characters.
A small town with some incredibly evil people.
Nonsensically evil.I have no idea if the actors have any skill, but it is impossible for me to believe that they had anything to do with how bad this film is.
It is simply statistical nonsense to suggest that every actor in this ghastly thing is a terrible actor.
They would have, by sheer chance, found one or two good actors for the film if they had actually been looking for bad actors.
You cannot make a Rolex watch from a few pieces of wire and gears that you found in an auto salvage yard.
I think the screenplay is of such low quality that the finest actors in the world would've looked terrible in this film.I cannot tell if the direction was good or not, but I suspect it was not very good.
I wrote a few screenplays in my past and you always include a few instructions for direction in them.
But the director has some freedom, of course.
There were some very weird instances in this film where the timing did not make any sense or times where a character had no awareness of what was going on just a few feet from him.
Also, characters did not look at or intervene in situations.
The dance between directing and screenplay is a complicated one that I know very little about.
And I don't know how much freedom the director had, but if it was a skilled director, it must've been terrible for him to direct this awful thing.
Just as terrible as it was for the actors, no doubt.
I am pretty sure my six-year-old granddaughter could have written more realistic dialogue.
I cannot get my time back, but in an effort to be a positive force in humanity I must humbly suggest to any reader here that instead of putting time and a few dollars into watching this film, you get out all your sweaters, sit down, and pluck those little lint balls off them.
There will be four advantages to this activity.
Your sweaters will look pristine, you will be much richer with three or four dollars you don't spend renting this film, you won't lose that little bit of IQ that surely dissolves from taking in such a bad story, and you will be much more amused by the plucking of lint than watching this film..
Understanding purpose and effects on others lives.
So apparently I'm one of few that actually like this movie....
I don't find that odd as I'm normally the only one I know who like certain movies....
While I would consider this a B movie, I wouldn't see how this is a horrible movie.
I'm sure it could have been done slightly better....
I'm sure we can all relate to at least one character personally and know quite a few of the other characters in their circle....
This is the type of story that can happen in any town in any country....
while the "superpower" or "gift" of Jeremy's may not be for real, the message behind it is real....
What you do to the least of people you do to the most loved of people....
Everyone places value on relationships at different levels....
Your mom may be the best relationship you ever have....
your spouse may be the 2nd....
a bully negative value....
but what about the people you don't interact with on a regular basis but see or notice....
like the homeless man or the drug addict....
most people think they can get away with treating them badly because who cares about them?
they are just trash....
In this town that was Jeremy....
and if you are willing to physically hurt someone because of a perception, then you are probably hurting the person closest to you just as bad but in a different way....
When movies aren't BLOCKBUSTERS they have to be appreciated in a different way....
If I could have his "gift" I would probably understand why at times I feel I'm mistreated....
the majority of the time it is misguided emotion.....
Your one stop chop and slop.
If you like terrible movies, this is an elegant masterpiece on par with the 2016 presidential race.
Perhaps they couldn't have done it without them.
I first infected my television and my dear girlfriend's mind when we were looking for something to watch, anything.
We opened the preview and although skeptical, I was intrigued.
We gave it a shot, just jumped on in there with cold coffee and no popcorn at all.
Had I known the ride I was in for, I would have done it all differently by repeatedly bashing my head into the front door until the brain trauma had finally leaked in.
The outright rudeness of the opening characters was splendid.
It seemed that at every turn, any individual might walk in off the street with a raging case of hemorrhoids and sit on a gallon of fresh vanilla ice cream like it was no big deal to absolutely no reaction of the cast of background mutes.
I wondered to myself, what kind of town is this?
Intrigued further, I continued to watch.
I knew what I was in for, but I was completely unaware that some people have a completely different interpretation of a super power than the rest of the world, and some of these people have begun to infiltrate some of my favorite film genres.
But can you blame me for continuing?
I was thrown off my guard.
I haven't seen movie making this bad since Kurt Russell wore and eye patch and Dolph Lundgren had baby smooth skin.
To be fair, When a movie opens up with forgettable 80's street thugs dressed all cloak and dagger like in Walmart shopping outfits pulling pranks on the local diner's lifer waitress, you just get pulled in somehow.
It wasn't too long before I reasoned that this movie was clearly a joke and nothing more.Now, if for some reason, you went the full mile like me and mine, I do recommend pulling out the sweaters as suggested by dbh850, because you are in for the flat tire of your life.
I was shocked by the terrible service you get at the grocery store when your card is shut down, the overwhelming cunning of the local sheriff, and I may forever wonder just how many envelopes Sam Abram carries with him into church.
Tireless hours were spent on thinking of the most immediate and abrasive reaction one might have to anything that put them at any sort of disadvantage or just simply didn't work out the way they were supposed to.
I for one am glad that I won't get this hour of my life back, because it was bound to happen, and I am grateful I will never have to relive the experience of seeing this movie again.
Not an ounce of curiosity was left unspent, and I will sleep soundly knowing I have finally seen the worst movie possible.
Putting it at the top of my list of poovies..
A small town boy with a strange gift.
I really don't know why so many people dislike this movie.
It was perfectly acted and the actors where great for their roles.
This movie exploits all bad behavior people do on basic and some more.
The corruption and the things that we are willing to sacrifice to help others who don't deserve it for better off all.
This movie even if its a wishful dream, is done nicely and touch u deep inside.
I recommend to people who have at least some good in them to watch this.
Its B movie, but a good one.
Low budget used spot on..
This could have been a better film in better hands.
I wanted to like this film and a tolerated the fact that it was underfunded and that with the exception of the two leads most of the characters were poorly-acted cartoon villains, but just as it looked like it was going to go somewhere it ducked into a building and ended stupidly, in a way that didn't make any sense at all.
Then to underscore how badly the ending failed, they tacked on another ending, apparently made when one of the leads was unavailable for reshoots.
And the second ending didn't make any more sense or answer any of the questions left by the first ending, so all in all a disappointment of a film..
I've Just Wasted Almost 2 Hrs of My Life!.
When God allowed man to create technology, specifically visual media, I am under the firm belief that he did not foresee the future and realize that a group of people with apparently a lot of resources to waste would come together and create this "disasterpiece" of a cinematic trainwreck titled "A Better Place".
Would I have chosen this to watch if more options were available?
No. But unfortunately for me, I chose to wake up and start my day by taking a chance on watching a movie that was unheard of and unknown to me in any way.
I wish God would have had mercy on my soul.
First off the lead role is acted out by this idiot we're supposed to take seriously as an adult who was sheltered and locked away by his mother to protect him.
However, the acting is soooooo bad that we find the lead character's personality similar to Todd Cleary, who is the confused, withdrawn and possibly gay son of the Senator in the movie Wedding Crashers (2005).
I'm not going to give away any spoilers but just remember what I told you about the amount of time you've wasted away from your life the moment you get to the part in the movie where the bright golden spotlight shines on the lead character and the special effects start dancing on your screen.
You have been warned.
Look, if you're dead set on committing Movie Suicide believe me there are wayy lest painful ways to do so.
Consider jumping off of a high building, landing head first onto a crowded downtown street and almost instantly being pummeled by multiple cabs and Uber drivers who didn't notice your pancake shaped torso awkwardly blending in with the rest of the trash and discoloration on the street.
I promise you that would be less painful.
This is not a movie.
This is not a movie.
This is the perfect way to kill your enemy and get away with it.
So buy as many copies as you need and get to mailing them out.
Your life will be better 2 hours after they receive it.
#justbobbysopinion.
It's a condition.
Jeremy (Stephen Todt) is special.
When his mother passes, he finds himself very alone and socially dysfunctional with a "condition" that is shorty explored.
He must endure a bully in a crooked town.
He makes a friend in Jess (Mary Ann Raemisch) who is a prisoner in her life.The film is mostly a drama, except for the "condition." The ending of the film hints at non-specific religious overtures that were not hinted at during the rest of the film.
The acting wasn't that great and perhaps some of that had to do with the dysfunctional characters.
The idea was unique enough to keep you engaged, but the execution had issues.Guide: No swearing or nudity.
Implied sex.
Tonya Kay provides eye candy.