Easy A

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Sometimes movies inspire you so much that you just want to talk about them to friends and family to encourage them to go and watch them themselves. Easy A, is unfortunately not one of those movies. I can even say that it was so bad, that I couldn't help but talking about how bad it is.

This movie is the typical bad, worthless, time-wasting, American Teen movies. It was directed, produced and co-written by Will Gluck who who also directed to fairly better Fired Up! (2009).

The main character of the movie, Olive, portrayed by the rather good Emma Stone, talks about her high school life and teenager's sexuality in a tone that strangely reminds me of a mediocre rip-off of the Twilight Saga's Bella Swan. You can see the very well portrayed, very badly written, young teenager's inner voice talking all through the movie.

The plot of the movie is how sometimes innocent lies end up getting spread all over the place and affect your reputation. And the more you try to help people (based on those lies), the deeper you are getting in trouble. It all sounds like little kids story where you have a morality at the end, like a Fable by La Fontaine that would tell you how you shouldn't lie and/or should face problems or they get worse. Another similarity with Twilight is the moralizing speech about sex and STDs, but it also has a quite virulent speech about religion and religious people.

Anyway, if you were planning on watching this movie, I would strongly suggest you don't and find a better way of wasting your time.

Trailer:

Rating: 2.5/10

External Links :

• imdb entry (cast, synopsis, etc ...)
• Wikipedia article about the film

Youth in Revolt

Theatrical release poster

I'm starting this blog with a film review. And oddly enough, it's not one of those inspiring grandiose films, but the humble teens one intitled Youth in Revolt, aka Be Bad!
Let me begin with the formalities, Youth in Revolt is directed by Miguel Arteta, starring the promising and quite active Michael Cera and Portia Doubleday. Its US release was January 8th, 2010 and its French release (since I live in France) was September 1st, 2010.
Now the interesting part, this film is a lecture on how to make yet another film about teens summer crash, without repeating all those stereotypes we all know of and have seen a million times on television or in theatre.
I loved the refined choices of romance, comedy and teenager mind introspection scenes without going too deep into any of them. Maybe what sets this film apart is the exchange between Nick and its alter-ego François. Probably all teenage boys have had that rebellious voice in their heads (doesn't make them schizophrenic hopefully) and I loved the way it was portrayed on screen.
A special note should also be made about the refreshing, British-like, absurd, sense of humour (cf. the scene where Nick dumps his father's car into a river).
All in all this is a quite enjoyable film, worth watching and The Architect* definitely recommends it for your light Saturday afternoon screenings with friends !

Trailer :

Rating : 6.5/10
External Links :

• imdb entry (cast, synopsis, etc ...)
• Wikipedia article about the film

*please note the unprecedented use of the third person to talk about myself...

Welcome to The Architect

Welcome to The Architect : a media-related blog.
The image you have to have in mind while browsing this blog, is the scene from the Matrix, where Neo meets "The Architect" who is in a room with plenty of screens.

I made this blog to talk about TV shows, radio drama, comedy, films review, etc ... (I seem to watch/listen to a lot of them).

Hopefully, you will find some of the shows I talk about here quite interesting and worth watching/listening to, while others are just a waste of time.

Comments are most welcome.