End confrontation
If Randy didn't get a lucky kick to the groin, surely Tommy would have defeated him. In that case, do you think she would go on with Tommy?
shareI don’t think so, her heart clearly wasn’t in it.
What struck me is that nobody on stage seemed to notice a violent fight full of ‘waaaaa!’ kung-fu shouts going on metres away from them. The whole auditorium would have heard that shit.
Julie's father had told her to follow her heart. What did she do: She picked Tommy.
shareThat bit was weird. He tells her to follow her heart, she even tells him the one she really likes is Randy, and she’s already going out with him, so it’s surely a done deal? Nope. Next thing she does is ditch Randy and go out with obvious-dickhead Tommy again.
I get the peer pressure but the film showed Julie as pretty resistant to all that, the film needed to really turn up the pressure. In fact, they had a whole subplot they could have drawn from - Tommy getting it on with Loryn, they could have used that to make Julie jealous and wanting Tommy’s affections again, but instead the film completely forgets about that rich dramatic vein it set up earlier.
Double fail.