So bad...


This movie was so awful that after watching it I had to immediately watch another movie so that this one would stop polluting my brain with it's awfulness.

The women weren't even characters. They were sketches of a few vague emotions and impulses. Nothing distinguished them from one another at all besides one being scared while the others were not scared. Then one was shot in the arm while the others were not shot in the arm. It was so incredibly lazy.

The plot was embarrassing. What did Alien's rivalry and broken friendship with the other drug dealer have to do with anything? The events were so haphazardly plotted together that you could literally start the movie from any point in time and then watch it from randomly selected 5-10 minute sections and it would not matter at all. And if repetition is the point they need to make that repetition interesting. Other films use repetition to emphasize thematic ideas without sucking. So could they.

Thematic meaning? Yeah, we get it. Young adults' innocence and freedom converge with modern hedonistic culture in frightening ways. It's not groundbreaking. It's not shocking. It's not artistic. It's obvious. It's an excuse to film former Disney stars bouncing around in bikinis. We get it.

Some people will call this movie underrated. Some will call it misunderstood. They're wrong. They're giving it too much credit. Just because it's satire does not make it meaningful. It still has to earn its artistic significance. But when the filmmakers clearly enjoy the thing they're supposed to be satirizing, you have to wonder, are they in fact simply hiding behind this supposed satire to get away with their own hedonism? I think that is what happened here. I'm sure they had a good time. But in the process they made a terribly boring movie.

I'd rather watch porn. And then go watch a real movie. *beep* this movie.

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It's basically a porn. No point to this at all! I don't get how anyone gives it good reviews unless it's all men and women who just liked all of the boobs seen.

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People are way too hung up on art needing a point.

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It wasn't that bad. You could use it as a backdrop.

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