Just saw tha trailer for Me & Earl and the dying Girl

[Wise]

Just saw it. I liked it. Earl was funny as hell and Rachel was cute.

 

[Brofato]

Saw it twice, and i enjoyed it very much.

Just saw it. I liked it. Earl was funny as hell and Rachel was cute.

Was honestly thinking I was the only one that liked this movie.

Already posted this in the 'Last thing you watched' thread but I gotta tell peoples here as well. @FlyRy

I fukking hated this movie so bad. It's like someone saw Juno and said to themselves, 'You know what, I can write a story just as obnoxious and pretentious as this. Hell, I can even make it worse!' and then proceeded to do so, hurting the world of novels and now cinema for evermore. The forced hipster quirkiness is at an all-time low, from the plain annoying to the shameful classic cinema pandering (you can't hate this movie, look at all the movies it shout outs! Werner Herzog mentions people, a true cinephile can't hate this!). More painful to sit through than chemo to the point the possibly-quite-nasty stereotype of Earl is almost welcomed because even in his stereotypical this-is-what-white-people-think-black-teenagers-are-like way Earl at least feels like a real character in a movie consisting of painfully constructed cartoon characters. Did I mention the direction is abominable with terrible camera angles and a general sense that if the camera isn't standing still, the director has no idea what to do with it? fukking indie-hipster fukking shameless tearjerker garbage.

I enjoyed the direction. There were some shots that would go on just long enough for you to notice and wonder when they were going to break it. It was slightly distracting but I liked it. I was worried Earl would be a stereotype but he was the person I enjoyed most in the movie. Dude's a really naturalistic actor. Didn't really like what they did with his older brother, however. I'm glad he's still getting work though.

The 'we make movies' thing seemed almost inconsequential. While they almost hit on the cliches I feel like the main dude was just enough of an a$$hole to break type. And his self-loathing was on some next level shyt. Damn near realistic.

Juno gets more annoying with every rewatch and I don't see this being that.

 

[ManxOfxThexYear]

I loved this movie as I loved the book, if the main dude wasn't that a$$hole that he was I would of thrown this shyt in the bushes. His a$$holeness made the movie and book enjoyable at least for me. I bought the book and movie and saw this shyt in theatre and I love it.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Hmm..,y'all shytting on this something fierce. I'm about halfway in and enjoying it. Doesn't seem as annoying and pretentious as perks of being a wallflower

 

[Brofato]

Hmm..,y'all shytting on this something fierce. I'm about halfway in and enjoying it. Doesn't seem as annoying and pretentious as perks of being a wallflower

Give us your take on it when you get to the end.

The one that it could be directly compared to is probably The Fault in Our Stars which was some bullshyt but this outshines that in ways I was hoping it would.

 

[dora_da_destroyer]

Give us your take on it when you get to the end.

The one that it could be directly compared to is probably The Fault in Our Stars which was some bullshyt but this outshines that in ways I was hoping it would.

Like others, I enjoyed Greg being a self loathing weirdo who also happened to be a bit of an a$$hole. Earl was charismatic in his limited role, even if a bit stereotypical, and Rachel didn't fall into the quirky everything is fine I'm living life like i want super woman trope that many movies would have her be. I liked the characters and the simple evolution of the friendship, there was no "aha, see they helped each other" it just was...if that makes sense. It really plays on the whole reason season lifetime mantra about relationships.

Anyway, ive been watching a lot of these new wave teen movies, I miss the debaucherous shallow teen movies of the 90's and was wondering what happened to teen movies and stumbled across a list with this, wall flower, adventureland, spectacular now, paper towns, the way way back, and a few others so I'm just trying to make my way thru them.

 

[Brofato]

Like others, I enjoyed Greg being a self loathing weirdo who also happened to be a bit of an a$$hole. Earl was charismatic in his limited role, even if a bit stereotypical, and Rachel didn't fall into the quirky everything is fine I'm living life like i want super woman trope that many movies would have her be. I liked the characters and the simple evolution of the friendship, there was no "aha, see they helped each other" it just was...if that makes sense. It really plays on the whole reason season lifetime mantra about relationships.

Anyway, ive been watching a lot of these new wave teen movies, I miss the debaucherous shallow teen movies of the 90's and was wondering what happened to teen movies and stumbled across a list with this, wall flower, adventureland, spectacular now, paper towns, the way way back, and a few others so I'm just trying to make my way thru them.

Add Palo Alto to that list. It's technically not a new wave teen movie but you mentioned Paper Towns. If you haven't watched that movie yet, I don't want to spoil your opinion on it but I like Nat Wolff and he's in Palo Alto as well.

 

[NobodyReally]

I thought it was OK. I wasn't blown away. The performances were really good though, and I do appreciate that it was a lot less pretentious and condescending than a lot of its peers. I particularly liked the ending, that was well done.

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

Pittsburgh!!

Not a bad movie. Not great either, but its somewhat enjoyable.

Adventureland was shot in Pittsburgh also, but I'm not sure if it takes place anywhere specific. Havent seen that one in a few years.