You know a movie is bad when even the people in the background are terrible. Clearly given no direction, the extras just stand around awkwardly, nervously waiting for scenes to end. This movie has no sense of time or place. The period music aside, this film has the look and feel of a poor man's John Hughes movie from the 80s.
shareI agree. I didn't like this movie either. It was so unbelievably forced. The director seemed to want to throw in every single predictable 60's type he could into one movie giving them little connection. Making too many out-of-left-field references to random 60's events and figures as if to remind us that this movie takes place in the 60's.
shareI agree completely. I'm the same age as the characters depicted, and it was like you say. The most incredible thing was all the show cars that were shown, as if every high school kid drove a $30,000 classic. You can actually see more of those cars on the road today, than you could then, when they were only seen in magazines and car shows. High school students typically drove "used cars".
Plus, the movie was just plain sappy. All that talk about "these are the best years of our lives, Archie...". All that sentimentality made me want to suck on a paper towel saturated with syrup. It was kind of a "boomer exploitation" movie. If the producers were hoping to please an audience of baby boomers with an appetite for nostalgia, it sure as *beep* didn't work on this one. I honestly can't stand nostalgia for that era.
I went to see it during its first run. A local newspaper critic recommended it highly.
I was very disappointed in this snooze-fest.