I appreciated the acting of LeeLee and Carole Kane, but found the rest of the movie unconvincing and even boring, especially Brooks. I must have missed the significance of the title along the way--what does it mean?
shareThe title refers to the main character's first love. Kind of like "my first boyfriend". The film was disappointing to me, not only in the lack of chemistry between the two leads, but in the "letdown" of the second half of the film. Am I the only one who wanted R. and J. to connect romantically? As a die-hard fan of "Harold and Maude", I can't believe filmmakers in this new century don't have the guts to tackle a sexual relationship between people of different ages. Sad, really. This film could have been great, but wasn't.
shareIf that's what the title meant-- people don't use that phrase. It sounds like a foreigner talking, which she wasn't.
shareOf course people don't use that term......that's why the title is unique.
I probably wouldn't go see a movie called "My First Boyfriend" anymore than I'd want to see "My Pet Goat".
Nah, I didn't want to see a romantic connection. I think it would have sent the movie spiraling off in the wrong direction. I know a lot of people didn't like the last part of the film, but I think most movies go downhill when the two lead characters have sex and then have a bunch of misunderstandings leading to the finale.
shareMaybe sex would have been too much, but it doesn't change the third act being completely gutless. It's like the scripter saw the narrative trajectory heading into a sticky, awkward place, so just played the generic "Oh yeah, I'm dying" card. It was the long lost son and foot licking that did me in though. Resolution was way too neat. Completely fell apart.
shareIve seen quite a few of these sort of mostly unknown, almost independant productions (I watch them on tv at like 3am). The thing that bugged me is that it followed one a few predictable formulas.
As soon as R came on screen, and J asked him for a job, then called him an *beep* I knew they would end up as really good friends/romantically involved. I figured out that he or she would die (came to that conclusion around the tattoo scene).
The last thing that was a little to predictable, and features in most of these types of movies is R becomming involved with the nurse. I think everyone saw that coming as soon as J left.
Apart from that I loved this film, and im sure I only guessed so many things because I watch lots of these movies.
Sounds like orc mischief to me
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I must say I didn't much like it either. Leelee Sobieski was believable as a depressed death-obsessed goth girl, but otherwise the movie was just too much like a mainstream family drama. I expected something edgier. It looked as if the authors wanted their movie to be accepted by teenage viewers, so they included some cool lines about sex and drugs. But on the other hand they wanted the movie to have a clear positive message, so they overflowed the movie with generic melodrama.
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No, I'm sure you're not the only one who didn't like it. I loved it, but that's why they make chocolate and vanilla
(and sometimes strawberry).
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"That bad, huh?"
My roommate HATED it. And I watched it a bunch of times. Drove him nuts.
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