Levelland

Ugly teacher? She was older, not ugly. Time makes characatures of us all, and a lot of times we end up not looking so hot. I'm way older than that teacher, but what you'll eventually run into is knowing someone that you'll wonder whatever could have posessed him/her to be dating that girl/that guy, and what they could ever see in them that we don't. What was portrayed was something along the lines of Mary Kay LeTourneau, except the kid was older, and he had at least enough sense to realise he had a future to live yet. If they went out of the way to make anyone look ugly in the film, it was the coach.

I had a problem as to what this movie actually wanted to be; a skateboard movie, or a coming of age movie. Yeah, it does seem that only about half the people in the movie could act, but what they did portray did seem to ring true of more real life occurences than some other coming-of-age films.The filler stories didn't seem like that, because there was not an overwelming main story.
A lot of the things the skaters did in the movie were somewhat idiotic, but in retrospect, they are the things you remember with a strange sense of nostalgia.

The speech given by the main character as the coach was driving all the skaters home from the truck crash seemed a little over the top. I think they should have dealt even more with bored teens with too much time on their hands. The toughest issues in the film should have included peer pressure, rumours, and parental death, yet they totally glossed over those issues.

why not? they make these in the mainstream about teens. those soap-opera-esque features (and especially, tv shows) which are so overloaded with what could be considered too much melodrama and unrealistic storyline. what's so different if they do it here? because it's an indie film?


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