This movie is awful and heres why
Ok, so I started watching this movie at like 1 in the morning last night and i was so fascinated with the ever rising akward, awful, pain in the liver tension that the film produced that i not only watched the whole thing but i stayed up until 5 in the morning discussing it with my buddy. The section of the film where the father and son first meet and the only thing that the father can think to say is "Your tall, how tall are you, 6'2?" and then the camera pans over to the grandparents cringing without any visible emotion and to further escalate the "oh my god, i have to get out of here" feel to the film the next shot is them sitting ever so akwardly in a tiny boat with the father aimlessly fiddling with whatever that was in the back of the boat, as if they are actually going some where. and that is not enough so we see adrian blocking the physical distance between them with a big camera. But it did not stop there, no, it proceeded to show a host of scenes involving stereotypical male bonding scenarios in which they had set up. First it was off to the bowling alley of corse where the unibrow cameraman "friend" comensed to tryed to get the whole crowd of people that had collected in there to sing happy birthday to adrian. Though he succeeded in corralling a confused looking stranger family he failed in actually getting Adrians Father to sing a long, proloning what appears to be just neverending awkard scenes puncuated by either unibrow cameramn friend guy saying somthing grossly inappropriate or a shot of adrian smiling in what can only be described as the most pained look imaginable. The boom operator makes every miserable, uncomfortable situation that much worse. At the end of an akward night of fishing and bowling the friend Things dont end there as the movie reaches an almost climax, I use that term loosely as theres no real break in the monotonous drone of this movie but if this were a well crafted movie then this would have been the climax, when Adrian confronts his mother-in-law. His mother-in-law who had been responsible for driving the biggest wedge between Adrian and his father. It is an uncomfortable exchange between a neglected son and a spiteful *beep* hag consisting of the normal uncomfortable laughs and (...........................) The movie ends with with an unfathomably uncomfortable scene that is the only scripted sequence in the movie that consists of Adrian and his father having an exchange that in theory is suppose to be harshly funny but in the end seems to be the most honest scene of the movie. In summation there are many things wrong with this movie and its creator but the biggest has to be Adrian's misguided belief that this movie actually has some serious emotional guidance to offer to someone, one only has to look at his inspiration for the title of the movie to see he really doenst know what hes doing.
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