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Hilariously Bad Imitation Of Teenagers


Come on. Seems like movies make teenagers seem either like complete angels or the craziest people. While teenagers do drink, do drugs, swear, have sex, etc, this movie makes it way overdone. Anyone else agree? It was quite laughable.

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I don't think it was overdone at all. I grew up with the generation this film is supposed to represent (teens bored in the '91-'93 years.) and I know a lot of the kids I grew up with really WERE this messed up. Not all of them, but this film definitely wasn't too far over the top.

Luckily I was more like Amy in high school, so I never really associated myself with that stuff.

Hail to the king, baby.

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hollywood tweens gotta be messed up

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Yeah, this movie probably had some of the worst I've seen.

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I thought the teenagers were believable for the most part. I lol'd when the girl starts crying and blaming the ordeal on Amy. But as a whole, the teenagers were pretty realistic. Just because the audience was only exposed to the party scene kids (friends of Megan), doesn't mean all teenagers were represented by this outlandish perception. The only partying scene I found ridiculous was when the two chicks (mind you, they're like 13-14), start sharing presumably molly (ecstasy) orally through a prolonged, uncomfortable-to-watch make out session.

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even though the actions and content are realistic the acting and delivery were in the most painful to watch. They really should have handed most of the film to the actress who played Amy and started the film with Megan missing - 1 she was a good actress 2 - the Megan character was just a slut who the filmmakers tried in vain to make a sympathetic character through the "I was raped at 10" scene - a total misfire and I nearly cheered when we eventually found out what happened to her

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even though the actions and content are realistic the acting and delivery were in the most painful to watch. They really should have handed most of the film to the actress who played Amy and started the film with Megan missing - 1 she was a good actress 2 - the Megan character was just a slut who the filmmakers tried in vain to make a sympathetic character through the "I was raped at 10" scene - a total misfire and I nearly cheered when we eventually found out what happened to her

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The director claims that all the conversations between the teenagers were based around real conversations, so I hardly thing it was a bad imitation. I mean the acting wasn't that bad but you'd be surprised at some of the things I've heard from people about how they were in their teens.

Here's a slinky, go play.

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Agree with the OP,
Nothing in this film is based on reality...
the film comes off as an expression of the director/writer's perversions more than anything.
The message and goal of this film is to SPREAD FEAR, nothing else.
I really hope that people aren't taking this seriously. (not in terms of the reality of the found footage but in terms of the message it's "trying" to spread).
It's insulting to both teenagers and adults, this may come as a surprise to some people but teenagers have brains, they may not have experience but they definitely known wrong from right.
Now, sheltering teenagers because of ones own fears is where I start to have a problem with it all. Films like this are fear mongering pieces of fake reality which only further blur the lines between reality and fiction.
We DO NOT need more of this in our society, we already all live in fear.
When we start to pre-empt everything out of fear that's when we completely lose our "joie de vivre" (enjoyment in living/being alive, I guess would be the translation).

I hate to go off on a tangent here but I really believe that our society is headed down a dangerous path, both sexes are starting to separate instead of unify. Masculinity and femininity are become more and more intangible and growing feminist militant views are spreading like wild fire. In return men are becoming either more macho to fight fire with fire or are becoming more withdrawn and unable to please the feminist mind set which only allows for the female perspective.

Anyway, My point remains the same about this film, no teenagers I knew while growing up acted like these teenagers, the promiscuous girls I knew were not sex crazed maniacs who gave head to any guy just because he asked for it, like we are told by the portrayal of Megan in this film. They simply were faster than others to develop their sexuality and for the most part were judged and called names for it.

This film would have us believe that teenage girls are willing to meet with a complete stranger after 2 maybe 3 short chats on the internet, that they go to parties where hard drugs are being used in the open and blowjobs are part of their daily lives.
Where abused teenage girls reveal on camera that they were raped from a very young age yet continue to sleep with any and every guy. (you may find that last statement shocking but someone who understands that they were abused "generally" does not have such a normal popular girls life like Megan's. There may be exceptions but as a general rule people who have been abused at a young age and have realised that they were abused tend to be withdrawn and have problems with interacting with other people).

This film just really infuriated me, especially when I see that people are falling prey to the message of fear that it's spreading...

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Excellent analysis, I completely agree with your point of view here.

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I disagree, not all but there are naive teens out there.

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Uh, well... I've actually known of a few people that were somewhat like that even at the age ranges they have in the movie. Not quite known them personally, but more through meeting some people my partner knows, and what he's told me of the kind of people he had to put up with when he was that age. It's not particularly something entirely open and shown because people in those situations usually stick to their own groups and drive others away, either intentionally or due to their personalities. It's not a majority of teens, of course, with this movie it's most likely intentionally showing Megan's own circle of people she knew that were like that, rather than meaning this is what teens usually do.

"You shoot me in the face and I'll kick your ass"

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You don't know any obviously. Spot on.

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Actually, I made that post when I was one. So you're wrong.

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