Men, Women, and Children
Release year: 2014
My Rating: ★½ out of 5
Tagline: Discover how little you know about the people you know.
Synopsis: Follows the story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives.
Wow, this movie's got everything! Men, Women, and Children! Oh boy what a great time this movie must be. No, actually, once again we continue with the string of bad movies.
You know what I don't like? Feeling like I'm being preached to. I feel like I just watched a 2-hour after school special on the dangers of the internet, but it was made for adults. Just over and over again being told "LOOK, see how these families are being torn apart!". You don't need to tell me the internet is dangerous. That is like the most obvious thing on the planet. It feels like this movie was made by 80 year-olds for 80 year-olds. Except it's actually directed by the director of Juno (a movie I love by the way), who was in his 30s at the time. How do we get to a movie made in 2014 that feels this outdated about the internet. I'm gonna say it: I think Cyber Seduction is a better movie about the dangers of the internet on families.
This movie baffles me. The cast is incredible and yet each person looks the most miserable I've ever seen them. And not in a "I'm acting so miserable because I'm supposed to for this move" way but a empty husk way. Adam Sandler, Jennifer Garner, Emma Thompson, J.K. Simmons: All people who can give great serious performances, but all look like they've lost all life beneath their skin.
And for there being like 8 different stories in this, I can only remember one plot and one moment from the whole movie. A kid addicted to the video game MMORPG, Guild Wars, stops spending time with his family. Because of this his dad, played by Hank from Breaking Bad, calls the credit card company to cancel his Guild Wars account. Absolutely insane to think the credit card company could delete an account from another company, but whatever. And because of this the son overdoses on anti-depressants. And you're telling me this movie was made by someone on the edge of being Gen-X and Millennial?
Timothée Chalamet playing a very believable high school football player
This movie did give us one thing though. This is the feature film debut of Timothée Chalamet. This guy went from a movie this terrible to working with Wes Anderson and Christopher Nolan and becoming the primary actor of my generation. Absolutely wild.
That's it. If I talk about this movie anymore I'll keel over.
