Thursday, 9 April 2009
17 Again? Better Not
Okay, so that would probably be my first (if memory serves me right) and last time I’m catching a premiere of a film ‘featuring’ (read: whoring out) any teen heartthrobs or at least not the opening week. Especially the cinema here that observes free seating. So degenerate, I know, but that I guess that’s what I get for going to a town which I’m getting more and more proof as to why it’s known as a hillbilly town to some…
The movie “17 Again” featuring (read above) Zac Efron of HSM fame might at first seem like a tween flick (Ridiculous genre if you ask me; It’s equivalent to reading Ok! Magazine on the big screen for illiterate teens) but is actually a sweet romance movie about love lost and a slightly different approach to rediscovering it, provided one actually manages to peel through the glossed cover of the movie with Zac Efron and his hair and hot bod. (In this case, I think it was only me and the elderly couple who may have seen through it… Scratch that, maybe it’s just me…)
I have a hunch that this flick may or may not have been intended for tweens with the presumption that the current youth generation actually has a slightly more mature perspective. Think Obama, legalization of same sex marriage, equality amongst multiracial and multicultural communities, and awareness and understanding of global warming and then tone it down a notch to get what I was trying to get at.
Well, like the saying ‘Boys will always be boys”, crazed teenage girls will always be silly crazed and obnoxious teenage girls. Stuff lip gloss, fashion (GAWD… Major heart attack looking at how they dress themselves. People, READ teen vogue. Not just oogle and drool over the pics of Zac.) and even personal hygiene (Together with me now; Pee-Eiwwwwww!!). All these girls seem to care about is trying to bag Zac Efron ( and they are not being coy about it… Rather the complete opposite of coy… Oh, add delusional to that list now) like he is some 99cents pair of socks and making a complete fool out of their peer group. I think they are better suited stuck watching Disney princesses’ movies. At least they will HAVE to realise sooner or later ( I would hope sooner rather than later but you can’t help what you can’t help, right?) that they are trying to obtain an illusion they made up.
In fact, some of them are so delusional that they kept screaming out “I love you Zac” to the screen. What’s wrong with that picture? Well, first, it’s a screen. Images are being projected on it from film. Zac Efron would not hear those crazed shoutings no matter how loud you scream. Secondly, if you are not here to see the show, please piss off. Unless my hearing got altered, I’m 1000% sure that he was playing a character called Mike or at some stages, Mark. So if you’re not there to support Zac’s craft and hard work, you might as well stay at home and continue screaming your undying love to that poster we all know is stuck to every single inch of your room.
Well about now, I am quite sure all you girls out there are beginning to pen up hate letters to me, but I should probably note that I am actually one of the few who actually supports feminism. I think it’s fantastic that brains, beauty, grace and wit can be combined into such a wonderful package( In fact, even when I was in lower secondary, I chose Princess Flavia from ‘the Prisoner of Zenda’ for my favourite character from the novel and got high praises from my (female) teacher for my article) but some of you people just choose to be sluts, and pretty undignified ones at that… So how else could I spin it? I’m sorry that I am so mean but that’s how I am after having been pushed and shoved at the stairs during the waiting (Ever heard of a line people? Uncivilized much?), interrupted way too many times during the movie (Etiquette must be alien to them too) and the BO… Oh, the BO… Whoever said girls were cleaner than boys? Please… I’m beginning to believe the article I read lately that the fairer sex is regressing in their socio-economy status, caring less about careers but more on sex and finding a hot husband and I can see why it says so…
Of course, all the above only applies to the hundred something girls that were at the screening of “17 Again” at the time and place I went and hopefully, does not reflect more than a small fraction of the female population.
Anyhow, back to the original purpose of this article, the movie. As mentioned very (very) briefly above, tells the tale of Mike O’Donnell who used to be a basketball star at his high school almost getting a scholarship to college but threw away that free pass upon learning that he was going to be a father. Why he did not take the scholarship and get a job that would pay multiple times more than whatever job he could get without a degree is beyond me. After all, it only takes a few years to get a degree. However, I won’t expect any other spectator at that cinema to have thought of it anyways. So let’s just ignore that as plot convenience. If the lead was smart, there won’t be a (long) story to tell. So fast forward to the present, where Mike is a sales rep and almost divorcee with two teenage children he is obviously out of touch with and a wife who he has blamed for his failure in life. You could just add a mistress, and we would have the beginning of a telenovella.
But no, instead we got his best friend. A high school geek who grew up to be an uber rich geek who manages, throughout the movie, to find his soulmate in the hot headmistress with a secret knowledge pool of a geek. I’m quite sure the makers of this film is a geek or is close to geeks, but it doesn’t really matter. It was nice seeing the geeks being portrayed in a (sorta) positive light.
So if the trailers didn’t already tell you, the main character gets a chance to for a redo in his life as Santa Claus (well, he looked like Santa) sucks him into a whirlpool of shit or mud or something like that, and he regains the body of his 17 year old self. In trying to reshape his life, he realizes that he was actually meant to reconnect and help his two children in school, as well as reigniting his love for his wife. The ending to the movie is very predictable, with no twists or turns or consequences, but alas it does not matter to the majority of the people watching now, does it? In fact, the movie actually portrays a lot of the girls as skanks… So the movie makers did make it for all those people in the beginning? Well, sucks for them because they cut out a shirtless scene in the movie. Should have waited for the dvd, perverted fangirls.
To conclude, “17 again” was not a bad flick. It had it’s touching moments, some funny lines, morals (well, sorta) and Zac Efron. I do feel that the film would have done better if they had not cast Zac though. He is a good actor, but the crowd that follows him isn’t going to appreciate the movie and it’s intention but rather take it at face value and might even begin to act (more) sluttish and sex crazed.
With all that said, I would still recommend getting a dvd copy and enjoying it from the comfort of your own home. At least then no one will be disturbed by your professions of never dying love to a person you know nothing about, except maybe your parents.
The movie “17 Again” featuring (read above) Zac Efron of HSM fame might at first seem like a tween flick (Ridiculous genre if you ask me; It’s equivalent to reading Ok! Magazine on the big screen for illiterate teens) but is actually a sweet romance movie about love lost and a slightly different approach to rediscovering it, provided one actually manages to peel through the glossed cover of the movie with Zac Efron and his hair and hot bod
I have a hunch that this flick may or may not have been intended for tweens with the presumption that the current youth generation actually has a slightly more mature perspective. Think Obama, legalization of same sex marriage, equality amongst multiracial and multicultural communities, and awareness and understanding of global warming and then tone it down a notch to get what I was trying to get at.
Well, like the saying ‘Boys will always be boys”, crazed teenage girls will always be silly crazed and obnoxious teenage girls. Stuff lip gloss, fashion (GAWD… Major heart attack looking at how they dress themselves. People, READ teen vogue. Not just oogle and drool over the pics of Zac.) and even personal hygiene (Together with me now; Pee-Eiwwwwww!!). All these girls seem to care about is trying to bag Zac Efron ( and they are not being coy about it… Rather the complete opposite of coy… Oh, add delusional to that list now) like he is some 99cents pair of socks and making a complete fool out of their peer group. I think they are better suited stuck watching Disney princesses’ movies. At least they will HAVE to realise sooner or later ( I would hope sooner rather than later but you can’t help what you can’t help, right?) that they are trying to obtain an illusion they made up.
In fact, some of them are so delusional that they kept screaming out “I love you Zac” to the screen. What’s wrong with that picture? Well, first, it’s a screen. Images are being projected on it from film. Zac Efron would not hear those crazed shoutings no matter how loud you scream. Secondly, if you are not here to see the show, please piss off. Unless my hearing got altered, I’m 1000% sure that he was playing a character called Mike or at some stages, Mark. So if you’re not there to support Zac’s craft and hard work, you might as well stay at home and continue screaming your undying love to that poster we all know is stuck to every single inch of your room.
Well about now, I am quite sure all you girls out there are beginning to pen up hate letters to me, but I should probably note that I am actually one of the few who actually supports feminism. I think it’s fantastic that brains, beauty, grace and wit can be combined into such a wonderful package( In fact, even when I was in lower secondary, I chose Princess Flavia from ‘the Prisoner of Zenda’ for my favourite character from the novel and got high praises from my (female) teacher for my article) but some of you people just choose to be sluts, and pretty undignified ones at that… So how else could I spin it? I’m sorry that I am so mean but that’s how I am after having been pushed and shoved at the stairs during the waiting (Ever heard of a line people? Uncivilized much?), interrupted way too many times during the movie (Etiquette must be alien to them too) and the BO… Oh, the BO… Whoever said girls were cleaner than boys? Please… I’m beginning to believe the article I read lately that the fairer sex is regressing in their socio-economy status, caring less about careers but more on sex and finding a hot husband and I can see why it says so…
Of course, all the above only applies to the hundred something girls that were at the screening of “17 Again” at the time and place I went and hopefully, does not reflect more than a small fraction of the female population.
Anyhow, back to the original purpose of this article, the movie. As mentioned very (very) briefly above, tells the tale of Mike O’Donnell who used to be a basketball star at his high school almost getting a scholarship to college but threw away that free pass upon learning that he was going to be a father. Why he did not take the scholarship and get a job that would pay multiple times more than whatever job he could get without a degree is beyond me. After all, it only takes a few years to get a degree. However, I won’t expect any other spectator at that cinema to have thought of it anyways. So let’s just ignore that as plot convenience. If the lead was smart, there won’t be a (long) story to tell. So fast forward to the present, where Mike is a sales rep and almost divorcee with two teenage children he is obviously out of touch with and a wife who he has blamed for his failure in life. You could just add a mistress, and we would have the beginning of a telenovella.
But no, instead we got his best friend. A high school geek who grew up to be an uber rich geek who manages, throughout the movie, to find his soulmate in the hot headmistress with a secret knowledge pool of a geek. I’m quite sure the makers of this film is a geek or is close to geeks, but it doesn’t really matter. It was nice seeing the geeks being portrayed in a (sorta) positive light.
So if the trailers didn’t already tell you, the main character gets a chance to for a redo in his life as Santa Claus (well, he looked like Santa) sucks him into a whirlpool of shit or mud or something like that, and he regains the body of his 17 year old self. In trying to reshape his life, he realizes that he was actually meant to reconnect and help his two children in school, as well as reigniting his love for his wife. The ending to the movie is very predictable, with no twists or turns or consequences, but alas it does not matter to the majority of the people watching now, does it? In fact, the movie actually portrays a lot of the girls as skanks… So the movie makers did make it for all those people in the beginning? Well, sucks for them because they cut out a shirtless scene in the movie. Should have waited for the dvd, perverted fangirls.
To conclude, “17 again” was not a bad flick. It had it’s touching moments, some funny lines, morals (well, sorta) and Zac Efron. I do feel that the film would have done better if they had not cast Zac though. He is a good actor, but the crowd that follows him isn’t going to appreciate the movie and it’s intention but rather take it at face value and might even begin to act (more) sluttish and sex crazed.
With all that said, I would still recommend getting a dvd copy and enjoying it from the comfort of your own home. At least then no one will be disturbed by your professions of never dying love to a person you know nothing about, except maybe your parents.
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