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Rocket Science (2007)
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"You know when a movie is so coyingly pretentious that it just can´t help itself but be preachy while not really answering the questions it poses? You know when a character has such a hard time with something that you want to just smack him upside the head, hoping to motivate him a bit? You know when characters are introduced for no reason other than to set up a punch line, and yet, long after that punch line has been laughed at, the character remains in the story? "Rocket Science," a story about a stuttering young man on the debate team, is annoyingly independent, tongue-in-cheek holier than thou, and the primary reason art house movies get a bad name. As Hal Hefner´s father walks out on him, his brother and his mother, the stuttering high school student is invited to join the debate team by Ginny Ryerson, a better-than-everyone-else type of student who lost the debate trophy the year before when her partner flaked on her. Her mission is to "fix" Hal, making him the pre ... "
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"By Tricia Olszewski You'd imagine that most 14-year-old boys feel the same way about sex comedies as they do about each of their battled-for baby steps toward the big deed itself – it doesn't matter if it's any good, the point is that they're getting some. About a decade ago, though, budding horndogs Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg allegedly became fed up with the subpar antics of their cinematic counterparts. Fuck this noise, they thought. We can do better, they said. And today you have Superbad, a movie to be filed under “ribald” whose script started out as a seed in two boys' dirty minds. Of course, the final product has gone through polishings and fleshings-out since its first wobbly-legged drafts, informed by the writers' subsequent experience (Goldberg's penning for Da Ali G Show; Rogen's starring on such Judd Apatow productions as The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Knocked Up) and maturity (though a certain period joke might have be ... "
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"It is no surprise that Jeffrey Blitz's freshman narrative has been picked up for distribution. He has managed to take a strong, independent-minded story and package it so well that it becomes accessible to the mainstream. What struck me most about the film was its refusal to follow Hollywood convention, either in its plot or its characters. The story is engaging from the opening moment, bringing you into the world of high school debate with ease. If you are as calloused by Hollywood's handling of storyline as I am, you believe you can see the plot progression a mile away. But every step along the way, Blitz chooses the road less traveled. The result is a story worth following. The characters were bold and fascinating. Blitz has chosen to follow individuals that are routinely ignored in film. No too-cool-for-school jock with his cheerleader girlfriend ("Varsity Blues"). No deeply-disturbed, drug-abusing teen prostitute ("Thirteen"). No stereotypical pathetic nerd wh ... "
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