mid90s (Jonah Hill)

[Ivan Drago]

http://www.impawards.com/2018/posters/mid_nineties.jpg

IMDB (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5613484/) / Wiki (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid90s)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9Rx6-GaSIE

[Ivan Drago]

I'm embargoed until Friday for some odd reason, considering there are festival reviews out for this already. So you'll get my full review by then! :)

[Ivan Drago]

Boom. (http://www.foxforcefivenews.com/mid90s-is-a-strong-thoughtful-directorial-debut-from-jonah-hill-review/)

[Ezee E]

Yeah, this movie definitely doesn't stick its landing, pun intended, and there's certainly some misses from the family end, but this is one of those slice-of-life indie movies that you more or less give it an excuse. It was enjoyable for me to watch for its entire less than 90 minutes. The movie is filled with 90s nostalgia, but doesn't force it down your throat, it just lets you live in the world we once knew. For the good and bad.

What I like is that it's a great example of how peer pressure naturally occurs to one's self rather than bullying in most cases. "Sunburn" knows most of what he's doing will be wrong, mostly isn't being pushed into doing anything he isn't wanting to do, but chooses to for social reasons. Afterwards, he enjoys it, and him and his friends start to head down a path that could have ramifications soon, or maybe not very many many years. The parenting and adult figures are mostly nowhere to be seen and/or too inefficient to really have a connection to the group of kids...


I would really like to see where Jonah envisions this group going. From the end of the video, due to all lack of confrontation in all regards, the kids will heal up, and likely move on to bigger and worse things.

Sadly, I really wanted to see all things going on in the Brother and Mother's life too, but either it was completely chopped out, or just wasn't meant to be

[Spinal]

I'll happily take this over something like Superbad, but I still wasn't crazy about it. I'm not sure why the romanticism of this particular experience troubles me when it doesn't in a Linklater film like Dazed and Confused or Everybody Wants Some. But there was something about the final moments that was discomfiting. Considering the high level of danger and abuse experienced by the protagonist, the movie settles in a place that is far too pat. I understand nostalgia and celebrating survival, but I don't see a whole lot of signs of thoughtful artistic consideration in Hill's work. In a way, his final montage is a critique of the film itself, making clear that film can turn pain and suffering into sentimental bullshit.

[Spinal]

OK, this is why Scott Tobias get paid to be a film critic and I don't:

"The best period pieces, like Dazed and Confused or American Graffiti or Diner — to name three more influences on Mid90s — address the past with an eye toward an uncertain and troubling future. Hill cares merely to memorialize it."

That's what I was trying to get at.

[Ezee E]

OK, this is why Scott Tobias get paid to be a film critic and I don't:

"The best period pieces, like Dazed and Confused or American Graffiti or Diner — to name three more influences on Mid90s — address the past with an eye toward an uncertain and troubling future. Hill cares merely to memorialize it."

That's what I was trying to get at.

There's something there, even if it the movie doesn't make a big point (or any point?) about it. The struggles of being able to parent/cop/coach a person is there throughout the whole movie for sure. It finishes on a video that will likely go viral, and despite all the danger and negativity that occurred during that video's creation, none of it is mentioned on camera, only the parts that would look cool to someone else. That's very telling for the social media we see now. There's just nothing from the movie that connects it.

I figure two to three weeks after Sunburn gets out of jail, that he learned nothing from the hospital situation, and just enjoys what people are signing on his cast.

[Grouchy]

What? Why would Sunburn go to jail?

I liked this a lot. There were plenty of coming-of-age movies this years and this might be my personal favorite.

[Ezee E]

What? Why would Sunburn go to jail?

I liked this a lot. There were plenty of coming-of-age movies this years and this might be my personal favorite.

Typo. I meant hospital.