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cesare m It may have been groundbraking at the time, but it doesn't age well, even after ten years or less Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member It may have been groundbraking at the time, but it doesn't age well, even after ten years or less Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member Blow Up - Txt Speak Remix Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member There is a thin line between genius and lunacy. LOL cross that line. LOL has an interesting concept. It's a message movie about how cellphones and computers and technology are ruining our lives. However, LOL goes about telling this message in a truly awful way. I get that LOL is a stylized film. I admire that it was shot for a $3,000 Budget in Standard Definition. Its a creative film. But creativity and resourceful filmmaking isn't all that's needed to make a good film. LOL's problems come in its terminally slow pace, and unlikable characters. LOL follows the lives of a group of people whose lives are intertwined in a number of ways. One by one, technology comes between them. Or so you would think. The truth is, in order to show that technology ruins lives, you have to make good people go bad. Not annoying jerks go worse. None of the leads are likable. They are nasty to each other, and all of their issues in relationships could simple be solved if they just stopped being jerks. Sure, computers and phones come between them, but the personalities of the characters are so self-centered that they all would have ended up in the same bad place anyway. I spent the entirety of LOL groaning internally at the stupidity of the characters. I couldn't connect to any of the male characters, because of the previously mentioned personality issues, and the female characters were so unexplored and fleshed out. There are three females in the movie, and they are all so one dimensional. They are there so the males have someone to have relationship issues with. One woman never even appears in person. She is only heard through phone conversations and seen in pictures. While I realize that this was a creative choice meant to represent the disconnect created by technology, it created a disconnect with me, and I felt extremely detached. LOL has some good parts. Some of the dialogue is funny, and the transitions (which I won't go into detail about, in case you do decide to watch the film) are creative, even if they get repetitive. Overall, LOL is a dis interesting trip through the lives of a bunch of obnoxious, self-centered people who I hated. Maybe you'll like it. I certainly didn't. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Another one of the mumblecore movies that was painful to watch because of how much I could see myself in the characters. These are all guys who are heavily into IMing, texting, and online chatrooms. They have wonderful people in their lives who are nice and are interested in them but somehow these men end up choosing technology or the fantasy/prospect of a prettier, nicer girl over their partners. Long distance relationships and technology are also addressed, this was the part that seemed particularly real to me. Overall a good movie, I would have to watch it again in a few years and see how my opinion changes. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member I watched this movie and boy did it suck. It was painfully boring and misguided. I might as well have literally refreshed my Facebook every minute of this movie's running time because that is what it felt like. Some interesting stuff spewed in between droughts of boring mumbling nothingness. Not worth my time. I am still not done with Swanberg, however. I rented Hannah Takes the Stairs and want to see Kissing on the Mouth. Mumblecore has been hit-or-miss with me so far, but I still have some decent hopes for at least a few more decent movies. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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