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Film #22 of the February Movie Challenge : Keanu Reeves or Bust!
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Would have liked it more had they reduced this 96 minute film by 95 minutes and 55 seconds! Leaving everything on the cutting room floor except for the scene where Matt Schramm (Benjamin Bratt) tells Justin Cobb (Lou Pucci) "We're all just scared little animals"

Considering the mad talent featured in this film (Tilda Swinton, Keanu Reeves, Benjamin Bratt, Vince Vaughn) this little indie looked quite promising! The actors were all quite wonderful but try as they might not even their star power and amazing talent could save this film!

I mean come on! You've snagged the great Tilda Swinton.. and the best you can do is squander her immense talent by casting her in a role where her crowning achievement involves (SPOILER ALERT) retrieving a drug filled balloon from Benjamin Bratt's arse by ramrodding her fist up the ole Hershey Highway!

if u would like good 3 reasons to watch: 
a) Keanu Reeves is in it 
b) he says this:

"That's all we humans can do. Guess. Try. Hope. But, Justin, just pray you don't fool yourself into thinking you've got the answer. Because that's bullshit. The trick is living without an answer.
...
I think."

c) not even sure it's his best line in the movie

If this movie was bad I was gonna say that it *sucked* but unfortunately I liked it so

However it's the longest movie ever and at a staggering 27 acts I'd like Mike Mills to get in contact with Guinness, of Guinness Book of World Records to discuss entering his name along with my obituary into the 2005 b0ok, thank you

i feel like i just watched 3 different movies, and one of them was only half finished

I didn't think a film with the name Thumbsucker could be so good! 

09/22 of Keanu-March: 2018 Edition

Thumbsucker starts off as your typical quirky indie comedy, and, for the first 30 minutes, it actually worked! Then it takes a weird turn, it becomes much more serious and cliched, and... I don't know, it just stops being interesting. There are plenty of uncomfortable moments of interactions between characters, sub-plots that go nowhere, and a slow pacing. The cast itself is darn good, and everyone does a fine job, but, in the end... it just doesn't work. Slightly above average coming-of-age dramedy.

Story: 4
Directing: 6
Cinematography: 6
Acting: 7
Sound: 6
Visual Effects: 7

ENJOYMENT: 5
BORINGNESS: 6.5

PARENTAL GUIDANCE
Violence & Gore: 6
Sex & Nudity: 6
Drugs & Profanity: 6
Intensity & Horror: 3

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I hate this movie so fucking much.
I hate how much I feel myself in Justin.
I hate that Tilda Swinton is my mom.
I hate that Vincent D'Onofrio is my dad.
I hate how real this movie can be.
I hate how I'm that awkward kid that's doped up on pills so much that no one wants anything to do with them.
I hate that Vince Vaughn is my band director.
I hate that Keanu Reeves is a better therapist than the one I'm going to.
I hate how scenes that make me explode with laughter also make me want to cry a fucking river.
I hate the pressure this movie brings me.
I hate the reaction it strikes in me.
I hate reality.
I hate Thumbsucker.

And I want to watch it again.

I mean this is no 20th Century Women, but it's really not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. I really enjoyed it!

Quirky indie about high school Senior Justin trying to overcome his pathological thumbsucking, and the strange twists his life takes when he turns to hypnosis and medication. Of course, the film isn't really about the thumbsucking; it's about the journey Justin takes trying to figure out his place in the world. Tilda Swinton and Vincent D'Onofrio both do fantastic jobs as Justin's parents, who are portrayed much more evenly than the parents in most teen-centric movies; yes, they are clueless at times, but never absurdly so, and they come off as three-dimensional, fully-fleshed characters in their own right. Vince Vaughn also does a good job playing against type as the semi-nerdy debate coach. The movie definitely took more twists than I had expected as Justin vaults from slacker to super-successful debater to slacker-outcast to his final state of contentment with himself.

Not nearly as good of a movie as 20th Century Women, but oddly similar in a lot of pleasant ways. Both movies concern a boy who is considered in need of maturity and development, but as the people around him try and help him they reveal that they are even more lacking in maturity and development in many ways. However, while this movie has a wider and more varied cast of characters, the characters of 20th Century Women have much more depth, and so does the movie as a whole. So while there are plenty of great little character moments in this, by the end I still didn't feel like I truly knew any of the characters.

lou pucci looks so much like max records in "i am not a serial killer" here that i no joke pretended that this film was actually about an alternate reality john wayne cleaver and perhaps that's why i enjoyed it as much as i did.

감독의 다른 작품인 비기너스나 20세기 여인들에 비해선 밋밋했다. 주인공이 처음 각성제 먹고 나서 모비 딕을 읽을 때의 장면이 가장 기억에 남음

Indie twaddle. The only thing noteworthy about this junk is how the director was able to rope in so many talented actors and Keanu Reeves to play bit parts.

an elliott smith soundtrack! keanu reeves as a hippie dentist! lead star has swoon worthy early 2000s emo hair! suburbia!!!