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Ricky was a pretentious little twerp


Ricky was a pretentious drug dealing douchenozzle that tried to kill another kid for making fun of his haircut. I'd rather be friends with someone like Angela, as fake as she is, than a psychopath like Ricky. Everything that came out of his mouth was nonsensical pretentious drivel, reciting a soliloquy about a bag blowing in the wind like its Shakespeare.

This movie tries to portray him as one of the protagonists but there's nothing to like about him.

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Totally agree with everything you said. Nothing I could add

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I agree, but I don’t think there was really anything to like about any of the main characters in the film, intentionally so. I do think that Wes Bentley possibly gave the best performance in the movie as this thoroughly wretched kid.

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SELF ABSORBED TEENAGER...THINKS THEY KNOW IT ALL AND HAVE A FRESH VOICE...PERFECT PERFORMANCE BY WES BENTLEY,THORA BIRCH AND MENA SUVARI WERE ALSO VERY GOOD.

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