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The Kind of Drivel...(SPOILERS).. .

posted 11 years ago by sa420
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...that I would have written when I was 17.

The nerd guy punching a jock in his own home and stealing his girl. As we know, punching people has no painful effect on one's delivery hand and, after doing it, you'll laugh and celebrate on the journey home. The Nerd's dispensable friend looked like he was going to jerk off with excitement after this event, as he was dropped off home.

The Dad, agreeing with his nerd son's aggressive actions...ridiculous.

People don't call the Police and/or press charges when they are physically attacked in this movie.

The girl of your desires ending up sleeping at your gaff and automatically being into you, just because you called her an Angel in a poem.

Nice guy, with terminal parent (I groaned out loud when I saw this development...such a cliche!), pesters and wins over bad girl, as opposed to being given a restraining order. Make sure bad girl follows nice guy home (would NEVER happen) so she can observe him doting on his dying parent through a screen door. OH NO, there's TRAGEDY in his life. Only people with tragedy in their lives deserve love and affection. Obviously.

Guy in his 50s has a casual sex buddy in someone as hot as Kristen Bell...and is not satisfied.

Same guy in his 50s waits three years for his hot wife to dump her studly boyfriend and come back home. Which she does. (Boolsheet!)

Bad girl barters with reluctant barman to supply booze to underage girl. When underage (druggie, alcoholic) girl disappears after scoring further more booze, it is, of course, the barman who is an a-hole for supplying the booze, not the bad girl that pressured him into it in the first place.

Even though you are somewhat complicit in supplying your son's under aged girlfriend with booze, you may physically abuse a relatively innocent student because said girlfriend willingly took narcotics at his digs. Yes, you may kick the living sheet out of them.

Once it is revealed that the hot girl you pursued and won has a serious drug/drink problem, you can have her drop out of the story as she is no longer of the high standard you thought she was.

Smoking pot is COOL and has no physical or mental repercussions.

Your biggest hero will always call personally to massage your ego.

These kind of things happen only in the creativity of the naive teen mind. A flying man in a blue leotard and red cape is about as realistic as the things that happen in Stuck In Love.

Saying that, technically the movie was good and so were the performances.

And I audibly cheered when the jock FINALLY cornered the nerd in the mall car park and kicked the sheet out of him. He had that coming the WHOLE movie!

I think maybe I should have titled my post "100 Things I Learned From Watching Stuck In Love"!

"Not The Gold!!" - Augustus Steranko.

[–] newyorkjetsfan 11 years ago

Agree 100%.

[–] sandypriester 11 years ago

Me too.

[–] mets811 11 years ago

You couldn't be more wrong in your opinion and the IMDB rating proves others like myself enjoyed this movie.

[–] sa420 11 years ago

I think you'll find my opinion is absolutely correct.

The story pandered to the mindset of teenagers who think that everything that happens around them to their dissatisfaction is wrong, and anything they do to rectify the situation is justified.

It was certainly watchable, with an attractive cast and nice photography. If I could be bothered to rate it I'd probably give it a 6.

If I'm so wrong in my observations, how about posting a list countering my list of the story's shortcomings.

Back up your theories. I'm afraid "You're wrong" holds no weight with me at all.

Good day to you Sir/Madam!

"Not The Gold!!" - Augustus Steranko.

[–] MyShia919 11 years ago

Coming from a screenwriter with a film degree, you're right. I'm sure coming from an average, standard American moviegoer, you're incredibly wrong and this narrative was like, amazing.

[–] sa420 11 years ago

Like, totally!

"Not The Gold!!" - Augustus Steranko.

[–] dragonsex12 9 years ago

People need to keep in mind that a movie is made to be the most extreme caseanario. If it wasn't, it would be boring. (Most rich white families where i live do get whatever they want)
And the pot smoking- its unbelievable how popular it is right now but more unbelievable is how few parents seem to care. When i got out of highschool it came out that a lot of my friends parents (living in nice houses with nice cars and clean homes) were in fact, smokers themselves.

Personally, I prefere independent films with a more realistic feel but When u need something with a happy ending this movie is perfect.

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[–] drunkentoki012 11 years ago

Smoking pot wasn't meant to be seen as cool.
A lot of people do it casually.

Yes, the fact that police are almost never called after clear assault bothers me, but a lot of crimes do go unreported.

Crazier things have happened in real life. I've witnessed them and I've heard first hand accounts of them happening.

I don't know what you have seen or experienced in life, but the stories that happened in this movie are very realistic. Just not common.

[–] sa420 11 years ago

When a movie has a consistent pot smoker as a protagonist, and doesn't address the many genuine negatives of pot smoking, you can only make the assumption the the filmmakers are pro pot.

They want you to sympathise or empathise with the protagonist. Therefore I can only conclude that their message is "pot smoking is cool!".

Pot is popular with the teens these days so it's just more pandering to their mindset.

"Hey kids, our hero is a dirty pot-head...just like you!"

"Not The Gold!!" - Augustus Steranko.

[–] drunkentoki012 11 years ago

What are the negatives of marijuana that you are referring to?

Because a lot of the research done on the so-called negatives of marijuana have been debunked through new studies.

It seems to me that marijuana is becoming more and more mainstream, just like alcohol. It may seem strange because there is a lot of negative press around marijuana.
It's still illegal in most places in the world.

Maybe I have a very different experience of it than you.
I live in Washington state, where it's now been legalized.
Most people around me smoke it and they are fully functioning, intelligent, and driven people.

[–] sa420 11 years ago

Not only has pot turned a huge portion of the people in my country into a bunch of stinky, unhygienic, sallow-faced, thieving chancers, it causes (or contributes to) catastrophic mental failures.

A couple of friends of mine and various acquaintances have suffered and do suffer from issues such as bi-polar, heavy, manic depression and the classic paranoia.

All have histories of pot smoking.

Some of these people went from pot to heavy drug taking and are now walking skeleton people.

Bottom line is, movies like "Stuck In Love" glamourize pot smoking as hip and cool, yet skirt around the issue that 20 years down the line, regular tokers become burned-out acid casualties.

It's just another example of the "enjoy now, pay later" attitude of today's popular culture.

Saying that, the abundance of potheads at least keeps tattoo artists in business. The two seem to go hand in hand don't they?

That would be an interesting survey...how many regular tattoo shop patrons also do dope on a regular basis.

100%? I should say so!

"Not The Gold!!" - Augustus Steranko.

[–] subase 11 years ago

Yep it takes a hippie to say smoking pot is cool, stickin it to the man! yeah!

Nevermind pot smoking is worse than smoking tobacco, and funds drug traffickers and their enforcers and money launderers. It's also fair to say it's a gateway drug to harder drugs like cocaine and heroin.

[–] kcolli11 11 years ago

Preface: I've never smoked pot.

Marijuana is *not* worse than smoking cigarettes healthwise. How can you make such an argument?

[–] kcolli11 11 years ago

I have a tattoo and have never smoked marijuana.

You're using anecdotal evidence ("a couple of friends of mine and various acquaintances") to say that marijuana causes bipolarism and manic depression? Scientific studies don't support anything you've said in this post.

[–] sa420 11 years ago

The proof is in the pudding. You don't need scientists to point out everything. Otherwise, in the future, it will be:

Man: Hmmm, I'm not sure if I have a face unless a scientist confirms it...Hey, Scientist...have I got a face?

Scientist: Yes you have a face.

Man: I have a face because a scientist said so.

Cigarettes hurt your respiratory system, pot unbalances the chemicals in your brain.

Neither is very healthy.

"Not The Gold!!" - Augustus Steranko.

[–] minisatellites 11 years ago

Anybody who thinks that smoking pot is worse than cigarettes is just plain wrong. Marijuana doesn't do the damage to the body the way that tobacco does. It is scary that someone actually believes that. However, i do think that Hollywood glamorizes marijuana too much. It is exactly like alcohol. Too much of it is bad for you and yes you can become addicted to it. However, there are studies that suggest that marijuana can help with symptoms of some diseases (M.S., or chemotherapy, or pain in general). Cigarettes can't make that claim. I think marijuana should be legalized but regulated like alcohol. As far as funding the drug trade, the U.S. government does that themselves.

[–] dxben99 10 years ago

Funny. You accuse the film of portraying life unrealistically, yet you come up with this fantasy tale about pot and the people who smoke it.

I've been smoking it for years and so have many people I know and can confirm none(!) of your points. Smoking and tattoos go hand in hand? What have YOU been smoking? :D

You sound like an after school special in the 70's.

[–] subase 11 years ago

Yeah I know, definitely came off like a 17 year olds with hippie parents wrote it. Or at least a 45 year old ex-hippie denying his past with a fantasy version.

Also noticed the two young girls were sluts, but were emotionally sensitive enough to reject the numerous alpha male aholes they had previously been having sex with to live happily ever after with dorks. (who are also writers, haha)

[–] kcolli11 11 years ago

What's "slutty" about the youngest of the female characters? All we know about her sexual history is that prior to her becoming Rusty's girlfriend she's had sex before. You have low standards for promiscuity if that's your definition of a slut.

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[–] kcolli11 11 years ago

How do we know the sex is unprotected? You're making assumptions.

[–] minisatellites 11 years ago

Funny that you are calling someone out for making assumptions when you assumed that i was talking about high school when i was talking about paying my own way through college.

[–] theresaturn3 11 years ago

I really enjoyed the movie, but when I look at your list I have to admit you are absolutely right, it does play out like it came from a naïve teen mind, and most of it is highly unlikely!

[–] mapleleaf73 11 years ago

I also agree w/the OP. I liked the movie, performances esp Kinnear and Lily Collins were good. It's just that there was so much, just unbelievable things going on thruout. I have kind of grown accustomed to movies being like this for a long while now so it didn't really impact me much. The quality of writing in Hollywood has really gotten weak. I watch most movies via free Netflix and almost always after watching think I'm glad I didn't pay for that garbage!

[–] freebird1987 11 years ago

I think you're taking this movie too seriously.

[–] Empyre_of_Dyrt 11 years ago

I know, Right? OP goes on like he just watched a documentary that got all the facts wrong. It's a freaking movie! Everything doesn't have to be real. In fact, for best results, a movie like this shouldn't cling too tightly to reality.

You're way too cynical, OP. If you want to watch real life on screen there is content available with that goal in mind. Romance oriented fiction like Stuck in Love is rightfully unconcerned with your concerns.