Nima Nourizadeh directs and Todd Phillips of The Hangover produces this tale of teenage debauchery shot through found-footage coverage of the best party in the history of house parties.
Starring Thomas Mann as Thomas, the loser son who has to look after the house whilst his parents are away celebrating their anniversary. Influenced heavily by Costa (Oliver Cooper), a kid from Queens who has moved to middle America suburbia and finds himself at the bottom of the high school food chain, the boys decide to throw a party for all time.
What slowly becomes a small event to gain acceptance and cool credits, descends quickly into a flash mob of destruction as the whole school and neighbourhood attend the shin dig. The boys fail to control the event, attempting to keep it solely in the garden and pool, quickly the party comes inside and the sheer level of damage done to the house is mind-boggling.
Whilst the party holds a purpose for the three lame boys to rise up in the ranks, the party holds no narrative thread and instead is just a basis for a string of skits and gimmicks that would be more at home on youtube clips, where people capture the moment or party tricks are shared with the world.
A nice romantic thread is forgotten about quickly, and the boys punishment for such a horrible display of recklessness and fecklessness is nothing more than a slap on the wrists. In terms of a narrative thrust with traditional cause and effect, what effect does this party have on the community is forgotten about in the wake of having a good time.
In comparison to Superbad, the better attempt of losers attempting to gain some respect in high school, Project X is as lame as the characters it tries to put on a pedestal.
Project X is out on DVD on Monday 2nd July from Warner Bros
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Sunday, 1 July 2012
Monday, 25 July 2011
Everlasting: The Immortals Series by Alyson Noel
The last in the series is released on paperback, and we may have found our successor to the Twilight saga.
Alyson Noel, lives in California, and in that temporally fluxed state she has created a world of immortals. A love story between two of them. Ever is the young teenager who has loved and lost Damen over hundreds of years. They have faced deadly enemies, harboured dark secrets and a powerful curse meaning one may have to part from the other forever.
Over five books previously, the journey has become progressively darker in context, beginning with the third novel Shadowland where the secret and the curse meet, to the fourth Dark Star`where Ever must cope with the darkness inside her (a mention of puberty and adolescence perhaps).
The characters have progressed and thanks to the success of the first three novels, Noel has been able to develop these characters effectively and productively. Pleasingly, and most tellingly, she dedicates this novel - the sixth and final - to her readers.
I freely admit, that I am not a fan of Twilight, I have never read a Harry Potter book although I have seen more than 50% of the feature films. But in this world, the world needs a new saga to love and cherish. Twilight seemingly came out of nowhere and with the right marketing and strategy this adaptation (which must be coming in the next few years) may be global.
The novel is a mixture of a lot of influences - teenagers who speak like Dawson's Creek, very aware of their place, but knowing that due to the things they have seen in earlier lives they can talk with unabashed experience.
At the start of the novel, a mystical woman appears calling Damen, 'Damen. Augustus. Notte. Esposito' The Notte is the key, as the name no-one has heard mentioned before, but the hagrid ageing decrepit who reminded me of some spirit from the house of Miyazki and Spirited Away.
All these influences and the sheer effortness of Noel's writing whisk you along on a journey along with the characters towards the crescendo that ultimately ends memorably.
Worth a read, even if like me you would be a little sceptical of something that cradles between teen fiction and mainstream fantasy smash.
Everlasting is published from PanMacmillan Books for £6.99 in paperback.
My thanks to ThinkJam for the chance to read the novel.
http://www.alysonnoel.co.uk/
Alyson Noel, lives in California, and in that temporally fluxed state she has created a world of immortals. A love story between two of them. Ever is the young teenager who has loved and lost Damen over hundreds of years. They have faced deadly enemies, harboured dark secrets and a powerful curse meaning one may have to part from the other forever.
Over five books previously, the journey has become progressively darker in context, beginning with the third novel Shadowland where the secret and the curse meet, to the fourth Dark Star`where Ever must cope with the darkness inside her (a mention of puberty and adolescence perhaps).
The characters have progressed and thanks to the success of the first three novels, Noel has been able to develop these characters effectively and productively. Pleasingly, and most tellingly, she dedicates this novel - the sixth and final - to her readers.
I freely admit, that I am not a fan of Twilight, I have never read a Harry Potter book although I have seen more than 50% of the feature films. But in this world, the world needs a new saga to love and cherish. Twilight seemingly came out of nowhere and with the right marketing and strategy this adaptation (which must be coming in the next few years) may be global.
The novel is a mixture of a lot of influences - teenagers who speak like Dawson's Creek, very aware of their place, but knowing that due to the things they have seen in earlier lives they can talk with unabashed experience.
At the start of the novel, a mystical woman appears calling Damen, 'Damen. Augustus. Notte. Esposito' The Notte is the key, as the name no-one has heard mentioned before, but the hagrid ageing decrepit who reminded me of some spirit from the house of Miyazki and Spirited Away.
All these influences and the sheer effortness of Noel's writing whisk you along on a journey along with the characters towards the crescendo that ultimately ends memorably.
Worth a read, even if like me you would be a little sceptical of something that cradles between teen fiction and mainstream fantasy smash.
Everlasting is published from PanMacmillan Books for £6.99 in paperback.
My thanks to ThinkJam for the chance to read the novel.
http://www.alysonnoel.co.uk/
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