Blockers (2018)
Instead of 3 boys trying to get laid, it was parents reactions to 3 teen girls sex pact to lose their virginity on prom night.
~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 2018-04-14 |
Review
The point of the movie is parents being cock blockers, which is why all the promotional posters have a rooster next to the title "Blockers". That is about as subtle as the rest of the movie.
It wasn't horrible... in fact, it was kind of fresh for the genre. But to me, it just wasn't that funny and it fell far below its potential. And it had to hit every cliché'd note it could: parents are all crazy buffoons (or really into some kinks), kids never make bad choices (Parents are just a bag of not-getting-over-their-own-bad-choices), drugs aren't bad for you (all part of the adult conspiracy), one kids had to be gay (lesbian) and come out to friends... who didn't feel any shock or betrayal over hiding that from them for a decade, and so on.
Again it wasn't bad... it just wasn't that good. Everything felt very formula woke/young, with some not very funny writers.... either that, or I'm just jaded and all the shocking humor has already been used up in the genre, so there's nowhere to go but repeats.
Film Critics[edit source]
If you want to see leftist bias in media, you just have to look at all the examples of how far off from their reviewers are from their viewers. I use the spread as a predictor of whether I'll like a film. Big spread with audience over critics? I'm going to like it. But big spread with critics over audience? I'll usually side with audience.
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Blockers (2018) - Since it was crass and anti-family values (dumb prudish parents), it got more reviewer support than viewers: 84/51 Rotten Tomatoes (reviewers/audience). I had seen the 84 part, and figured it was probably pretty good... but more often, I side with the audience. And this time was no different. |
I know, maybe I'm expecting too much from a sex-commedy. But I just expect a lot of good one-liners and inappropriate humor. Everyone can remember many scenes from American Pie, Superbad, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Risky Business, Something about Mary, The Hangover, and so on. These movies are sort of the shock-jocks of humor, just going to absurd places -- but while all of them are about as good for you as deep fried twinkies -- you still are left with enough laughs and regrets that you got your money's worth. Here, meh. I don't feel ripped off... but I probably won't remember anything about this film in a year either.
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