Monday, September 13, 2010
Cigarettes will kill you
Remember Ben Lee? He was that superyoung cute kind of twee singer songwriter from Australia, from the 90s? I saw the first few minutes of a new-ish movie he is in. He's older and less cute or maybe that's just the movie. So, the story is he's a senior in high school who gets beat up for being gay and he has hippie new age parents. He catches his mom going down on a lady. His dad is not susceptible to anger. His best friend is a nerdy girl who is totally hot. There's a film contest at the school and a cash prize for the person who makes the sunniest film about the school. He makes a ringer called Life is Super Dooper, and it's cute and has appearances by people smiling and talking about how great the school is. So he wins. Then there's a screening and he switches the winner for another version, same title, but it's all hidden camera footage of teachers talking about trying to sleep with students or wanting to kill them and how upset his dad was that his mom went a little lezo. Then he decides to get an office job? None of it really makes any sense. I fell asleep about 30 minutes in. It's called The Rage of Placid Lake and his name is Placid Lake. I guess at the end he gets weird again and everything is cool. It was not that great of a movie.
Labels:
australia,
beastie boys,
ben lee,
everything is cool,
hated it,
high school,
hippies,
hot nerd girl
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i've watched that movie twice. the second time i watched it because i thought i hadn't watched it and only realized i had over half way through. it's one of those. i do love australia accents right now, maybe i should watch it again.
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