God, SAME. Although, as skygiants says, we saw it with her entire family at Rosh Hashanah, which was... an extra layer of Oh God Why, as it turned out.
But I also fundamentally did not buy the premise of the movie either. For one thing, I totally agree about the whole Ivy League shorthand (and I did believe that many of them were going to Ivy League schools, on account of how they were clearly super rich, but not that it said much about their intelligence). For another thing, I did not understand the drive to go partying, which... meant I didn't buy the basic driver of the plot. And for a third thing, Molly and Amy's friendship was so unhealthy during the movie! Like, maybe it was healthy at other times, but the movie was full of Molly stomping all over Amy's boundaries and stated desires, and then that sort of broke wide open, but also yay pancakes at the end...??? (WHY WEREN'T HER PARENTS THE ONES DRIVING HER TO THE AIRPORT? "Because this is not a movie that cares about parents," said skygiants, accurately, but it still frustrated me as a person who does care about parents and parent-child relationships, since Amy's parents are shown to be kind and supportive in their 1.5 scenes of screen time.)
I hadn't really heard of it before we watched it, but heard some friends talking about how they loved it afterward, and I'm glad they did but I do not personally grok why. We had very different high school experiences, maybe, I guess? I was, admittedly, the kind of nerd who absolutely would have stayed in with a book and my parents the night before graduation, and in fact did.
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Date: 2020-04-07 03:09 am (UTC)But I also fundamentally did not buy the premise of the movie either. For one thing, I totally agree about the whole Ivy League shorthand (and I did believe that many of them were going to Ivy League schools, on account of how they were clearly super rich, but not that it said much about their intelligence). For another thing, I did not understand the drive to go partying, which... meant I didn't buy the basic driver of the plot. And for a third thing, Molly and Amy's friendship was so unhealthy during the movie! Like, maybe it was healthy at other times, but the movie was full of Molly stomping all over Amy's boundaries and stated desires, and then that sort of broke wide open, but also yay pancakes at the end...??? (WHY WEREN'T HER PARENTS THE ONES DRIVING HER TO THE AIRPORT? "Because this is not a movie that cares about parents," said
I hadn't really heard of it before we watched it, but heard some friends talking about how they loved it afterward, and I'm glad they did but I do not personally grok why. We had very different high school experiences, maybe, I guess? I was, admittedly, the kind of nerd who absolutely would have stayed in with a book and my parents the night before graduation, and in fact did.