The F**k It List (2020) Movie Review
There's a pool in the poster, yay!
Despite it's pretty bold title, considering the title itself will most likely cut the revenue, The F**ck It List offers rather a classic story. In this review, I'm gonna try to point every single pro for the movie, since I will list a lot of cons for it. Let's get right into it!
The movie evolves arround our Brett Blackmore (Eli Brown). Brett is a high school student, a very succesful one as well. He's basically at the top of every academic test. In fact, he gets a 7 out of 8 acceptance letters from the Ivies, with being wait-listed for Harvard. Of course, his parents throw a party for him, and can't get enough satisfaction from bragging with Brett's amazing score. Brett on the other hand, is not that happy about the results, he's rather sad about it, because of that wait list deal for Harvard. Anyways, after his score, he becomes the first page in local newspaper and his school starts talking about him like he is some kind of hero of the school. After realizing he might've done an OK result, our young Brett decides to party a little, just a little to fresh up after all those years studying like a mutant witch no social life, at all. So he takes a small part at the senior class prank, involving some archive room log change action, of course, like every doomed teenager in these movies, he gets caught because something blows up. He, like a true hero this time, takes all the blame, and loses all the places he earned in all those Ivies. Brett, on the following days, walks arround like a walking dead, and spends most of his time hanging arround with his close friends. One of these friends, is Kayla (Madison Iseman, yes.. from the Jumanji). Kayla is actually his long time friend that he always had a crush on. Not so surprisingly, he never tells her that. Anyways, after a drunk judgement about his past life, he decides to share a F**k it list, including all the things he wanted to do, but couldn't, because of parents, or because of the school. The list video, which was supposed to be some kind of self pity, gets just enough views to make him a trend in the entire country and beyond.
As planned, let's list all the things I liked about the movie. (Don't worry, they'll fit here.) First of all, I liked that the main purpose is to show an alternative way for all the Ivy league fairy tales... ...Yeah that's pretty much it.
As for the cons, sit back and relax, it's a long way to the bottom. Firstly, the movie is about the so called "system" that drives teenager's lives to a specific goal without them having a word on it, isn't it? Then why don't we see the parents, the wheels of that so called system for more than 20 minutes in the whole 113 minutes movie? Also, what's the point of judging the "system" if you're gonna pump the "being an influencer" idea to people's minds? (Yes, it surely felt like it.) Also, the movie lacks the comedy part of comedy. It's simply not funny, I don't remember laughing at any point let alone calling it a funny movie as a whole. The movie tries to attack the general assumptions of parenting. On the way, it questions the motive of Brett's parents, blame them for designing a future of their dreams for their kid, without even asking the kid what HE wants. All of that is just wonderful, if you can keep a neutral perspective along the way. The movie lacks just that, being neutral.
The character development in the movie, is limited to a single character. Brett develops to a guy with passions in the end, correct.But not a single other character's development can be seen. Most of the roles look like extras, they just appear on a single scene and then disappear forever. Even the parents, the bad guys of the movie as we see, have a maximum of 20 minutes (or so, guessing) screen time. As for the shooting of the movie, there's nothing magical there. Scenery looks overcrowded, and mostly randomized. Story feels rushed when it needs to be consumed, and feels like a drag when it just creates same scenes over and over and back to back.
By the way, why is everyone in the entire universe becomes interested in all that "F**k it list" thing anyway? It seems like a whole new way of thinking but it's not, it's just a sweary version of bucket list we all know, which was a valid thing long before most of this movie's cast were born. I mean, everyone can name their bucket list, what's so trendy about that? Well, I never understood about this trending thing, so I guess I'll never get it. Still though, I do understand a bit about movies, enough to call this a bad movie at least.
Wait, so does that make it a possible trend as well?
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