Before I Fall

Before I Fall
colbalt91 Posts: 298 2/18/2017	colbalt91 Posts: 298 I do not know about you, but I did notice that when Valentine's Day week came that there was no traditional Valentine's Day movie that was released. Unusual! There was "The Batman Lego Movie", then the second John Wick movie, and then "Fifty Shades Darker." Yes, the last two can sort of fit into a Valentine's date week. But, where was the traditional movie. The one that the guy had to make the ultimate sacrifice and go see with his girlfriend. There was no pain for a guy who went to see the John Wick movie or the "Fifty Shades Darker" movie with its kinky sex. Now that missing movie is coming... only three weeks late. It is called "Before I Fall." This movie is an amalgamation of "Mean Girls" meets "Groundhog Day" with a touch of "The Bridge of San Luis Rey." Samantha Kingston played by Zoey Deutch is a sort of passive mean girl in a posse of mean girls in high school. She goes along with the program. She is not the meanest one of the group. Life is good for her as she is one of the most popular girls in high school and now it can only get better as it is Valentine's Day. Soon, however, her life is shattered by her encountering her own death. Somehow she comes back only to reenact the events of the prior day, but with each reenactment she starts to learn more about herself and the people she has surrounded herself with. What she sees is not what she had once thought of herself. This is a chick flick. I see that the movie program is classifying this is a mystery/drama. I see it as a chick flick, with a pretense of being deeper. I mean how could it not be if it takes place on Valentine's Day? This is not the worst chick flick ever made. It does try to elevate itself above the normal chick flick with the element of deja vu. If I had to give it a grade I would give it a C+. edited by colbalt91 on 2/18/2017
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I do not know about you, but I did notice that when Valentine's Day week came that there was no traditional Valentine's Day movie that was released. Unusual! There was "The Batman Lego Movie", then the second John Wick movie, and then "Fifty Shades Darker." Yes, the last two can sort of fit into a Valentine's date week. But, where was the traditional movie. The one that the guy had to make the ultimate sacrifice and go see with his girlfriend. There was no pain for a guy who went to see the John Wick movie or the "Fifty Shades Darker" movie with its kinky sex. Now that missing movie is coming... only three weeks late. It is called "Before I Fall."
This movie is an amalgamation of "Mean Girls" meets "Groundhog Day" with a touch of "The Bridge of San Luis Rey." Samantha Kingston played by Zoey Deutch is a sort of passive mean girl in a posse of mean girls in high school. She goes along with the program. She is not the meanest one of the group. Life is good for her as she is one of the most popular girls in high school and now it can only get better as it is Valentine's Day. Soon, however, her life is shattered by her encountering her own death. Somehow she comes back only to reenact the events of the prior day, but with each reenactment she starts to learn more about herself and the people she has surrounded herself with. What she sees is not what she had once thought of herself.
This is a chick flick. I see that the movie program is classifying this is a mystery/drama. I see it as a chick flick, with a pretense of being deeper. I mean how could it not be if it takes place on Valentine's Day? This is not the worst chick flick ever made. It does try to elevate itself above the normal chick flick with the element of deja vu. If I had to give it a grade I would give it a C+.
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