Young Adult

[Yinster]

Was in Glasgow sitting next to OH and MGellaty. Managed still not to walk out. Did Redgrant watched the same film as me?

When the first five minutes had no soundtrack and just her in the flat I knew I wasn't going to like this. It was hardly a comedy and she was so unlikeable. This had potential and the poster looked fun but we didn't get anything. The script was awful. She as a person was awful. The story was awful. My mind started to wander, around the same time as MGellaty started to drift off to a wee slumber. So most of the time of the film I was think what the name of the Wilson brother who is not Owen as the main actor is a Patrick Wilson. Yeah I know he isn't the one I was thinking as he isn't related. Luke was the answer. And where I recognise the wife Beth? Also funny how they decided Charlie Therzon should drive a red mini just like in The Italian Job. 1/10

Oh the other thing was all I could think about was KFC and how much I wanted one.

[jeanelle]

And where I recognise the wife Beth? 1/10

She was the one who was given a new face in Grey's Anatomy?

[elski]

ooh and whats-her-name from L.A.Law was her Mum, not seen her for years!

[Beate]

Patrick Wilson was the best thing in the movie. He should be given the male lead in a rom-com. Please. I don't mean like in Morning Glory.

[Beate]

And where I recognise the wife Beth? 1/10

She was the one who was given a new face in Grey's Anatomy?

Twilight? The Good Wife?

[Yinster]

And where I recognise the wife Beth? 1/10

She was the one who was given a new face in Grey's Anatomy?

Twilight? The Good Wife?

I know now. Yeah agree he was the best thing in the film.

[EthanRunt]

Saw it at WIQ with an audience of popcorn eaters, phone checkers and casual conversationalists, all who should be shot.
Whilst Reitman's usual credit sequence was this time some dull tape close ups reminiscent of Boogie Nights, with less meaning (Until the end of course), the film, which I saw as a humourously dark tragedy, was amazing. It was slow, it took it's time, but Cody knew the characters and thus when the final twenty minutes came around and everything fell out of place, well, it just made me happy to see a film willing to go left instead of right. And with that wonderful monologue by Collette Wolfe, which made me a little teary I'll admit, equally so the reaction from Theron, the film shattered my expectations. I love Jason Reitman's work, although Juno is only half good, but Young Adult isn't shaky, it isn't trying to be something it's not. It's assured, it's smart and it's horrible. I love it.
10/10

[Beate]

Saw it at WIQ with an audience of popcorn eaters, phone checkers and casual conversationalists, all who should be shot.

That's the bit I agree wholeheartedly with!

[Jayman]

Thought this was boring as hell although the guy seated next to me found it absolutely hilarious. He laughed at every line of dialogue. Ok not really laughed but constantly let out a bellow of air through his nostrils. He also went "awwwww" right at the end when Charlize returned back to her doggie.

A bit of mindless trivia, perhaps more interesting than the movie itself, is that the real Charlize Theron comes from a sleepy town called Benoni, a town not very different from the fish-shit smelling Mercury depicted in the movie. Diablo Cody should have rather just rewritten her script with that setting in mind and maybe, just maybe, we could've heard Charlize's long since abandoned South African accent.

[yogi]

What was that?!

Was it supposed to be a comedy, cos it wasn't funny at all.

A horrible main character, no lessons learnt, no laughs, was this really directed by the same man who did Juno and Up in the Air? I envy the people who didn't see this.

Whisper it, but I think it's worse than Haywire!