{"id":7169,"date":"2015-04-21T11:41:28","date_gmt":"2015-04-21T16:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=7169"},"modified":"2015-04-21T11:41:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T16:41:28","slug":"movie-reviewthe-spectacular-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/7169","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review:The Spectacular Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-7170\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2015\/04\/spectacualr-now-200x114.jpg\" alt=\"spectacualr-now\" width=\"200\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2015\/04\/spectacualr-now-200x114.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2015\/04\/spectacualr-now-400x229.jpg 400w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2015\/04\/spectacualr-now-800x458.jpg 800w, https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2015\/04\/spectacualr-now.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>By Dominique Swanson&#8211;\u2018The Spectacular Now\u2019 is a drama\/romance that stars Miles Teller as a party-loving senior in high school whose girlfriend just dumped him.<\/p>\n<p>After a night of getting blackout drunk, he meets the character played by Shailene Woodley, a \u2018nice-girl\u2019 type who has a completely different lifestyle than his own.<\/p>\n<p>This film follows these two characters as they begin dating and suffer the struggles of having two completely different goals in life.<\/p>\n<p>While there is a solid concept behind the film, the unconventional romance between an on-his-way alcoholic who lives for the now and the slightly nerdy, sweet girl who has big future plans, the movie falls short of delivering a viewing experience that keeps your attention.<\/p>\n<p>Many points in the movie you find yourself waiting for <em>something<\/em> to happen. Yet, all you get is watching two teenagers hangout and do day-to-day activities like going to school.<\/p>\n<p>The most blunt way of putting this movie is boring. It is a struggle finding the purpose, other than watching things fall apart over and over.<\/p>\n<p>This movie has a rating of 7.2\/10 on IMDb, but in no way deserves it. It is slow paced and is more like watching actual film of a high-school student having a difficult life than viewing a cinematic experience.<\/p>\n<p>The ending only works to maintain the idea that there is nothing actual happening or a point to be proved, it just sort of tapers off with no real conclusion.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, this film seems to provide no real value in an artistic or lesson teaching qualities and is not recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dominique Swanson&#8211;\u2018The Spectacular Now\u2019 is a drama\/romance that stars Miles Teller as a party-loving senior in high school whose girlfriend just dumped him. After a night of getting blackout drunk, he meets the character played by Shailene Woodley, a \u2018nice-girl\u2019 type who has a completely different lifestyle than his own. This film follows these&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":7170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7171,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7169\/revisions\/7171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}