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Case it Reviews: The Spectacular Now Written by: Justin Anglin _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

PLOT: The Spectacular Now is about Sutter (Miles Teller), an 18 year old High School Student who is flunking in his classes, has family problems with his mother, and had the mindset that the future doesn't matter and that we should just live in the moment. This begins to change when the weird nerd girl at his school Aimee (Shailene Woodley) and him begin to help each other out of each others personal roadblocks, and spark a liking between each other. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

MY THOUGHTS: The Spectacular Now is one of my favorites of 2013, after falling in love with 500 days of Summer (a film written by the same group that wrote this movie) I wanted to see this new creation from the minds of Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber. I love this movie for different reasons than why I liked 500 Days of Summer (Which is also a fantastic film), seeing as the films though written by the same writers, is a totally different film then 500 days of Summer. While 500 days of summer was Emotional, and realistic, but funny and light hearted in a way, this one takes the realism factor and expands upon that. The movie feels realistic, and this is thanks to the acting, writing, but also to the casting choices. Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley aren't beautiful Hollywood actors, they look like any average high school teenager, this made me connect to them that much more cause they look like real people, but also they act that way too. These types of people exist in high school, and the performances from Woodley and Teller sell that, they are amazing actors and in my opinion are better than some of the actors working in hollywood today. Relate able are the words I would use to describe Neustadter and Weber's films as, relate able, I can connect to the people, I've felt what some of these characters felt, and that is brilliant film making. These writers along with director James Ponsoldt craft a powerful, realistic, and relate able film. This is what a film should be, this is how a film should be handled, and I gotta say, it was handled beautifully. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

PROS: - The acting was great, both Teller and Woodley did fantastic as Suttter and Aimee. - The Direction was great, right choice for showing on film, the story that Scott Neustadter and Micheal H. Weber told. - The Writing was amazing, the characters were well written, it avoided the normal tropes of a romance movie, and kept me interested and gripped through out the film. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

CONS: SPOILERS AHEAD!!! (If you haven't seen The Spectacular Now, then I suggest you watch it before reading on)

The Ending of the movie for me was confusing, but also in someways anticlimactic. The film ends with Sutter going to visit Aimee after leaving her alone the night they were going to move to the place where her college was. He waits for her outside the building, when she sees him, she has this "oh- crap", like she wasn't expecting to see Sutter but feeling awkward at the same time. I in all honesty don't get it. It feels like that it was cut off like five minutes before it was supposed to end. She has her expression, and then it just ends without any explanation. I don't know how the book ended, but I'm sure it had a bit more to it then what the film had. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Final Score: 5/5 Yes the ending was a bit of an issue with me, but it wasn't enough to ruin a wonderful film. I Highly Recommended.