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Oliver, Stoned. (2014)
Devils Advocate Here
I really liked this movie for several very specific reasons:
1. I am from the area where this main character lives, and it is seriously so on point. I could name you at least 45 dudes personally that live like this. It's a niche SoCal bro specific very much so to the 805. Represent!
2. I like that the filmography is actually filmed in Oxnard, where the movie is based.
3. It doesn't try to be something it isn't. Classic dumb stoner movie. I've seen way worse made for way more so I'm not mad at it.
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (2016)
It Is What It Is
I think we need to remember a few key things:
1.) This is intended to be a "year in the life"... a snapshot, a hole cut through the sky into the lives of Stars Hollow's inhabitants & their peripheral lives.
2.) This isn't meant to be an outright continuation of events, even though it is; perhaps this plays largely into the viewer's frustration with the sequencing of events / lack thereof.
There are definitely some painfully wrenching written scenes here which makes me almost wonder if they wrote it that bad on purpose... BUT still.
All in all, a sugary bite of saccharine sweet nostalgia.