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By some sort of coincidence I was mentioning Young Adult to my brother, which I really liked for many reasons, not least of which is that it attacks that liberal left coast view of midwesterners being dumb shallow people.

Basically it’s Charlize Theron who could be like 80 by now and will probably always look like she’s just getting out of her 20s, and she’s an even more self important cunt now, who writes shallow irritating young adult novels about high school relaaaaaaaationships.  Her books are being canceled because no one’s buying them anymore, seeing as how popular high school girls wouldn’t read books anyway, and YA readers wouldn’t want to read this kind of tripe, which makes you feel sorry for her a little bit, and I remember the movie adeptly made me feel pity and annoyance with her.

She goes back to her hometown to essentially ruin a married man’s marriage just because she was her high school crush and she thinks she’s entitled to get whatever she wants because she was popular in high school.  She fails completely and repeatedly, and ends up running into Patton Oswalt who is certainly more perceptive than her, and tells her what’s wrong with her.  She seems to snap out of her self important delusions and realize that she needs to grow up.  Until the end, where it’s possible that maybe she’s just going to fly right back up her own ass, maybe?  It’s left intentionally vague, I think just to put it into the audience’s mind about which would be better, if she went back to “me me me” or if she had to grow up (even though the answer is quite obvious).

I do have to disclaim that this is by the same writer and director (Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman respectively) who made Juno which was one of the only movies I ever shut off halfway through.  This movie is completely different, but I feel like I’ve said why.  Juno was a celebration of Juno, Young Adult is a condemnation.

Oh yeah and it passes the Bechdel test because at the end two shallow cunts talk about how much their hometown is so totally lame and small towns are dumb because they’re so full of dumb people.