The Reel Rejects - EASY A (2010) MOVIE REVIEW!!

Episode Date: December 5, 2023

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What is going on? There's Citizens of the Reject Nation. We have just been in a much light-hearted, fair mood. So we have decided that we are going to watch this movie today. Thank you for recommending it. Easy A, starring Emma Stone, aka America's National Treasure, featuring Nicholas Cage, John. You said you've read the book that this is based on or something? I did. Once in high school, I actually read the Scarlet Letter. I don't know what that is, and I have no clue what this movie is about. But I do love Emma Stone and everything I have ever seen her in, so I'm excited to see it.

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He was additional crew on Big Hero 6. Because it's laced throughout. Yeah. There are in a lot of TV. Yeah. Will Gluck. Yeah, I was going to say, where else have I heard his name? Oh, he did Friends with Benefits.

That was a great movie. And Peter Rabbit, everybody loved. And the Annie with Jamie Fox. John. Oh, yeah. John. What's up, dude? Did it live up as someone who is a fanatic?

Yes. Over the Scarlet Letter. Did it live up to the hype? Yeah, this is pretty much a one-to-one that I. and I'm really pleased with how literary it was, you know, keeping all of the original, you know, dialogue from the book and all those recognizable Ohio locations that Nathaniel Hawthorne was writing about at the time. I like that they really just went there instead of doing it on a volume or, you know, CGIing against green screens or whatever. And I think this is like if you ever have, like she says in the movie, like watch the original movie and not the Demi Moore one. I think you could just watch Easy A if you ever have to do it. a book report on Scarletor, and then, you know, you'll know for everything you need to know. So, yeah, I think this was perfect, actually. Enough with a sardonic quips. Sardonic cast. No, I had a great time with it. This was cool. I mean, you know, obviously

there are a lot of man voices authoring this movie, but I really like. Well, that's what made it accessible for a man to watch. That's why we enjoyed it. much as we did. Like, this is how women should be interpreted. Yes, yes. Thank you. If Tina Fey had written this, count me out. But...

That would be like, this is not at all. I don't know. Now you're just preaching messages. I can't understand what anyone is saying. Um, not like... I really enjoyed the way this came together. And I like, like, uh, this... Raunchy sex comedies can go either way for me.

Like, I can easily enjoy one, but it's not like my go-to genre necessarily. And I like that this is a sex comedy about the concept rather than the actual thing, which is the actual act, which I think is part of what gives it such a lovely edge and gives it the opportunity to inhabit so many layers and nuances and stuff because it's like breezy and fun in so many ways. And it's like the perfect concept. But I think it's also a lovely twist on the story, the book, because that's a lot more straightforward. and this is yeah like it starts out as a fun kind of prospect that then goes wrong and spirals way out of control and I think it's a great blend of when they take a piece of literature as they have with many movies you know like I think she's the man is another one of those and clueless is one of those and there are a lot of movies that borrow directly from like Jane Austen or Shakespeare or whatever and are kind of doing it but just Harry Potter yeah Harry Potter definitely borrow from the Harry Potter book yeah Zach Snyder Rebel Moot. Same thing. It was going to be... I liked that this, instead of just interpreting the source material, instead of interpreting a

source material and making it modern and using like just the straight building blocks of that, this took a clear touchstone in the scarlet letter and played into it but played off of it as well in a way that I think, not to slight any of those other movies, because I love some of those movies, but I I like that this did that. Prisoner of Ascompan. Prisoner of Ascompan, totally, is, is a young old Goodman Brown.

So short story I read once in a lot of time. Yeah, I like that this did that. And then what the extra step of, and you have all the 80s movies influences in there, too. So, yeah, it does a riff on the thing, but without only doing that thematically. It built on and went a bunch of different directions from, and I think that helps to make it kind of rich and nice. And having it posed through her perspective and following, yeah, this sort of meta-sex comedy journey

of, again, the idea much more so than the actual act. I don't know. Like it could be raunchy, obviously, it's not an R-rated comedy, but like this is the kind of flavor I very much kind of lock into and gravitate toward when it comes to a movie like this because there is a fair amount of raunchy subject matter and whatnot. But it also has like a wholesome heart at the core that feels very clear and not like it's tacked into the movie or like it's working in spite of how crude

or whatever it wants to be. Like, I thought it was really well-tempered. What did you think, sir? Yeah, I think that we could have used some like nudity with them is stuff. Yeah, man. It's called Easy. Hey. Yeah.

Easy A for easy ass shots. Yeah. And I got to say, as a viewer, disappointed. Didn't believe I knew it. As a pretentious film snob. He's really impressed. Yes. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Especially the restraint to not show the easy ass shots. Yeah, this high school character. She wasn't in high school when it was made, right? She's going to be... None of these actors are... She dropped out of sucker. punch to do this movie.

Did she really? Corny's B-Fact right there. I would say that worked out. So that just made me go. I would say that that, I wonder if Jenna Malone then from saved, which is a similar, but not quite the same comedy, stepped into sucker punch. There you go. Perfect.

I haven't seen sucker punch. Nor have I. I can imagine that this probably exercises her acting talents better than everything I've ever heard about it. Oh, man. In sucker punch, she's going to have, she would have had to have, to have like, I got those easy A-shots I was looking for. She would have in the shortest possible.

She said that thing about her skirt never going above her fingers. And, you know, like, not the case. It's sucker punchment. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I've always heard good things about this movie and that it was a surprisingly good film. And this was, this came out at the time when, what, 2010? Yeah, yeah, because we used to get like a bunch of raunchy R-rated comedies.

Like the boom of Apatow film. sure and that sort of changed comedy as we know it like the will feral which which had a lot of apatow produced but eventually he wasn't producing every will feral movie but the will feral is yeah is a much more farcical heightened thing yeah and then apatow is yeah you had the and then apatow was like let them improvise and we'll make a movie you know let's make it reeler yeah so i'm always happier when i see something you know like there's that joke i can't find anything about like the phil lord i might have just been coincidence honestly about phil lord and chris miller and what i love about this kind of comedy is the sharpness and how it's like made made

like an actual film it's really composed you got to get the sense of like it's got like an action director or something because there's so much style to it and there's substance behind the filmmaking yeah you know and yeah that everything seems very purposeful and thought out of the way prior to shooting instead of let's just hire funny people let them be funny and then we'll make a movie out of it and then we'll do some basic coverage and yeah yeah I mean they thematically thought everything like as a script it all starts with the script right and as a script I think it's a very very solid screenplay this movie is only 90 minutes long and the characters are so well thought out I mean Emma Stone is overhyped you know she can't act Every time I see her something, I'm like, gosh, she can't stand this batch. Hey or not. She's, she's an icon. She's, like, great in everything.

And she just seems, like, I can't think of another actor who, who I would say, another actress, especially, who I would say is, like, it just seems so natural like that. When people say, like, girl next door or relatable or just doesn't sound like they're reading from a script, whatever. Like she's given, and especially in a movie like this where she's given these lines of dialogue where even sometimes I'm like, wait a minute, what was that where me? You know, I'm like, I'm sort of the characters in this movie going, uh, yeah, I mean, I'm in my head because there's a camera point at me and I'll laugh. But sometimes I'm also going, I'm not sure I know what that means, but I think I understand. You're laughing with the energy and then thinking back to the actual content of the words.

Yeah. And I love the representation of that kind of character in this film because they'll, you normally wouldn't see that. A lot of times that level of wit and that wide range of it, this crazy vernacular, you would not really see it in a way that just is a part of the character

that doesn't draw, a, draw an obnoxious amount of attention to it. Like, it's just the way she talks, you know? And then sometimes there'll be scenes where people will be like, what does that mean? And I think that's appropriate, but more often than not, they're not just

and it's not like she's the odd one in the family too who's like that she's you can like commit to the bit family I mean you could see the way with the way her parents are drawn in this movie of why she is the way she is and I like how it was formed in a supportive loving manner

and even though she is an outcast and the odd one out and it does not really blend in with the crowd like just the furthest thing from cliche high school girl and and she doesn't care to fit in with the norm yet none of that i feel like in a typical movie like you might have like one wacky parent or something like that and you really i think they go against the grain here on how she is formed the way she is because her parents are also kind of odd they got strange idiosyncrasies but like just just above

they're weird they are weird but in a way that feels like believable for the world that's constructed here. Yeah. And they're also very accepting. And they also have a lot of intelligence and sophistication as well that comes out in the way they speak. Vocabulary is a big part of their household when they are just conversing with each other. And I love that they had that done in a way that were most movies. I think there would have been a bit of, she's like the way she is because she is like, literally.

rebelious girl or some I don't know so I'm making up like the terrible version that you would more than likely see you right yeah the obnoxious version of this yeah

yeah and I think this movie just had a great heart about it because even like all this stuff they found they managed to make like a solid PG-13 sex comedy that felt

you were like raunchier and vulgar more vulgar than it actually is yeah but they never show you or do anything or ever go hard R

with their language whatsoever yeah and there's like no strong language and it's all rooted in this this woman who's who just finds herself compelled to do things out of the kindness of her heart but then eventually things go dark for her when it starts when she starts acting on it for other reasons where she is just like i want the gift cards i want the money yeah but but when it is just from the kindness of her heart you know it's not as terrible for her yeah it it nicely represents yeah something that's like a kind of wild but but tangible and sort of sweet idea then sort of spiraling out of control after a while or yeah getting big enough to a point that then there are too many

branches of it to you know contain and i thought they yeah orchestrated and not that it's uh as harsh as like the contrast of a boogie knives but it kind of has that thing of like, you know, hey, this is starting out, you know, pretty good opportunity for me to, yeah, increase my social cloud and also make a little money. And then, and then, yeah, shit becomes too real. And I like the way they spread things out, too, because there's that whole bit where she's like, you know, this is where I became a home wrecker. And it's not until a while later that that ties all together. And, and, and yeah, it's like it gives you enough time to, it plants seeds, it gives you enough time to forget. And, and the movie just kind of lives in what feels like a very natural pace after that. And, and, and, and, and, and, and the movie just kind of lives in what feels like a very natural pace after that. And, And I think it has a nice blend of height versus earnest sincerity. Because, like, especially in the dialogue, and no shade. I know some people get very upset over stuff like Juno. No shade to, I like Juno. But that is an example of a movie where it's like, all the dialogue is hyper-styelized.

And this movie has some of that. And it's very apparent with her family. but I think it has just enough of it but not enough that it boils over into like this is a complete sort of comic strip now or something they assign it to the right

characters yeah there's the right amount of whimsy placed in the right spots for the most part there were very few if any like characters or dynamics that didn't feel like they fit even if they like the family to me is one of the broader parts

or toward the broader end of the spectrum but like their shared energy really just felt like everyone playing off of each other in the moment and they had such lovely energy collectively that yeah like even if there were times where I was like how did you get the most perfect

parents ever but at the same time that's that's part of the charm and I thought they were used nicely and so like yeah because there's no it's not like they never do them more like here's my traumatic flashback yeah here's the thing we don't talk about

secretly the reason we're secretly dysfunctional. Yeah, here's my wound, you know? Yeah, yeah. But her identity still feels very specific. Totally. As opposed to rooting it in trauma, which is kind of weirdly refreshing. It roots it in things that

are more tangible, like the discomfort of, yeah, being at a party with a bunch of kids and being kind of introduced to ideas that obviously everyone's like fascinated by, but you don't quite understand. You're learning about, you know, all the birds and bee stuff and

that whole thing with her doing the kiss, yeah, them making the promise after the spin the bottle and the kiss, the lie about the kiss, like those are real things or those are yeah, these are things that aren't as huge

world rending stakes like in adult life, but like, yeah, when you're in junior high or you're in high school, yeah, these things are important and they do affect how your whole social interaction goes. Well, that's why I love the shots when they're saying that the rumors spread like wildfire. They make it feel like a city.

Yeah. You know, and so while an adult life you're dealing with a city a lot of the time. Yeah. Sometimes it's just like the office workplace or whatever. Everywhere is a high school. It is, it's true.

I think, did you hear that from Josh when we were younger? That's when I heard that from. Josh told me that when we were younger, you said when you grew up, you realize everywhere is a high school. And that always stuck with me as a homeschooled student. Yeah, you didn't miss as much as you thought you did because you go anywhere with enough people.

Yeah, everywhere's the high school that always stuck with me when I heard that. And yeah, but they do make it feel like a little city at all time. So it's not really about, because like, you know, you could, you can have it be about, there's a sky beam happening and the world's going to end, but it doesn't make the stakes feel any real or tangible. It's just about selling the audience on the importance and the significance of the emotionality. to the characters and and I think this movie does a great job at that you know with struggles that I don't really know like you can empathize it a lot of it like the guy who's dealing with being gay in high school like I don't know what that's

like yeah and and and and what the last time I get my updates of what high school might be like from what I hear people talk about in movies he like 21 Jump Street was like the last high school movie I've seen Maybe gay people aren't as drownstown in California, you know? I've been in like many other parts of America for sure, but maybe in like North Hollywood. I feel like it's more different now than even in 2010. That's what I mean. Yeah.

I think they're, I'm sure that people still struggle. I just don't know. I don't know. I'm not going to act like I know. I think the world as we know it is probably, it is probably like it is probably like 21 Drum Street thing where like we live in a world where it's safer than ever relatively speaking to come out but I got to imagine that high school is still a harsh place and people are always making gay jokes anyway especially at that age

so like yeah it's it's I feel like that will always be until there's no you know friction in society that'll always be a sort of relevant thing yeah yeah well even with her character and the the sexual pressures that that you experience I mean, I can identify with that, you know, when, like, you have friends around you who are experiencing stuff and going through the motions in life and you're not and you don't really understand your identity or emotional association when it comes to these things and, like, how do I, and sometimes you get older, you still don't really understand or know, and it's a constant discovery. you know like so i i i get that it uh i understand that aspect of it so there's still things to relate on um so yeah there's a lot of great things a lot about it but we should talk about some things that i thought we're kind of on the bit of a dip oh i do think pen badgely feels the most cliche out of any character here it's he's the only one where i feel like there's

nothing like you are exactly this guy in this genre of movie yeah and we don't really get to know you beyond the archetype and i could see a defense for that's the point because as by the end he is the embodiment of of the kind of fantasy boyfriend she would want who's doing all the amalgamation of 80 things at the end but if you look at the characters that emma stone is riffing on uh the characters emma stone is a sighting of the kind of guys they're all have personalities that are all distinct from each other. Yes. So I would go against that defense

assuming that is someone's defense for why Penn Badgley's character is severely underridden. Yeah, yeah. I enjoyed his presence most certainly. Because he's Penn Badgley, he's charming. Yeah, naturally. Yeah, yeah. But I can't

disagree. I mean, I don't find myself longing for like a bunch of extra scenes, but at the same time, yeah, he is the least fleshed in the least he gets the least opportunity to like I don't know kind of be a real person because I think they're they do

make some interesting like it feels like a ghost yes he did kind of I get what you mean or like an imaginary yeah like a hallucination just story shows up to be like hey I accept you

yeah every scene it's my inner voice telling me I have self worth yeah I think it's interesting too because they bothered to new like it doesn't get dark or traumatic in a lot of ways but they do

bother to nuance certain things like I I appreciate that the one guy the second guy who comes to who was like Brandon told me what you did like that guy they play with in a way where by the end it's kind of clear like no this guy

kind of sucks there's a lot of relatable and kind of pitiable things about him but at the ultimate end of the day his attitude is a is a bad one where it counts and you also get the moment with the guy where they go to the lobster restaurant and everything and that is like you know it gets close to being a kind of harsh scenario it is could have been much more harsh um and so like even those small characters get a bit of flesh john i'm gonna interrupt you what is this thing that keeps happening on the obs we have an obs this happened with aaron and and andrew when they were

filming and it's like big thumbs up thing pops up just keep us in the video I've never seen that in my life. I have never seen that before. It completely puts our backup recording on pause, and I have no idea what the fuck that is. Oh, good. I wonder, like, if there is a way to, like, take a photo of it and explain to someone at Apple support.

Yeah, totally. Like, hey, this shit just keeps happening, and it completely, like, I have no idea why it pops up We're, and see, now it's completely frozen. Oh, good. Yeah, it's a pain in the ass, John. I don't know. Anyway.

I look into that. Anyway, what were you saying? Well, just that those more, what is that? Did it again? We saw it in real time form. Yeah, I don't know. I have no idea what that.

It's like a thumbs up being like, we're here about freeze. Yeah, yeah. Great job. Like your video, it's done. No. The videos, you did a good job. I've never had a thumbs up actually be like a threat. Yeah.

Or at least a dismaying like, you know, crowbar thrown into the gears, wrench thrown in the gears. What fuck happened here? Oh, man, it's annoying. Let's see if it does it again. It's not doing it now. Well, let me try this. Maybe it's because I opened this.

I don't know. No, no. The AirPods are always grabbing the computer somehow. Yeah. I mean, it's not now, though. See? Yeah. I don't take out my AirPods

and people are filming because of that shit it's a hazard yeah Apple's like connect everything everything must connect and it's gonna happen now yeah because

I mean to be fair you know it's also like if you wanted to just connect them independently it would probably lead to research of how to do it especially the way they remix their controls

anyhow what were we saying about characters those small characters even get like some weird little amount of flesh and again I very much enjoyed Penn Badgley but

he oddly is maybe the most sort of fantasy character you know in that because even the parents who again do border on that have a lot of really lovely earnest heartfelt nuance

and like actual kind of guiding spirit I felt like they didn't mean for a character like Emma Stone especially who is such a very specific type of personality. Like, he's very detailed. And she kind of goes for, like, the most cliche. Well, she goes to the first guy who's just a good guy.

Yeah. Not a trademark good guy, but just like an actual decent person, it seems. Yeah, I'm like, I didn't really get a sense of, like, how their friendship has gestated over the years. I just don't really got a good sense of his personality. he's like a nice guy well they ride most of the stuff with him on that flashback so i feel like yeah yeah that was my one one concern and i think amanda binds is good i think she's good it is the part of the movie that would what i liked that the movie actually did that surprised me what because they were doing the whole thing with like making fun of like fanatical christians

right and and then they had a moment this section of the film where she decides to try to understand. You know, she's like going to the churches. She's trying to get answers. She wants to, she wants to actually understand the point of view. Yeah.

And I thought that was cool to include that. And they kind of go back on that, you know, with the whole, like, Fred Arvines out. And I thought more would come of that, A, because of that they bothered to get him. And B, that is an interesting idea.

Like, I thought the movie was going to give a thoughtful piece of advice from him. and maybe subvert that experience. I liked the joke of his performance, but I did kind of, I was maybe hoping for a little bit of like, well, I have all this friction with Amanda Bines, but like her dad is actually living up to the spirit

of what he's trying to preach, you know, by trying to help me out, you know, or something like that. And so I liked that if she was like searching for the point of view, which was a real surprise. It did become, a little too cartoony for me though

at times. When they would cut to the fanatical Christians? Yeah, they are a bit of a punch line or you could argue they're punching a little, not in a very mean way, but they're kind of punching. They're a thousand percent punching. Yeah.

They're one million percent punches. Yeah, when he whips out that guitar and the one guy starts singing like, it's funny, but also, I mean, yeah, they are like, they're not giving as much of that, here a bit of nuance and personality to balance these people out

to help you see past the stereotype that so many other characters are getting the benefit of the doubt of or... And you will lose that in a runtime. Sure. Bottom line, like you... Sure. You will.

Yeah. Pair these people down. But for everything that we got that is positive, and also, I thought that they... I love the early jokes with the adopted kid. And I like how...

There's something about me that really likes just how simple and accepting of a situation it is. Like, they don't try to make a whole storyline out of it. They don't try to have these like extra scenes. They did set him up to be a character. A character though. And nothing becomes of that. It's just, it's just, oh, but part of me likes that because he is, it is, there is, again, there's something refreshing about, hey, it's, it's, it's, it's not a secret. It's very open. He's adopted. They make fun of it because he's like the black kid in the

family, you know? I think it, yeah, it's like, I think it might have, to me, me, I think partly is the family, again, I know I've said it a couple times, feels a bit more broad than some of the other characters and elements of the movie. And I think that... Well, they feel like hippies without being hippies. Yeah, without being too much of the hippies. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, they're like high functioning adjusted hippies. And I thought, I guess the thing with the brother is that it becomes only that. And like, that's such like a meme of their family that I stopped

thinking of him as an actual character and their whole rapport on screen in this movie is just them making adoption jokes which is funny which is great but I was hoping maybe that A they would like he and Emma Stone would have some kind of anything

or like a scene together or something that can kind of help his eyeline because he's clearly privy to all this stuff that she's doing at least to some extent and maybe he doesn't understand it all and again it's probably one of those things he would cut for runtime but i was kind of thinking like oh man if we could get like a scene or a moment that you know does something for his journey because he's going to be walking into you know the lion's den of high school and all that soon enough you know uh i don't know i thought yeah some kind of bonding or some kind

of other beat for him aside from we're going to make a few jokes with you at the beginning and And then about third of the way through, halfway through, we're not really, you're just going to be in the background if you're here at all. Check it out for anagrams. Pendergast is an anagram for pretend chag. I thought that's a real unique name, wasn't it? Yeah, I've heard it before. It's a real name. But yes, that's, I bet they chose it just for that. Emiston had an asthma attack during the fake sex scene.

Oh, no. Amanda Bynes decided to quit acting after watching herself in this film. This is it. this is the movie to really say that yeah Jennifer Lawrence originally audition for the role of all of I can see that and then she did no hard feelings

no hard feelings yes I was going to call it sex drive but that's so apparently like the original script this was a hard R 41 F words S word 13 times C word three times I'm just reading like yeah this was

originally going to be a super bad I like that this didn't have to be super bad. Yeah, yeah. Because it's very much adjacent to, and it complements a movie like Super Bad, but I thought, yeah, this, I don't know, this felt like...

Oh, everyone in the family is named after food. Sure, okay. Yeah, there's so many fun little details. It's like, even though there might have been things I was, you know, we've talked about a couple of the gripes, but I thought that for what this movie is, it felt like kind of all it needed to be, at least on, oh my god

Spider-Man connections Thomas Hayden Church of Samman Of course And he was in No Way Home with Andrew Garfield And he was in Spider-Man With Emma Stone

And now they're connected It's perfect But But yeah Like this I didn't miss the R rating in this Like not at all Not at all

So like I felt like intentionally PG-13 Yeah and I think it works It's appropriate for It doesn't feel like they edited it down It feels like they changed it change it in the script first and then made it, which is what they did.

And it feels like even though high school kids swear a lot, anyway, like it felt appropriate for this. And I think the use of slang words like slut and other things still carry a harshness that feels like you're doing a real curse even if it's not the same thing. Yeah. Listen, John, it's really late.

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