Wish I could give this movie 0 stars, I have unintentionally developed a very explainable fury for this movie after watching it with my boyfriend. We were on a surf movie binge, hopping from Surf's up, North Shore, Chasing Mavericks, and finally Blue Crush.
This movie symbolizes the phrase "missed opportunity". They pulled us in thinking it's going to be an inspiring surfing movie, all about dedication, bonds, and passion. Boy were we wrong.
(Spoilers) From the very first frame, it is made disgustingly clear that the antagonist of this movie is the main character's inner fear and trauma from a bad fall, reef beating, and near drowning incident. You brace yourself for the whole two hours, expecting to see her overcome this awful pain and fear that are keeping her from surfing the big waves, keeping her from her passion. Nope.
Instead, the entire movie follows this static character, continuing to drop her responsibilities and passions (of surfing) to pursue an NFL player, whom we realize later on is playing her. But they still kiss and make up in the end. Even though they never justified his tendency to love-bomb poor women and then ditching them, or addressed it after the first time when it was uncovered. What was even the point of that just for them to act like it never happened? Maybe the movie I watched was skipping seconds cause I feel like I missed something. Why is she getting back with this loser again, a loser she blew off her passion because of?
If I wanted to watch a poor-woman-gets-with-rich -man trope to immerse myself in a daydream, I would've watched Pretty Woman, which does a heck of a better job at this storyline than this "surfing" movie.
We never watch her get a single good wave until the last 10 minutes. Out of nowhere. No build up of her gradually getting over her fear that's stopping her. They just sloppily had her surf a perfect wave after she fails every single one before that (***without sign of progression). This movie was a waste of time.
I don't even remember her name and I watched this movie just the other day. The main character has zero drive, passion, motivation, or care for surfing, and never changes that. Instead she lashes out at her amazing friend Eden for trying to encourage and support her. And then they never mention this lash-out again. Crazy. Where is the plot. I'd follow a story about a girl getting abducted by a cult consisting of furniture-beings and declared the queen of tableware better. I think the main plot-line gets about 10 minutes of screentime (the last 10).
Should've made the movie about Eden or Keana Kennelly. Instead of an unchanging, spineless, and stubbornly unpassionate girl. Like, really, we had the opportunity to make a role model here. No words. I'm warning you all. This movie is a sick joke. I lost neurons.
I'd rather watch a toddler try to spell Onomatopoeia cause at least something is actually happening.
This movie symbolizes the phrase "missed opportunity". They pulled us in thinking it's going to be an inspiring surfing movie, all about dedication, bonds, and passion. Boy were we wrong.
(Spoilers) From the very first frame, it is made disgustingly clear that the antagonist of this movie is the main character's inner fear and trauma from a bad fall, reef beating, and near drowning incident. You brace yourself for the whole two hours, expecting to see her overcome this awful pain and fear that are keeping her from surfing the big waves, keeping her from her passion. Nope.
Instead, the entire movie follows this static character, continuing to drop her responsibilities and passions (of surfing) to pursue an NFL player, whom we realize later on is playing her. But they still kiss and make up in the end. Even though they never justified his tendency to love-bomb poor women and then ditching them, or addressed it after the first time when it was uncovered. What was even the point of that just for them to act like it never happened? Maybe the movie I watched was skipping seconds cause I feel like I missed something. Why is she getting back with this loser again, a loser she blew off her passion because of?
If I wanted to watch a poor-woman-gets-with-rich -man trope to immerse myself in a daydream, I would've watched Pretty Woman, which does a heck of a better job at this storyline than this "surfing" movie.
We never watch her get a single good wave until the last 10 minutes. Out of nowhere. No build up of her gradually getting over her fear that's stopping her. They just sloppily had her surf a perfect wave after she fails every single one before that (***without sign of progression). This movie was a waste of time.
I don't even remember her name and I watched this movie just the other day. The main character has zero drive, passion, motivation, or care for surfing, and never changes that. Instead she lashes out at her amazing friend Eden for trying to encourage and support her. And then they never mention this lash-out again. Crazy. Where is the plot. I'd follow a story about a girl getting abducted by a cult consisting of furniture-beings and declared the queen of tableware better. I think the main plot-line gets about 10 minutes of screentime (the last 10).
Should've made the movie about Eden or Keana Kennelly. Instead of an unchanging, spineless, and stubbornly unpassionate girl. Like, really, we had the opportunity to make a role model here. No words. I'm warning you all. This movie is a sick joke. I lost neurons.
I'd rather watch a toddler try to spell Onomatopoeia cause at least something is actually happening.