Olive, an average high school student, sees her below-the-radar existence turn around overnight once she decides to use the school's gossip grapevine to advance her social standing. Now her classmates are turning against her and the school board is becoming concerned, including her favorite teacher and the distracted guidance counselor. With the support of her hilariously idiosyncratic parents and a little help from a long-time crush, Olive attempts to take on her notorious new identity and crush the rumor mill once and for all.
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I'm conflicted about Easy A. The story is interesting, but the plot is uneven. It loses a lot of steam in the second half. Emma Stone is fantastic, as usual, but the rest of the characters are mostly flat and uninteresting. Also, for a movie that portrays a strong "don't judge" message, it sure judges Christianity pretty harshly.
What kind of universe is this? Why is everyone acting so stupid? I watched this rubbish till the end just because to write some of my thoughts. I was a teen once, too; in fact, i was watching a series called 'Teen Wolf' once. But this movie is on another level of... badness i guess. This is just pure trash. The parents don't act like a parent. The people don't act like intelligent beings. They're all artificial, one-dimensional creatures. This writing is just garbage. The script doesn't lead anywhere and it's pointless. The acting is cringy and contrived. And the jokes are like this: Man: Screw all these people. Girl: Haven't you heard, i already did.Yeah, everyday we stray further from god.
Yesterday after watching La La Land (for the 3rd time in my case) with some of my friends in the afternoon, I decided to look for some of old performances of Emma Stone, which in the end led me to this movie. So I fired up my TV along with Netflix, and I settled for a Friday midnight movie session, and here are my little thoughts: First, Emma Stone's performance is indescribably funny. Alright, honestly its Emma Stone's performance and her cuteness 😍 that made me really enjoy watching this film. From singing alone in her bedroom to strutting around in revealing clothing, her hilarious expressions, her comedic timing and the way she articulates her lines, makes this "a worth 2 hours of your life" film. Other than that, I liked the narratives, the humor, the minor plot twists, the location of the film on the nice little town of Ojai, and last and not least the movie soundtrack selection is Superb 👌 In the end this movie is pretty much what you'd expect from a teen comedy film, as the film covers the issues that is known to concern a typical teenager. Conclusion: I thought it would be a boring movie, like a lot of some teen comedies I watched in the past, but I'm actually impressed and i liked it a lot. For those who didn't watched this movie, give it a try.I give it a Solid 7 out of 10PS: And for those wondering what road is in the movie credits, here's the address: Fordyce Rd, Ojai
Olive Pendergast (Emma Stone) is a precocious, ordinary high school girl who wants to be popular and unintentionally tells her friend Rhiannon she had sex with a college guy named George. It's not true. Olive doesn't want to spend time with Rhiannon and her off- the-wall nudist parents and she invented a college boyfriend and with pressure from Rhi admits she lost her V-card to George. This throws the school in an uproar! The other students believe Olive is putting out but her favorite English teacher (Thomas Hadden Church) doesn't believe it. During the classroom study of the Nathaniel Hawthorne classic "The Scarlet Letter" Nina a judgmental girl insults Hester Prynne and Olive. Olive calls her a sexual name and gets send to the principal (Malcolm McDowell). She sees Brandon a gay friend who receives detention with Olive and they have to clean the school up as punishment. Brandon hit another student who gave him grief over his sexual preference. He and Olive talk about it. The next day, Brandon visits Olive and suggests they pretend to have sex at popular girl Melanie Bostick's house. Olive agrees to it and she and Brandon yell, scream, jump on the bed, and make other noises to make the crowd gathered outside the door think they have sex.Pretty soon Olive is open for business as the school tramp and only pretending to do sex acts with unpopular boys. She comes on the radar of Nina's Jesus freak friend Marianne (Amanda Bynes) and Marianne wants to throw Olive out of the school for sex acts that are only pretend. Emma Stone is absolutely great as Olive and her eccentric parents played by Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson are wonderfully understanding and supportive of their daughter. Lisa Kudrow is also great as the school guidance counselor married to Olive's teacher. The actor who was the evil James in "Twilight" is also very funny as Marianne's dumb as a bag of hammers boyfriend who is secretly seeing the guidance counselor and should be out of high school at the age of 22! This movie is highly recommended for a good laugh and I think Emma Stone's singing voice is very good!