A day in the life of two best friends, a drug dealer, and a store manager collide at a hip-hop concert in the Inland Empire.
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The film is in no way a masterpiece, but for the short run time(1hr,20mins)it is worth as watch. It has some great moments and features Andy Samburg in a small supporting role.The film is worth a look,on a boring day.There is not much else I can say about it,overall a 6.5 or 7 out of 10.
I like that this movie is honest. I identify and relate to it. I feel also, it's a nice thing to have this up and viewable, I don't tend to see films honestly representative of population and life as it is for some folks. And so, ya it is super hella nice to just be refreshed with an honest movie with writing that someone wanted to write, and less crap about editing an art piece to some idea of pretense as though it ought be anything non-what it is.I Love it, appreciated it, and enjoyed the experience watching it.Mwah, also actors, I think y'all did an honest well done job in the project. I imagine also, ya had helpful direction ;) Liked the writing, which I also audibly said aloud while watching the movie. Just plain moved to utter. I think I like that it seems like someone's honest flow of writing, like looking into someone's cosmos or how they see, which is more why I am captivated by writing, if it is just honest to the experiencer of how they experience and create.Viva liberation en media! xoI created an account to contribute a review for this film. Not that I want to believe anyone ought to be swayed to think my think, yet that I want to share my think at this.So, I says, "Hey, I likey a lot!"Humanizing to the characters each as real humans each their own within a group cast. So, I appreciate that scope and lens the film takes. Humanization for the win! Often, I think films like to create bit characters and objectify their existences into props for satisfying some story line of one person's experience. Yet, life is actually more dynamic, etc. Each human an own Universe, which is pretty amazing to think about it. And I think this kind of lens and take on film is more humanizing, and can help that kind of conditioning or option of viewing humanity. More diffuse, as it is, comes, leaves, goes ... marvel-worthy at all that any of it even is existingLater y'all*****I chose editing some natural flow of words including redeeming expletives, in order to meet IMDb's regulations on posts. I was a bit frustrated because being honest in one's own expression as it is is thematic to the sentiment of the post and I wished I could have done that as it was that moment. Wah wah. As it is, I chose to take a chip in order to leave a review and a reach out to the project. Whooop!
*WARNING - this review contains spoilers*This 'movie' is in fact nothing but blatant homosexual propaganda with a pseudo 'story' written around it.Unfortunately there is no better way to phrase this. It starts with a dialogue promoting homosexuality and even ends with homosexual propaganda,but unfortunately it just doesn't stop with it throughout the 'movie'. The thug is secretly gay, josh peck whispering in his friend's ear while groping his ass:'don't be homophobic' and so many more instances where you get the impression that the sole purpose of this 'movie' is to propagate the homosexual agenda instead of even trying to tell a story. It's quite sad to what low level modern propaganda has fallen, at least try to brainwash people in a more subtle manner please.The acting was borderline acceptable.
I'm writing this review in the week that Netflix's stock surged by 10% as they beat market predictions, moving away from their 'rent-a- DVD' model to concentrate on original, quality content. Normally, this one would have slipped under my radar, but I saw it was picked up by distribution by Netflix and thought: let's give it a go.I would describe this movie as being a sort of cross between Clerks and Superbad. It's a day in the life of two low-achieving shelf stackers at a Wholesome Foods (definitely not 'Whole Foods') store somewhere in the urban sprawl of LA. Their goal is to obtain tickets for a sold out concert, and they are not short on schemes to do so: be it ripping off a drug dealer, stealing cash from their boss, counter-ripping off a ticket forging older brother, and so on.This movie's great strength - its random, weird, unpredictable nature - is also its greatest weakness. When watching any one scene, you have no idea what is going to happen. However, it also means the film struggles to find a consistent tone. Some characters (mostly the freeloading Chris) are very wacky and cartoonish. Others, like the conflicted Chester are more maudlin, and it doesn't work very well together. The movie's best and most consistent performance is without doubt the psychotic drug dealer Jay, played by Chester Tam, who was also the movie's writer and director. Every time he's on screen, he's like a force of nature. I was strangely reminded of Joe Pesci in Goodfellas, if he was a 6'5" tattooed Korean.Oddly, the moments that worked the best were the more dramatic ones. The comedy sort of fell flat in a lot of places, probably due to the aforementioned problem of the film not really having a clear idea of how many feet it wanted to keep in reality. A scene where two guys dodge incoming bullets driving down the freeway in a battered Corvette does not play well with a scene where the same two guys have a serious and frank discussion about where their friendship and lives are going.In summary, Take The 10 will probably play well for the late-night comedy (read: 'stoner') crowd, but never guns any higher than that. Bonus points for a cameo role from Andy Samberg ('The Lonely Island') who proves he can make just about anything funny.