Sena's Friends :: The Watermelon Patch

this is my letterboxd report on the movie get over it (2001) directed by tommy o'haver.
this is the link to the report

i just finished this instead of sleeping and it took me about three days to watch. here's what i thought.

so originally, i watched this because ben foster played berke landers, and i was really curious about it. i do that with many actors if you haven't noticed. i got into supernatural from jeffrey dean morgan, the boys from jensen ackles, star trek aos from karl urban, hell or high water from chris pine, and then get over it from ben foster. i wasn't really disappointed, and i really loved his role in this movie. something that did take me by surprise, however, was the relevance of this movie between actors and actresses in my graph. first of all, it stars zoe saldana as maggie, which doesn't make an appearance after she cheats with striker, who was also in the star trek movies. that concludes the second nickel on the prompt "if i had a nickel for every time an actor from hell or high water was in a film with zoe saldana"/"for every time someone from get over it knew chris pine." felix woods is played by colin hanks, tom hanks' son, who starred in band of brothers, jumanji (the new one with the rock), and dexter.

something i also did not anticipate was falling in love with felix. i'm unsure if he's hot or it's because his face is a little round, he lowkey has a baby face, i like his eyebrows, he's tall, i like his smile and the shape of his lips, i'm ovulating, he has a very well-shaped nose, or some other factor that makes me think i'm in love with him. either way, i want him and i want him bad. #needthat.

some things i liked in the movie was the plot. it does follow a resemblance to the plot of a midsummer night's dream, the plot changing when the play is improvised as well, which killed two birds with one stone. i really loved the aesthetic of the entire movie as well. in the houses, in the buildings, the clothes they wear, the way they act, it's all very 90's, i guess. mostly because it was released in 2001 does it give it that reason, but it's a good feeling. even in the strip club, it was cute. at least in the hallway when they walk in. i didn't pay very much attention to the rest of it because i was too worried on berke getting "blueballed" by the police. the lamps in kelly's room, berke's killer shirts, the stoner stage hands, felix's big shirts over his lanky body, kelly's shirts, striker's eye makeup, allison's eye makeup, basin's aura, the front of kelly and felix's house, kelley's wallpaper in her room, the way her room's shaped, the way they spoke, the school, everyone fighting to see the cast, felix's berke's house party, it was all so 2000's teen romcom cliche that i wish was real now so i could do that.

some things i didn't like included the poster of which i'm looking at right now. i get why kelly and berke are in it but why is dennis in it? he plays a minor role like a reoccurring gag. we never see kelly and felix's parents which makes me think about them. not much, but enough to feel concerned. dennis is a token black character, which isn't really weird considering it's just what happens especially with films in this point in time. it just feels lonely. i hated striker's stupid fake accent. it was so bad. i know that they wrote it in to make him less likeable, but i'm here to say it worked and worked well. i hate him. can't really think straight. colin is lowkey bad affffffff

goodnight it's literally 4 in the morning