Bullied, overweight kid in Seattle is rescued from suicide by a sketchy slacker, who then decides they should form a punk band. Matthew Lillard directs.
I get the sense that this will be a teenage movie I will actually like. I’m getting the sense that Lillard is turning into an interesting talent again.
MOVIEBOB CENTRAL 
So Bob, and I don't want this to sound like trolling or insulting… but why is THIS interesting and not “white middle-class privileged ennui” like Mumblecore is supposed to be?
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@Taylor
Because fat people as protagonists are as underrepresented as actual minorities, silly.
(Sadly I say that only half jokingly).
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@Taylor
I think it's because this looks like it will have a strong driving force besides the protagonist's own ennui and existentialism.
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Huh, interesting
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@Taylor
Because, frankly, the basic story of someone whose being bullied to the point of suicide finding a reason to exist through creative expression is COMPELLING.
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This looks tight.
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So….Lillard has gone from starring in teen movies to directing them now? Well, at least he's sticking to what he knows for his feature-length directorial debut. It'll be interesting to see how this works out.
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this film needs more fat people, 45 percent of americans are fat.
god dam it, how the fuck did my cousins get fat……….
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Matthew Lillard was surprisingly good in The Descendants. Not great, but far from his eye-clutchingly horrible earlier “performances”. Like Wing Commander. Holy Fucking Hell, Wing Commander.
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It doesn't look bad, but I can't convince myself to see it in theaters.
Then again, I'm not much into punk rock, or what it became in the 90's/aughts (basically “Hey everyone let's all sound like Green Day, only even less inspired”).
Now if it was New Wave of British Heavy Metal…
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Socially awkward misplaced feeling kid goes punk. Christ I'm back in highschool.
This looks so tight.
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Well, these things are a step in the right direction, but in the end, these sorts of movies just reiterate how a fat person can't be in a story, without their character revolving entirely around the issue of being fat.
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Well we know why it would be COMPELLING for Bob at least.
Even though it is nothing more than escapist fantasy for fat white bullied kids.
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Meh. Maybe I'll give a crap about these kids of movies when they make the “fat dumpy kid becomes cool via pluck, tenacity and creative personal development” a GIRL.
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yeah i'm gonna see this one. it first peeked my interest when I saw Lillard's kickstarter page about it. when i stumbled in to punk rock it was the first time in my life I felt I belonged anywhere. no longer was I a white trash retard I was someone with a voice that mattered. I fell ass over tea kettle in love with this folk music for angry people. so punk rock movies are without a doubt my guilty pleasure and if you tag on a coming of age story to it well I'm swooning.
Man I gotta go break out my old Screeching Weasel records.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELgtzSDU_IQ
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