Before I Fall (2017)

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   Agrimorfee

   The trailer inaccurately makes this look like a horror movie. Don't fall for it. It's actually a teen-girl serious version of "Groundhog Day". Not all that bad. 7 years 2 months ago
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   Siskoid

   Mean Girls meets Groundhog Day in Before I Fall, a wholly derivative time loop movie (and therefore YA book) that kind of makes me sad that some audiences will come to this BEFORE Groundhog Day. What doesn't really work is that Zoey Deutch plays the Bill Murray role and is supposed to have the same arc. But it's hard to believe her as one of the mean popular girls, or perhaps the story doesn't let her push hard enough in that direction (or else why would that other boy feel unrequited love for her?). And is it an arc, or did she just grow up in the time it took for the time loop to resolve itself. Maybe she just lost "selfish teenager brain". Once she starts being kind, we recognize the character Deutch was playing all along, and while it's a nice sentiment, Before I Fall's innovation is really that it's fine with being sappy compared to other versions of the story. As for the Mean Girls aspects (like, why else would there be a character called Leslie?), it's really up to Deutch to shoulder the burden, because it's standard high school stuff and I found myself zoning out in the first act - which is counter to what your audience needs to (want to) do in a time loop movie. It gets better, but in the final analysis, it's just painfully okay. 2 months 3 weeks ago
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   DaniloFreiles

   Bello, mi piace il genere.
   La protagonista è molto brava. Nel corso del film riesce a passare dal patetica stronza ad angelo.
   

   A differenza degli altri film come Ricomincio da capo o È già ieri, non c'è un vero finale perché, volendo, la giornata potrebbe ancora ripetersi. Ma non fa niente perché è raccontata bene.

   4 years 2 months ago

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