{"id":142914,"date":"2014-05-21T02:17:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T09:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=142914"},"modified":"2014-05-20T21:18:53","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T04:18:53","slug":"forev-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2014\/05\/21\/forev-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Forev Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: Forev<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Directors: Molly Green, James Leffler<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring: Matt Mider, No\u00ebl Wells, Amanda Bauer, Timmy L&#8217;Heureux, Chuck McCarthy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In co-directors Molly Green and\u00a0James Leffler&#8217;s &#8220;Forev,&#8221; an indie ode to the decidedly poor decision-making skills of twentysomethings, Los Angeleno Sophie Potts (No\u00ebl Wells, of &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221;) impulsively accepts the marriage proposal of her apartment neighbor, dweeby tech support jockey Pete Avery (Matt Mider), and the pair then promptly head off on a six-hour drive to Phoenix to pick up Pete&#8217;s sister Jess (Amanda Bauer) from college. Musing and drinking ensues, and when Jess, fresh off a break-up, indulges in a one-night stand during a car-breakdown stay-over, things get weird for all.<\/p>\n<p>If &#8220;Forev,&#8221; a world premiere at last year&#8217;s Los Angeles Film Festival, sounds like pretty much the most stereotypical slice of precious, shoegazing\u00a0wire-frame indie storytelling, well, it is. The movie&#8217;s story credits Mider and Wells with &#8220;additional screenplay material,&#8221; owing to their improvisational talents. And it&#8217;s certainly true that the pair (especially Wells) stumble upon a few winningly awkward\u00a0reactions in their odd, fumbling courtship. But there&#8217;s nothing particularly\u00a0deep or compelling about these characterizations, and co-writers Green and Leffler seem like they can hardly be bothered to sketch out the film&#8217;s few inciting incidents (it takes a good 10 minutes before it&#8217;s definitively established that Pete&#8217;s car is actually broken down).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Forev&#8221; basically substitutes music video montage and conventional road trip narrative meandering (Sophie and Pete play a modified version of 20 Questions to get to better know one another, and also hit an armadillo before picking up Jess) for rigorous plotting or insights. There&#8217;s no grounded reality with respect to how guys act in situations with both their girlfriends and female siblings (&#8220;My girls!&#8221; exclaims Pete, when Sophie and Jess each emerge in bathing suits), and Green and Leffler seem allergic to making Jess too pushy or judgmental about her brother&#8217;s relationship, which abets a pungent odor of phoniness that envelopes an already flimsy conceit.<\/p>\n<p>Crucially, &#8220;Forev&#8221; doesn&#8217;t go for &#8220;the full &#8216;Napoleon Dynamite&#8217;,&#8221; which is to say that &#8212; even though it throws in a few weirdo supporting characters &#8212;\u00a0it avoids diving headlong into the creation of its own canted universe. &#8220;Forev&#8221; is ostensibly supposed to unfold in the real world, and yet\u00a0as the movie progresses it doesn&#8217;t attach itself in any substantive manner to an exploration of Sophie and Pete&#8217;s second thoughts and regret over their rash embrace of one another. There&#8217;s nothing to really get one&#8217;s dander up over &#8220;Forev,&#8221; and attach a lot of poisonous animosity of opinion to, but that doesn&#8217;t mean the film deserves a pass. It just doesn&#8217;t work, and its shortcomings track with the sort of material that takes its cues from trying too hard to ape other films. The players here may have talent, but &#8220;Forev&#8221; almost willfully obscures it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> &#8220;Forev&#8221; is available on all major cable VOD providers, as well as iTunes, DVD and Blu-ray. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ForevMovie.com\">www.ForevMovie.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical: D+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Acting: B-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Story: D<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall: D+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by: Brent Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/forev-movie1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/forev-movie1.jpg\" alt=\"forev movie\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-142939\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/forev-movie1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/forev-movie1-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/forev-movie1-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Forev Directors: Molly Green, James Leffler Starring: Matt 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