Rocket Science (2007)

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

best movie i've ever seen.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

The "coming of age" is in quotes because its not in your face. In fact, it is so subtle that people complain that the ending is weak. I just now finished watching the ending for the second and I have to say that it is perfect. The first time around, I watched it thinking its just another teen comedy. Hence, I was just waiting for run-of-the-mill stuff to kick-in. It never did. Just watch it keenly and not hope for a Hollywood ending and you will see what I mean. The rest of the movie is also very good. I did get a little impatient with Hal's stutter but I am glad I stayed with it. The acting is top notch. Anna and Recce stand out. Hope to see a lot more of them in near future.

Very interesting movie, although in the end not very realistic. It features a type of debate style I had never seen, where participants speak in a very rapid style, to get out as much information in their alloted time. Although the actors weren't necessarily chosen because of this trait, they do it very well.Reece Thompson is arguably the main actor as Hal Hefner, the meek high school kid with a bad stuttering problem. Hal is smart, he analyzes his own situation well, he has sessions with a teacher to learn how to overcome the problem, but nothing seems to work.So Hal and we, the audience, are quite surprised when one day on the bus to school Anna Kendrick as cute and smart Ginny Ryerson approaches him to convince him to join the debate team. Seems one stellar debate team member just up and quit, and left school, and they needed to recruit someone. She just knew Hal could be a stellar debate member.Hal of course is reluctant but is attracted to Ginny who it seems is also leading him on a bit. She has ulterior motives, but it doesn't surface until much later.In my earlier remarks I said the story doesn't seem realistic. In high school (or college, for that matter) would a debate team coach put up for competition a stutterer without ever having that person demonstrate that they could perform properly in practice? From my experience the answer is "no".Anyway the story is really about Hal and how this experience was the catalyst for his own growing up, to be able to realize what is really important in life.SPOILERS: Ginny had an ulterior motive. She wanted to add someone incompetent to the team, to help her own chances of winning the state title. The prior year she and her partner would have won, had he not quit during the final debate. Feeling cheated, she made plans to partner with a boy on the rival team, and after getting Ben on her own school team, she quit and enrolled at the other school just in time to compete.

A movie can get no more boring than this. It's a movie about a little, annoying twit with a stutter who gets to help a girl out on the debate team. The boy is Hal (Reece Thompson, just annoying as hell in this.) The girl is Ginny (Anna Kendrick, also pretty bad in this.) Together they form an annoying, stupid predictable relationship. The only mild laugh was from Jonah Hill as a student who sits next to Ben at the library. The movie is a mess from start to finish. It's another annoying, extremely predictable teen comedy in which a no one gets to be a someone. There is no real plot, the characters feel too forced, and scripted, and the jokes are just depressing. I can't really say I was disappointed by this film- I knew nothing of it, although I regularly do like D'Agosto. I feel like I should have never seen it. It's 98 minutes of my life I'll never get back. It's such an annoying film. The main problem with the film is that the film presents itself with a main character I just wanted to shut up. It's a movie of such tedium and annoyance that I have to say it's one of the worst film I've seen in a long, long time.

I only give this movie 8 stars because there were so many things that were phenomenal! The acting was simply outstanding. The character of Ginny had so much potential if they'd only written the plot to include more scenes with her. There were so many directions this movie could take. After about 1 1/2 hours, when Ben and Hal were in the competition, all of a sudden, the movie took a sharp left turn for nowhereville and left me so angry. Angry at Hal, angry at Ginny, angry at Hal's Dad, but mostly angry and the director. There are a hundred different endings that could have been executed even OK to make this a 10 star movie, but no. If they'd followed the obvious plot and had Ginny and Hal win despite their differences, it would've been generic, but executed so brilliantly that it would have been a great movie. Then, they could've had Hal and Ginny come back together and win the debate, and have her switch back schools or something. Hell, they could've even left their relationship broken or something if only they'd focused more on her character, on how hard it was for her to leave Hal like that. They could've elaborated on the other misfits she tried to get to debate. They could've had Hal and Ben go and beat her, or get second to her, and have a happy ending where they get back together. The kid threw a cello through her window for Christ sake! Everyone watching wants them to be together in the end! And even if they threw out all that, they should've reversed the father scene (although they should have made it better, he was the only bad character in the film) and the pizza scene, and ended it with Hal flawlessly asking for a piece of pizza. Maybe one of those, "what happened afterwords" kind of epilogues on the screen would've been nice. You know, just to make you feel good. I would say the last option, and maybe the best would've been to make the movie significantly longer, and tie up ALL the plot lines in one super-ending that occurred somehow after the state championships. Maybe if they'd made Ginny only a junior, and they had like another year. i don't know. Or they could've had her do the same thing as Ben in state's and then epiphanize about how much she liked Hal. Just anything other than the ending they chose.Overall i feel disappointed, somewhat angry, and somewhat sad. This movie had unbelievable potential and just threw it away. The plot felt remarkably incomplete, with all the plot lines left open, even the "how to deal with life" plot was left open by the poor execution of the final car scene. So... with a 10 star first half of the plot, 0 stars for the second half, 10 stars for acting, 10 stars for filming i averaged that to end up with 7 1/2, and i round up to 8 stars. If you read this far you're a loser but i appreciate it.