Daydream Nation

Pretty awful. Was this written by a teenager?

So I'm definitely in the minority, but I loved this movie as a coming of age for Kat Denning's character. And yes, I totally came for Kat Dennings. What really won me over was the total deconstruction of the teacher.

Expected some sharp humoristic coming of age semidrama. Instead it was all drama drama drama, no message, hardly anything in it. Protagonist was well played, though.

Random indie movie with Kat Dennings? Sure why not.

Dennings as a high-schooler seducing her teacher and some other guy that I don't care about. It's a bit hard to swallow, but her bust size makes a good case for watching. The writing, on the other hand, does not.

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Daydream Nation is sometimes entertaining, but fails to be anything more than what it is at face value. It never fully comes together, which is a shame because some good elements are included (and then wasted). It has a lot of symbolic imagery, characters that have a lot of potential, and a workable plot, but none of these add up to anything particularly worthwhile. If you're a huge Kat Dennings fan, then you'll want to give this a watch, but if you're not, you can easily do without watching it.

Extremely forgettable. I like Kat Dennings and all, but this film had a lot of weird developments and side plots that are too hazy for me to recount at this point (I saw this movie about 4 months ago) Very indie movie. Some people will get what I mean when I say that.

I watched this intoxicated with a bunch of other intoxicated people which probably increased how much I enjoyed it. Who cares though, it was interesting, had style and held my attention all the way through.

Decent. And any movie with Dennings and Your ex-lover is Dead is worth my time.

an interesting story about boredom.

Thanks Obby! :) I appreciated this movie as a story of a young girl who has no idea what she wants, but, it WAS all over the place. Seducing her teacher was all about challenging herself out of boredom. But then, she finds she wants something normal for a girl her age. Just so happens that her teacher's a mental patient who breaks down when she breaks up with him, aaand there's a serial killer and an industrial fire. Which I think is a shot at symbolism, but... I dunno. You should see it though!

It kind of flip flops around. Like, the plot is all over the place. There's a serial killer, but there's a love triangle, and there's young love, and etc. I don't think the serial killer thing was AT ALL necessary, luckily it doesn't take a whole lot of time. When it settles down, it tackles a subject well enough but it needed tighter writing. The performances were good and the music was good, but the mish mash of stuff didn't always work. Still, it's entertaining.