The Education of Charlie Banks

Why are people fighting over Eva Amurri? Not much going on in this movie. Is it wrong if I am rooting for the bad guy to beat up the good guy in the end, or does that just say a lot about how much I hated Eisenberg's character. I also think they misspelled the word Booogies when tagging. I thought it was funny too that Ritter the bad guy got away possibly setting up a sequel. Please Limp Bizkit make a sequel for this piece of garbage. I would watch it for pure amusement.

Generally good performances, and the writing--though spotty--has its moments. Perhaps I don't understand psychotic people sufficiently well, but Jason Ritter's character just doesn't seem plausible. Ritter gives it his game best, but he can't quite pull it off, and I don't think it's his fault. It doesn't help, though, that he looks far more natural in preppy clothes than his thug drag.

Very good.

Jesse Eisenberg has a lot of indie movies where he doesn't act much and kind of just is a jerk.

A profoundly pessimistic but nuanced outlook on what morality means and does in society. Also, maybe kind of a bad movie? But at least it's interesting.

Ritter was brilliant! Fred Durst made a damn good film.

Surprisingly good drama about an underprivileged, violent young man who is drawn to a timid, privileged student and tries to become part of his everyday campus life. The youthful cast performs magnificently. In fact, Jason Ritter's riveting portrayal as the troubled heavy is reason enough to rent this film. Highly recommended.

First rule of Durstian filmmaking: end every scene with a semi-humorous drunken one-liner. WTF? Fred Durst is a filmmaker now? But you know what? I was engaged and in to it. There was tension waiting to see when Ritter was gonna go ape shit on Eisenberg who obviously deserved a high amount of pummeling. And I like Amurri and Marquette, due to their awesomeness is past films.