Damn, Olivia Wilde is actually a really talented director

Just watched Booksmart, I gotta say, it was a very well directed movie, I would have never guessed it was her first time directing a feature length movie.

The writing for Booksmart isn't the greatest - tons of teen movie tropes, lots of formulaic melodrama, a few scenes here and there where the dialogue isn't the best.

With that said, none of that really bothered me, this movie was just too much fun and too hilarious for me to give a shit about stuff like that.

What really impressed me was the directing. There were some really great shots in this movie, the best was the scene where Beanie Feldstein is freaking out when she realizes all the popular kids are also going to Ivy league schools, and then it cuts to the shot of the guy skateboarding in the hallway and then to everyone getting hyped up in the hallway. Obviously can't explain it in words, but it was just really great directing and editing in that particular scene, as well as several others.

Also the soundtrack absolutely slaps, and syncs up perfectly with the movie.

I'm not saying Booksmart is some all time great movie or anything like that, but it's extremely funny and a really great display of Olivia Wilde's talent as a director. I can't wait to see more movies from her.

But yeah, between Jordan Peele, Olivia Wilde, and Boots Riley, I think we're going to get some awesome movies in the 2020s, there are some new sheriffs in town

Submitted September 29, 2019 at 12:42PM by throwawaymooselock https://ift.tt/2nAKhwP