That Awkward Moment (2014)

I really enjoyed this movie. There are jokes and scenes in this that killed me. Great cast, acting, chemistry, score and production. I'd rate it a 7.5If you don't like the humor/style, you will know in a few minutes so worth checking out this underrated movie. The score fits beautifully with the film builds--a post-rock industrial feel but more present, telescoping the emotion with the flow of the film.

That Awkward Moment (2014): Dir: Tom Gormican / Cast: Zac Efron, Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Imogen Poots, Jessica Lucas: Pathetic hunk of trash about that moment when someone goes from casual dating to full flown relationship. We have three morons played by Zac Efron, Miles Teller and Michael B. Jordan. After Jordan's wife confesses to cheating he falls into a depression of liquor and ice cream. Perhaps giving him a script to a better film is out of the question for knocking this depression. Instead his buddies take him out drinking and chick hunting. This is where Efron picks up a woman whom he believes is a hooker by night's end. To make this even more manipulative she ends up showing up at his work place while he is giving a presentation on book covers. The buddies make a pact to remain single and only screw around but we all know that they will go through the media's version of falling in love. Jordan attempts to rekindle with his cheating wife. Teller is bedding a woman who was his originally just a bed buddy. I guess she has forged ahead nicely. Efron goes through heartache with Imogen Poots because she sees him as a thoughtless jerk. Jessica Lucas was last seen in Evil Dead and this is even more distorted career move. First time director Tom Gormican does everything but place black boxes on screen to avoid nude scenes all the while we get lame references to Jordan's penis. Another joke involves Teller stinking up the washroom. Here's an idea. Why not every viewer have an awkward moment rewarded with shitting over every print of this dreadful film. Score: 1 / 10

The swinging bachelors are modernized versions of what Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin used to represent in the ring-a-ding days of the 1950s (Sinatra's version of this film, The Tender Trap, came out in 1955). Jason and his best friend Daniel (Miles Teller, the preternaturally self-assured young man from The Spectacular Now) work in a laid-back office designing book covers, an ideal combination of literary cred and artistic invention. They're soon joined by Mikey (Michael B. Jordan from Friday Night Lights and Fruitvale Station), a married doctor whose wife has just announced that she's seeing other men.The three of them make a pact to revel in the single life, building up their "roster" of available women without ever "dating" in any formal way. But things get complicated with the arrival of Ellie (Imogen Poots), a book editor or publisher or something — the film isn't very clear — whom Jason meets in the bar. They bond over a fast-talking riff on cultural stereotyping about the typical New York romance (meeting in a bar, playing beer pong, nervously driving to the Hamptons to meet the parents, worried that you're not smart enough, or attractive enough, and who ever is?) and live smarmily ever after, more or less.

That 14 year old teenager you writers have been writing crap movies for is now in his 30's and bored with references to penis's and toilet humor and the same old sex frame ups and jokes. It's over. Do some real writing and stop reverting to the easy way out. We hated it. Anyone who actually liked it must be drunk or has never seen a movie before. Or is paid to write good reviews for rubbish movies. Don't even get the DVD. A waste of the actors who looked bored or embarrassed about the lines. And who can blame them, look at the best comedies, the ones you watch time and time again. There's no state the obvious crassness or labored scripts that've been done to death. Can't believe this one got picked up.