XOXO (2016)

Watched XOXO with Sarah Hyland(Modern Family) as Krystal ,Graham Phillips(Staten Island Summer Camp) as Ethan Shaw, Brett DelBouno(Primrose Lane) As Tariq ,Hayley Kiyoko(Jem And The Hologram) as Shanni, Collin Woodell() as Ray, Kelly Marie Tran(College Humor Originals) as Butterfly Rave Girl, Ryan Hansen(Veronica Mars) as Avilo,Chris D'Elia(Undateable) as Neil, Ian Anthony Dale(The Hangover) as Anders . I admit this was an interesting watch while I admit im not a Raver it was cool how the six converging Stories where all about a concert also it was interesting the characters weren't badly written they were Likable Interesting Perspective On Rave Culture.Great Costume Design By Caroline McAlister(The Standoff)and Score By Aaron Drake(Gravity) ,Cinematography by Damian Acevedo(Fairly Legal) and Amazing Direction by Christopher Louie(Lucky) Interesting Perspective On Rave Culture 7/10

Okey, I don't write a review on a movie too often, but after I watched this i just had to. The movie starts off OK. You get to know Ethan and by the first couple of minuets you are already rooting for him, but then things start to take off. The movie speeds up really fast and you don't get to capture the moments in this film.It suddenly feels like you are watching a music video and it all goes way to fast. The story switches between many characters and story- lines then suddenly it's to much to wrap your head around. I do not blame it on the main actors (Ethan and Krystal) because they fit amazing together. I blame it on the script. This movie could of been so good if they kept it simple. After what you feel like is a tumble you are starting to get to the finale, but the story do not fit or makes sense. The way he gets to preform and simply how hes manager just got drugged and so on does simply not fit. They are trying to keep all these characters in the loop, but what they really doing is making it hard to watch.If they used a little more time on less characters and make it all unfold to a great natural finally this would simply be one of my favorite moves because i am such a EDM fan. (Props to the music they used btw) And then the end the movie just cuts off. I am doubting that there will be a sequel but people wanna see what happens after he's set and big finally. Nothing much, but just a nice couple of scenes to close the movie out.Finally: A OK movie that could of been amazing with a little bit better scripting, but I still enjoyed it!

I mean what do you guys expected? Just watching the trailer you knew that is was going to be a unrealistic story about love and everything would fall into place at the end. That's what happened but since I knew what I was going to watch I really enjoyed this movie, I watched it because I love EDM music and I attend a lot of these events, it made me feel nostalgic and missing all these good moments I had at these festivals. You are watching a movie about a story in a music festival, what you wanted more? it can't be more researched, all they wanted was to make edm festival lovers to feel good and that's exactly how I felt. Its a 8/10 since the movie is for a pretty close market, all of these movie expert won't like a movie like this since all they do is watch movie and can't understand the feelings and the emotion you get in these parties so they won't feel anything watching this.

Dance music is kind of difficult to capture in film. Even portraying dance music in a pop show on television never really works, because outside of a rave club, watching dance music is a bit boring.Director Christopher Louie in XOXO has gone with a Robert Altman route of six mainly young strangers colliding on the way to and during a rave festival.Graham Phillips has the main role as he plays DJ Ethan a YouTuber who with the help of his friend and manager Tariq gets to DJ at the festival. However he does not have the necessary passes and the equipment he uses is not compatible with that of the festival. Tariq is unavailable as he gets lost in a drug haze as he has been inadvertently spiked. There is an older clubber who seems to be bitter about something and past business relationships. There is a beautiful young girl who is planning to hook up with someone and a young couple who give their tickets away and then trying to gain entry into the rave. There is a hotshot DJ who leeches the work of younger talent.It is all shown in bright vibrant colours with lots of young beautiful women and plenty of texting. The music was supervised by Pete Tong and after a shaky opening when you might wonder if this film is for you, it actually settles down pretty well.