{"id":7884,"date":"2010-02-21T21:55:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T05:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=7884"},"modified":"2010-02-21T22:14:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-22T06:14:19","slug":"waiting-for-forever-james-keach-2010-usa-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=7884","title":{"rendered":"Waiting For Forever ( James Keach, 2010): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?author=795\">Khristine Biver<\/a>. \u00a0Viewed at Santa Barbara Film Festival 2010.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/an-designer.com\/nikki\/wp-content\/gallery\/waiting\/waiting_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"210\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1296898\/\" target=_new><em>Waiting For Forever<\/em><\/a> is an aggressively uncomfortable movie.\u00a0 The main character, Will Donner, played by Tom Sturridge, attacks you with flowery language that would make most poets roll their eyes with all the blatant imagery.\u00a0 Unfortunately, you&#8217;re subject to this for almost 120 minutes.\u00a0 Rachel Bilson\u2019s plays Emma Twist, as the actress returning home to visit her ailing father is reminiscent of her days on The O.C., which is to say, it felt fake and she had a hard time expressing real emotion.\u00a0 The supporting cast was equally unbearable, highlighted by Blythe Danner&#8217;s as the hysterical mother, who was cringe-worthy at best.\u00a0 Director James Keach should stick to directing episodes of Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.\u00a0 He is perfectly suited to the short form of TV, creating film that has about 20 minutes of actual content, and about 100 minutes of transitions and awkwardly played out conversations.<\/p>\n<p>The movie is just another romance with one happy-go-lucky character and another disenfranchised with the whole idea of love.\u00a0 A vagabond that chases love, throwing caution to the wind, and with it, his life.\u00a0 Waiting For Forever plays out every stereotype it can, and seems to invent them as well.\u00a0 This paired with an obnoxious visual style and an almost more obnoxiously stereotypical support cast makes Waiting For Forever an uncomfortable, and quite literal movie experience.<\/p>\n<p>The entire movie was an exercise in patience, and played out just like a cheap knock-off of &#8220;Benny and Joon&#8221;, only Joon never shows up, and your Buster Keaton character finds a way to be even simpler than Johnny Depp&#8217;s version.\u00a0 The movie overshot heartwarming and ended up in clich\u00e9d and unbearable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Khristine Biver. \u00a0Viewed at Santa Barbara Film Festival 2010. Waiting For Forever is an aggressively uncomfortable movie.\u00a0 The main character, Will Donner, played by Tom Sturridge, attacks you with flowery language that would make most poets roll their eyes with all the blatant imagery.\u00a0 Unfortunately, you&#8217;re subject to this for almost 120 minutes.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}