Review – Project X
I’m calling it…4:30pm 1 March 2012, the time a I saw the film industry and possibly humankind, hit a brand new low with ‘Project X’. A film so bad it doesn’t deserve to be called a film or be allowed a release anywhere inside our solar system – including Pluto.
Three teenagers throw a party that gets out of control and the events are captured via various recording devices and presented as found footage of real events.
From the minute ‘Project X’ starts the voice of Roger Murtaugh from the ‘Lethal Weapon’ films will echo through your head with “I’m too old for this shit”. ‘Project X’ is targeted at moronic teen audiences and presents a male skewed fantasy of the ultimate party. Everyone has been to a wild party at some point in their life but the architects of this disaster have a shallow idea of a good time. If young people or anyone involved making ‘Project X’ consider this to be entertainment, they should submit themselves for sterilisation and we’ll mark them down as a write-off for the human race. Party yourselves into oblivion and say hello to Satan for me.
The male characters are an unlikable bunch of spoilt rich kids and the women are just portrayed as sex objects. It’s shameful that the young actresses willing subject themselves to the humiliation and set back women’s rights by about one million years.
‘Project X’ is caveman filmmaking and can best be described as a masturbator’s delight. Pause buttons on DVD/Blu-Ray players will be worn down to a nub when it available to purchase – this is the enduring impression ‘Project X’ will leave on the world…classy. The problem is the person who eventually purchases it should not be allowed to own a television, operate a motor vehicle or participate in any activity outside a maximum security facility – the producers really have the ‘life in prison’ market covered with this effort.
Old school vampire law dictates that if you kill the leader, you wipe out all the other vampires they created. I feel like going on a similar mission and tracking down the master copy of ‘Project X’ and destroying it to save the world from the evil spell its spawn will cast on audiences.
For the first time ever The Popcorn Junkie has decided to not to give a film a score out of five because even a score of zero is too good for ‘Project X’.
‘Project X’ can suck it.
The Popcorn Junkie
That was one of the best write ups… I had that feeling from just the trailer.
It’s targeted towards a young audience. You obviously didn’t consider what the film was ACTUALLY trying to portray, like a good critic should. (Then again, no movie critic really knows what they’re talking about.) The movie is supposed to be vulgar, stupid, and ridiculous; aspects of which every teenager in all of fucking AMERICA FINDS FUNNY. So, Project X was very accurate. /Also, I am a female, and I wasn’t in the slightest offended at the objectification of teenage girls in this film. Clearly, the film was doing it purely for entertainment; as the saying goes, it’s all in good fun. You shouldn’t take it so seriously, because boys will be idiots- something the filmmakers obviously wanted to capture. A 0 out of 5. How pretentious could you possibly be? x)
I think just because a film is targeted towards a moron demographic, it doesn’t make it acceptable or noteworthy. A film about morons, aimed at morons to please morons doesn’t justify it and the film industry doesn’t need such tripe, but unfortunately it is the morons that go to the cinema and pay to see this kind of thing.
Yes, the film is clearly very subjective, but on that wavelength, if a film was made specifically to appeal to rapists, would you still be saying ‘oh, well it works for the demographic it’s aimed at, it’s accurate, it serves its purpose so it is worthwhile’?
*tumbleweed*
Yeah, I thought so.
The film definitely isn’t noteworthy, nor did I ever say it was. It achieved what the filmmakers wanted it to achieve, no matter how you twist it. Every movie is made to appeal to a certain demographic, and you’re absolutely right: I wouldn’t condone a “rapist movie”, but hey, generalize all you want. I shouldn’t have commented in the first place, truthfully. It was pretty disrespectful of me, but my point is that there was much truth in the film’s humor. It was certainly relatable to a teen growing up in such a party generation, because we’re just really that reckless. I’m sorry if it upsets you. And if it does, just don’t go see the damn movie.
No need to regret your comments, they are always welcome here at The Popcorn Junkie Ana.
Amen! Don’t feel bad Ana, some people just don’t get funny. Which is ok, but belittlling people that do is uncalled for and rude.
The genre of film is good for what it is: entertainment and laughter!
Williams, your not better than anyone by calling them a moron for finding humor in a funny movie. You are, however, narrow minded.
Stay away from reviewing the comedy genre. Stick to children’s movies, they are probably more your speed!🙂
Cheers!
Haha you guys are hilarious, I remember my first beer too, keep coming back our readers love this kind of stuff, thanks for the comments
The more people who speak up about this kind of nonsense, the better. Going to see these things only encourages them to make more. And I thought it was a remake of the Matthew Broderick/Helen Hunt chimp movie…
Naw, in that one they abused a chimpanzee, in this one it’s the audience who gets the abuse!
I would rather watch WAR HORSE on an infinite loop than see this again. I think the average young person should, and hopefully does have more respect for themselves than this movie illustrates.
Will have to buck the trend and say this movie was basically what I was expecting and although a bit slow at times it was entertaining and had it’s moments.
Obviously as a film critic you sometimes don’t get the option of not seeing it, but the trailer was pretty accurate in what you were going to get and I think the movie achieved it’s goal of entertaining Males in the 15-25 range.
I can see your points about not making movies like these but the argument can almost be made for any demographic specific movie, like 15-25yo males complaining about how bad ELIC or War Horse was.
I don’t think mature audiences are going to go out and see this after the trailer, so it’s really just film critics who HAVE to see it that would be dissapointed/offended.
Just my thoughts🙂
I have not seen it yet and probably wont,but i hate pretentious critics that bag movies out when deep down they wish they could be in the movies themselves. They are all secretly writing a screenplay on their laptop in Starbucks.
On another note ,shut up about “The Walking Dead” its not trying to be the graphic novels, thats the fucking point its its own thing, if you dont like it then dont watch it !!!! It is so easy to critic other peoples work from the comfort of your fucking couch.
As a 24 year old (falling into the supposed 15-25 demographic this film apparently caters to) I will say now that this movie is not for that demographic at all. Not going to say I wasn’t interested in this film when he previews first hit television, but that was in the same way that I was interested in seeing Chronicle because I personally enjoy the “found footage” gimmick. Once I saw that this movie was presenting me with delusional morons whose only care in life is be noticed by people who hate and ignore them, get drunk and high, and get laid by the fakest women ever presented on film a little part of me died. I know this is where the delusional morons who think this movie is “epic” and “Jager Bombs” come tell me how I never get laid or that I secretly wish I could be at a party like that, but you can save it. I love parties, but THIS isn’t a party and a party like this NEVER happens, even the “crazy” ones you talk about with your friends later in life were only crazy because a few drunk immature morons started getting aggressive with each other and a few drunk and/or drugged up people hooked up in some random part of the house etc. Every character in this movie resembles the loser of every group of friends who only tolerate their presence because they don’t have the courage to tell them they find them repulsive.
Does this movie present a fantasy to justify its existence? Not really. Unless your male fantasy falls between getting black out drunk or date raping drugged and drunk women and not realizing that women like that have an exponentially higher STD rate, (so enjoy that burning piss!), then you’re too intelligent for this movie. I don’t believe chivalry is dead, but it is amongst the morons who will undoubtedly champion this movie.
Although to be fair, this movie does give me some hope that this over sexualized hook up instant gratification culture has heard its death knell through this movie. Not saying that culture is going completely away, but women are slowly but surely figuring out that this is not the liberation women of the 50s, 60s, and 70s fought for. And men are realizing that if you champion this idiocy, you’ll typically end up alone when you reach 30 (who knew women wouldn’t settle down with slobs and man childs?).
This might be the first time I have read a review and enjoyed the comments JUST AS MUCH as the review itself!
I have no interest in watching PROJECT X whatsoever AND even though I am not the demographic that this “film” is aimed towards, I can spot a waste of space from a mile off.
However the best thing about watching movies is that they are subjective and open to interpretation. I’m not surprised that the film was made and even rocketed to #1 at the Australian box office since I have a very low opinion of the human race in general and Project X isn’t doing a helluva lot to convince me otherwise.
Awesome review!
Best review ever. Agree 100%.
I’m a teenager myself, supposedly part of the demographic for this movie, and basically the moment this movie started I knew it was going to be an hour and a half of my life that I would never get back.
I find it sad that most people my age consider this entertainment nowadays. ‘Oh, getting out of your mind drunk and getting high and treating women as sexual objects! Hilarious!!’
Yeah. I weep for my generation.
What is a good movie? If enough people like a movie could it then be considered “good”? I recently had a chat with a friend about the Transformer movies, how they are mostly poorly reviewed and by most standards bad movies, and yet… they make killer box office and audiences love them. If enough peole like movies like this and don’t go to the well made, well reviewed movies in theatres, do we at some point cross a threshold where what once was bad is now good? I am also thinking of the weekend when “Alvin and The Chipmunks, The Squeqal” came out alongside Disney’s “The Princess and The Frog”, Alvin promptly clobbered the Frog at the box office when by all accounts Alvin was unwatchable. Just a (muddled) thought I had…
I feel the same way about your writing.. It sucks! I am now dumber for reading your poorly written opinion. Do the world a favor and never write anything again! We will all be better off.
Thanks Jeremy, sorry to hear about your brain, after seeing the film & reading our review it must be tough. Get better soon.
You ve obviously never been invited to a cool party when you were young and dont know that it feels good sometimes to do some stupid stuffs and stop thinking for a minute to unwind. Your life must be really sad mike i feel sorry for you. I still think that you should just try it one day and then rethink that shitty comment. Not the best movie ever i admit but im not a moron and still think its worth a view.
Am I expected to justify my opinion of a film based on whether or not I’ve been to a wild party & done stupid stuff in my life? Of course I have, it’s a human rite of passage. I’m glad you’re not a moron & thanks for reading the review.
MY GOD. I cannot stand movie critics. For someone to insult the intelligence of the people who enjoy a specific movie isn’t the most mature move. I agree it wasn’t the best movie, but to call anyone who was involved in it or enjoyed it a moron is a step too far. My guess is that this critics IQ isn’t far above 80. I wouldn’t be surprised if he/she didn’t “get” most movies.
I would also like to point out that this movie is a lot more enjoyable if you can relate to the characters. I myself found that hilarious. Now insult my intelligence all you want, but the fact is, who you are in high school is not who you will turn out to be. I now am a P.Eng, which takes a little more work and intelligence to become than an internet movie critic, and looking at these characters and thinking back was extremely funny.
Hey Shawn, thanks for checking out the review and apologies if you were offended by the labels thrown around. It wasn’t the most mature move. As I writer I am always learning and this has been a good lesson. I still despise the film and yes I was a moron when I was a teenager and probably still am.
Please tell me this is a trolling comment, right?
Directed @ Shawn
Not you Cameron…the original comment just sounds like the biggest troll posting of a comment.
I read the review. Think it’s an excellent write up. I couldn’t stand this loathsome piece of crap. Not because I am morally outraged, No rather because I felt the film was the shining example of everything that I hate about Reality Television invading the Cinema.
That is to say that, much like Reality Television, it glamourizes people for having no talent what so ever. Wow, a movie that shows montage after montage of young girls flashing their boobs. Here is a tip for the audience, just go pirate a Girls Gone Wild video and you can see the same thing and save yourself $18 at a cinema.
Oh look, a bunch of morons shouting directly at the camera about “how cool this party is”. If you have to keep telling the audience how cool this party is, then in reality it probably isn’t that cool to begin with.
The three lead boys are a bunch of dipshits. Hell the film wants us to openly cheer and laugh at a moment where those boys and their friends taser a next door neighbour. Why? Because he asked them to shut the party down so his infant child could get some sleep. But I’m supposed to cheer those teenage boys like their heroes and act as if the man looking out for his family is just a douche bag
Give me a bucket. This movie is the perfect example of that IDIOCRACY joke. It’s ASS: THE MOVIE