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Project X [Review]
My dad has stories about going to watch Westerns at the movies in the 50s and 60s where the audience would shout for the guy in the white hat to watch out for the oke in the black hat sneaking up behind him. My mom bravely admits to screeching at A Hard Day’s Night with her friends like The Beatles were really standing in front of them. In an age of complete awareness of every detail that went into the production of the fictional worlds we swing by the cinema to watch, we rarely allow ourselves to be so completely immersed in what we’re seeing onscreen. By the time I went to see Project X, I’d already seen the trailer and knew most of the big moments that were coming up: I knew the party was going to be insane, the girls were going to be topless, Kid Cudi, MGMT & Ratatat were gonna be featured on the soundtrack, I knew what was gonna happen to lead character Thomas’ dad’s Mercedes and I knew there was going to be fire involved. That was all in the first theatrical trailer I’d seen for this movie that seems to have popped out of nowhere all of a sudden, from a first-time feature director, a bunch of first-time actors and the guy behind The Hangover and Superbad. I imagine the rest of the crowd knew just as much as I did, and yet there they were, cheering, laughing and applauding as each new bout of insanity appeared onscreen.
It was like we were there.