2012 Directed by Nate Taylor
Kevin is obsessed with finding a girl who can help him forget his unpleasant past. However, all his encounters with the opposite sex inevitably go afoul. As the rejections mount, Kevin's futile search for happiness and love becomes overwhelmingly turbulent, forcing him to take desperate measures.
USA
USA
23/100
The Dissolve review, though your only hope of getting any enjoyment from this tepid [SPOILER ELIDED] is to know nothing whatsoever about it beforehand, so that you're not sitting there the whole time awaiting the tiresomely inevitable.
January 2024 Theme - Owned but Unseen
Legitimately weird and creepy lead performance that makes you want to peel your skin off. We may own this, but it still feels like a Vudu movie
PS Only selected because the G-Force box apparently is missing the movie disc.
Forgetting the Girl is, at times, embarrassingly bad. It plays out like a student film, and most of the acting suits this aesthetic. There is maybe one interesting moment, but this is a film that fails to entertain.
Maybe if you don’t suffer too much from “Dude Problem Fatigue,” this film may be more worth your time. But if you’re tired of hearing men pawning off responsibility for their actions onto the women they victimize, either in films or in real life, you’re probably not going to find much to like here.
Full review here:
www.filmmonthly.com/film/forgetting-the-girl
Forgetting the Girl is about a photographer -- an awkward photographer, a photographer whose romantic interactions with women resembles a 14-year old's -- who is trying to forget the death of his sister from back when they were both kids.
The photographer goes about this by, first, asking out every single woman who stops by his studio to get a head shot, and, second, when he actually gets a date, acting awkwardly so as to ensure no second dates, and, third, trying to 'forget' them by doing something else to show he doesn't care about them.
A big chunk of the movie either shows the above in action, or cuts to a monologue of him explaining this process. I enjoyed…
Wonderfully shot for a movie made with a limited budget. I wish the same gusto went into the acting or, mercy, the absolutely frustrating screenplay.
This movie hinges entirely on A TWIST; the pre-twist film is a mopey indie drama, one that I was surprisingly OK with. Post-twist, the movie is something entirely different—I'll not write what here, just in case you want to see this—and it does not work, at all. (The post-twist aspects are pretty clearly implied by the DVD package, but I digress.) Had the movie handled the twist well, I think it would've held up under scrutiny on a second viewing. Even thinking about watching this again makes me cringe. In a way, it makes me…
Think of little Mikey from Jon Favreau’s 1995 hit “Swingers” for a moment. There was a scene in the film where this struggling new bachelor tried to leave a message for a sweet honey he met in a bar earlier that evening. His multiple attempts are humorous, but EXTREMELY painful because the viewing audience knows that he is stacking mistakes and killing his chances with this lady. Bouncing over to “Forgetting the Girl,” Kevin has similar problem, but it is on a much grander scale. What was funny for Favreau’s Mike is creepy for Dunham’s Kevin. This is probably due to his ‘see what sticks’ approach. Kevin throws it out there to all of the ladies and, statistically speaking, he…
For some reason, anytime a photographer is represented in a film there’s always an unsettling vibe to them. Whether it’s their odd personalities or their voyeuristic tendencies, photographers tend to be portrayed as individuals that are slightly off kilter. Such is the case in Nate Taylor’s feature debut Forgetting the Girl.
Full Review: Here
