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In real life, these four would probably have nothing to do with one another. And then we have Gabriel (Alessio Scalzotto), a handsome young man who, because he seems perfectly normal, is actually the darkest kid of the bunch. The braggadocious Dariush (Benjamin Flores Jr.) comes from money and talks shit 24/7 - which, of course, is meant to hide deep insecurities. Zhenzhen (Miya Cech) is an orphan with a gruff exterior but a sweet center. There’s Alex (Jack Gore), a NASA nerd who lost his father in an unspecified tragedy. Borrowing the premise of SpaceCamp, the screenplay takes us to Rim of the World - which is an actual summer camp - where, apparently, teens with troubled backstories learn to bond with those diametrically opposed to themselves. Since Rim of the World rips off 1980s movies, that means we’re held hostage by the film’s noxious personality-plus characters. Just because you had bad taste doesn’t mean your offspring need to.

But Rim of the World is what happens when grownups decide to shove their horrible influences down their kids’ throats.

Something like Stranger Things can at least take the tenets of suburban 1980s movies and tweak them, knowingly riffing on the conventions to do something new. You don’t have to be the Problematic Police to find something like The Goonies objectionable: It’s just a clear-cut dumb movie. But if you come in here getting all moony about The Goonies, well, we’re going to have a problem. Then, let’s allow that Stand by Me is good. , The Goonies, Stand by Me - where there were no cell phones and kids in those movies were left to their own devices.” Now, let’s establish right off the bat that E.T. To understand this movie’s motives, I refer you to the press notes, where screenwriter Zack Stentz explains his inspiration: “I was thinking that kids today don’t have the unstructured time that kids from 30 years ago had. I’m not a parent, but I have nieces, nephews and godchildren, and I’m determined to keep Rim of the World away from them.

URBAN DICTIONARY SMOOVIE MOVIE

There’s a type of innocuously inane, mindlessly pseudo-hip 1980s movie that I didn’t have much patience for back then and definitely don’t want in my orbit now. Featuring teens and aimed at that age group, this sci-fi alien-invasion action movie is like the ghost of Stupid Hollywood Past come back to haunt us. None of us has time for people stuck in the past.Īll of this is to say, my lord, Rim of the World is horrible - and it’s exactly the kind of horrible that feels like one shitty generation’s attempt to poison the next. When you have a friend who complains, “Man, music/TV/movies aren’t as good as they used to be,” you have my permission to never speak to that person again. But the inability to reconcile with the mediocre, possibly god-awful crap from your formative years is a barrier to being able to appreciate anything in adulthood. And sure, in the grand scheme of things, being nostalgic for Pokémon, Hook or The Goonies isn’t the worst thing in the world. We’re seemingly biologically inclined to worship our childhood entertainment, the stuff we consumed uncritically in our youth when we didn’t have the intellectual faculties to properly judge it.

One of the most crucial stages in a person’s maturation is realizing that some of the stuff you dug as a kid was terrible.

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