Loser

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Summary: he wasn't a loser
Review: I don't know what possessed me to see this film. Maybe after seeing Scary Movie, I was in hopes to find meaning and cheez back in teenager flicks. I was wrong. Amazon was right, Jason Biggs was great, Mena Suvari was charming, and Greg Kinnear was smug. They just didn't have much to work with. I didn't think Jason Biggs character was that much of a loser, he was more of an innocent, naive, too-trusting Mid Western boy, who had possibly the worse luck with freshman roommate placement. The three guys that he had to spend his college orientation days were such (as they would say) faux-pas in their boas, flashy clothing, rayban sun glasses, and their schemes to getting girls. The love story was cute. Mena's character impressed me. She was a cool cat, that had to deal with a lot prematurely but she seemed to get through it all right.

The story is simple but it definitely didn't WOW me. Of course, what should I expect from a teenager flick.

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Summary: Loser Is actually a Winner
Review: When i think of smart teen comedies i automatically think of Director Amy Heckerling and movies such as fast Times At Ridgemont High and Clueless. Heckerling has the ability to weave the same old characters the cliches and the story into cinematic gold. With Loser she dosn't lose much of that ability although i found it to be a little less funny than i thought.

Loser is about Paul played by Jason Biggs who goes to college in New York City and he is worried that he won't fit in and he has right to worry so his roommates say. While there he meets Dora played by Mena Suvari who is a bar waitress who is the only person he is able to talk to who is also having an affair with a pretentious Lit Professer played by Greg Kinnear.

Yes in the hands of an unknown director this would have been a lame old romance with few laughs. Jason Biggs is perfect for the role as a Loser with his reactions he is able to be very convincing. Mena Suvari is very charming Greg Kinnear is perfectly smug and the three roommates are very funny really the entire cast is very funny. Although not as funny as Clueless. But Loser is a winner in a big way. This really puts to shame Down to You and Whatever it takes.

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Summary: LOSER IS A REAL WINNER! 1
Review: I went to my local Famous Players wanted to see Scary MOvie but When I got there Scary Movie had started already and the next showing wasn't for 3 hours. So i went and saw "Loser" and it was so refreshing and different from other "Teen" movies out there.

Loser was very good movie. Jason Biggs{American Pie,Boys and girls} plays a small town teen who gets accepted to a school in New York City. When he arrives he is not accepted by his roomates so he moves into a animal hospital. In one of his Classes he meets Dorra{Meena Suvari from American Pie/Beauty} whom he befriends.So he falls in love with her, but she is seening her Teacher{Played by Greg Kinner from As good as it gets}

Loser is such an enjoyable comedy/romance movie i'm glad I saw this insted of Scary Movie because Loser is so refreshing and different then any other teen movie. Most Critics compare this to She's all that/Drive me Crazy/Clueless but it so different.

Loser:A+++++++

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Summary: No American Pie....
Review: This movie was a little deceptive. Prior to viewing it I thought that it was going to be similar to American Pie based off of the commercials, it wasn't. That isn't to say that the film wasn't good or enjoyable though. I think Jason Biggs was great, he played the roll of the loser very well.

The movie centers on Biggs and his transition to the "big city." He is quick to discover that he doesn't fit in and in the words of one of his roommates, "No one likes you." After his roommates kick him out of their dorm, Biggs takes up residence in a veterinarian's office.

From his newly liberated "dorm", Biggs discovers that it takes more than being a "nice guy" to win the girl. When all hope appears to be lost, Biggs makes a phone call home and details how hard life has been and how much he cares for Mena Suvari, who happens to overhear his conversation. She quickly realizes that she feels the same way and a blossoming romance ends the movie. Yeah it got slow and corny, but it was a decent film and Jason Biggs played his part very well.

Loser is a quaint romantic comedy, there are no American Pie- like moments. Be warned that this is a date movie and not a guy movie.

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Summary: Dissapointed
Review: I went to see 'Loser' thinking it would be like other Amy Heckerling movies (e.g. 'Clueless'), but what I got was a movie that more slow-paced than 'Down to You', and with few laughs. I smiled a couple of times as goofy Jason Biggs fell or was humiliated, or when Mena Suvari's character made some cute remark, but other than, I was bored throughout the movie. The highlight of it: Cameos by Dan Aykroyd & David Spade. This review is going to be short, because there's not much to be said about...a Loser.

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Summary: Loser does not loose its charm...
Review: Don't listen to all the negative buzz surrounding this movie. This is a winner of a movie. This is a movie about a lost art in the world today. The art of being nice. Dare I say it but in a world where woman like... that which is mean & bad for them, there are still nice guys. This is a movie about a nice guy. And that is what he is, it's the only way he can act. He has morals. If any character in this movie is in fact to be worthy of the loser lable it is in fact all of those who treat this nice guy badly.

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Summary: Sarcastically interesting and realistic.
Review: ITS YOUR CLASSIC BAD GUY GOOD GUY - GOOD GUY SAVES GIRL.

THE major thumbs down about this movie was the "room mates" and the excess use of gutter language at times. What makes this a GOOD movie though is its realistic presentation of issues.

I find that the honesty between the characters personalities drove the storyline and made for an overall interesting movie with a sarcastic overtone about the worlds rejection of truth, purity and innocence, both displayed in the Professer and the "room mates".Also worthy of note is the confusion the misplaced "MAIDEN IN DISTRESS" suffers from.Which leaves the masculine viewer completly relating to the "Loser" who is clearly the hero of the story.

This would be a good movie to preach from. Leaving out comments made in the movie for SURE but by mainly pointing out the situations and CONSEQUENCES of substance abuse,the possible compromises that can be made all in the name of the $, amoung other youth issues also portrayed in the movie.

IF ANYTHING enjoy the movie, recieve its warm humor and FEEL driven to support the under dog or all round nice guy next time you meet one. WILD AT HEART indeed!

GS.

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Summary: Somewhat disappointing
Review: There was just nothing outstanding about this movie. It was like every other teen movie out there, with Jason Biggs as the loveable loser, and Mena Suvari playing the vixen-like Dora, who has her own individual taste in clothes - and is sleeping with her college professor.

You feel sorry for the two main characters in this movie, including Jason's awful hair (is it a wig? is it extensions? is it about to fly away?), and Dora sleeping in an empty train station, because she missed the last bus home, or getting drugged, with what looks like suspiciously like a date-rape drug.

Most of the story is told in the trailer, and there's definitely not going to be any surprises, or twists at the end. The whole university/college stereotype is very OTT, with the drinking, drugs, and everything else, which probably goes on, just not as much as that.

The movie is also very nineties, with the 'Loser' sign (making your fingers into an L, and holding it against your forehead, as shown on cover) which just about everyone does at some point during the movie. The soundtrack is very typically nineties too, including the #1 hit from Wheatus (whatever happened to them?) "Teenage Dirtbag", being the main song. Some more of the more memorable songs include: "What's My Age Again" by Blink 182; "Blue" by Eiffel 65; "Bad Touch" by The Bloodhound Gang; "Pretty Fly For A White Guy" by Offspring; "Magna Cum Nada" by The Bloodhound Gang; "She's So High" by Tal Bachman (more recently done by Norway's Pop Idol winner, who I forget the name of, but he was damn ugly!); and "Scarborough Fair" by Simon & Garfunkel.

This is an average movie, written and directed by Amy Heckerling of Clueless fame. I just hope Clueless is better than this.

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I took a date to see this movie and we ended up staring at each other saying....what the? For a date movie this was a wierd one. Biggs plays a dweeb again but this time doesn't have his support system around him like he did in American Pie. Instead he has 2 freaky roommates who border on criminals (they use date rape drugs?) and nobody to help him out.
The professor and college student romance is equally creepy. The whole movie is so dysfunctional that I cringed so often my back hurt. There is zero chemistry between biggs and suvari. Its more like she pitied him more than anything else.

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Summary: A Student's Apartment
Review: I admit it, I love that movie, and it's been so ever since I saw it for the first time in theaters. If I acted like a proper reviewer and kept a more critical edge to my review, it would get only 4 stars though. It is a pretty good movie, a tremendously "cute" romantic comedy. The actors are not taking themselves too seriously (which is important in such a film) while getting the viewer to care for them. Amy Heckerling's dialogue is perfect for a romantic teen comedy. The only problem is that it doesn't live up to its spiritual predecessor, Billy Wilder's "The Apartment". It brings a nice twist, but it doesn't have as much symbolism as Wilder's. While "The Apartment" stays a great classic due to its depiction of the post-war, consumerism era, it seems that "Loser" has no dense message other than go-for-the-nice-guy. All I'm saying is that while it is a fun, nice comedy, it doesn't have as much impact as its predecessor. But you should definitely check it out, it's worth it.