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Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Enter the typical higschool drama love story. Starring the contemporary Hollywood pretty boy and his female counterpart. It shamelessly utilizes over-used movie tropes to prey on teenage girls' desires to see their dream relationship acted out on screen. The the skill to write teenage dialogue is as elusive to it's forty-something screenplay writer as six figure income is for a Fine Arts graduate. There's a scene where they make out in the rain. This movie has none of that. Teller kills it. The scenes with young people aren't a conversation cringefest. There's actually a theme and allegory. The pacing is good, the writing is surprisingly very well done. This is actually a pretty good movie. The only gripe I have with it is that Woodley's character gets mowed down by a semi truck and somehow walks out of a hospital with only a broken arm.

As someone who has a deadbeat father, this movie struck a real chord with me. The raw emotion in this movie in unbelievable. Miles Teller was the perfect choice for the main character, Sutter. I suspect a lot of the subtleties of this film will be missed on people who haven't had similar experiences. However, everyone should see this movie just to broaden their horizons.

I love both Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley , and I consider Mary Elizabeth Winstead to be awesome, but hey, come on, what a piece of empty trifle, mere baloney I have just watched? I mean, I am serious, this is a total waste of time, film amd effort. Nothing deep, or sincere, or touching, or decent here. What we see is...er...drinking. Much alcohol abuse, drinking, some making out, drunken talks, empty drama, shallow development, insincere dialog, useless twists, worthless effort, and voila, what we see is a very weak, very naive, very silly childish attampt at something deep but falling miserably behind, and lagging at each step. I was rubbing my eyes in utter disbelief, trying to catch any sign of anything solid or sensational. Instead, I saw a sleepy slow boerd Woodley, and wooden boring Teller. Why was this film made? No idea. What message did it deiver? No message. What worth did it bring? Nothing. Just a dull thud, boring yawn and useless effort.

Many of us have seen those sweet teen dramas that involve love and stories of going to the prom and having sex for the first time, and with this movie "The Spectacular Now" it blends a little bit of it all! Sutter(Miles Teller)is a high school party boy who's hard yet he's a charmer as he's swept shy young girl Aimee(Shailene Woodley)off her feet! Along the way both are faced with drama of life, and family thru it all this unlikely romance begins and both help each other thru the challenges of life. Overall sweet drama of discovery and it deals with life and love and coming to terms with one's own dealt deck and how to live in the now also.