Whiplash is very overrated imo....SPOILERS

Man, I'm usually right in line with this board but good lord I can't for the life of me understand the love this movie gets here???

Good ham it up performance by Simmons for sure, he balks and throws around politically incorrect insults like an 80s HS football coach, but the plot was borderline stupid with one of the least interesting or likable "protagonists" in an Oscar nominated film I've seen in a long time.

The Teller character was a complete mess from one scene to the next.

He's the most driven, obsessive drumming prodigy of all time who practices until he's soaking wet and his hands bleed ( ), yet oversleeps on the morning of his first day in the big league class, loses his sheet music multiple times, and has the added extremely contrived disaster of being the only band member on the one bus that happens to get a flat tire before the big show, then the drumming obsessed prodigy FORGETS HIS STICKS after renting a car right as the rental agency opens or closes (not sure), although i guess they just opened because they're still open when he goes back to get his sticks that he forgot , then happens to get T-boned right in his driver's side door BY A MACK TRUCK but luckily his only injuries are a scratch on his head and his hand (still ok to drum though just enough to look dramatically bloody while doing so :lol:).

He's also a wall flower too nervous to talk to the cute girl at the concession stand but doesn't hesitate to openly mock and taunt his jock uncle and football playing cousins and no one finds this the least bit out of the ordinary although its almost certainly the first time hes done so, and also curse out and ridicule the cool drummer brought in to challenge him, calling him a mick frick at one point???, and cursing out the hardass legendary teacher that could make or break his entire career/life as well


It makes me wonder (or hope) if the writer actually wrote a more compelling and believable story/character but Teller in his young actor pride/bravado was just like this guy is too much of a pussy/bore so I need make him more interesting and I'll do that by having some dramatic yelling scenes where I show these guys how much of a DAUNTLESS I am and went full Jon Moxon on his arse (frick KILMER)!!!


I just did not get this hype at all, although the music was pretty cool I guess, and yeah, Simmons had a fun part, although a guy like that would have been fired years before in the current social climate. Maybe a line setting this in the 80s or 90s would have made the character's aggressive language technique and physically assaultive behavior more believable. But no way would this fly in today's world.


Bash away, but I just was shocked at how mediocre this was after all the awards and hype.


Nightcrawler>> American Sniper > Imitation Game> Birdman>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Whiplash