10 Years (2012)

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

This is a movie of a loosely affiliated "types" all getting together for their reunion and every one of them just has this one storyline they need to take care of and resolve from their school days. Why this particular melange of characters would have ever hung out together I don't know. Why it's all so schmaltzy and corny, also I don't know. But it's somewhat pleasing and the cast is stupendous. Chris Pratt drunk acting is top-shelf stuff. Even Channing Tatum, while not fall-down inebriated at any point, does a very good low-level drunk face the whole movie - I'm pretty sure that's acting.

One of my friends suggested me this movie and I've got to say, it made my school years rush back into memory as I was watching it. I personally think that movie is really underrated by users due to under popularity issues. If you are hoping to watch a movie with some of your old buddies (perhaps on a reunion), I'd totally recommend to you this movie. It'll be somewhat of a mellow one throughout but it will be enjoyable and it would certainly be able to bring back those high school memories. Even if it seems like too much information is stacked up into your brain so fast in the beginning, keep on watching till the end because all the pieces fit in nicely together to set up one of the most beautiful movies that you might stumble upon.P.S. The soundtracks are just placed beautifully!

10 Years is a High School reunion film with a sprawling set of characters similar to a Robert Altman film including having a pop singer. It also tries to hark back to those John Hughes films of the 1980s which tended to feature High schools a lot and we have something similar to the Breakfast Club but 10 years later.The film proceeds as guests arrive in the house of one of the friends and later they hold the reunion. Some of the former students have changed while others stayed the same. The High school jock wants to apologise for his past behaviour but reverts to type when he gets drunk.Two of the nerds who are now successful try to impress the prom queen and then attempt a childish prank on her when she turns them down.The most involving story is that of the musician who sings on stage and reveals feelings he had for one of the girls that inspired a hit song.Channing Tatum is the main star and producer but Oscar Isaac steals the film. Its very predictable and bland but for Isaac's singing its very easy to forget as well.

Director/writer Jamie Linden gives us a big ensemble cast on their 10 year high school reunion.Jake (Channing Tatum) was the prom king. He is with his girlfriend Jess (Jenna Dewan-Tatum). But he encounters his old girlfriend Mary (Rosario Dawson) and they have issues to resolve.Cully (Chris Pratt) was a douche bully. He is still only a few drinks away from the same douche even though he is a married to his cheerleader girlfriend Sam (Ari Graynor) and a father.Marty (Justin Long) and A.J. (Max Minghella) are still trying to up one another, and they go head over heals for class hottie Anna (Lynn Collins).Reeves (Oscar Isaac) was a band geek, but is now a star with a hit song. He finally has a chance with his crush, the class ghost Elise (Kate Mara).Yeah, that's a lot of good actors and way too many characters. And that's not really all of them. Somebody needs to trim down the number of lead characters. The Big Chill had 8 leads, and that is probably the limit. This one had either 11 or 12 depending on how you count.The stories are fairly standard. It's got that profound idealism that you'd expect. Everybody has something big to do. If they lose 1 storyline, the rest could be expanded and have a little air to breathe. It's still a good watch.