While a lot of
teen romances seem to blossom overnight, getting too serious too fast could be a sign of trouble.
This teen romance seems to have managed to avoided being overly saccharine.
Not exact matches
Regarding seriousness, tween
romances seem to be similar to
teen and adult relationships in a number of ways.
Love, dating and
romance may
seem like some of life's biggest mysteries, especially during the
teen and young adult years.
But when the offer to visit the Beautiful Creatures set came in earlier this year, I admit to being intrigued: after all, the production had attracted some seriously impressive talent (from acting legends like Jeremy Irons and Margo Martindale to relative newcomers like Emmy Rossum), and that
seems to indicate that LaGravenese is building something with a little more substance and pedigree than the average
teen supernatural -
romance project.
With Steve Kloves (Wonder Boys, The Fabulous Baker Boys) returning as the screenwriter after skipping the last film, the more serious tone is interspersed with the lighter moments of
teen romance, though these soap opera antics may
seem tedious to those who don't care much about the dalliances of the Hogwarts students, particularly in how much screen time is given to it in place of the larger storyline that could have used a greater sense of build up.
This might be a riff on the difficulties of
teen romance in a post-Twilight era, but it
seems unlikely.
So, with the
teen - driven narratives of «An Education» and «Precious» heading for theaters soon, and with the youth
romance of «Bright Star» currently pleasing older arthouse audiences, it
seemed an apt moment to celebrate the new guard by ranking the finest talent that the born - after - 1980 generation has to offer.
I find a pair of biopics (the film flavor of the year, it
seemed), a thriller, a sports movie, two epics out of myth, a
teen sex comedy, a political drama, and a duo of
romances, but they all go beyond such misleading genre labels and find lives of their own.
This ad
seems like it is the start of a
teen romance, but upon closer inspection, it's actually delivering a powerful message about gun violence.