Project X (2012)

Project X is a 2012 American comedy film directed by Nima Nourizadeh, co-written by Michael Bacall and Matt Drake based on a story by Bacall, and produced by Todd Phillips. The story was loosely based on a real party held by a high school student called Corey Delaney. It was released in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom on March 2, 2012.

Despite making $100 million worldwide at the box office, the film received negative reviews.

This film is not to be confused with the 1987 Matthew Broderick film of the same name.

Plot
Thomas (Thomas Mann), Costa (Oliver Cooper) and JB (Jonathan Daniel Brown) are three anonymous high-school seniors who are determined to finally make their mark. But how to make themselves unforgettable in the annals of high-school history? With an epic party, of course! The idea is innocent enough, but nothing could prepare the three friends for this shindig. As word of the soiree's awesomeness spreads, dreams are ruined, records are blemished, and legends are born.

Why It's Not the Party You’ve Dreamed About

 * 1) The movie is a rip-off of mh:greatestmovies:Superbad, right down to the similarities between the characters, such as Costa being an even more unlikable and misogynistic version of Seth.
 * 2) *Costa's introduction, singing "Hey, We Want Some Pussy", as well as his constant bragging about his sexual exploits and desires, are particularly cringe-inducing.
 * 3) *Costa even helps steal a gnome from a psychotic drug dealer, needlessly endangering their lives before the party even starts!
 * 4) *This film caused a lot of incidents known a "Project X parties". One such incident in the Netherlands racked up €1 million in damages.
 * 5) *Stupid concept for a movie. It is based on a real party held in Australia by a student who invited around 500 people thanks to his idea to post the invitation on the internet. The party obviously went out of control forcing the police to arrive at the place and put down a real riot.
 * 6) Many of the characters, including Thomas and J.B., retain their actors' real life names for the film, which is not particularly bad, but could be viewed as uncreative and, for a movie with such notoriety as this in particular, is probably not good for their images.
 * 7) Supposed to be a "found footage" movie, seen through the lens of a single person's camera, yet there are scenes that were clearly filmed from multiple angles. Also, after sitting on the school bleachers the morning after the party, the camera person supposedly goes home, but the movie then cuts to Thomas's house, with the camera going in and around it showing the damage, and then shows Thomas with his dad as the car is lifted from the pool.
 * 8) The film's title makes no sense, what was exactly the project X?
 * 9) Thomas's father actually tells his son that he's a loser!
 * 10) A concerned neighbor who threatens to call the police if the party isn't wrapped up, is antagonized, getting tasered and assaulted by the party's kid bouncers, just for being rightfully worried about his family's safety!
 * 11) *Even worse, one of the bouncers sneaks into the neighbor's house and tasers the neighbor further!
 * 12) All the characters are unlikable jerks and just come off as idiots and stereotypes.
 * 13) Animal Cruelty: Party guests blow smoke from their joints in Thomas's dog's face, the dog gets tied to balloons and starts floating away while the guests record videos of it. Later, the dog is shoved into a kitchen drawer as the house is set ablaze!
 * 14) The majority of the movie, being the party itself, it's nothing but a gratuitous montage of guests smoking, drinking, and vandalizing the house making it feel more of a music video than an actual film. That's perhaps the biggest problem of the movie, it has no real story outside of the wild party premise.
 * 15) *During this montage, the drug dealer's gnome gets shattered revealing it to be full of ecstasy, which the party guests scramble over, prompting gratuitous fetish-like scenes of guests taking the drug, showing it in their mouths, etc.
 * 16) The film encourages drug use, as evidenced not only by #8 above, but when Thomas gets worried that the party's gotten out of hand, Costa insists on giving him Ecstasy to calm him down!
 * 17) The film also seems to endorses the main characters' bad behavior as it shows that there are no consequences to their actions.
 * 18) Terrible Ending: The party goes way out of control resulting in the entire neighborhood getting destroyed. Thomas is convicted for disturbing peace, contributing to the delinquency of minors, and inciting a riot despite Costa being the one responsible for the party in the first place. And he actually gets away scot-free! Instead of apologizing live on TV, he sexually harasses the reporter and promises that the next party will be even better.

Reception
Project X received negative reviews, who criticism focused on the "loathsome" behavior of the lead characters, the perceived misogyny and the disregard for the effects of drug use. Other reviews considered it funny and thrilling, and equated it to a modern incarnation of the 1978 comedy Animal House. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 28%, based on 133 reviews, with an average score of 4.2/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Unoriginal, unfunny, and all-around unattractive, Project X mines the depths of the teen movie and found-footage genres for 87 minutes of predictably mean-spirited debauchery.". On Metacritic, the film has a score of 48 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". CinemaScore polls reported that the average grade moviegoers gave the film was a "B" on an A+ to F scale, with young males rating it the highest (A), and males in general rating the film higher (B+) than females (C+).

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Trivia

 * In 2012, Joel Silver and Warner Bros. ended their 25-year production, marketing, and distribution relationship. This is due to Silver growing increasingly upset with how Warner Bros. had been handling the marketing and releasing of the films his company produced. Despite having split, Silver and Warner Bros. co-produced The Nice Guys four years later. That same year, Joel Silver and Universal Studios struck a 5-year marketing and distribution deal, starting with the Liam Neeson action thriller Non-Stop on February 28, 2014. Universal Pictures will not be a production partner with Silver Pictures, only a distributor.