Blurred (2002) Online

Blurred is a great movie for people who have done the schoolies thing in the past 5 years. I really doubt that others would find it entertaining.

Being someone who did schoolies 3 years ago, it brought back some great memories. The writers were spot on with the end-of-school trip.

Favourite scene - on the train when the boyfriend tells the girlfriend he wants to break up for the week so he can do what schoolies is all about: casual sex. Loved it - SO TRUE!!!

Best Aussie movie I've seen in a while.

To be honest Blurred is an ordinary movie... Unless you've been to schoolies. I saw this before I went and I've gotta say it gave me shivers watching these boys and girls get maggot and have the time of their lives... It was nothing compared to the real thing but. The two country bums ultimately steal the show and are easily worthy of a movie of their own. There are also some familiar faces throughout, with Gold Coast celebrities and up and coming Aussie actors. But be warned, the film has no storyline and centres around sex drugs and booze... So unless you really really want to know what your little darling is doing at the end of the year, don't watch. 7/10

Ok, lets make a movie. All we have to do is take every cliche regarding Schoolies week on the Gold Coast, write a flimsy and unintelligent script, get some good looking actors and film. Worth seeing for a bit of a laugh at Matthew Newton in drag and 'trying' (yes, he's very trying) to be a sleaze, but other than that, it's worthless. Spend your money on something else. Hire this one from the video store when it comes out. If you're worried that you'll forget about it and not see it when it does finally come out onto video, don't be. It's not really worth all that thought and effort. There's a tiny amount of my life I want back - wonder if I can sue the filmmakers for damages?

I thought this movie was brilliant. It was so funny and so true too. A great idea for a movie. Five groups of friends on their way to schoolies. I've got to say that Matt Newton as Mason was probably my favourite character. I wish i could give this movie more than a 10 rating.

I saw a test screening of Blurred recently, and I am surprised to say that it was actually pretty good! Its a film about different groups of kids, your hillbillies, your rich snobs, your typical teenage couple, plus two geeky guys and one post hippie babe. Together, but as separate storylines, each group is travelling to the Gold Coast for Schoolies Week. Australia has never had any problems writing comedy and Australia is never short or actors who can play comedy with subtlety and just the right amount on quirkiness. The cast is full of stellar Aussie actors with enormous talent and loads of screen presence. Keep your eyes on Craig Horner, a young graduate, who's optimism for a week long party gets lost in his friends shenanigans. Travis Cotten and Mark Priestly, who successfully tackle some tricky physical comedy as two bummed out bogans and Jessica Gower as a cutie but confused teen angsting about love. Veronika Sywak makes her film debut as every adolescent boys dream girl, and holds her own amongst an array of considerably more experienced performers. Look out for Matthew Newton, cleverly cast as a seedy limo driver. Fantastic Aussie

Track Listing: 1. Spiderbait - Outta My Head 2. Lash - Take Me Away 3.Lavaland - Everwonder 4. Machine Gun Fellatio - The Girl Of My Dreams(Is Giving Me Nightmares) 5. Butterfly 9 - Growing Pains 6. Grace -Good Thing 7. Katchafire - Giddy Up 8. James - Lick A Lounge 9. K-lee -1+1+1 10. The International Noise Conspiracy - Smash It Up 11. Cartman- Shock (Living With You) 12. Pollyanna - Rebound Girl 13. Filler - Machines Don't Sleep 14. Giants Of Science - Complete This Progression 15. Rocket Science - Hyperspace 16. The Cruel Sea - Three Legged Dog 17. Lazaro's Dog - Home Entertainment System 18. Drag - Secret Design 19. Grinspoon - Chemical Heart (Acoustic Mix) 20. Subware - Come On (Jp Mix)

Loved this movie, sure it wasn't Hollywood material (some people complained about the script/acting) but thats the beauty in Australian movies.

Hey to all you movie goers out there... you know, i hate the way so many ppl diss "Blurred".. okay so the acting was bad - but still!! i am going on leavers this year (schoolies - its called leavers in Perth) and i RECOMMEND this movie for those of you who are in yr12 needing a break! this movie made me feel like its all worth the stress and hard work coz really in 8 months time that will be my mates and i celebrating.. this type of movie is aimed at us teenagers who are hating every mintue of high school but are persevering - to get to that 1 week of partying! i must admit - i feel a bit like freda - but the truth is after yr12 its all about a new beginning - so i ask of you all who hate this movie, watch it again with an open mind - don't be so critical of it & give the movie a break - it sure gives you one!

All i can say is that, i was expecting a wick movie and "Blurred" surprised me on the positive way. Very nice teenager movie. All this kinds of situations are normal on school life so all i can say is that all this reminded me my school times and sometimes it's good to watch this kind of movies, because entertain us and travel us back to those golden years, when we were young. As well, lead us to think better in the way we must understand our children, because in the past we were just like they want to be in the present time.Try this movie and you will be very pleased.At the same time you will have the guarantee that your time have not been wasted.

As an Australian who has experienced the cultural event known as 'Schoolies', I was hoping that this movie would do the tradition justice. But I was disappointed, and wrong. Really wrong.

If you're looking for a dose of sugary syrup, then this is the movie for you. From the opening scenes, where one of the characters is staring at the blackboard, reading some famous quote, and reflecting on it's significance, I could feel the vomit rising in my throat. I mean, COME ON! Don't the writers know the meaning of the word 'subtle'? Or do they think their audience is too stupid to think for themselves? We don't need to have the theme of the movie WRITTEN in front of us, so that we understand. And Schoolies does not usually occur 12 hours after the last day of school- there's a little thing called Exams, which generally come first. And what's with the kids running around like maniacs, celebrating the last day of school? I almost thought I was watching 'Grease' for a second, and half-expected them to burst into a song-and-dance routine. It just doesn't happen.

As for the writers...well, I would love to know where they went to Schoolies, because their depiction was totally unrealistic. Do you really think that there is that much soul-searching and personal reflection going on at Schoolies? Nope. The only reason people go to Schoolies is to party and have sex. Schoolies isn't, as one character said, 'the journey from the back of the bus to the middle' (by the way, does anyone believe that teenagers even think/talk like that?), but a chance to get drunk every night. That's it. And even if some Schoolies participants DO get all philosophical and syrupy and corny like this, it is the wrong angle to take in a movie that is trying to look hip and laid-back and realistic.

The characters were incredibly 2-D, from the uptight prude (who wears horn-rimmed glasses, and dresses like a secretary, and eats cheese squares...ok we get it! She's a Prude! Enough Already!) to the geeky nerd who gets a chance with the popular chick. How dumb are we supposed to be? Are we only capable of being entertained by cardboard cut-outs?

The acting was okay, though mostly over-the-top...the cast seemed to be all sparkly eyes and smiles and energy, which is an unrealistic depiction of post-adolescence (even if they ARE on their way to Schoolies). It just made me want to scream 'Act natural! And while you're at it, take some acting lessons!' On a high-point though, Charlotte Rees, who plays Amanda, was memorable and amusing in her drunken stupor, as was Petra Jared, playing Yolanda. The climax of the hitchhiking scene, with the Pigman, was hilarious, I admit, and a couple of the Apartment scenes weren't too bad...though, I still can't get over the cheese squares.

This movie seemed to want to do too much, and thought that by adding philosophical, whimsical, reflective moments every 15-20 minutes, it could strike at the heart of the viewer. The problem is that there is no justification or build-up for these moments, and therefore the audience should not be expected to feel emotion for characters who have no personality, no realism, and no time for deeper exploration in an ensemble feature such as this.

And another thing...do you think anyone would just pull the emergency-stop button on a train, jump out and start walking, without thinking about their luggage, or if they would even be able to find the train again? And do you think anyone would abandon their seat on a bus and start walking, without first remembering about their luggage, or their $300 hotel bond that they were coincidentally going to lose in half an hour? And do you think ANYONE can just start walking down a highway and magically end up at Schoolies? This happens several times throughout the movie, to several characters, and its hard to believe that all these characters are stupid enough to go walking on a highway with no luggage, food or shelter. No, its called bad writing. Speaking of writing, I read that this movie was based on a play...I sure hope it didn't disappoint as many people as this film is surely destined to. One word- wrong.

Schoolies is a pointless exercise... Go to Gold Coast, get drunk and have sex. Worthwhile ambitions maybe but not highly intellectual. The plot is a simple as a few sentences assigned to each character and nobody is helped by the cliches doled out here.

Something that would help is the casting. Everybody looks too old. These characters are supposedly innocents embarking out on their own in faltering steps to adulthood yet they all look way too old to be believable in the role.

This Australian movie with "schoolies" (as far as I learned "schoolies" is the party weekend that Australian students use to have after finish graduation) as plot's background is nice and pretty comic, but too directed to teenage public.

The plot tell us the journey of four groups of teenagers that are travelling to get the cost, the place where they celebrate the "schoolies", and the adventures they pass through this trip. Very hard incidents occur, but almost all of them are funny! It also has some spoofing parts, like that one joking with the horror flicks where there's a psycho giving a ride to teenagers to kill them… WOLF CREEK came to my mind!

It's a nice teenage movie that refers to an important period of everyone's life: when school is over you got to start a new life…

this movie is one of the worst movies i have ever encountered. the script is as weak as the characters, and the acting is of lower par than neighbours, or the young and the restless. it is cheaply written, with the character of the prudent girl with glasses being especially pathetically played. this does not reflect on the actors themselves, of course, just on the overall horror of the fact that the scriptwriters were two-year olds - or worse, middle-aged hermits with no clue as to how teenagers talk, walk, interact, or behave whatsoever. i believe anyone who has watched and enjoyed this movie is at least 50 iq points dumber than they were before - if that is at all possible. minus five out of ten.

I read most of the comments here were everybody saw only the flaws of the movie. I agree, the director it's not Kuprik, the actors are not Oscar winners, but it has something everyone could relate to. I don't want to spoil but telling more then the plot - the finishing of school and the trip to a big party, or if you like to see beyond the metaphor, is choosing the way trough life. Remember that days of youth? the days when you or our friend acted like the characters? Or do you think you should acted like one of them and now you regret you didn't? if you can go back in to that time and if you can ask yourself any of this questions maybe the movie wasn't so bad.

I must say THIS IS THE BEST MOVIE I HAVE EVER SEEN. i know that on this website it's received only negative reviews, but for once I'd like to be the good person who gives the worlds best movie a good review. i find the movie to be extremely funny, and it has the perfect mix of everything. it makes me feel all sorts of emotions when i watch it, and I can't get enough of it. the soundtracks brilliant. I LOVE IT, i understand why people may not love it as much as I do, but I don't understand how people could hate it. The movie is 100% brilliance. Blurred is amazing. i never realised that Aussie movies could be so good, and i also never realised I could watch one movie, so many times in a single day without getting sick of it. i think that everybody should watch it, whether its to get a feel of what life was like in the younger days, or if its to see what your in for when you reach the end of year 12.

I watched this film on Telly the other night and little did I know what a cringe-fest it would be...I knew it would be stupid but not this bad! This film exemplifies everything that is awful in Australian comedy. Apart from the most tedious, uninspired scenarios and characters I have ever come across (aside from those dubious French produced American tax break comedies!), most of the situations were boring, unbelievable, stereotypical and SO not funny just...terrible!

One such scenario that really annoyed me was the nerds on the bus scene. From a screen writing perspective the writers used the most uninteresting - not to mention unbelievable - scenario to get these three stranded without their luggage...They are on the holiday of their lives and they're going to risk it all (including a $300 deposit, luggage and room) to exert their rights to dance on a bus? I mean, they're about half an hour away from their destination! At least they could have had the bus driver kick them off but, no they leave willingly cos 'they can't take it anymore!'and wreck their holiday...Anyway, I can't believe the writers didn't workshop this appalling scenario out. I think a ten year old could come up with 5 set-ups more clever, funny and believable.

I can go on with many others - the really unimaginative stereotypical psychopath, the whole relationship with the angry jilted girlfriend and tag along virgin, the 'Wow Man! Out there goth girl' inhaling stuff on the train - EVERYTHING was just woeful! I cannot think of one redeeming feature of the this film except that maybe the third wheel nerd was kind of cute. Spoilt his career by appearing in this trash though!

To me this film is just a very very lame teen party movie with all the normal clichés and boring stereotyped characters (Nerds, Jocks, Popular girls, Sleezy guys, etc) but with an underlying anti drug/drinking theme.

If you ever have the unfortunate chance of seeing this film, keep an eye out for all the references to responsibility and keeping it real (dunno how else to word it) I guess the only thing that'd make this film cool, would be if they TV playing it was on fire. That, or DVD it was on exploded...

1 out of 10000 - Watch Animal House instead.

Admittedly, I never took part in the annual pilgrimage to Surfer's Paradise as part of the infamous Australian Schoolie's Week, but even having said that, this movie was a disappointment. Instead of making a united and tightly interlinked movie by taking the five different starting points the movie began with (the limo, the cowboys, the bus, the train and the apartment) and actually having them culminate to a result which could be empathised with to a greater degree, the movie instead follows each group independantly through their meandering journeys intersecting for a few short minutes and then separating again and arriving at a conclusion that was, in a word, lame "sometimes you have to make new friends"!!!

What happened here? Did the writer get ditched by their school chums after high school, and they decided to write this film in an attempt to be at peace with their own lameness? Come on! The start of the movie had a lot of potential, don't get me wrong, but instead of exploiting that potential and coming up with something truly reflective of the event they are trying to portay, they decided to play it safe and wade in the shallow end of the experience. I would have expected more from a movie which tries to illustrate that it's characters need to risk a little to progress in life, as it failed in exactly the same manner it was trying to protect it's characters from.

"we know what we are, but know not what we may be" Well, we know what this movie is - a waste. And I know what it may have been - great.