Loser

A fantastic movie about the guy who people perceive to be a loser Paul tannek played by Jason biggs and the girl he likes Dora Diamond played by mena suvari and college life.A comedy with great acting from both jason Biggs and mena suvari.

Well I just watched Loser for the second time on Cable TV (but that's not what it's called in Aust), and I now remember why I liked it so much when I saw it the first time. Jason Biggs plays Paul, the 'nice guy who comes last' who initially gets taken advantage of by his room mates and hides his crush on another student called Dora (Mena Suvari). Dora is sleeping with one of their lecturers (Greg Kinnear)... a bloke who is quite 'high on himself', superficial and emotionally absent. So the hollywood cliche dictates that eventually the good guy gets the girl in the end. Jason Biggs does a great job acting this one, his character Paul won't sell his soul to be cool.. and in the end that is why he is really 'cool' and why he deserves the hollywood cliche and gets the girl. Loved it, great stuff. One of those movies where you think, what an excellent dude he was... I'm gonna be like him... hehehehe.

Despite likable performances from stars Jason Biggs and Mena Suvari, I did not find this to be an enjoyable watch and found myself actually fast forwarding in parts when it became too awful. The growing relationship between the stars was cute enough to watch, but not enough to salvage this film. Hard to know what the writers and filmmakers were thinking when they thought that slipping "ruffies" to college girls made for a light hearted comedy (won't give any details so I won't spoil it for those who still wish to see this). This seemed to be labeled a comedy, but I didn't laugh once. Not recommended, but I'm feeling charitable enough to give it a 2/10.

I had somehow expected this to be a good movie. Certainly, it was cute and well-intentioned, but it was also incredibly trite and predictable. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone over the age of 15...and even they might be insulted by this one-dimensional dramatization of teenage existence. Like a painfully drawn-out episode of Dawson's Creek, Loser oversimplifies in an attempt to reach the "good parts" even faster.

This movie is probably not that well known, but it's real cute and funny and smart. I like Mena Suvari a lot, and here she is the cutest little "grunge goth" (as Alcott says) girl who can't afford school unless she gets a job, and can't get a job unless she stays in the city, and can't stay in the city because her professor-boyfriend is a jerk. Enter Paul. He helps out and conveys the whole dorky-guy thing really well. Noah, Adam and Chris are hilarious (the Christian Slater Guy and the James Spader Guy) and there are lots of funny quotes. "I would never 'hit your bitch'!" And I liked Paul's hair before the haircut. For the record. Watch this movie, it's way cute.

What a time capsule from the great music to the inferior hair and clothes. Amy Heckerling doesn't quite know what kind of audience she is trying to engage. If she's trying to show high school kids the problems and unexpected strife of college life in a metropolis, then she should have shown that world in a more focused way. Without any proper direction for our characters, and no change in their behaviors or thoughts on the world, there shouldn't really be any reason for this film to exist. It's trying to show the problems of college students, but it doesn't realistically depict them. Paul's three roommates are also pretty distracting, as they're rich, sycophantic rapists, who don't seem to get much comeuppance until the credits. Besides its plot defects it's also drab and very of it's time, making this film a tiring slog. Mitchell Bulfin

If you expect this movie to be hilarious and full of funny moments as shown on the trailer, you're wrong big time! I don't know why they tried to instill this idea to the audience, but I know that it is not the right thing to do. Anyway, this movie will be better if it was categorized as "Drama". At least I could have been more prepared. I went to see this expecting to laugh my heart out, but it was such a gloomy and sad movie that I didn't know what to do next. And I felt terribly sorry for dragging my friends along, telling them that this one would be funny. The story is not bad at all. Jason Biggs was doing a decent job in portraying Paul the Loser. But that's about it!

This definitely deserves a much better score than a 5.4/10. I was expecting a less-than-average generic teen movie, but it was definitely more than that. Although the plot is a little predictable, there is a lot of great character development. This movie also sympathizes with college students that feel so out of place. This is more than just another teen movie and deserves more attention.