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I FINALLY sat down last night and watched this film. It's still kinda sinking in but I will say that I liked it.
I honestly didn't know much about it other than JT was in it, along w/ Chris, and it was based on a true story regarding a murder.
The characters themselves weren't very appealing to me and I mean that as a compliment to the writing and the acting. (I did find them to be intriguing though) I don't really hang out with "those type of guys", but I have worked with guys like that when I managed a Pizza Hut many long years ago. So I had images of old employees running through my head as I was watching this...of course they didn't kill anyone as far as I know, but they were basically just a group of guys, with parents who didn't give a crap, or were never even in the picture...who just wanted to sit around and smoke pot and play video games all day, and then party all night. They worked a part time job to support this habit. Point being, this is a lifestyle that I do not live, yet I have been around and have seen first hand, so I found myself being sucked into the character's lives, curious as to how the story would pan out. I was constantly asking myself throughout the film, "What would I have done in this situation?". What would my friends have done, etc...
  I was very skeptical about JT in this movie. I'll admit, I hated the whole Boy Band craze a few years back and JT's solo stuff just isn't appealing to me either so I guess I unfairly judged him as an actor before ever seeing his work. Well, I was pleasantly surprised. He impressed me. I didn't really care for his character at the beginning, but as the story played on, I guess you could say I was concerned about his "fate" and believed his sincerity, even up until the end when he was putting the tape on Zack. That was a brutal and emotional scene.
    I thought Ben Foster was great as well. Something about his performance in X3 turned me off on him, I think it was the way he over-exaggerated his actions while flying, and the whole jumping out the building scene--no biggie I guess,...regardless, he was nothing like 
Warren Worthington the 3rd in Alpha Dog!! He seriously looked like he was strung out throughout the whole film. He had the perfect look, the mood swings, the violent outbursts. Hats off to Ben-He owned that part!
   and of course that leads us to our man Chris. I've seen a lot of pics on the site of his Keith character and was looking forward to see how he pulled it off. Well, I thought he was great. Whenever I would hang out with a couple of my friends back in college, one of them had a younger brother who was always acting goofy and clowning around, but yet he was still kinda cool..that's who Keith reminds me of: The funny, nerdy little brother who you actually don't mind having around. Haha.
There were a couple of times where I was asking myself, is that really Chris playing him?? He looks so different from the Linus I know! LOL. He was awesome and the scene at the end when he hugged Zack was heart wrenching. Good stuff.
   Well, those are just my 'quick' thoughts after watching it. I wanted to go through the 30+ pages on this thread to see what everyone else had to say, so I'll try and check that out over the next couple of days. Like I said, it's still kinda soaking in right now, but I mainly just wanted to share my thoughts real quick with you guys.:D