"Rememer the Daze" made its way through the film festival circuit as "The Beautiful Ordinary". The title change for DVD says a lot about a lot of things, none of them good.

First of all, for a film like this to be titled "The Beautiful Ordinary" is the height of pretensiousness. The whole thing is basically a rip-off of "Dazed and Confused", which explains why the DVD marketing folks changed the title to "Remember the Daze", so that potential buyers would make the connection and buy this film thinking it would be "Dazed and Confused" because they were too drugged out to think through the purchase.

In fact, "The Beautiful Ordinary" as a title cracks me up. The movie is the day in the life of teenagers during the last day of high school. They do nothing more than drink, smoke dope, have sex, and talk about the pointlessness of life and hopelessness of the future. There's nothing beautiful about it. It's so mundane I felt my skin drying and peeling off my body while I watched it. The beautiful ordinary my ass. My only guess as to the origin of the title is that the writer/director Jess Manafort, was a pot-head and immensely amused with herself, much like many pot smokers. Everything they do is funny, until they're sober and then it's not.

And despite the fact that there are lots of hot chicks in this film and everyone is smoking dope and having sex and talking about sex, none of the hot women runs around with her top off. Actually one girl takes her shirt off, but we only see her from the back. This is the sort of disaster that occurs when women direct films - no boob exploitation. I mean, barring any other meaningful content, naked boobies are practically a requirement for this kind of film.

Only an hour after watching this film I was dazed and remembered nothing.