Simply A Masterpiece

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

The first must-see film of the year.

Yeah, it's a ridiculous story, but there's so much truth to it. Y'all are seeing it from the wrong angle.This story is not about a boy named Justin. It's about a hysterical, self- righteous, ultra-conservative wife/mother who combines the worst aspects of the right and the left in one personality. She has the ultra-conservative values with the flavor of the year (porn) in total Reefer Madness mode. This could've been about anything really, video games, rock music, TV, comic books, drugs, hipsterism, black metal, gambling, but it happens to be about porn this time. So she's all conservative without the "I'll pray for you" or "I'll ask Jesus for guidance" because in that space we have all the leftist crap, self-righteous indignation, moral superiority, double-standards, compartmentalization... with a tablespoon of 3rd wave feminism, or maybe just a pinch. This is a real problem. These people exist. I say that because I'm married to one. Yes, pornography has destroyed my life. Just like Justin, I used to watch pornography. Just like Justin, I watched some soft-core crap. Just like him, I watched it fully clothed and had a drink (1 single beer, once a week. This boy's caffeine addiction is a whole other thing).When my wife found out, she reacted the same as Diane (the mom). There's a scene where Diane tells her husband about it and he just says "okay, good night." The problem is that Diane lives in an alternate reality. She throws a fit and everyone does whatever she wants. She escalates this thing from "he watches porn" into "he's addicted to porn." She escalates it from a small private matter to one that needs therapy, an intervention, a Facebook group, calling Doctor Phil, national awareness campaign, Mothers-Against-Porn, and all the stuff that brings the most extreme leftists and rightists together in harmony.I come from a fairly conservative family. The way such things were dealt with was denial, small talk, church, more church, and pray that it goes away. Real liberal families ignore it, also give a quick safe-sex talk, or say it's fine, normal, healthy, whatever.But this woman is the product of two ideologically opposed cultures. The extreme left and the extreme right.The woman makes a big deal of this, involving her husband, her coworker, school councilor, the small brother, Starbucks employees, her credit card company, the gardener and anyone who follows her on Facebook. The world is a messed up place. This film is not a moralizing after-school special. This is a statement about the messed up state of the country. The younger brother plays GTA for God's sake. He's like 11 years old. The parents have no money. Justin needs to swim to get an education. The younger brother has no hope in athletics or intelligence (he burned a porn CD, wrote the label "virgin vaginas" and left it next to the computer. Too late for this one). The parents can't even afford a vacation. The husband is so scared of his wife that he tells her he's a lucky man, that he would never look at any porn or fantasize about anyone else. He lives in constant fear of his wife who drove her own son to suicide. Nopes, not exaggerating, this really happened.The parents pressure their kid into athletics and scold him for finishing 3rd in a national competition. The boy's girlfriend is a bible-thumper and she's retreating to religion. A young girl in school is making child pornography, perhaps to make ends meet? Still not making this up. No one in this film can spell. No one. The education system has completely collapsed, so webcam stuff and swimming are the only avenues left.Justin has a serious caffeine addiction. His parents can't afford to go on a vacation to a bed and breakfast. In this bleak country Justin finds solace in soft, soft, soft porn. Basically girls showing their arms, ankles, bellies. And the mom loses it. She gets everyone on her side, even getting the indifferent dad to threaten his son with physical abuse in public. (He was going to punch him in the head. Not threatened, he actually was going to do it). The mother used the dad as her trained attack hound and he ignored his own, STATED ideas about the thing to follow orders from his master.They way the mom behaved is exactly the way my own wife behaved. I did not hide the porn, I really didn't think she would behave like that. Her brother and dad go to a strip club with the guys, maybe twice a year, but she brushes that off as "them just blowing off steam." I don't go because I don't really like them much and I'm not into strip clubs. But my watching of an hour of porn, while building a guitar and having a single beer is "an addiction." "God knows what else goes down there." It's a workshop with tools and sawdust. What do you think happens?Anyway, my wife did the same stuff, involve everyone, marriage councilor, Facebook groups, tell her family, intervention. She's 27, so there's no jealousy excuse. But if I made the movie you'd all say that it's bull. This movie, as ridiculous as it sounds, is probably based on a true story with some tiny alterations. So yeah, I had to watch this film in my workshop because heaven forgive if her majesty walked in and saw this thing, seeing herself in the mirror/on the screen.It's all the liberal crap we're all used to + the conservative crap I'm used to without any of the Jesus saving me from all this part.

Man, this is one of the most unanimously-crucified TV movies ever! Many of the reviews make some fair enough points. That said, while it was none too subtle, this movie had me watching till the end because I kept thinking, what's gonna happen next? The extremes he goes to in the name of watching Internet porn at the expense of his real life become more and more foreboding. What it does to his relationship with his wonderful, if somewhat tight-assed, girlfriend is heartbreaking, with just a glimmer of hope. He was lucky it didn't damage their relationship more profoundly.Part of the problem was, it was all on Justin. "Cyberseduction" carries the kind of frustration that many of the more contrived horror movies are notorious for. Most of us have likely yelled at the screen, "Don't go that way/Don't do that!" because we know someone is heading right toward the crazed slasher. Our protagonist just wasn't discreet enough due to his addiction. It's like, Close the door (more than once)! Clear the history on your girlfriend's PDA! Leave you mom's credit card alone! Haven't you ever heard of unusual activity reports?! There's plenty of FREE online porn out there! All those energy drinks will kill you if your indiscretion doesn't! The library?! Seriously?! Hellooo! Apparently the message was that Internet porn addiction makes you dumber and dumber until you can't think straight. He often doesn't, and it just makes things worse.Can't really say much about the blatantly TV depictions of Internet porn. Most of the online models were fully clothed, and many of you thought this was a joke. What do you expect from a TV movie? If it were an FX movie, or if they've ever produced TV movies, there might have been a butt crack or two, but remember, this is Lifetime. Otherwise, many reviewers seemed to think it was a bit TOO Lifetime.The acting has been frequently targeted too. Kelly Lynch does her best, and, let's just say that the voluptuous and pretty school slut was a solid casting choice. That at least created some sexual tension in her scenes. I always remember her last scene since I caught only the last half hour or less of this movie about 5 years ago. It showed up on Xfinity On Demand in the free movie section, and I thought the title sounded familiar. Of course, the description was the clincher.Some reviewers have made fun of the scenes involving trying to close one porn window, only to end up inadvertently opening several more. When I was new to the Internet, I saw this enough times to be more cautious with my Internet surfing. The many reviews complaining that the writers didn't know enough about computers must have invalidated little brother Alex's lines about himself and his older brother knowing a lot about computers. Apparently, no one in the movie actually did.Still, for a sensationalized TV movie, one could do worse. Not to trivialize the subject matter, though. In fact, those of us who found it creepy and disturbing may thank our lucky stars that not everyone who surfs Internet porn ends up this way.

Well one thing is for sure: to this movie, porn is the most evil thing in the universe. More evil than Hitler.Looking at a single nak.... well actually, they aren't even naked in the photos, so it isn't porn in the first place. But a single look at a scantily clad woman is enough to SERIOUSLY PSYCHOLOGICALLY HARM YOUR CHILD and HE WILL BECOME A STARK RAVING SEX ADDICTED PSYCHOPATH... AND it will destroy your family too... and he will go on to cause world war 3.... and he will end up causing the human race extinction!!! oooOOOOOooooo... Give me a break.What's funny is the f***ed up hypocrisy with the parents. The parents allow both their sons to play GTA, a game which requires extreme violence to play. Stealing cars, blowing people up, spraying crowds with a minigun, robbing stores, etc... But god forbid they see something NATURAL, such as a woman's figure (sense remember, in the movie, it's not actually porn), they might get an ADDICTION and go insane!!!!! But GTA, nah they can handle that, nothing wrong with it at all. Go kill some more tourists little Timmy, but don't you dare go and do anything natural! And the fact that he's "addicted" to it... Heh, if you can get addicted to that, you might as well be addicted to anything: candy, sports, television, pogo sticks, yodeling, FARMVILLE, whatever.I wish I could laugh at all this, but I know people hold those same viewpoints. It never made any sense to me when I was his age, and it still doesn't as an adult. Now, I'm not encouraging anyone to break the law, but my point is that it's just about as ass backwards and stupid as you could get.I also think it's funny how nobody knows how to use computers. At all. No one. I'm surprised the parents weren't beating the keyboard with their head shouting, "DUUUURRRRRRRRR" at that scene with the popups. Honestly, my grandmother knows how to use computers better. This whole movie is a joke. In fact, I think I'm going to go hit my head with a brick for a while to try and dislodge the stupid implanted by this movie..

First,I'd like to address the disappointing amount of people who made comments just say, "The mommy didn't know about computers" and claiming that this is some flaw of the writers, however, I wish to provide my review and clear up some statements I've read on various places.First I'll begin at the end. I've heard a lot of "The ending is dry" and "the ending sucks", however, when one looks at the ending symbolically its a master piece. It is clearly, to me at least, a symbol of a rebirth, baptism. Justin plunges into the water and has a flashback and the jumps out of the water. The viewer sees Justin's flashback of the past three months, all the yelling, happiness, drama etc. By Justin coming out of the water he is leaving his past behind, you could say he has been cleansed of his sins, perhaps. This is just my take, too much English class.Now onto the acting of Jeremy, Justin. While it was decent he had some speech issues that somewhat bothered me such has how he pronounced the letter "s" and some of his words sounded weird, one that sticks into my mind is the word equation. However, it was decent, didn't make my jaw drop, but he's young... brave role to take up, however.Now onto the "its crap because this flaw..." people. I read one comment which stated that the mother was shocked about deleting history and such ,however, she works around computers etc. First, one can gather that the mother is around her 40's or perhaps late 30's. She talks about getting old and not being sexy anymore, thats why I gathered this. Anyways, because of this even though she works with computers she may not be "hip" with all the stuff one can do on the internet. I have also seen people mention that her younger son plays Grand Theft Auto, so this is a flaw. However, I see it furthering her as a character that again, is not "hip" with all the technology. Perhaps, she might not know about game ratings, perhaps she doesn't think its too bad, and hey, maybe the husband bought it. Now, some people also talk about how the porn addiction is so stupid because 1) he never masturbates 2) the porn isn't hardcore 3) upon one view he suddenly notices women 4) he never has privacy 5)He looks 17 but he hasn't looked at porn before. 1) do you really think lifetime would just show someone jacking off... look into it... he's in his room naked sometimes... you can gather he has done it. 2)Again, do you think that they'd show a lot of hardcore porn, its a movie against it... would they be showing it as well, moreover there are a couple scenes where people actually having sex is shown. 3)He doesn't notice women what is happening is he is looking at perhaps a girls belly button and then he sees images from sites he's visited flashing in his mind. 4) The family is supposed to be close, they're supposed to be the perfect family with the perfect son, and then porn comes and everything comes down. The wouldn't want too much privacy. 5)Again, this is supposed to be the "perfect family" by making him somewhat innocent and perfect more can be torn down.But seriously folks, saying a work is "crap" because they didn't show hardcore porn or an underage kid masturbating is somewhat, ignorant. There are these magical things called censors, and they send directors happy messages of what they think is inappropriate in work and the bad thing goes away. Do you really think they would actually show hardcore porn on TV... they can't even show Bart Simpsons butt on Fox, but they can show hardcore porn? For God sakes take a high school English class and get some common sense. It is sad to see most people talking about "Jeremy is hot" or "ha-yuck ha-yuck they shown no naughty pictures and then made fun of him". If you people are going to talk about a movie and say it provides no content with some "review" a middle school would get a C- on really look yourselves over, especially when you misquote and then make a judgment based on the misquote, brilliant. Oh, also bringing up actor's careers is brilliant. Oh, he's Peter Pan and she has done sex scenes. No wonder you all thought the movie sucked, you didn't actually watch it... one of the first "rules" I believe, and was taught, of literature(books, movies, theater) is you have to allow yourself to believe what is happening can happen, read "Our Town" you really think there is a town like that, God! If you're too hung up on Peter Pan, even though this movie came out two years after Peter Pan, and other actor's careers you'll never like what you're reading or watching. Half the people begin their "reviews" with "I was channel surfing", and are guys, though it is not bad to watch lifetime necessarily if you're a guy, I'm a guy for instance, perhaps you shouldn't be watching Lifetime. "WAAA it was sappy" DUH! It's freaking supposed to be. "It's about conservatives, WAA", THAT'S THE FREAKING POINT OF THE MOVIE!