Here’s a game you can play at home: It’s called “Member of Pearl Jam or Matt Dillon Looking Skeezy?”

When I originally heard of this movie, it was billed as something like “Cameron Crowe’s tribute to the 90s Seattle Grunge scene.” I wouldn’t call it that, exactly, although it does feature (acting) performances from a few members of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. It’s basically about people in their 20s and 30s trying to date in Seattle.

I went into this movie really wanting to like it, since I think Cameron Crowe is generally great. But then I spent the first half of the movie disliking so many things about it (90s fashion, Matt Dillon, a depressing miscarriage subplot, breaking the fourth wall to talk about garage-door openers, etc.). But then in the second half, the movie redeemed itself, without me even being able to explain how it did so. But at the end, I just thought, “Hmm, that was pretty good, I guess.”

So, “that was pretty good, I guess” translates to about a 13/17 on the Sitz-o-meter movie rating scale. I’m not sure I’d watch it again any time too soon, especially if I had any other Cameron Crowe movie that I know about to choose from, but I could see myself watching it again in 10 or 20 years, especially if I have kids and there’s some 90s retro fashion fad.