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(2019) - Directed by Jenny Gage
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Teen Movie / Romance
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(2019) - Directed by Jenny Gage
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Teen Movie / Romance
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"Elizabeth Bennett needs to chill."
So this is a "best-selling worldwide phenomenon," apparently. I mean, not every worldwide phenomenon sells as well as Death Note, so what the hell. It got a bunch of sequels, and maybe, if the sequels are as bad as people say, that I'll get a good laugh out of them. But if I'm gonna start a series that has at least one movie per year, then I might as well get through them all quickly while they're on Netflix.
Tessa has been bred and groomed by her abusive mother to be the perfect school girl. But all it took was one roommate, one party and one encounter with a mysterious young man who both collides and clashes with her to rouse her curiosity.
And if you have a quarter of a brain, you know exactly how this is going to go. I'm not saying anymore about the plot, because it's JUST SO ASTOUNDINGLY SIMPLE. It didn't take me long to figure out why this movie is a worldwide phenomenon: because it's literally every college good girl's story. Like, this movie meets the absolute basics of the type of story it's telling and nothing more. This allows for a lot of relation towards teen girls, but leaves infinite room for creativity and never once uses it. It's a major disappointment.
On top of all of this, the movie is directed with the base level of tolerable cinematic quality. Gage didn't really do anything fancy because she didn't need to. Why would she need to when all of her actors aren't even trying either? Our lead is practically copying Edward from Twilight in appearance and our girl is just a stereotypical Diana Lombard with no real character that we haven't already felt in a hundred movies that had more feeling.
Oh, and you wanna know something hilarious? You know how the aforementioned Twilight was the source for a fanfiction that got turned into Fifty Shades of Grey? THIS MOVIE STEMMED FROM A ****ING ONE DIRECTION FANFICTION! I'm not kidding! Someone literally wrote a crappy romance involving the members of One Direction, and rewrote it into this! Oh my god! I'm sorry, but now it's totally unfair that my fanfiction hasn't gotten turned into its own thing, and it's geared to be an improvement on freakin' Loonatics Unleashed. And you know what? It's FUNNY.
Now that my tirade is done, I gotta say that I found nothing laughable about this movie, as it's just so lifeless in its effort to relate to the total basics of teen girl struggles. You never really "connect" on a deeper level with anyone, and the result is just another generic romance for teen girls.
= 29
Jenny Gage needs 2 more films for an average score.
Tessa has been bred and groomed by her abusive mother to be the perfect school girl. But all it took was one roommate, one party and one encounter with a mysterious young man who both collides and clashes with her to rouse her curiosity.
And if you have a quarter of a brain, you know exactly how this is going to go. I'm not saying anymore about the plot, because it's JUST SO ASTOUNDINGLY SIMPLE. It didn't take me long to figure out why this movie is a worldwide phenomenon: because it's literally every college good girl's story. Like, this movie meets the absolute basics of the type of story it's telling and nothing more. This allows for a lot of relation towards teen girls, but leaves infinite room for creativity and never once uses it. It's a major disappointment.
On top of all of this, the movie is directed with the base level of tolerable cinematic quality. Gage didn't really do anything fancy because she didn't need to. Why would she need to when all of her actors aren't even trying either? Our lead is practically copying Edward from Twilight in appearance and our girl is just a stereotypical Diana Lombard with no real character that we haven't already felt in a hundred movies that had more feeling.
Oh, and you wanna know something hilarious? You know how the aforementioned Twilight was the source for a fanfiction that got turned into Fifty Shades of Grey? THIS MOVIE STEMMED FROM A ****ING ONE DIRECTION FANFICTION! I'm not kidding! Someone literally wrote a crappy romance involving the members of One Direction, and rewrote it into this! Oh my god! I'm sorry, but now it's totally unfair that my fanfiction hasn't gotten turned into its own thing, and it's geared to be an improvement on freakin' Loonatics Unleashed. And you know what? It's FUNNY.
Now that my tirade is done, I gotta say that I found nothing laughable about this movie, as it's just so lifeless in its effort to relate to the total basics of teen girl struggles. You never really "connect" on a deeper level with anyone, and the result is just another generic romance for teen girls.
= 29
Jenny Gage needs 2 more films for an average score.