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One True Loves (2023)
Do yourself a favor - Read the book
I'll being by saying that this is an amazing book by Taylor Jenkins Reid. If you haven't read it by now I highly recommend you do.
From this moment on, I will address the movie and how they destroyed, in my humble opinion, the massage and story of this beautiful book.
The way Sam and Emma meet in the books is via working in her parents book store. This holds a lot of meaning, the development of their friendship and builds his character through their interactions. Whilst in the movie, they open in the pool party, with Sam and Emma talking, where in the books it was nothing like that.
Another big miss they had was Emma's best friend, Olive, where did she go?
The way the story was told wasn't according to the book and in my opinion was wrong in displaying the connection Emma had with Jesse and Sam.
When she learns about Jesse's return and goes to see him, they do not kiss or do anything else, which shows the struggle and inner conflict she had. In the movie they open with it. A very strange decision.
A big part of Jesse's story about the time he was gone had to do with the mystery surrounding the missing of the pinky finger. They decided to remove that from the movie completely. Can't figure why.
The way Emma and Jesse decide to go to the cabin was lacking the way of thinking that this decision was made in the book.
Also, in the movie, the way that Emma was supposed to be driving first and only after he said he would drive, ruined the thought behind the entire thing. It came to show a lot about his character and the movie missed that.
The scene where Emma and Jesse finally talk about their relationship was lacking in the movie and was so beautiful in the book. They missed on Emma cutting her hair and about the fact that she started playing the piano.
I also didn't realize why they showed so much of Sam's personal life. The book and the story really isn't about him. It is about Emma and her choices and her development. All the scenes with the teachers and the students were redundant.
They ruined Sam's character and most of the important scenes he had with Emma that were meant to show their relationship and the development they had, alongside her own growth.
I also really disliked the meeting between Emma and Sam the second time. It didn't show how she wasn't really ready to start something again. Also, their whole beautiful first date just vanished. They removed the piano man gag they had and all the inner jokes.
In the movie, Sam didn't tell Emma that it was too hard for him to be in contact with her and that he would reach out when he can. They completely missed the idea behind this narrative. The longing both Sam and Emma had for each other in the end.
The proposal. Why. Why. Why. The original scene was so beautiful, why would they tamper that in the movie. I honestly can't understand why they made this decision.
The timing of the letter and the scene of it all, the fact they chose it to be in the lighthouse. In that way, They hadn't shown the meaning that the lighthouse held for them and they just breezed through the entire process of excepting their (Emma and Jessy) relationship was over. They didn't show the entire fan of emotions each of them experienced, which was portrayed so beautifully in the book.
The relationship between the sisters was so poor, and worse than in the book. Her sister was more annoying than the book and generally I didn't like the direction her character took in the movie.
Small part that bugged me and was probably so that they could hire this specific actor, they changed Sam's surname from Kemper to Lee. Just a little weird.
In the end, where Jessy told her about his new love, was supposed to be a phone call. I loved that. He send her postcards but this information was important enough for him to call her. The postcard way of delivering the message that was portrayed in the movie took from that.
And overall, I didn't see the chemistry between the cast. Not between Emma and Sam and not between Emma and Jessy. Didn't love the editing and the transition between scenes.
If you stayed this far and haven't read the book yet, go do that. You'll thank me later.
The Hating Game (2021)
Read the book
I have to divide this review in two parts. The first one, for those who haven't read the book - it's a movie to pass time with, not the best I've ever seen, but not the worst.
The second part is for those who have read the book. I don't know who though the script represents anything from the book. The guidelines are quite similar, but other than that the plot line are not parallel. They changed big parts of the book, for one, Lucy's eye color. The fact that she's clumsy in the movie, but not in the book. The weird relationship with Danny, which was not in the book. The zero amount of attention to her parents or the strawberry farm, which is a big part in the book, the switch they made with her mom's blog to her Smurf one, which made Lucy seem weirder than she is. The fact that she doesn't call him Joshua and he doesn't call her Lucinda.
The wedding was all off. The receptionist was supposed to be a woman, that Lucy was jealous of. The first night in the hotel, Josh went to help his mom, and him and Lucy did nothing. In the wedding itself, Josh's dad gave his speech before Lucy finds out that Mindy used to date Josh before marrying his brother, in which he says the most ugly sentence, "you've chosen an outstanding Templeman to marry". Only after that speech, Mindy told Lucy Josh and her dated for a year. Josh wasn't broken up with, he ended things with Mindy. Lucy was really upset with the revaluation, she wanted to leave, and only then did Josh's mom and him spoke to her separately. She wanted to go on a bus to the city, but Josh spoke to her in their room and convinced her to stay. In the morning, they went to breakfast with his family. There, she railed his dad for his behavior. When they left, she apologized for making a scene and for being embarrassing, but he just thanked her, she thought he would be upset because she defended him, "You're not mad I rescued you? Boys don't need rescuing."
"This one did. And I'll even let you choose which you wanna be. Thelma, or Louise,"
The cringy scene in the office where Josh is making a speech in front of everyone, doesn't happen. The have the conversation at home, where he tells her he quit, and told Bexley and Helene he had a weekend to make her fall in love with him, and that he loved her from the beginning. To demonstrate, he told her to look at her eyes and the color of his bedroom walls. It was the same, robin's-egg blue.
In conclusion, if you haven't read the book, you might enjoy the movie, but I'll recommend reading the book. If you have read the book, I'm afraid you'll be disappointed.
Normal People (2020)
Amazing
I highly recommend this show. The characters are deep and the acting is phenomenal. It was so good, I've watched it twice already. The footage are incredible and the directing is accellent.
The Matchmaker's Playbook (2018)
Cringe
The scenes are super cringy, i've read the book before I saw the movie and it wasn't that cringy. There are super sharp changes in the behavior of the characters, read the book, it's better.
The Queen's Gambit (2020)
Highly recommended
I watched the series in a day, it was enchanting I couldn't stop watching. The cast is marvelous and the plot-line is fantastic. The actors portrayed the parts in the best way possible. The footage are astonishing. Highly recommended!
After We Collided (2020)
The difference from the books is implacable
I have read the book and throughout watching the movie, this one and the first, i've noticed a big differences that bothered me. The first one is the bet- the bet was the cliffhanger of Tessa's and Hardin's relationship, he took her virginity for a bet against Zed. When in the movie it was about making her fall in love with him then brake up with her and had nothing to do with Zed. Zed is not a significant character in the movies as he is in the books. In the book he, Tessa and Hardin have sort of a love triangle where the two boys hate each other. Where in the movie, they seem to be friends when Zed actually appears on screen, and Tessa and Zed have absolutely no relationship, even though he loves her in the book. The second difference is Hardin's behavior. In the books Hardin is a very violent and aggressive man, who hurt everyone around him. Where in the movie, he is pleasant and nice to others around him, and his relationship with Tessa is much better than in the book. We don't get to see his outbreaks and the way he apologized to Tessa after her mum came to their house before Christmas and Hardin's mum found out about the bet. He wrote her a letter to apologize, using the first paragraph from Darcy's letter to Elizabeth. The letter is what made her forgive him and the movie didn't portrait that properly. Also, in the movie, when Tessa is telling him about Trevor Touching her, he seems unbothered when in the book he would flip. The movie opens when we see Tessa and Hardin haven't spoken in a month, which in the book didn't happen at all, the first time they went nine days without speaking is after they got into a fight over Tessa's job offer in Seattle. Another huge difference is the relationship between Tessa and her coworkers. In the movie, they didn't build it to make it look like Tessa and Kimberly are friends. Where in the book they are. For example, in the movie Tessa answer the phone because her boss called and when she asks her to watch Smith they go to the office to watch him. Where in the book they are friend and Kimberly is asking Tessa for a favor to watch Smith- at Tessa's and Hardin's house. Where Hardin doesn't want to communicate with Smith and the little boy only speaks to him. In the movie, Hardin initiates the conversation. In the movie, after Tessa kisses a stranger in the new years eve party, she goes home and he stay's the night at the frat house. In the book, Hardin leaves Tessa at the house without her phone and Zed takes her home. The movie make it seem like Tessa does nothing wrong, but in the books she keeps her relationship with Zed in spite of the pain it causes Hardin. Another thing that bothered me is the lack of relationship with Hardin's family. Karen and Tessa don't have a relationship, and she doesn't live in their house. In the book, Tessa is particularly a family member at the Scott's and has a good relationship with Karen. Also, Mr. Vance didn't offer her a job or took her from the office to Seattle in the book, but in the movie he does and it's unrealistic. In the book he invites her to Seattle and she asks him for a job in the new office which he gladly gives her. The movie does not contain a proper plot-line and the difference from the books is implacable, I wish they stayed true to the books