Halfway through this I got irrationally upset. This Ansel Elgort marathon was for a video (obviously) but it still felt like such a waste of time. There are so many things I’ve wanted to watch and read with the time I’ve had in quarantine. So much schoolwork this week that I’ve put 70% into rather than 100% for the sake of making time to get through these films. Anytime you get to a point where you’re watching a movie and…
Man...this hit the spot.
Life was so good when this hit theaters. Fresh out of my first year of film school, Youtube was just a little hobby at the time, I was working at a small ice cream shop called The Dairy Delight. Opening weekend me and a friend went to see this in the middle of a hot summer day and I was like "man this is such a first-year-out-of-film-school-and-working-at-an-ice-cream-shop-in-the-middle-of-the-summer type of thing for me to do!" The stakes…
I seeing the poster for this in high school and thinking “I am staying as far away from this as possible!” Attractive people in a generic stance with a generic title in front of a generic sci-fi background? AND it’s an adaptation of a YA novel? When I realized Ansel was in it I immediately went “Oh come on!”
So this is simultaneously better than I expected and as watered down as expected. I’m trying to be a bit more…
There's something I appreciate about this movie. An overlong shitty Black Mirror episode? Sure. But judging by how they went about telling it, the filmmakers clearly, uh, cared. Just wish they did more to make me do the same. The color palette of the poster isn't the only thing this has in common with your typical sleep podcast.
20th Century Women but with men and children. And also without everything good about 20th Century Women. This is nothing like 20th Century Women. Ya know what just go watch 20th Century Women.
This is an awful review but at least it’s more interesting than the movie itself!
*No ratings on any Ansel movies for now, don’t wanna spoil my video*