Regretting You
Review: As I said in my Letterboxd review, I am regretting watching this movie. Always love going to the theater, especially with my wife. But aside from that experience, there was very little to be redeemed from the experience of watching this movie. I saw it had a 15% on Rotten Tomatoes and thought maybe it was getting review bombed since Colleen Hoover isn’t beloved by the masses, but nope, the movie was just bad. Of the 120+ new movies I’ve seen this year, this one is currently sitting in the bottom 10. It was incredibly awkward, with none of the emotional moments really landing. A couple of the jokes made me chuckle, but I spent more time laughing at times when I don’t think that was the intended response. The performances were bad. The direction was bad. The writing was horrendous. Allison Williams & Dave Franco led the charge of cringe worthy performances and this is definitely some of the worst work I’ve personally seen from either of them, both of whom I would consider solid actors. Also, I really think we should shift away from having intimate scenes between characters that are minors, no matter how old the actors portraying them are. That’s just weird. There are two Colleen Hoover adaptations coming at us next year, so I guess we’ll see how those go.
High: So I briefly considered putting Mason Thames as the high, because his performance was the least hard to watch. But I’ll admit it was still pretty rough, mostly due to the script he was performing. Instead, I’ll just say my high is Mckenna Grace getting to really take on a lead role, because I feel like this is the start of a change of direction in her career. Not actually a high, but I also did get a good kick out of all the pro-AMC Theater propaganda/product placement in this movie. I feel as though it would be awkward watching this at a Cinemark.
Low: I really considered putting the screenplay here, because as previously stated, it was horrendous. But instead, I’m going to put any of the flashback scenes in which Allison Williams (37), Dave Franco (40), Willa Fitzgerald (34), & Scott Eastwood (39) were playing high school versions of their characters. It was atrocious to watch. They really should have gone the direction of casting young actors if they were going to do flashbacks, especially when one of the few highlights of the last Colleen Hoover movie was the great job they did with the casting of young actors to portray younger versions of characters.
Rating: 2.5/10
