26. Review of To All The Boys: Always and Forever (Dir. Michael Fimognari, 2021) [Spoilers]

-

 Just to start off; I'm not particularly a fan of the To All The Boys franchise. The first one was okay, as cheesy as it is, but I really do not think the world needed a second or third instalment. 

I found out about To All The Boys: Always and Forever through a YouTube advert, and I was set on watching it just to see if I was right, that the film would literally just be a two hour long drawn out version of the trailer. And I was right. There was nothing of surprise for me in this movie as I already knew exactly how it was going to go, as the trailer had told me everything that I needed to. Usually a trailer is a sneak peek into a film, intended to entice you to want to see more, but apparently whoever put this movies trailer together didn't get the memo.

Anyway, onto the film.

The main narrative arc which the main characters Lara-Jean (Lana Condor) and Peter (Noah Centineo) go through during this two hour long movie is whether they will end up going to Stanford together and whether or not it will affect their relationship.

Shockingly, the plan to go to college together doesn't work and Lara-Jean falls in love with the idea of going to college in New York, 3,000 miles away from Peter. As you can imagine, this doesn't go down particularly well and Peter gets a bit peeved about it. However, despite them breaking up again as a plot point, in cheesy rom-com fashion, everything sorts out in the end and they get back together. 

Overall, my opinions of the actual film content were that I feel it's something I have seen before, yet executed worse. Maybe it's the fact I had to keep pausing every time Noah Centineo acted so I could cringe for a good minute or so, or that I kept checking to see how much longer I had to endure watching the film, but I just didn't feel engaged by the love story at all. Plus some of the shots were just so STATIC and stayed still for way too long, which didn't particularly help with keeping my attention focused.

Two things I did enjoy, however, were the how the relationships between Lara-Jean and her friends were fleshed out a lot more rather than her whole life being boy-centric, and also the montage scenes which I felt were executed nicely, plus the K-Pop was a nice attention booster.

If you're looking for a really cheesy, not that great romance, and you have time to pause every few minutes to cringe, feel free to knock yourself out. I, however, will be regretting forcing myself through it.

~ Paige Nicole




Comments

  1. rebeckawrites.blogger.com25 February 2021 at 07:04

    Love you Paige but you are incorrect, here are my thoughts hehe ;)

    https://rebeckawrites.blogspot.com/2021/02/to-all-boys-ive-loved-before-always-and.html

    <333

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

42. Review of Amazon Prime's PANIC (2021)

-
Image
I tend to forget that you can watch things on Amazon Prime, but with the release of PANIC and it's multiple advertisements I was pleasantly reminded. Based on the the 2014 young adult novel PANIC by Lauren Oliver, this series covers a small town in Texas' yearly tradition, in which graduating seniors compete in a dangerous game and face their fears in order to win money to improve their lives.  From looking at other reviews, PANIC has gained a mixed receival, however I genuinely really enjoyed it and found it extremely binge able and tense at points. The series is an amalgamation of different genres and themes, including romance, crime, loyalty, poverty, privilege, and gave me similar vibes to The Society (2019) and Escape Room (2019) - but with lower stakes. A lot of the challenges felt a little lacklustre and seemed liked recreational behaviours that some individuals would do without money even being up for grabs.  I never read the book, however I'm thinking that the ch...
Read more

36. Review of Netflix's Love and Monsters (Dir. Michael Matthews, 2020)

-
Image
Love and Monsters really took me by surprise, and I ended up enjoying it so much more than I would have ever thought. The film follows Joel (Dylan O'Brien) as he sets out on a journey in the midst of a mutated monster apocalypse to rekindle his relationship with his pre-apocalypse girlfriend. Along the way, Joel makes friends, overcomes his fears, finds his strengths and realises there's more to life than just purely surviving. Love and Monsters features some really interesting ideas, mixing sci-fi, dystopia, romance, comedy, and monsters, bringing a really fresh movie experience, especially to say that this was a feature which was based purely on a script and not derived from a book or TV show like many films nowadays. I also found that I really appreciated the casting; Dylan O'Brien is great (although I feel he is being typecast for running roles), Michael Rooker is brilliant, and I was also extremely excited  to see Arianna Greenblatt who played Young Gamora in Avenger...
Read more

04. J-Hope: 'Hope World' mix tape and 'Daydream' MV Review

-
Image
J-Hope (rapper from the Korean group BTS, for all you uneducated people out there) finally dropped his first mix tape, after years of anticipation. After only one day of being released, J-Hope now holds the title for a Korean solo artist with the most number ones on iTunes. As some of you reading this may already know that I am whipped for J-Hope and literally anything he does, it comes as no surprise that I was filled with fangirl-ish glee when the mix tape and music video for Daydream was released. However, I had to wait six torturous hours, avoiding every single spoiler on social media as I waited for my flat mate to return home to watch it with me.  When it finally was time to sit down, relax and bless my ears and eyes, I was definitely not disappointed. Compared to J-Hope's other rapline members in BTS, RM and Suga (Agust D) who have released mix tapes previously, J-Hope has a much chiller vibe to his music, which I personally enjoy more than harsher sounding rap, and ...
Read more