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The Feels (2017)
Not good
I know 99% of lesbian films are bad but I thought this one would be somewhat decent. The plot felt empty, I couldn't get myself to care about the characters, the characters were boring and had no substance to them. The dialogue was cringy, the acting was bad and the movie has some random crying and singing from the characters.
We spend more time with the other characters than with Lu and Andi. There's a subplot with Lu's sister that I did not care about at all, Andi's guy best friend was annoying and somehow managed to pull multiple women in the group. Of course they make him confess that he's in love with Andi. I'm over the 'guy is secretly in love with his girl best friend' trope.
The movie has confessionals from the characters about when they got their first orgasm that doesn't fit with the movie and feels pointless. Most of this movie felt pointless.
The whole plot could've been avoided if they just talked to each other!! Did Lu not care that she wasn't having orgasms? Did she try anything to fix it? Was she just hoping that it would happen one day? I don't get why she wouldn't do anything to fix it. You're not having orgasms from your partner who you love a lot and your thought process is to just say 'oh well' and just hope it works out?
Better Than Chocolate (1999)
Boring and not good
I guess for 1999 it was decent. The acting, dialogue and plot weren't good. I couldn't get myself to care about the characters or Maggie and Kim's relationship. There's no real build up to their relationship, they meet and two seconds later they move in together. We don't see much about them or about their relationship. I don't know why they like each other or why they're even likable as people in the first place.
I wish we saw more of Maggie trying to hide their relationship or where she worked since that's what the plot seems to be about. They didn't do that good of a job of trying to hide their relationship anyways. Kim gets mad that Maggie won't say that she's in love with her after her mother asks but they've been dating for like 3 days, I know the U-Haul stereotype but seriously?
Their relationship and the lesbian experience in general felt sexualized. The relationship felt very based around sex, it seems like that's all they did and there's the body paint scene that is male gazey. The bookstore mainly just had erotica and books about lesbian sex.
Maggie is friends with the owner of the café next to the bookstore she works at and he makes homophobic jokes and kicks Maggie and Kim out for kissing but says it's fine for straight patrons yet no one says anything to him about it. The actress who plays Maggie is not a good actress, her pretending to cry is so bad and she is constantly smiling while saying her lines. The actress who plays Kim has one facial expression the entire movie.
The ending makes no sense with the title cards describing the character's lives after the movie, Judy and Frances end up getting married yet I felt no chemistry between the two and didn't feel anything about them getting together. Maggie does lip-synching at this bar she goes to and it says that she and Kim go on the road to perform and she writes a book called "Better than chocolate".
She mentions wanting to major in English once and preforming what? Lip-synching? We don't see any passion or desire from her to want to do either one of those.
Maybe I should be looking at this from a 1990s lens instead of a 2022 lens but this movie is not good.
Killing Eve: Hello, Losers (2022)
What the hell happened?
It's been almost two weeks since the finale aired and I'm still upset about it. This whole season has been a giant mess! Villanelle and Eve were in a good place at the end of season 3 but at the start of season 4 Eve is mad at her for some reason that never gets explained. They spend most of the season apart from each other. This season was full of plot holes and questions that don't get answered.
Villanelle's kills this season felt boring and more gruesome, she's usually creative and kills with a purpose but this season she was toeing the line at serial killer instead of assassin. Pam was so pointless. So much time was spent on pointless things and we still don't know who sits at the top of the 12. V goes and kills random faceless people while Eve dances.
Who allowed Laura Neal to be the head writer? She barely has any writing credits, and from her interviews does not understand the characters or the show from calling Eve's scream a 'scream of joy, a rebirth' to saying that Villanelle will always be a psychopathic killer. She wrote the bus and dance scenes last seasons so what happened? Did she get amnesia and forget everything she wrote? To top it off she was making fun of people who were mad on her Instagram and told someone to get over it, it was fiction.
We're really doing the 'bury your gays' trope in 2022? V wanted to change, she was groomed to be an assassin but deep down wanted the same things everyone else wants She wanted someone to love her despite her flaws and the writers couldn't give her that? The ending was lazy and rushed. I think I would have preferred if they both died.
Having religious imagery and V as Jesus in the same season that the queer character dies in doesn't sit right with me. Having the show's openly gay actress be the one to kill said character is gross and calling Eve's scream at the end "a rebirth, she's cleansing herself of Villanelle" is offensive. So she rids herself of Villanelle and queerness to go back to what exactly? Eve has nothing left and doesn't want her old life anymore, she was bored of it (Laura Neal wrote that scene).
Laura Neal is now acting like the show has always been about morality. I liked that the characters (especially being women) were morally grey. It's about two women being similar despite one not wanting to believe it. So people can't change? Villanelle wanted to change, she deserved a happy ending.
Nice to see the writers get blasted from all sides cause this episode and season was so bad. This is why you don't change head writers every season.
Like a Boss (2020)
Boring and unfunny
I got bored not even halfway through. The movie got predictable and boring. Rose and Tiffany don't have chemistry for two people who are supposed to have been best friends since middle school. I did laugh at a couple jokes but it was mainly unfunny. I couldn't even remember most of the character's names or the name of this movie when I decided to do a review.