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After Everything (2023)
Such a lost opportunity
This was one of the most dissapointing endings in movies, ever. Honestly, I didn't like the last 2, as they got insanely toxic and they glorified it. They had such a great opportunity to fix it in this movie. Harden worked on himself and it looked so promising. And then they hook up, all is forgiven and they live hapily ever after? What the hell? She has no idea about his progress when she says yes. So basically, she still agrees to marry the narcissistic ass he was in the previous movies. Also no mention on the new book and what's in it. He never talked about his past, but it's all in the book. She ran because of the first book. He asked Natalie for permission, and then they just skip over the whole part where she gets to read it. All the very real issues are just brushed off by a hookup at a wedding. Like all is so easily forgiven. Still glorifying toxic relationships in the name of "inevitable". The producers should be ashamed for the way they made these movies.
What Men Want (2019)
Just not as funny as it could have been
It had potential. Even though it isn't very original, mind reading story lines can be pretty funny. But they didn't deliver. The thoughts weren't funny. The scène with the neighbour didn't make any sense. The other sex scènes were super weird. Only the romance storyline was somewhat cute.
All actors were trying too hard, none of the characters felt even remotely natural. Making it unratable. Obviously it is, as it's fiction. But I literally couldn't even relate to being the women in a men's company. And I have been that women.. Henson should stick to movies where she's actually the badass women she is, because this role didn't suit her.
Old (2021)
Decent story but poorly excecuted
I got so excited when I saw the trailer but was highly dissapointed. It starts with so many questions, you're sucked in because you want to know what's going on. We follow a family from the start and clearly something's up, but it remains vague, so you want to get answers.
Then more things happen, they end up on that beach, creating way more questions. Which is still fine, still want to know more. But then they never actually answer any questions. More people show up that we barely learn anything about, troughout the entire movie. They just all get involved in this aging issue and it affects them in different ways, like normal aging does to normal people. A lot happens, before any of those initial questions are answered. Untill the point you just start wondering what the hell the point of the movie is. And then some of the questions get answered in 1 scene. There's such a buildup to these problems, that you at least expect a massive blow up at some point. But that just doesn't happen. It's basically brushed off in some kind of "we're dying today so yesterday's issues are irrelevant now" way. Which I get, but the way they just solved it into 1 shot, doesn't do that message any justice.
Then, in the end, after a lot of unfinished stories and a lot of drama, we find out why they were at the island. Again, this takes up about 5 minutes of the movie. It's actually very interesting, but they decided it didn't deserve much credit. And then it's over. And then you have a very predictable ending to top it off.
So basically, about 15/20 minutes are pretty good, and everything in between is just overdramatic, badly acted, incomplete drama that hardly makes sense.
Too bad. The story was interesting but so badly excecuted.