Reviews

I love Kirsten Stewart and all but her character, Abby, just annoyed me alot in this movie at times, I perfectly understand where she's coming from but Harper is not a bad person for not wanting to come out.

I was honestly worried Harper was going to be villainized for being scared to come out and... she was but also not at the same time? There's a scene where Abby's gay friend (forgot his name) talks to her about how bad his coming out to his parents went and I liked that, it was admittedly a pretty powerful scene but than after that, when Harper does decide to come out, Abby is still mad cuz it was "too late" ? Like, girl... Are you serious? You finally got what you wanted and YOU'RE STILL MAD??

To be fair though, Harper wasn't completely innocent either, she did lie to Abby multiple times and she's the one that dragged her girlfriend to her homophobic family's house under false pretenses, but worst of all she smashed her sister's painting over her other sister, Sloan, now don't get me wrong, Sloan did try to out Harper to everyone so she honestly deserved that but her other sister, Jane literally spent hours on that painting. (which was really nice by the way)

Still, despite my criticisms I do appreciate the movie tackling the fear of coming out (especially in the Christmas season), even with the execution being a bit clumsy and the ending being not very realistic, I had a decent time nonetheless, it's just not something I'd watch every year or anything.

I was lied to when I was told that this was like 'Heartstopper' when it's literally nothing like it at all, 'Heartstopper' was sweet and... Well, heartstoping ! This is just way too slow paced and boring for me, and I was ready to give it a chance by watching at least three episodes.

I sadly could only get through 2 episodes, why ? Because of August but not only that, because I googled whether he was gonna get with Felice or not, turns out he does?! The reason why I even googled is that I hate it so much when I watch a movie or show where a guy sexually harasses a girl and he obviously makes her uncomfortable but yet still ends up with her at the end.

To be fair, Felice does break up with him later since August apparently kissed Sara in the stable while still dating her but I'm still not over the fact that Felice would even date him in the first place.

Even with that being said, if a show can't hold my attention for just 2 episodes then it's obvious that it might not be for me anyway and it looks like it's the case for 'Young Royales', so all and all, not for me.

So I don't normally talk about the cast of a movie when making a review unless I really like one or more actors/actresses in it but let me just say that purposely casting actors who are genuinely liked and known to be nice or at least known to play the nice characters, was actually genius! Because there's an misconception that rapist are just the weird creepy guys in alleyways when really, it can be anyone, So yeah, genius cast like I said.

Talking of cast, Carrey Mulligan was amazing as Cassie, I still can't believe that people said that she wasn't hot enough to play a "femme fatale" and that Margot Robbie should've played the role, first of all, Carrey Mulligan is extremely beautiful and also Cassie is not a femme fatale, She isn't seducing these men by pretending to be drunk, these men just like to take advantage of drunk women, not saying that Margot Robbie couldn't have played Cassie, she absolutely could have but still, that's not the point.

I've also seen people saying this is just a man hating movie, which is really weird to me because the women in the movie are also shown to suck and can absolutely contribute to rape culture, which is actually something I feel like we don't talk enough about, women can be awful to other women and while that is ultimately a result of the patriarchy, it's still not okay.

Honestly, Gale was the only sane/normal person in this movie, she was a good friend, along with maybe Cassie's parents who also didn't do anything wrong either, by the way, I appreciate the fact that Cassie had a good relationship with her father despite what she does at night.

Although i can't exactly say that Cassie is "crazy" per say... as she never truly hurts anyone, she didn't kill these men like we thought she would because of how it's framed in the trailers, she just torments them a little and the same can be said about what she did to two of the women in the movie, she captures female rage so damn well, she's really smart, badass even, and she's quickly becoming one of my favorite characters in anything ever.

This is absolutely a female Joker movie, minus the killing and extreme violence (although there is some violence, mostly by the end), so okay I guess you could say that it's not exactly fair to compare the two but whatever, I love both movies and I can definitely see some similarities as both movies goes deep in the main character's psyche, a main character that isn't exactly mentally well.

I'm a bit torn on the ending like some people seem to be but I mostly love it and I can't really say I saw it coming or that it couldn't have been better but thank god it didn't go the way I thought it would, which was apparently the original plan, just have Al kill Cassie and end it there, which would've been realistic but... for a movie? Nah, you gotta give the audience some hope and have her have at least some kind of revenge on the guy who did an awful thing to her best friend, the ending is really bittersweet and might be one of the best movie endings that I'm going to remember for a while.

If you're a man and haven't seen this movie (even tho you're reading this long review with full spoilers-), you should watch it, please trust me, this movie doesn't hate you, it hates rape culture and patriarchy and it's honestly really good documentary in a way, women watch movies about the experience of men all the time so why when it's about a woman, it's "bad" because men "can't relate"? It's flawed reasoning to not like or watch a movie. Also, if words like "rape culture" or "patriarchy" triggers you, grow the hell up.

I really don't get the people complaining about the show being "too progressive" in recent seasons when the whole show always had progressive qualities since the beginning but oh well, I guess they weren't paying enough attention.

I don't think this show is amazing by any means, it's actually quite dumb if I'm being honest ( albeit, in a way that's charming enough to just go with it ), but if the only criticism you have for something is about how progressive it is then it honestly cannot be that bad.

Anyway, now let me just say this, Gina is absolutely the worst out of the main cast of characters, she's just mean and annoying and has not made me laugh once, but thankfully I can stand everyone else better.

Especially Rosa, she's great, yeah she's mean too but the type of mean I can actually find funny, don't ask me why but growing up I've always loved characters like Sam from 'iCarly' or Jade from 'Victorious' and Rosa really reminded me of them, that's not to mention that Rosa is amazing bi representation. ( along with Raymond, being amazing gay representation )

While I don't like Jake that much, I can't help but laugh when that idiot gets his comeuppance for something dumb he did, I actually didn't like him and Amy together all that much and wished they never got together in the first place but that's probably just me, I just think Amy deserves better to be honest.

One least thing, if you're angry about them even just mentioning police brutality because "It DoEsN't HaPpEn ThAt MuCh", tell that to Freddie Gray, Sam Dubose, Philando Castile, Terence Crutcher, Alton Sterling, Jamar Clark, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks, George Floyd, Jeremy McDole, Tamir Rice, Michael Brown, Eric Garner and so many more.

If anything, I would be... disappointed at best if a show all about cops didn't mention it at all, even if it is a comedy above all else, we already have enough copaganda in media out there.

This is nothing I haven't seen before but I guess this is a good show to keep your little kid entertained while you're doing something else, the only thing I can really praise the show for is how diverse the cast is.

That being said, why did they need to make the first episode an hour long? All the other episodes are at a normal length and they really didn't need to defeat the big bad in the first episode either.

I'm sure she'll come back later but the big battle they had at the end felt more appropriate for a season finale or something than the first episode but oh well.

I didn't go in expecting much but I somehow still felt underwhelmed by the show and I'm still not certain if I should go and watch the other episodes, but hey, at least the kiddos obsessed with unicorns probably love it.

I'm just gonna go ahead and state the obvious, both Elliot Page and Patrick Wilson were really great in this, i've actually never seen a movie with Elliot Page starring in it despite having seen clips of most of them, I'd say that this was a good start to actually watching them.

This movie obviously deals with a difficult topic (i'm guessing you already know what it's about since you're reading this) and most of the movie is Elliot Page's character torturing Patrick Wilson's character and if i'm being honest... i can't say i ever felt bad for the guy, sure, Hayley is an insane monster, (one cannot not do what she does to this man and be sane at the same time) but so is he.

I felt some sick sense of satisfaction in seeing Jeff getting tortured, and while i do feel weird about that, i'm not the only one who saw it that way, some people even saw their own abusers in him and liked seeing... all that, obviously i'm not defending Hayley but it's a movie, not real life so i feel like it's fine to root for her but at the same time i can't say she was 100% in the right the whole time.

Also, only problem i had with it was the ending, i feel like it could've been more morally ambiguous like the rest of the movie was, because even though i was rooting for Hayley, i doubt she was meant to be the good guy... until the end where they decide that Hayley is good, Jeft is bad and everything she did to him was justified and that it doesn't go deeper than that despite the fact that it didn't felt like what the movie was going for before the ending.

Sure, you can have your main character do terrible things and still make your audience root for them but if you wanna do that you better go all out, Jeff's torture was already satisfying so it's not like it would've been hard, if you don't get what i'm talking about, just go watch "Good Movie, Bad Ending: Hard Candy." on the Council of Geeks channel which i feel like explains it better, even if it is pretty old.

But even with that, i still really liked it, i'm a big fan of movies like "Carrie" or "Jennifer's body" which are the embodiment of the "good for her" genre and this movie is no different, also i love that tagline so much, it's awesome just like the movie.