[”mythoughts”]i didn't comment in the post about it just cause i don't really want to be a debbie downer. i felt about it like i felt about the book. the characters have interesting potential but the story lets everyone down. zac and taylor and cast were fine though imo. and scott did what he could. the only majorly bad decision on his part (imo) was the way they filmed the scene where he tells her about the picture. that was ridiculous and pretty sure what the wall street journal review was calling out as zac not being able to string two lines together... which is so stupid as he clearly can in other movies so clearly not his fault.
I thought the editing and pacing was awful. The fucking montages every five minutes killed me. The soundtrack was way overdone and melodramatic, along with having no consistent theme and then having actual songs just in the sex scenes. Taylor, despite being a sweetheart irl, seemed all over the place and mentally unstable as the character. Zac had so little to work with that he might as well not been there. That scene you're talking about, they filmed it like a stage monologue which was a BAD choice. I think that was the worst Nick Sparks movie I've seen tbh. It wasn't Zac's fault though, which I am thankful for, it was a bad script and bad editing. There was potential too, it just wasn't executed well at all.
The sex scenes were hot though. And I swear to God I saw boob sucking!
[lol]i probably don't need to use the spoiler tag but i am, lol. cause i don't want to fight with people who are happy with it the way it was. that's fine, they can enjoy it, different strokes for different folks. anyway i had issues with the pacing (a book problem tbh) and montages and soundtrack too. taylor i didn't mind. idk if i ever really felt like there was great potential, at least if they wanted to hold to the book, but i did go in with an open mind. and i could enjoy it, in between or while ignoring its weaknesses but i'm happy we get to move on now.
Nice candid of Zac. Loving his outfit, hair, glasses combo. His food doesn't look half bad either. lol
Dude, I wasn't expecting the interviewer in the first video to look like that. "Back in the old days" Look at Zac talking like he's more grown up. "emulsify" (': & YES! He mentioned The Paperboy going to Cannes. I enjoyed that interview.
I'm rather enjoying the fact Zac likes barbecue.
I was expecting the BO numbers to go down for TLO for the second weekend, so I'm not too bummed. It still did alright for it's second weekend. Kind of surprised it beat Five-Year Engagement and The Raven tbh, so plus for TLO.
I wasn't expecting a great holdover, but 10 mill is still good. It should cross the 50 million mark so that's good and it's international numbers are climbing so in all TLO is a success, which is all I could hope for. Now what I really wanna see is Liberal Arts and The Paperboy.
BTW is it asking too much for them to Easy Money out of pre-development?
with the first version of the script that got turned in, i'm glad they've waited on that project. it was painfully and blandly derivative of the original. part of the problem is wb wants to shoot for pg-13 which is so absolutely boring compared to the swedish version. i can't imagine a pg-13 version that isn't just watered-down rubbish tbh.
Hmm that's interesting, I had no idea they were going for a PG-13 rating. Honestly I can see where it could work, but they would defiantly need to work the hell out of that script, and the acting/directing would have to be damn near perfect. I just would love to see it, but I want it to do justice to the original for sure so if the first script was garage then I'm willing to wait.
"Interesting" is the wrong word. Why would WB option a dark thriller and then try to turn it into a bland PG-13 romp? I will never understand studio executives.
Thank God no one sold The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo to a major studio for Americanization.
First Off Like the New Candids Of Zac he looks good. 2: With the Lucky One Felling to Number #4 at The BO Not that bummed I was expecting the BO numbers to go down for TLO for the second weekend. A least it had a great Opening weekend that's all that matters.
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Didn't like it though. :/
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I thought the editing and pacing was awful. The fucking montages every five minutes killed me. The soundtrack was way overdone and melodramatic, along with having no consistent theme and then having actual songs just in the sex scenes. Taylor, despite being a sweetheart irl, seemed all over the place and mentally unstable as the character. Zac had so little to work with that he might as well not been there. That scene you're talking about, they filmed it like a stage monologue which was a BAD choice. I think that was the worst Nick Sparks movie I've seen tbh. It wasn't Zac's fault though, which I am thankful for, it was a bad script and bad editing. There was potential too, it just wasn't executed well at all.
The sex scenes were hot though. And I swear to God I saw boob sucking!
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Dude, I wasn't expecting the interviewer in the first video to look like that. "Back in the old days" Look at Zac talking like he's more grown up. "emulsify" (': & YES! He mentioned The Paperboy going to Cannes. I enjoyed that interview.
I'm rather enjoying the fact Zac likes barbecue.
I was expecting the BO numbers to go down for TLO for the second weekend, so I'm not too bummed. It still did alright for it's second weekend. Kind of surprised it beat Five-Year Engagement and The Raven tbh, so plus for TLO.
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BTW is it asking too much for them to Easy Money out of pre-development?
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Thank God no one sold The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo to a major studio for Americanization.
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