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wild how all of these weird conservative/liberal romances are conservative man x liberal woman and instead of the man realising that maybe other people deserve rights, the woman ALWAYS compromises her beliefs for him

Someone said the movie is for girls with racist bfs and I wholeheartedly agree

"This movie would've been at home in 2002 or 2003... But that was ten years ago" Regrettably, according to my calculator app, 2002 was in fact twenty years ago. I'm sorry to be the one to break this to you. It hurts me too.

The timing of the release of this show was pretty great. Around a week or so after it released the Republican party successfully blocked a bill that would've capped insulin prices. But hey, when you mix blue and red you get purple. So that's cool, right?

There is so many issues in this movie, the racism, the health care issues in America, the romanisations of the military, the misogyny, yet some people are loosing their damn mind over this movie and how good they think it is!! Just because the 2 main actors are good looking, it doesn’t mean its sexy

Former military spouse here (still married, my partner is just no longer in the military): literally no one cares if your marriage is "legit" or not. You're not required to prove that you're really in love with your spouse and no one would go to prison as a penalty for getting married to someone they didn't love. The reason military personnel get housing allowances is because the junior enlisted do not get paid enough to afford housing. It's not "extra money"- you get it because you need it. (To clarify, that is not taking into account hazard pay for combat which is a thing and was thr situation in the film but generally speaking junior enlisted don't get paid a lot.) Also for us the health insurance wasn't very good- the insurance I had through my job was much better than what the military offered. Of course it's different for everyone (and i am not diabetic) but we had very bad experiences with military health care overall. And the US military hasn't sent troops to Iraq in literal years. Was this movie meant to be set in the early 2000s? (I genuinely don't know) TLDR: This movie is silly.

Another American type one diabetic here-- I have the exact same insulin pump that Cassie is shown using in the movie and I shit you not, the company sent out an email on the day this premiered, practically bragging that they were featured in it...a movie where the core premise was someone needing to commit fraud in order to afford their life-sustaining piece of technology. The lack of self-awareness was STAGGERING.

As Kennie JD pointed out, if he is still voting for you to lose your rights, that is not love.

Even if you remove the very obvious military propaganda from the story, you’re still left with an incredibly toxic relationship that the film is trying to make you believe is “relationship goals”. The saddest thing is people are eating shit shit up. Can’t say I’m surprised though, and I also can’t say I’m entirely surprised Booktok loves this movie because… I mean they worship Colleen Hoover, and from what I know about her books, the relationships in them are varying degrees of toxic, so..

I have never hated a movie that was so acclaimed by most of its audience until this movie came out. It got so much praise from a good portion of people and for what?? At least with movie series like 365 and After, the vocal majority *know* that they're bad. To paraphrase a tweet I saw a week or two after it released, this movie is definitely made for the girls with racist military boyfriends...

This is so funny to me bc military men dating for 2 months and then getting married to have better housing and money is a real thing that creates so many military bratz lmao

The diabetes and not affording insulin is spot on and no joke, my insurance did the same thing and decided to fuck with my prescription since it says to take between 3-15 units depending on what my blood sugar is at that time but my insurance company only saw the 3 and decided the refill date from that. Needless to say but I didn't have the 630 to pay out of pocket and it took nearly 4 days for my doctor to get things changed and preapproved and I ended up in DKA aka. dying and ended up in the hospital for 5 days. My only solace afterward was knowing my insurance had to pay for a hospital bill that was over 200 times the cost of the initially refused insulin. So yeah, you better believe I'd have no problem banging some Marine dude if it meant not going through that again!

Those two end up in divorce court, and he ends up a thumb cop. She ends up a single mom looking for a healthy relationship. He gets away with domestic abuse because of his family connections. This is how it would really end up. The sequel should be a horror movie.

I’m a sucker for cringy romance. However, as a person who lived in a country that American Military got deployed to, this movie triggered my PTSD. It was clear military propaganda. The male lead had no redeeming factors or character growth. There was no reason for the female lead to ignore her core beliefs for a stranger who didn’t even try. If anything the female character was the one that compromised and literally fell in love with a man that doesn’t believe she deserves life saving meds because she’s poor.

This movie could've been improved EASILY if the guy had decided to enlist to support his family or something like that. Then he'd have a reason to support being in the military that isn't, you know, american rights (?) and the couples' core belief systems wouldn't be so fucking different

Wait thats not how enemies to lovers works. Isn't it like the whole point that they actually have the same belive system but just have a wrong picture of each other/stereotypes?

The only thing I can say about this movie is that they got how racist and blood thirsty marines to be 100% accurate! My best friend is in the marines and his horror stories about it are absolutely disgusting.

As a military brat, this movie severely overestimates the Marine Corps give a shit about 'real marriage'. I have seen people get married for less and never have issues. My aunt was the maid of honor for her friend's 'wedding' (justice of the peace four days before her boyfriend of three weeks deployed), she met the best man who asked for her hand by the end of the night with the romantic overture, "I'm moving to Guam on Tuesday, do you want to get married?" No one ever questioned them. Also, the jar-head attitude is spot on- I have heard that "good enough to fight for your ass..." line like a thousand times waiting tables near bases on payday weekend. This movie is complete dogshit, but they did get that right.

"What rights for Americans are you fighting for in Iraq in 2022?" plus the sound effect killed me lmao😂. Brilliant commentary as usual.

"2002, 2003... That was 10 years ago!" Amanda, that was TWENTY years ago, actually.

They were so close to being “ok.” Imagine if he said she couldn’t afford her life saving medication on the stand and said “what am I fighting for if I have to marry a friend for her to live!” CMON ANYTHING

I hated it. It was bad. Not even just the politics, but also how rushed the relationship felt. It was like boom boom boom in love. They didn't change as characters, just the relationship changed. Both have to grow and be dynamic or it is boring and falls flat. Layering that with the politics makes it worse. His beliefs are horrendous. He doesn't even see her mom as a person. Is her mom just gonna never ever meet that guy? My apologies for not using names. I already forgot every name but Johno.

personally i prefer the kitchen item wallpaper but wolverine does make the fine dining background a vibe

I don't really understand why they should go to jail. It was, in a legal sense, a legitimate marriage, right? Papers signed and everything? As long as its legal the motive shouldn't matter. People marry for mercenary reasons all the time, and have done for as long as marriage has existed. It might not be a decent thing to thing to do, but it shouldn't be the governments/military's business if you marry for ~ Twue Wove ~ or just to make a household that benefits both parties. A dishonorable discharge for immoral behavior or something seems more like a punishment to fit the crime in this case

I am so upset that Sofia Carson is in this film because literally she was in Descendants 3 which means she should know better!

"You're rich, I bet!" Sir, she is working IN A BAR.

As a connoisseur of bad conservative films, it’s amazing to me what these folks *put in their own movies.* They didn’t HAVE to make the lefty lady a diabetic whose choices end up between the Marine or literal death, thanks to conservative health care policies (or lack thereof) but they did. They didn’t HAVE to make the Marine’s debt to a drug dealer, but they did. So now they’re asking me to empathize with the small-minded jingoist hypocrite who won’t even defend his “wife” to his friends, over the woman with a job and drive and goals and no debt to a drug dealer because of a massive fuck up? Ok, movie, sure.

Yep the white soldier and foreign woman fall in love trope. A tale that is boring as time itself.

I saw some rando on Twitter saying something like “how you know a movie isn’t w*ke” with a graphic that showed this movie had a good audience score and bad critics scores. So I guess this is going to be a favorite of the crazies. Those people are embarrassing.

It makes nnoooo sense. How did they catch feelings? She was mad about the one guy, but he's just as bad!! Why would you sleep with someone that just hand waved away someone he's about to go to wat with saying he's going to hunt humans?! Ma'am, he's kinda soft admitting he agrees and you want the d because he's afraid they might try to kill him back?! Fist big argument he's calling her a slur, I know it.

Honestly, i work in the health care system and dated someone whose father was in the military. First off, the line about the "just date me to get good health insurance" hahaha, I laughed at that. I've seen the "health insurance" they offer and it's crappy. The person I dated can actually confirm this. So no thank you 🙂

How *DARE* them bring Florence and the Machine into this disaster! They are too good for this, you monsters!

to quote the great Kennie JD about this one: "imagine knowingly fucking a man who doesn't believe in you having rights. embarrassing."

i've never been one for the enemies to lovers trend, mainly because hardly any story that tries it pulls it off well. i think film is a very poor vehicle for it and it's better suited to longform written works or a tv show. the thing about enemies to lovers is it requires massive character development. when done well it's a slow-burn, a gradual, believable arc from enemies to grudging allies to willing allies to friends, and so on and so forth, before lovers is even in the question. in theory it's really compelling but so many of these enemies to lovers stories neglect the development entirely. one second they hate each other for genuine reasons and then the next they're all over each other, but we never get to see _why_ they like each other now beyond surface level physical attraction. they're enemies because they have ideological differences, and then... they start sleeping together? despite the reason they're enemies never having been resolved? it's so shallow and i can't stand it. it such a waste of a hypothetically good trope.

When I was in high school I worked at an ice cream parlor. We didnt offer a military discount (as a lot of places dont) and one guy got pissed and pulled the "we r saving ur ass" nonsense. Even at 16 I asked him what rights hes fighting for that we dont already have? What would change if the military wasnt overseas? ...he was really pissed and stormed out. Never answered my question either.

“Oh my god, no! No- NOT THE *GOVERNMENT!”* This will be my yearbook quote

This movie feels like it was made by one of those guys on tinder who calls himself “fiscally liberal but socially conservative” but advertised as middle of the road and it’s actually painful 😔

"Let me TAKE some NOTES" is an entire Amanda mood and I am HERE FOR IT. Thanks for watching this terrible stuff for our entertainment!

“this is the type of movie that would’ve felt right at home when military deployment was at an all time high back in 2002 or 2003. that was 10 years ago” it’s 2022, amanda

"Oh no, the pupper will be left alone!" The only valid concern with this movie!

what is a legitimate basis for marriage?? in most societies historically marriage for love is pretty uncommon and it’s such a subjective basis for a law anyways, how would you ever enforce that unless someone straight up confessed? i’ve never gotten married but i’m pretty sure the legal paperwork doesn’t make you pinky swear on your mom’s life that you feel butterflies in your stomach whenever you think about the person you’re marrying or anything like that

honestly what pissed me off the most in this movie was cassies singing... like no shade to the actress but it really was low key annoying

11:18- I think Drop Dead Diva actually used that as a plot for an episode once. An ex-con got diagnosed with cancer while he was in prison, so almost immediately after getting unwillingly paroled he tried to get himself thrown back into prison on purpose so he could continue his treatments that he otherwise would have no hope of affording.

Okay, but Bella and Rosalie is SUCH a good enemies to lovers pairing, that's all I can fixate on

Amanda has a great announcer voice.

My current partner is a marine and very pro-military. I am very much anti military and normally avoid anyone with a military background. However, I did make an exception for my partner due to him having invested in extensive therapy and actually being a decent human being. But that still doesn't change my opinion on the military in general, and he knows this. It's not an easy topic for us but, at our core, we still respect each other. This story is stupid because it insinuates respect is not a requirement in a working relationship. Remember kids, if it doesn't have MUTUAL respect, it's not healthy.

7:40 so funny story, this is the exact situation my Aunt was in when she married my Uncle. Granted she isn't gay but they had separated and my Uncle was a Policeman but after getting cancer he remarried my Aunt so she would get his benefits after he did since they were still on good terms

What I picked up from watching Kennie, Amanda, and Cindy react to this movie is 1. the entire story premise is shit. 2. the female lead’s singing voice is super annoying. 3. how this man keeps getting acting roles is beyond me. And now he’s cast as Prince Henry in Red, White and Royal Blue… Keeping my fingers crossed it won’t be terrible since I was pretty excited about that one.

Cindy's video was filled with comments of "I can't believe this Disney girl is on this kind of movie" or stuff like that, I liked her in her Disney roles but for this movie I can't ignore her family background of corrupt Colombian politicians, who are quite conservative, so it is not surprising at all that she is making a movie like this.

It’s okay I’ll cure my boyfriend’s racism through the power of LURV

Omg it’s so romantic to marry someone so you can get access to life saving medicine!! Absolutely adorable I love America

3:56 "back in 2002 or 2003 but that was 10 years ago" oh honey

I remember that time when my insurance only cover 14 days of medicine per month, medicine that I had to take every day, and then worrying about how I was going to afford the rest. Thank God I don't need to take that stuff anymore and I feel sorry for those who do. Not to mention the restrictions on pain medicine because some people abuse them. That really sucked

This gives me the vibes of a Christian movie that has a character convert the “immoral, lost” atheist love interest

Purple Hearts starring Nicholas Galitzine and Sofia Carson is truly a mess of a film. This was supposed to be an enemies to lovers, but the others beg to disagree. If a liberal and a conservative are being forced to fake marry, then it won't work out.

“Even with my favorite enemy to lovers pairing… Bella/Rosalie” AH A WOMAN OF TASTE I SEE

I do actually enjoy enemies with different beliefs to lovers when done well, but there are two caveats to that: A. That works best as a slowburn with lots of character development to explain how they reach a compromise or how one side gives up their atrocious beliefs.... and B.) I find it more enjoyable when it's grounded in a fantasy setting and not our real-world belief systems. Example: watching a monster and a monster hunter fall in love. Enemies to lovers is usually kind of metaphorical, relying on heightened drama to create something relatable rather than entirely relatable situations, so grounding it TOO MUCH in real-world politics can kill the buzz.

Oh boy, I've been waiting for this one! As someone who's been in the USAF for more than 10 years, I find this movie insanely cringe. Also, highly unlikely that something like this would actually go to court martial. Just like how adultery is technically punishable under the UCMJ, but is never investigated or tried.

If she just needed the medical benefits why not marry another member who she gets along better with 🙄 There are literally SO many members waiting for a girl like that so they can live out of the barracks

Wolverine is just the touch that dining room needs. He really brightens up the place.

"If this released in 2002, 2003...~ that was 10 years ago!" Who's gonna tell her?

Words cannot describe how much I boil whenever I see that "hunting down Arabs" scene

Kitchen food wallpaper!!! The painting of pies is oddly comforting! I do like the Wolverine though! Amanda knows what her fans want and she delivers 👏

But the REAL conflict of this movie is Cassie’s struggle to not have her hair awkwardly tucked into her shirt for half the movie.

I was an active duty Marine until 7 years ago, and I knew this would be poorly acted and poorly written, but was thinking maybe it would be a harmless and cutesy comedy about sham military marriages... nah, I was blindsided by how cringe this was. I couldn't finish it, so I'm just going to tell myself that once he comes home injured, it turns into a remake of Breaking The Waves.

Insulin is also overpriced in Canada. We have free healthcare, but medication is still INSANELY expensive if you don't have coverage. My sister is diabetic.

This movie was absolutely ridiculous 😭😭 I felt so iffy while watching it. Can’t believe I sat through the whole movie

When you described the premise I immediately thought. two people in the military get married for BAH and BAS, and they don't really like each other. Sounds like every military base I have ever been to lol

I work nightshifts and one night a coworker made me watch this entire movie because she loved it (yheap, she was watching it for the second time). She cried and singed through out the whole thing. And I was just jiggling inside, thinking what the hell is this?! It let me emotionally scarred, for the wrong reasons. And finally, I saw Amanda's thumbnail, and oh lord, this was perfect. I laughed out loud, pointing my finger like that Leo DiCaprio meme. Nice one Amanda, one of your finest works.

Amanda's millennial-ness is showing by referring to 2002/2003 as "10 years ago"

Bridgerton did enemies to lovers pretty much perfectly in Season 2 with Kate and Anthony. This wasn't necessary.

If the military cared that much about love and marriage, there’d be a hell of a lot less SA 😬

Kennie JD, ReadwithCindy, and Amanda the Jedi - the holy trinity of reacting to bad art

Why does this make me want to write an "enemies to lovers" story like I'm not even a writer but I can surely write better than this???? 😭

With a partly torn tendent in my ankle, which I'm sure wouldn't be as painful as those wounds, and I can't go more than a few steeps with my boot before almost almost on the ground in pain. Going for a run is so out of the question, from just weekend legs, being unbalanced, and like you said messing up his recovery.

This film is a mockery to traditional military marriage between an 18yo fresh off basic training and the first girl he meets who is deeply indoctrinated in a multi-level marketing scheme.

Now you need to do Netflix' Love in the Villa... I certainly couldn't go from the horrible things they do to one another to happily dating someone who'd done those things.

For anyone who wants to see a true "opposites to lovers" movie, I recommend A Walk to Remember.

Semantic Error is the only enemies to lovers trope I actually like. Most of the time this, trope is coupled with bad writing and horrendous acting.

Military spouse here - he gets more pay when deployed. Also adding a spouse you get increased bah or housing allowance, the spouse gets Tricare which whole not perfect is comprehensive healthcare, also those in the dorms are able to move off base. I know for our branch they no longer do those dependent IDs but instead give us chipped cards now. Additionally many don't wait to get married till after deployment because there are programs for spouses to get support at home and I'm the worst case they spouse would get support. Many do court house before deployment and then big wedding after. Also some get married to other military members to just get out of the dorm.

Oh, it was so terrible. I couldn't deal with her singing voice. Like nails on a chalkboard. I'm so glad someone agrees with me. My Facebook post about it got so many comments saying, "what? It's so good! I love her singing voice!" 🙄

Amanda: this movie seems like it would fit better in 2002-2003. So like 10 years ago. Me: ...wait But seriously, YIKES this movie was a choice. I cannot believe Netflix greenlit this with how Not Good it is. But I guess it is getting watched and getting buzz, even if it's hate watching... I appreciate you and Cindy watching this and tearing it apart so that I do not have to

You mentioning Cindy (literally the crush of my life) feels like my two worlds colliding with each other lol, I love your videos, you're effortlessly funny!

Yeah my brother has type 1 diabetes and it's so hard for him to get not only insulin but test strips and syringes. He doesn't take his insulin as often as he should to make it last longer. Oh and his actual nurse told him to reuse his needles to make them stretch farther. Great medical system we have here in the US.

I'm with Amanda. I hate enemies to lovers stories, especially when they're poorly written.

Im an ex military wife (here in Australia). I'm now in therapy trying to deal with the trauma... Not from what you'd expect though, unless you expected that he treated me like absolute sh*t and used the systems within the army to his advantage to hurt me when i tried to leave. Anyway. This movie sucks.

I can’t believe I finally have something that I’m actually an expert in. As a mil spouse who’s had type one (for 30 flirty and fun years), I have notes. First, in the beginning when she stumbles off stage and gives herself insulin. This is bad. If you have, or find anyone who’s like that and diabetic, you need to feed them. Not give them insulin. Feed them. Pour Pepsi in their mouths, or in even crazier situations, rub honey inside of their cheeks/gums. Second, the thing they don’t show is how fucking sweaty you get having a bad low. Like I’ve had the cradled in the arms, gluco gel in the mouth situations. But there’s the added struggle because you are sweating so much, it’s like trying to steady a fish flopping around that’s refusing to drink a juice box. I wish Gagetown was that close to a beach. Do you know how nice a destress frolic in the sea. Just sounds so much better than, like, ATV’s. Would have been better if it had been called Purple Pancreases. The pancreas needs better PR, and we’ve been living off Nick Jonas for far too long. (As a serious’er note, if anyone has any diabetes questions, send them here! I want to do nothing more than educate on an illness that people don’t really know about.)

‚enemies to lovers‘ is overhyped anyway, most of the time its just two petty people who mildly dislike each other not characters who are literal enemies who overcome their justified hate for the other person

ive watched reviews of this movie like 6 times but of course I'm going to watch amandas because shes my favorite

I didn’t know I needed to listen to a fellow Canadian snark at the US military but yes and thank you

I don’t understand Enemies to Lovers where there isn’t any character growth. Like, what’s the point?

Watching the film Iraq war and xenophobic came up Me an Arab: I am very uncomfortable with the energy we created in the studio today

I honestly don't get the whole ''sham marriage'' premise here, or when it was for the green card in The Proposal. Correct me if I'm wrong, but two consenting adults can get into marriage for ANY REASON they want, right? Why do they have to pretend they are in love to get benefits? Since when it ''love'' a legal pre-requisite of getting into marriage? The only downfall of such arrangement would be the impossibility to marry someone else, even if they fall in love. But again, it's their choice.

Purple Hearts more like Red Flags

😑 this is definitely deeply messed up. Who was this movie made for? This is gross centrist propaganda at best. They have deeply fractured beliefs on what amount of human rights the other has. This is a stupid and patronizing movie for sure. Amanda is the only person who could explain this movie to me without my ears bleeding.

As a type one diabetic, yeah insulin prices are fucking insane, but I’m not sure how I feel about this “representation” of type ones

Ah! It’s so funny seeing Linden Ashby (Johnny Cage!) playing the father in this movie. He is such a nice guy in real life. My fiancé was the DP on a few movies Linden directed and enjoyed working with him.

Man. Why are they making this well after the expired date. You can't even say this aged poorly. It feels like we should back up 20 years for this to be relevant.

hearing amanda shoutout kennie jd and readwithcindy felt like the most ambitious crossover event in cinematic history