my favorite video essay genre is an intense analysis on why a shitty film is shitty, love this so much

I just found your channel and I love this video, but I have to defend To All the Boys I've Loved Before a bit lmao Her mom being dead is pretty important thematically and comes up a few times in the story. It puts a greater importance on her relationship with her sisters, is shown to affect her dad and their relationship with each other, and just seems to actually affect the main character in general (unlike in the Kissing Booth).

love your videos dawg keep it up 💃🕺💃🕺

yes but it was written by a 16 year old and honestly so fricken cool a 16 year old's novel could get turned into a movie, pretty sure it was posted to like wattpad or something

I watched the first film just to get context for the ice cream scene shown earlier in the video, wasn't worth it. I really hate the essentialism that youtuber film critics get over movies where every detail, to the smallest degree must absolutely be important or contribute in any minor way that seems almost robotic in demand. As if fun is illegal, like minor details cannot exist just for the sake of it. Regarding this critique, Everything you said was literally within the first two minutes of the film, and I'd argue the detail about Lee and Ellie being born on the same day is important information, the entire montage is because it exists as demonstration and to tell the audience just how close they are and that they are not just regular close friends, but close enough to essentially be siblings. Not like they don't look the part either... It does come up too, because we have a birthday scene at the end of the movie. The movie was really enjoyable for me for the first 30 to 50 minutes up until the romance side of the plot actually kicked in. Because what was previously established, and the poor choice of dialogue could do nothing but imply an undertone of incest to what Ellie and Noah was doing that disturbed me for the rest of it. While also making Ellie prove herself to be an insanely selfish character to the point it makes Lee more likeable that he didn't outright just dip from the franchise wholesale after Ellie essentially said "Look, I know I hurt you by lying to you about me fucking your brother but like I really wanna, and if you don't like that then that's a you issue and you can fuck off forever," after she tried manipulating him into blaming him for her own guilt. Unrelated but when Lee got tackled by Noah and held to the ground I genuinely felt for him as he was the most supportive character in the whole movie but after finding Ellie with her lips on his older brother, was now held against the ground in what must only have been extremely emasculating and infuriating as being unable to actually fight his brother and being physically restrained by him must have only enhanced his feelings of helplessness that probably weren't that big of a deal or the main ones present before. But I have a feeling the screenwriters didn't pick up on that. I don't watch movies that often, so anything an experienced watcher might have become numb too, I have not. Which is context added to make it not seem like I'm a fan of the movie or anything. Around 11:23, no it was because he proved the genuiousity of the apology by sneaking off to come back into class dressed in a skirt and essentially mock himself to make it even.

Is it just me or do Miles and Ollie look like they're brothers 😬I keep mixing them up cus they're both clean shaven, same height, same shade of brown hair, same hairstyle... they even dress the same

what's up with edge of 17?

21:51 it’s probably based off of DDR’s freestlying scene kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bJ2PjbSgy9mUm2g.html