Cool poster, right? Actually, wrong! This poster obviously sucks because there's not Taylor Swift on it. Let me go find a better one real quick.
That's more like it! So the first thing any sane person will notice about this movie is it's all-star cast. Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes, Taylor Swift (of course), and the wonderful Alexander Skarsgård, best known for his role the model dressed in green from Zoolander who blew up in the gas station explosion. Oh, uh spoilers I guess?
RIP Meekus
The second thing you'll notice about this movie is that it isn't very good. What makes it this extra disappointing is that it's almost pretty good, but it's short run-time really hurts it. The novel is so well loved because it spends so long digging into what it really means to be human, but 97 minutes just isn't enough to do that effectively. There are so many points where you'll want to stick around to know more about what's happening but the movie leaves you behind. It's the kind of movie going experience that can give you a pretty serious case of blue balls.
The worst offender has to be the role of Rosemary, played by Taylor Swift. Her character is hyped up so much and delivers on her first and second appearance and really get the audience hooked, but after this she literally never appears on screen again. She didn't even show up at the end in some sort of Star Wars force ghost Ewok party camo, which I was 100% expecting.
I know I said it delivered, but to be honest there's not much to say about Taylor's performance. She certainly did what she needed to, but never got a chance to shine. For all I know they filmed three times what they showed and had to scrap it all because she botched it, but assuming that would be pretty unfair. I would still recommend watching the movie, it's a good time for sure. Not as good as Holes, but which one has Taylor Swift in it? Yeah, I thought so.
See you tomorrow,
-C
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