John David Washington and Zendaya gonna help you seal the deal.

Netflix sets out to make thee most "Netflix and chill" movie ever.

A bottle of sweet red and this movie, and you might go...all the way.


Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGZmwsK58M8

They fight the whole time. And the end is incredibly bittersweet/uncertain. I wouldn’t watch this on V-Day at *all*, lol.

(Or any day, because I didn’t like it. But especially if I was looking for romance! Shit is like the anti-romance, lmao. It’s basically all about how fucking won’t make your relationship work.)

Wonder if its really *that* bad. It cant be... can it

It is contrived....but it is entertaining.

I was entertained.

Plus I enjoyed the camera work.

Mostly because the script is super one-note, there's no pace, and the main male character is an unrepentant asshole, and I don't enjoy watching assholes rant badly and abusively on ten minute monologues at a time.

Pretty house though.

Its no worse than Godzilla King of the Monsters...in fact, its as if David Mamet made a monster movie....mac n cheese and all.

Zendaya in slinky outfits and John David Washington doing his shit is enough for it to be a Netflix and chill flick. It looks GREAT. That helps. It can be background noise for your evening.

A couple arguing for 2 hours at one location written by a white guy? Didn't sound like my cup of tea. In fact, I watched it because I wanted to be able to properly bash it (I hate criticisms that start with "I didn't watch the movie but...")

But I got to say I was sucked in. I wanted to see who was right and who was wrong. I wanted to see if they stayed together. I kept wondering if they should stay together.

I was reminded of being in relationships like that and thank god I wasn't in them anymore.

I appreciated seeing an Angry Black Man that was forced to water down his rage AND he not be a criminal, or villain or necessarily punished for his rage.

It's not for everybody and I wish the Vulture reviewer just said that rather then trying to put in objective terms her inability to connect with the material. But I guess critics can't just say, "it wasn't for me".

But it was an achievement that they could have me so enthralled in a one location, two actor 90 minute flick.






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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

this was a lot better than i thought it would be. could not tell if
washington was a good actor up until this point, not bad at all. i
wonder if they're together in real life.

Even when my kids watched her on the Disney channel, I took notice and she had a presence that signaled she could do bigger things.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

And she's often the most believably "in high school" in both Euphoria and Spider-Man

But I only took about 5 minutes to get over it

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