• HobbitFoot @thelemmy.club
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      5 months ago

      That movie would have been a lot better if they switched they switched the perspective.

      It also would have been interesting if Pratt died in the end.

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        5 months ago

        Or it just didn’t pretend to be a romance at all. I don’t know who belongs on a watchlist for greenlighting the script, as producers are well known to override the actual writers, but someone does.

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          5 months ago

          It being a romance in the beginning works well, especially with the reveal.

          Continuing the romance through to the end should have been handled a lot differently.

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            The best explanation I’ve heard for continuing the romance after the reveal is down to marketing.

            No one wants to take a date to a romance that turns into a horror, especially when the horror is the guy being a predator, so you either give the twist away in trailers and lose half your draw or try to pretend the creepiness was necessary somehow.