I loved this. The actress who played Agatha is so good. Good message, amazing visuals, and actors who managed to give it gravitas and whimsy where others might made it cheesy. Full of all the mommies who can step on me.
So stoked that the ending points to a sequel, more of these please!!!
I can't believe Charlize Theron would act in a sappy shitty movie like this........Cate Blanchett voice acting is the only thing good about this......
I'll watch this just for Cate Blanchett *Edit: Cate's a narrator only; anyway the movie is bad, I won't even pirate the sequel.
I rather enjoyed this. Even for its faults. The ending leaves you to believe there will be a second one. I don't think I'd be opposed to that.
It's a meh. Two hours long and not much entertaining. The actress who played Sophie had the second worst performance I've ever seen, right after Addison Rae's in "He's All That". Beside all this "Evil", the only "Good" thing in this movie was Sophia Wylie. It seems there's gonna be a sequel. I hope that'll be better.
This movie has the best damn soundtrack and whoever did the ending credits needs an award because that was the best damn end credits I've ever seen in my life. Not a bad movie.
Even Charlize Theron can't save this. Don't waste your time.
Glad I didn't read the books, because not knowing about it made me absolutly enjoy and love this movie. Hearing that the books are infinitly better I would say this is the time for me to pick them up!
Why do they keep coming up with stupid shit like this
Such a disappointment. The book is so much different. And yes I am that person. But I am not disappointed because of the changes... Such a weak acting performances especially Kit Young which is amazing in Shadow and Bone and Kerry Washington. Weak screenplay and poor action scenes and the blood magic effect ... damn. Highlight were Charlize Theron - amazing and Sofia Wylie which made her best with this directions and dialogue. I am so sad, I have such high hopes
I actually like this movie. It was a bit cliché but nevertheless, I enjoyed it.
For starters, if you want to tell things right, this should be a series with one season per book.
Other than that, the movie is one of the worst I've ever seen. What a disappointment… neither the characters, nor their age, nor their personalities represent the content of the book. Yet another netflix mess. What a pity.
I was captivated by this movie. I found it to be incredibly interesting. The set design, costuming, the visual effects, the acting, all done very well.
Sofia Wylie did phenomenal in this movie.
great story telling. let go and just let your imagination fly.
Haven't read the book (or books) but if they're remotely similar to this movie, then the author should consider retiring. The story has all the tropes you would expect from a CW show (including the terrible CGI). Obnoxious characters, bad acting, obvious references to the HP saga... I could only watch for like 30 minutes and its runtime still had two more hours! No way, Jose. Charlize... Girl! What did you see in this script?
Derivative rubbish. And 146 minutes of derivative rubbish at that!
I was really excited to watch this because it's basically part of my senior high era. I remember reading the book and wanting to read the next one but never got to because I don't have the money, LMAO. I was happy to hear the news that a movie was made based on the book. My friend and I really enjoyed watching this, especially me, probably because of what I said. Now I want to read the second book and can't wait for them to release the next one. I guess the only part that I hated from this film is Agatha's walking scene. I don't know, it made me cringe and laugh...
Having read the first book I thought it was rather simple and a touch sacchrine. But afterwards i struggled to find any aspect of the book I didn't like. It had a legit story about two girls who were friends and not like friends but secretly lesbian lovers if you read between the lines. not like friends but they're really putting the man character first. It was a story that really played with what was a simple premise. The ostensibly good girl lands in Evil and the ostensibly evil girl lands in Good. I laughed at the book because obviously the self-obsessed girl would be secretly evil and obviously the hermit with a heart of gold would be good. But that's not the whole story. That's not really what happened. At the end I understood the appeal. I get why someone would want this to be adapted and why fans would have been excited for this movie.
The book had a way of telling a plain story with nuance. Not overly complex nuance but nuance none the less. The movie throws ALL of that out. Zero nuance. 30 minutes into the movie everything that was subtext in the book is just text in the movie. The vapid shallowness which was pretty important to characterizing the "good" characters is just gone. The way Agatha is revealed to be good through her actions rather than her appearance is gone. Instead the teachers just insist Sophie IS evil and Agatha IS good. Rather than spending a portion of their time trying to get anyone to listen to their insistence on the opposite.
The effects are solid enough. Most of the acting is tolerable. The lead girls aren't great but they're serviceable. The soundtrack is a little too predictably poppy. Oh wow who could have predicted the darkhorse would have a Billy Eilish song. Whoa unexpected. The costuming was imo middling. One of the major arcs is that Sophie uses her vapid looks-obsessed skills to give herself a makeover. A similar thing happens in the movie but it's just so underwhelming.
Every adaption brings some changes. Honestly speaking some of them work. I think the idea of introducing a new prince just to short end the scene where Agatha rages about an innocent boy being killed was wonderfully simplified by having the boy instead be the prince we just met. But even in a visual medium there was room to discover, room to reveal and this adaption just said "nah can't be bothered" to any of it. The very very few touches that do work don't offset the number of aspects that don't. I plan to continue with the books because those have really played with interesting ideas like what does it mean to be good and evil and what misogyny and misandry can look like in a way this movies could never. It will be interesting to see if things like Blood Magic and Lesso was a reader are actually spoilers for later books or not. I literally don't know.
Wow, this was surprisingly good! I expected a ridiculous fairytale story, but it wasn't. I really liked that they showed how Good as well as Evil have grown into something quite bad; nothing is pure Good, and mostly, nothing is pure Evil either. This movie really took that concept to heart and developed it super well!
Both protagonists were very interesting. Agatha was smart and funny, with low expectations of herself. It was clear that she idolized Sophie (cough I still think she's in love with her but whatever cough) and always seemed to put herself second to her friend's wants and needs. Sophie on the other hand was a lot more complex; I loved the way they showed her vanity and ego as part of what made her evil, even though it made her exactly the same as all the other (Good) princesses in the school. The only difference was that Sophie suddenly got treated differently from them, and it made her deteriorate fast! All in all, Sophie was definitely the most interesting character here, even though Agatha is obviously by far the better person.
far from the worst thing i have ever watched and i like the idea and themes, but it could have been done much better, it feels really rushed and the ending is absolutely not rewarding in the least. i actually feel like the ending is almost a bit homophobic and romanticizes poverty, but i may be reaching a bit on that front.
i didnt love the movie, but i for sure dont hate it, i may watch the sequel if it ever comes out.
I haven’t read the books (although I started book 1 because of the movie) and I enjoyed it! Also really pleasantly surprised by such a star-studded cast!
I love this movie. :grinning: i sure yhe books are a whole lot different but no movie is made exactly like the book. If anything this made me want to read the books. The movie is amazingly doneand i have watched it more then once already. It has become one of my favorites by far
More great costume and scenery. The usual modern fairytale where we go from good and evil as separate to a bit of good and evil in us all. Similar to Descendants.
Despite casting choices, this is storytelling at its most insipid!
A teenage book series turned into movie. Exactly as expected. Good but without reading the book, guessing a lot got left out.
Not as bad. Was expecting worst
It was enjoyable. Some CGI was weak, but most of it was done well. The acting was superb and I enjoyed the cast and the parts they played. I'd definitely watch the sequel.
This is a perfect example on how to do teens movies, but please, stop, it's sub par and a shit film compared to the industry standard for lore, Laurence best role IMO as always and acting
Subtle inserts from fairytale classics, Harry Potter, lots of CGI, and the insertion of a copy of Daenerys created a mediocre fantasy.
A waste of time, honestly. I forwarded through most of it and I still got the plot, that's the bad movie test and it passed with flying colors. I was only interested because of Charlize Theron but damn, why would she say yes to this project? :joy:
I expected something different, and this is certainly something... different, though not the kind of different that would encourage a person to recommend it to anyone else. Had to watch it in three parts because I kept falling asleep, I still have a hook in my eye, but, uhm, the ballroom fight scene was fun, great music choice.
4.5/10 for a great cast who were underutilised or relegated to upholstery.
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I haven't read the books and that's great because I loved the movie. Eagerly the sequel
Holy codependency, Batman.
I put this on thinking it would be a series to veg out too, and instead it felt like the longest movie ever.
Best part: when that one gal said she would turn into a cat to sleep under the stove. - there ya go. Most entertaining part of the movie. Full stop.
This was so bad!! I say that as an avid reader of the series, but even if I hadn’t read the books I would have the same opinion. They didn’t address crucial parts of the story, CHANGED crucial parts of the story, the cgi sucked, the acting was so terribly cringy, and it went on for way too long. The only good thing about it was that Tedros was played by Matt from So Awkward.
its a Netflix original so 9/10 it will be garbage.
Expected so much more from this. There was no music in the background, no decoration. The movie felt very empty as there was no entourage. This is not the next Harry Potter or twilight or anything like it. I liked Charlize way better in snow-white and the huntsman.
Neither astonisingly good or diabolically bad - a little like the characters in this movie. It's overlong but not a waste of time,
I was doing a dance workout while watching this movie and had to pause the workout video twice to make sure that the olivia rodrigo song was really in this high fantasy vaguely middle ages movie. It was.
I was planning on writing a whole text about this movie but let's just say this: it's awful.
还不错的片子，剧情有些老套了点
Evil evil evil evil evil
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I love this movie so much