Regretting You lives in the shadow of the controversy surrounding It Ends with Us.
As the first two Colleen Hoover adaptations, Regretting You’s decision to begin with a video message of the ENTIRE cast CHEERFULLY welcoming audiences to the theater feels like an assurance of no acrimony between the stars on the level of It Ends with Us.
“There’s none of that ick here! We love each other! You can enjoy us unproblematically!”
Similarly, the sex scene’s inclusion of an additional ADR line that crystal clarifies her consent seems related to the accusations lobbed at It Ends with Us, both on screen and off.
While on the subject of abusive men…
Regretting You’s heartthrob could’ve filmed the street-sign clip on any day AFTER their first meeting.
Just saying.
Speaking of the heartthrob with a throbbing heart of gold…in this economy??
He used to be a cliché, but in the name of “looks can be deceiving” — (((…and also maybe possibly because it’s safe to assume that most self-interested writers are closer to being dweebs than beauties???))) — my upbringing was rife with depictions of the beauties ultimately turning out to be asshats, while the hearts of gold belonged to the dweebs.
Which makes a role model with model looks a throwback stereotype that reads as novel nowadays!
CoHo understands soap-opera rom-coms require a premise that’s soft-key deranged, in an un-self-aware way.
Siblings become actors all the time, but how many retain equal levels of fame, as opposed to one rising above the other?
Along this vein, let’s play two icky games of “Is This Hollywood Town Big Enough for the Two of Us?”
Would Dave Franco have become as successful if James wasn’t cancelled?
Would Joaquin Phoenix have become as successful if River didn’t die?
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