A young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex.
Rated 2.0 / 5 from 7 logs on Katalog
It's been a week and I still don't now what I think. If you watched it as a rom com then 0 stars because there is no comedy. If you watched it as a romance, well it wasn't really romantic. Two stars. I actually like a lot of the parts of the movie, but then most of those went nowhere. The matchmaking business is an interesting premise that does not really go anywhere. The SA brings awareness to the world women live in, but it's impact on the movie is just so she figures out she doesn't trust Pedro's character and Evans is the guy she can be herself with. There were definitely better ways to show that. Making the height seem like the biggest obstacle to men in the dating world is cheap writing. The whole leg breaking operation was just jarring in a bad way. The influence of money in relationships is real and not represented enough in romcoms where everyone lives solo in New York on a florists salary. That part was refreshing but to make it the whole point of movie is unnecessary or maybe in this case just not well done. The movie just ends up less than the sum of it's parts. Points for soundtrack though. Pedro deserved a better movie. I don't know if Evans and Johnson can do better.
gang did you know that to have a good relationship personality matters? not just RPG-style age, height and income stats? i found that out after dakota johnson’s 6th robotic monologue and it really blew my mind
Why does this movie get so much hate for its message instead for the atrocious writing and flat performances with zero chemistry? All the actors move and sound like NPCs and communicate with each other like voice assistants, I haven’t seen something this baffling bland since, well, Past Lives. Dakota Johnson is her usual expressionless, uncharismatic self, acting as if she was forced to take the role. Many of her lines from The Materialists are up there with her iconic “Christian, you know I love working. You can't keep me locked up in your penthouse.” from 50 Shades of Grey. It’s that cringe. And it’s not entirely her fault because pretty much every single line is so unnatural and pseudo-intellectual I don’t know who could have pulled it off. That finance analogy back-and-forth will haunt me for a while… Everyone else is equally bad, there’s just less of them. I thought that I found Past Lives bland because of the cultural nuances I didn’t understand. After The Materialists, I’m starting to think that Celine Song has either never felt passion in her life, or she just doesn’t know how to transfer it into writing or onto screen. On the one hand, who am I to shit on someone’s work? On the other hand, who are these New Yorkers, financing and jerking each other off, selling their mediocre local crap abroad as something worth global attention? Jesus Christ. Some stuff you should keep for yourself.
It doesn’t deserve one star. It probably deserves four. I hate it though. I hate how it’s supposed to “elevate” the material. I hate that it’s a pick-me movie. Oh, I’m not like all those “other” rom-coms, I’m clever. I’m written by a serious writer and I am not silly or trashy. Oh, but I’m funny, too, honest! So funny! And clever! Aren’t I clever? And funny?? Cringe. If you don’t like romcoms, don’t make romcoms. And for the love of god, give Pedro Pascal something to do. He’s a good actor, who genuinely lived through years of being a struggling actor. The fact you picked Chris fucking Evans to play that role is ridiculous.
Song elevates a plot that could be from a schlocky '00s rom-com to a movie that has a lot to say about dating in the 2020's. Chris Evans the best he's ever been. It's no Past Lives,but what is?
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