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To the Bone (2017)
Disconnected
If you enjoyed 13 reasons why, you'll love this. Its totally unrealistic. It seems as if it was stolen from a tumblr blog. The difference between something like this and 13 reasons why, is that I can suspend my disbelief for 13 reasons why, and then feel engaged in character drama. With this movie, even suspending my disbelief, it couldn't make up for awful writing, stereotypical characters, and a plot line that is literally nonexistent. Its like a a D rated version of Girl, Interrupted. And I loved that movie. 6/10 for no plot line, predictable characters, cringe dialogue, damn near grazing over the topic of the movie itself- ANOREXIA, making it seem normal. Its not normal. It literally takes over peoples lives like, every second of the day you're thinking of what you are or didn't eat or how to burn more calories. Ellen/Eli spits her food out and its almost a gag, she does sit ups by her bed and it seems like regular exercise, she runs to a restaurant and once again, it's made into a joke. I love jokes about topics like these, but there wasn't enough light shed on anorexia for the jokes to be warranted as comedic relief. It was stale.
Death Note (2017)
Get over the whitewashing thing.
This movie is below average. Its bad. It hurts my feelings. Having watched death note at 10 years old and finding a deep love for both L and Light and their meticulous planning of every possible outcome, this movie did a disservice to the characters. Light was smart, academically in the movie, but he was well rounded in the anime. His character never would've used the Death Note to impress a girl. Mia is the definition of manic pixie dream girl if I ever saw one, only worse. They completely slaughtered L's character and made him an irrational, sugar high, sleep deprived know-it-all. He came to conclusions that were never explained. The white washing? Get over it. There already is a Japanese version of death note, so I was excited to see what kind of changes they made by Americanizing the story. All of the changes were unnecessary and almost embarrassing to watch. Although to be frank, I didn't really think the acting was that bad. The script is what ruined it. L runs after Light with a gun? What? Mia tries to kill Lights dad? WHAT? Not to mentioned they killed his mom and neglected his sister's existence, sure his mom wasn't really an important character in the story; so if they wanted Light to be more lovable, killing off his mom would be a great way to do it. However, his sister is a hostage at some point in the anime. Its like they took paper downs and smeared ryuk's leathery ass all over it so they could call it Death Note.