Well, here it is: Paper Towns movie, based on the book by John Green, directed by Jake Schreier, and starring Cara Deleveigne (I don't care if I spelled her name wrong) as Margo Roth Spiegelman and Nat Wolff as Quentin Jacobson.
To watch the trailer, click here: https://youtu.be/rFGiHm5WMLk
Sort-of-non-spoiler plot: Okay, so this movie is about a guy who likes a girl, but she's popular and he isn't (he's kind of a geek) and they live across from the street. Said guy and said girl used to hang out when they were little kids. The guy's name is Quentin, but everyone calls him Q. The girl's name is Margo, and everyone calls her Margo. Margo knocks on Q's window one night and they get revenge on all of Margo's friends, for reasons. She runs away the next day, but "she leaves behind little clues, like breadcrumbs" as Q says in the movie. So Q and a few friends go on to "rescue" her. But what they find may surprise them.
My thoughts (SPOILER ALERT!!!):
- The acting: the acting was really kind of horrible, but I guess that's what happens when you hire a model to play a complex character. (burn...) No offense to her fans, but I really don't like Cara Deleveigne. Maybe it's her eyebrows...
You're welcome... I thought the actor playing Q was alright. He wasn't great, he wasn't good. He was okay. And the others... the only good actor was the dude playing Radar. He nailed it. The whole black-santa thing.
-Things they changed/ things they kept: I have read this book several times, enough to know all of the lines (what the characters said and when they said it) and they omitted the f-word several times. And that is because it's a movie about high school. Well, FYI producers, high schoolers say the f-word. *shocked-face emoji* I was glad they kept the black-santas in there, as well as the beer-sword. I was even more happy when I saw the Heritage not Hate shirt. YES!!! And Angela and Radar. They never had sex in the book!!!! What was that!!! Oh, well we can have teenagers have sex but we can't have them say the f-word. Great logic, director.
-The Ansel Elgort cameo: YAAAAS! It was worth it to see the movie just for that. He was great, as always.
-THE FALL OUT BOY SONG: YAASSS!!!! YAAAAS!!!! Fourth of July!!! They played it!! I was elbowing my dad as soon as it played, waiting for Patrick to start singing, but- where were the lyrics?? It was an instrumental version, but that's okay. I love that band, with or without the singing. MY BOYSSS!
-The ending- okay, um, what was that?! I'm still confused! I don't know what it means... Um, where the HELL was Margo? I hated the ending. NO!
Should you see this movie? Yes, if you haven't read the book. If you have read the book, well, I don't want it to tarnish your view of the book, because it screwed up mine. So. Normally, I would never condone seeing a movie without reading the book first, but as this is based on a contemporary realistic fiction book, go ahead. It really doesn't matter. So, see the movie if you want to.
Thanks for reading!
xoxo,
Eve
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