Beautiful Disaster

I will never understand why someone in the film industry would read a book, enjoy it so much to a point they want to adapt it into a movie, and then proceed to change the ENTIRE thing. Did the script writer even read the book? Why would the author sign off on such major changes? One of the worst book to movie adaptations I have ever seen. Bad casting, bad music score, cringey, cheesy, awkward. The story is not a romantic comedy, so why turn it into one? I knew going in, it would be a disappointment. I didn't think it would be THIS big of a disappointment. The scenes felt rushed, the sex was just weird, some of the chemistry seems forced. An hour and 45 minutes I'll never get back. All around just bad, bad, bad.

I created an account to save other people from seeing this. It's the worst movie I have ever seen. I'm still getting flashbacks that make me cringe. There's nothing sexy and the dialogue made me want to sink into my chair. It's like a horror movie where the horror is replaced by second-hand embarrassment. The music starts and stops at weird places, they had more realistic fights in the sex scenes then the fight scenes and the girl actually throws up in his face! At least 50 shades of grey made me laugh (in the wrong places), but this just made me want to drink so much I could forget ever seeing it.

One of my favorite romantic books ever turned into a completely and I mean COMPLETELY different story! Too bad , I really love this book. In fact I don't know how many Times I even read it. The movie is fun and cute but it's truly another story. They missed entire Abby / Travis playing hot / cold. Parker is an idiot in book but not in this way. I just wish they really did justice to this book. But hey at least more people will find out about it and read it. If you haven't already you should. It's amazing love story of bad boy and virgin girl. Really really!!! Can someone start doing justice to good books please? 😊

I fully expected to hate this - but, well, I didn't. "Abby" (Virginia Gardner) is fed up picking up the pieces for her gambler father so heads to college in California. First night there, she and her pal "America" (Libe Barer) head off to a student equivalent of "Fight Club" where she meets the bare knuckle champion "Travis" (Dylan Sprouse). Replete with some of his latest victim's blood on her top, she feigns a loathing for the man but... Shortly afterwards, their dorm water supply runs dry and she has to move in with her friend. Guess what? Yep, one of her new roomies is none other than the mischievous pugilist. There now follows a rather contrived - and frankly ridiculous - bet that sees her end up sharing his bed for a month, Will they, won't they? That doesn't matter - this film isn't about jeopardy. It's about pretty people having a bit of a laugh and hoping some of that rubs off on us. I found there to a bit of chemistry between the two, "Travis" is actually quite charismatic and the humour is marginally more sophisticated than we would find in, say, the interminable "After..." series of teen melodramas. It's trying to do grown up, and it makes a half-decent fist of it. The last twenty minutes are particularly daft though - and did rather ruin the thing. It certainly does not need a cinema viewing (even though there were certainly 50+ people at the screening I attended) - but even if it is too long, it's still an OK watch.

I wasn't expecting to much, so this movie never disappointed me and I was entertained:-)

It is what the title says: a beautiful disaster. It's a beautiful cast and they where perfectly suited for their parts, but the rest was pretty much a disaster. This is clearly a low budget movie and could have easily been a lot better, if they wanted to make it better. I'm not familiar with the storyline of the books and don't have any desire to read them, but I like the premise and the plot have potential. Not blockbuster potential, but it could have been better executed. I do hope they makes the sequels.