jaam-10571 Review of Anyone But You

Anyone But You (2023)

The most predictable, generic and cliche movie humanly posible, also full of an unbelievable amount ofconviniences.

[22 January 2024]

I'm a man and I was dragged to see this movie by my female friends. I didn't want to see it because it looked like one of the most generic, predictable and cliché movie I have ever seen...and I was right. I wasn't expecting an art piece from a low budget movie but it has so many clichés,conviniences and stereotypes that it felt like a deliberately parody of a "romantic movie". List: The "you shouldn't had to heard that, it's not what it looks like" *runs away and doesn't let explain*; The main characters hating each other because of said artifical misunderstanding that could had been solved with a text message; time jumps, because the movie can bother to portray realistic scenarios that leads to the main characters and supporting roles to conviniently know each other and ALL of them been invited to the same wedding; The destruction of the wedding cake by accident by the main couple and then the marrying couple using the same cake in the wedding despite the marrying couple been obscenely rich by the look of the house; The main couple fighting, making everyone upset, then the supporting characters trying to force them to be together, then the main characters pretending to love each other so they can be left alone, to finally fall in love for real; the objectification of the male lead for the obviously mostly female audience (I mean, it's 2024 and he is treated like a piece of meat, he pull out his shirt like 10 times and get naked for stupid "comedic" reasons, is so blatant and disgusting, people would lose it if the genders were reversed); the "I broke with my ex boyfriend because we never fight" which perpetuates and validate toxic traits; the stereotypical token black character with the accent; the himbo best friend that is conveniently also dating the ex of the male protagonist; the love triangle (the female ex that out of jealousy wants the male lead back with her and it's conviniently also invited to the same wedding); Yet, even more conviniences: the ex in the wedding kissing the male protagonist and the female protagonist running away so the male protagonist can chase her in a very over the top and dramatic way to a scenic landscape (jumping in the Sydney bay, so an emergency helicopter can save him and give him a ride in front of the Sydney Opera House). It offers nothing new, nothing fresh, nothing interesting. It was so bad I couldn't even turn off my suspension of disbelief. I only smirked (not laughed) with a joke at the beginning. The only other positive is that the pan out panoramic shots are beautiful.