#so many things i missed like alex’s bi awakening was so watered down and where is june and why are his parents still | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

vlindervin7 · 1 year ago

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the thing abt red white and royal blue is that the premise is fucking stupid. however, reading the book i was able to more or less look past it bc i really enjoyed the characterisation and the way the story was built and the dynamics between all the characters, but when you make a movie and you erase key character elements, take away the chemistry, and refuse to focus on family (biological and chosen) dynamics for more than a second, while everything is also being incredibly badly acted. what do you have left? the stupid plot, which just does not hold up

#so many things i missed like alex’s bi awakening was so watered down and where is june and why are his parents still #together as if the divorce isn’t one of the things that shapes his character #where’s the stupid six why did they barely communicate after they got outed why didn’t we get one of the best moments #aka love him on purpose #where is rafael luna who is also so important to alex’ character #idk there were just so many things that they did to make it more digestible to the public which only served to make it a Bad when it wasn’t #high quality to begin with #jasmine has thoughts #and don’t get me wrong there were some things i did enjoy. this is gonna sound stupid but i liked when they smiled at each other bc it felt #very genuine and i quite liked the sex scenes even though they were weirdly paced. obsessed with stephen fry’s homophobia #but those things are not enough to make it really enjoyable #rwrb

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