AFTER EVER HAPPY is the Disaster I Needed | Explained
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Nothing, I repeat NOTHING will EVER beat "FUCKIN' TREVOR?!" and I'm living for it
The expression afterwards kills me every time. It's aggressively gormless, which... ooh yeah, aggressively gormless is just what I want in a partner
I want to know people named Trevor so I can yell this at them 😂
im french and the quebecois version is so funny. they speak french but the names are said as you'd say them in english and that just adds to the fun lol -
@@katrinakeith8066 I always think of the scene in the first Harry Potter movie when Neville picks up his toad from the stairs and in my head it's really just and endless loop of that with him yelling "FUCKIN' TREVOR!"
Peak!
So let me get this straight--Hardon used their abusive relationship as way to self-improve, and then monetized the experience by writing a book series without the consent of the woman he was abusing? Sounds about right. lol
ALSO the injustice of him getting to publish these books and apparently selling really well by him doing fuck all while Tessa’s basically blew up her life goal of working in publishing to get away from Hardin - I just 💀💀
And this is significant LESS manipulative. Can you imagine the books. Jesus
Some big F Scott Fitzgerald vibes there
Literally sounds like the plot for a thriller movie. I wouldn’t blame Tessa if she went a lil psycho after that lol
Sounds realistic honestly
Worth mentioning that all these Twilight derivatives somehow managed to take the unbalanced and manipulative relationship between Bella and Edward and go completely off the rails with all sorts of abuse. I mean damn, even Edward "109-year-old-virgin" Cullen wouldn't ever touch Bella if she didn't want him to, and he was an actual vampire with an animalistic side.
When she was a human he didn't want to touch her even when she wanted him to
Say what you want about Edward and their toxic relationship but my mans was good with consent
@@Sabrina-sc1db I mean…the peeping Tom behavior was a little sus but Bella was into it so I guess it’s cool? 💀
Yeah, Bella was the one pressuring him when he did not want to, because he was afraid he would lose control and hurt her.
@@mediumsizedbrain6237 yeah, creepy, but consented
the reveal of hardin writing the after book gave me the wildest idea.
what if, all these movies were revealed to be hardin's unreliable retelling of his and tessa's relationship? in reality, tessa moved on after the sex bet, and he's been harassing her ever since.
the next and last movie shows the real story between them, where it's revealed that they never got back together, most of their hookups never happened, and it's all been hardin stalking and manipulating tessa, trying to ruin her career and relationships, for years. it ends with her as a bestselling author, happily married to trevor with a family, and hardin an unemployed, alone, unloved alcoholic. it finally paints hardin as the looser he really is- a childish, abusive asshole who cant get over his first college girlfriend.
Or maybe what if Tessa never meet Hardin and stays with Dylan
Kind of a all-adult, college themed version of Lolita and it's "I'm irresistably handsome and take advantage of it but also too weak willed to resist a child dressing up for me and it's justified because I had a crush on a preteen girl when I was a preteen myself" narrator?
THIS!! 👏👏👏
I love stories that have characters twist the narrative, especially in the horror genre!
@@kikothesamurai Same! It's so interesting! 😄
I would like to thank Amanda for always sitting through these movies and sparing us the suffering of watching them ourselves ✌🏽
Hear, hear!
Seriously, I've saved so much time because of Amanda's videos. I love her!
Amen!
call me a masochist but these videos entice me to watch these movies 😭
I thought the same🤣Now I don't have to watch it, but I am still invested 👏🏻🤣
All I have to say is that now that Harry Styles is an actor it would be a hilarious disaster if he had actually been the one to play Harden
Amusingly, I've seen multiple Don't Worry Darling reviews say that he sounds like an American trying to sound British. Life imitating... art?
@@blokey8 The thing is at least in Don't Worry Darling it's intentional. Harry's character is an American pretending to be British in that film versus Hardin being played by a British actor who is being told to change his accent to fit more like Harry's, messing it up and making him sound like he's an American pretending to be British.
Even their acting levels are on par lol
Apparently Harry was offered the role of hardin lmao
And surprisingly both Harry and the actor who played Hardin is basically in the same level for their acting skills. So bad to the point it became unintentionally hilarious, mostly by the fact that they can't controlled their accents lol
I think I'd rather be miserable if this is what happy looks like.
Pretty sure the title is ironic... Hopefully...
@@HerbaMachina I need this series to end painfully
Their ruthless dedication to always having ‘After’ in the titles in honestly hilarious
I want one to be called "After We Dumped" about them finally breaking up, for obvious double entendre reasons.
My youngest dog was almost named Trevor, because I wanted to exclaim FOCKING TREVAH every time he ate one of my rose bushes, but my daughter put her foot down, so he's named Eugene Trevor Fitzherbert Hatton instead. But I still say FOCKING TREVAH!!! when I come home to him, and he answers to it 🤣
aah I love pets with full names :D
This is magnificent.
@@lilysiandaza4296 my boy who passed away in April this year was Sebastian Benedict Mayfield Hatton, my girl is Yolanda Anastasia Winter Hatton, and my cat is Cosette Ophelia Marigold Hatton. My human daughter has three middle names. We have a thing about names in our house 🤣
@@celinahatton2653I love this!!
Your daughter has clever name ideas
A British person would never call their child
'Hardin'. It sounds to close to 'hard on'. He would mocked mercilessly for his entire childhood. School kids can be cruel.
One if my friends has a surname that sounds like a slang word for a D, he was teased about this from the time he started school until the day he left.
I have a surname that sounds like "pedo" wasn't really bullied for it. People Just teased me so no not everyone.
@@mittag983 I am very sorry :-p
I only watch these movies through your videos and the RAGE that overtook me that Hardin writes a book on all the shit he put Tessa through, against her wishes, and is shown to be largely successful while she's struggling with her own goals and wants in life. I hate narratives that seem to punish the protagonist for making an emotionally healthy choice because it's not love -.- thank you for your sacrifice, Amanda.
oh my god i know right!! it made me so pissed to see Tessa be the unsuccessful one in the end as if she's supposed to be in the wrong for leaving poor little sweet Hardin alone. If the movie actually ended with Tessa moving on and becoming happier, I would praise the author and the books because it perfectly showed what an emotionally abusive relationship is.
I never thought of that. Right in so point
Exactly. Tessa moved across the country to get away from him!!! And what does he do? Go to her city make a book about all the shit he put her through and profits off of it meanwhile she’s still stuck seeing his face everywhere… I’d be pissed.
There was a fan screening of this movie in my movie theater. They all looked disappointed. I asked what they thought and they told me that it was shit.
"The worse one out of all of them. And it's not even the last one."
"Wait, what?"
"Yeah, the next one's called After Everything."
"Fuck's sake."
And it never screened here again.
Funniest reaction to a movie I've ever seen since the reaction to Fifty Shades of Grey's cliffhanger ending.
On one hand, the train wreck isn’t over…
On the other hand, the train wreck isn’t over!
I always wondered when there's a fan screening of this movie, me thinking "does anyone know what kind of movie they're watching?" 😂😂
I don't really trust the fans opinions... remember when they were pissed at the first movie because it was "too tame" and that the original novel was more hardcore and that's what they wanted? So,,, idk
@@amandalopes3048 if you're gonna make a movie based on a popular book about a terrible decision maker and unlikable awful abusive man, then I better get an unlikable awful abusive man and not just a d*ckish man 🤣
@@greyblueme9711 fair
Somebody told me they like this series and said that Tessa was a good protagonist...sometimes I feel Amanda is suffering for no reason
In college a girl in my literature class said this was her favorite book series and that they’re well written. Idek how she could offer such good insight into the books/stories we read in class but be completely oblivious to how flawed these books is
@@AJ-pu9jq It is weird, but I guess people like what they like haha, and can't help it
When you look at someone with rose-colored glasses, all the red flags just looks like flags.. It's the same for books.. I've read some god-awful books that I'm too ashamed to even mention, but that I still loved..
I really like dark romance though... not these books per se, except in the way people like 'The Room,' I guess. But I honestly, have never heard any fans say that it's a healthy relationship (except maybe after the time skip) or that it's great literature or anything. Usually it's along the lines of 'trashy,' entertainment is how it's described. I think people are too harsh toward the fans and the author sometimes.
Anyone who like After franchise needs therapy before they get into abusive relationships
I hate seeing characters think loving each other is enough. It's not only immature but stupid. When I was 12 I asked two family friends who were dating and were super toxic together, why they fought. They both acknowledged they brought out the worst in each other, but when I asked why they didn't break up they both said they loved each other and they knew the other was a great person, when not with them. Even at 12 I realised love isn't enough for a relationship. It creates part of the foundation but it isn't enough alone and sometimes if you truly love someone sometimes the best way to show that in that situation is to walk away.
Wtf?! The other person should be a great person _with them_ more than with anyone else!
@@bessieburnet9816 sometimes people bring out the worst in each other. That's when you need to be mature enough to walk away, no matter how much you care. But a real partner should definitely bring out the best
Amen! Halle-fuckin-lujah!!!
I mean it's all pedantic to some degree (depends on how you define love), but I don't think the issue with their relationship was that love wasn't enough. You yourself admit that truly loving someone is wanting what's best for them even if that doesn't include you. Their lack of willingness to let each other go even when they knew it was for the wellbeing and growth of the other person shows that what kept them together wasn't love. It was an unhealthy attachment.
Toxic relationships are often addictive to be in, because the highs and lows of fighting and making up and fighting and making up kinda resemble the dopamine rush of experiencing a high and then crashing and then wanting to get high again to stave off the pain of the crash. At some point people get so tangled up in each other and in the emotional responses the relationship creates that it gets hard to leave and define yourself outside of them.
That really isn't love. People often confuse emotional intensity and attachment for love, when it really isn't. In that case i'd say 'intensity' or 'attachment' isn't enough to sustain a relationship. There has to be a layer of actual care about the human being, not just how they make you feel and that you want to be close to them. Love necessitates things like communication, empathy, and effort to make things better. Even then it isn't enough alone to sustain a relationship, but I don't think in the case of your friends (or the 2 movie characters) love was the issue at all.
@@o0BlackSand0o there are def very incompatible people, and is not a romance wise isolated issue, it happens with family too. My step dad is a great person and now that i live on my own we really get along in family meetings and he is there for me like a father at all times. But when i was still a teen / young adult and lived in the family house, there was not a day we didn't fight and drove my mom and brothers nuts with it. We have an extremely similar character and we are very incompatible under the same roof, but get along greatly otherwise.
It’s insulting that this franchise spitballs the idea of a story about personal growth out from deeply abusive behavior and the possibility of forgiveness from others, but especially one’s self. And then completely works every opportunity to do none of that, and then say it did. It’s not enough that the characters are manipulative, but the actual text is attempting to gaslight me, too.
It's also really bad and lazy writing. There's so many books/movies about these characters, and instead of developing them and showing their growth, they just gave us a time skip and claim they've changed? C'mon, they're not putting any effort.
Ah first time watching a chick flick ?
@@ghostshadow9899 certainly not, and certainly not the first time I’m talking to a misogynist.
@@turkicnomad5632 yes u are, be happy
gotta remember this is a fanfic (of Harry Styles specifically) written when the author was a teen who didn’t understand what a healthy relationship is.
Tessa and Hardin are both toxic messes, that I only want to see them together so that they will be far away from all of the decent people!
Like Dylan and Zed righy
Oh my same. Like that Robert or whatever name handsome hunk...man go out street you would find better person than Tessa who is gonna cheat on you with his toxic ex
this is the only reason i ship catherine and heathcliff from wuthering heights 😔
It's a good thought in theory but these two idiots always seem to find a way to drag other people into their BS
They deserve each other.
I have a grudge against this series and fifty shades for ruining the good name of fanfiction. I’m going to write a Encanto oneshot while I watch this.
You just put my feelings Into words 😂
out of curiosity......do you post on ao3? and what's your user if yes
@@clarakf yes and my CZcams username
Listen, don’t worry about it because I’ve read some amazing ass fanfiction 😂 people who know, know
Is also the fact that some fanfiction, while fun and good as fanfiction, should never be taken seriously as actual books or movies.
Tessa is trash but imagine dating a guy who emotionally and physically abuses you, ruins your relationships with family and friends, basically steals your career and steering you off path... and thinking THAT'S LOVE
The thing that never fails to make me chuckle is that here in Germany they had to call the first one "After passion" because if it had been just "After", that's the scientific term for a certain sphincter..
In Italy the title is a very prosaic 'After 4'. Yeah, we care about it that little.
Ich hab grad meine heisse Schokolade einmal quer übers Sofa geprustet. You are so right! 😂😂😂😂 ist mir bis zu diesem Kommentar nie aufgefallen 😂😂😂😂
@@sarahblum2506 gern geschehen :D aber "after passion" ist einfach auch nicht wirklich besser ..
@@Cherryblossomandbees nope. Wirklich nicht. 😂🙈
in Poland it's just called "After", then "After 2", then "After: Save me" and the last one is "After 4: We won't survive without eachother" which is hilarious
Tessa not being able to carry a child on the story is honestly a bless from God. Because she already showed how unstable her choices are, I just know at some point if she got pregnant. Hardin would just bail but then when she has the baby he would behave like he was always supportive. I know how these type of fathers act up when their ex find another man and just use their children as manipulation
You know, I once thought Bella Swan was THE most mind numbingly annoying female protagonist I've ever seen. To a point where I considered drinking a tall glass of Henny just to get through the first couple of chapters of Twilight; and by extension Anastasia Gray as a close second. But no, Tessa went above and beyond, well, actually, you know what ? Above and beyond would imply something good. Tess just went below and beneath to frankly, downright pitiful levels just to prove me wrong. Wow.
And after realizing that, Amanda you probably need to take a mini-stay after this. You've earned it.
And then laura came along...and won the contest.
@@nessyness5447 I'm curious how much worse it can get 😅😅
What pissed me of the most was when she said "I'm sorry I couldn't fix you" like this show is targeted for teens and that is the message they are sending! Like I wouldn't care if this film was for adults cause they should know better but teen are impressionable.
Amanda summed up my entire experience watching this quadrilogy in 5 words.
"Yes, Tessa!"
"Damn it, Hardin!"
"Barely an inconvenience"
Fun to see Amanda referencing other Canadian creators.
I haven't seen that dude in a bit
@@hanipierce5710 he does a new pitch meeting every couple weeks lol. He moved them to their own channel now instead of screen rant. They're just on pitch meeting channel now.
@@steveosk8s a channel full of does sounds fun tbh
Recently one of my college roommates said to me "Have you seen the after movies? They're so good!!"
Me (assuming she means something else) "...the movies based on the fanfiction?"
Roomie: "yeah those ones!"
Other roomie: "But in a 'so bad it's good' kind of way, right???"
Roomie: *stares blankly* "what do you mean?"
I didnt realize people like this actually existed in real life.
I'm worried about this roommate now.
Landon taunting Hardin when Hardin goes all Hulk Mode on him is somehow my favorite part???? Probably because he’s just that convenient blandly nice friend who pops in at convenient moments to dispense advice or to connect the main characters back together so him all but call Hardin a big weenie baby is… *chef’s kiss*
I'm sure Hardin's debut novel's massive success has nothing to do with his biological father owning a major publishing house.
That might be the most believable part of this whole series.
This couple is the definition of a toxic relationship. I couldn't tell if the writer was serious or being tongue and cheek.
The thing I find fascinating is the resemblance between the author and the actress who plays Tessa. It feels like they specifically picked an actress who somewhat resembled the author. They aren’t even trying to hide the self-insert facet of the original fanfic.
That being said, I’m still completely disturbed by the fantasy of being abused like this.
I'm looking forward to the day we get a romance that's abusive, but *doesn't* end with the people getting together..
@@paigekathrine I- This means nothing to me, I don't read these kinda books..
@SaphiraSeraphina What about stories where the main couple decide that they aren't gonna work out after all and then peacefully part as friends at the end?
@SaphiraSeraphina I demand more realistic main couples!!
The kissing booth
@@paigekathrine It's still seeing the Relations as romantic. It isn't even meant to not seem romantic. I think OP means something more deep than CoHo.
These movies prove why wattpad stories should stay ON that site
the Summoner series
the fact Amanda points out that Hardin would totally follow Tessa to NY, I legit had an ex like that. It was wild, she got jealous of my COUSIN ffs. And when we broke up, she kept messaging, I emailed and said I'd talk to her when I was ready, she was just pushing me away. She called the house (I didn't give her my house number and wouldn't answer my cell. She knew my roommate's FIRST name *not last* and f*ing looked in the phone book for someone that name in that city), my roomie said I was in the shower but advised her to wait, that I would hate this. An hour later she called AGAIN. So yeah, the fact that Hardin is the one we're supposed to ROOT for gives me trauma flashbacks bc I delt with that and it was anything but romantic
danm, sorry you went through that. hopes everything is ok now though.
@@saintdude6032 ah no, was a while ago, I'm all good now! I just don't always know when to shut up! But serious red flag vibes. If anyone ever does that, run in the opposite direction! It is NOT romantic when someone can't respect your wishes. All that says is that for Hardin, is all about HIS feelings not TESSA'S
Still can’t believe this is based off of HARRY STYLES FANFICTION. 😂
It shows. It absolutely shows.
I'm glad you pointed out that Hardin "getting better" really means nothing when he was literally trash at the start.
I don't mean to be unkind, buuuuut...the fact that Tessa and Hardin can't have kids together is the best news in this whole movie.
Edit: Damn it, I spoke too soon, and of course they were going to have that be a false alarm. To quote Toni Morrison, "God help the child[ren]."
At the end in the last book Harden writes a book about combating alcoholism and his abusive childhood with the predatory women, oh so brave, and of course without taking any accountability for his actions. Tessa goes on with her life without him, of course never being with another man, and then he tracks her down and she tells him about how she read his book and how amazing it is and they. Fucking. Get. Back. Together.
I literally read the title and thought "wow my dyslexia is really hitting hard."
I feel like these series are just my generation’s version of “days of our lives” or “all my children”. I told my mom about these series and she was like “that’s nothing, my old soap operas would blow you outa the water”
I don't know what's scarier: The fact that this book exists or the fact that it has a franchise and a following
The answer to why Zed is even in the books is: he has to be, it's a 1D fanfic and you can't forget about Zayn 😅
This really isn’t a parody?! How much are these two leads being paid to say these lines and act like this?! It’s soooo toxic and scary.
i used audible for years but shoutout to the tulsa public library for not censoring what FULL GROWN ADULTS can listen to on overdrive and cloud. this isnt sarcasm, im really proud of my library for managing to at least keep digital services available to adults. i know librarians are going through dystopian hell right now.
oh and i wonder how harry styles feels about being portrayed as a raging lump of toxicity. i mean i know they change names but fanfic about real people is cringe enough without production budget and an international platform.
I mean, Harry did spit on someone’s lap so I’m not seeing any real differences 😆😪💦 But I do hope your library at least really guarantees it’s adults listening, I can’t think of many adults who’d be interested in this drivel, isn’t it more geared towards teens in middle and high school? It’s not appropriate for that age demographic, and not appealing to those old enough to have established standards lol
@@highfae jfc,. Even chris pine said that never happened. Do you just regurgitate gossip channel headlines and not actually follow any of the actual story? 🤣🤣🤣
@@highfaeplenty of adults love to indulge in horribly written teen drama books. There’s plenty of adult book reviewers that specifically look for cringy teen dramas to discuss as a guilty pleasure.
Hardin and Tessa are so toxic. Both are wrong her for not letting go and him for being a controlling, violent. abusive, pos. I just don't understand how anyone can see this as a healthy relationship or want anything like this. No woman should have to fix a man, it's not our job. The best ending to tis series both in the movie and the book would have been for Tessa to break free and grow on her own and Hardin to go to intensive therapy. But, we all know that isn't happening
To be fair to Tessa - it's often really hard to know, at least in real life, when you're in an emotionally abusive relationship. It's obvious from the outside, and maybe more so in cases that are really extreme. But abusers are really skilled manipulators, and will often make their victims feel like they deserve what is happening to them, like it's their fault, or often even gaslight them about it, pretending like the victim is exaggerating or imagining things. They'll break down their self esteem, isolate them from their friends, and make their victim feel dependent on them - either that they'll never survive without them, will never be loved by anyone else, or never be understood or validated in the same way. They'll abuse them and give an emotional apology, appeal to their trauma as an excuse or to make you feel sorry for them, and make the victim feel like their saviour, which boosts their self esteem.
The effect is even stronger when the victim experienced abuse or mistreatment in childhood, and the abusive behaviour seems less abnormal - because growing up it _was_ normal. This seems to apply to Tessa (with her dad being similar to Hardin, and her mom being a manipulative controlling creep in her own right). The girl probably grew up with all sorts of shitty behaviours being normalised to her, so she's less equipped to see her relationship with Hardin for what it is.
Now - that said, Tessa did her own fair share of toxic shit, and she's responsible for it. But I wanted to point out that abusive relationships often aren't experienced quite as black and white as they seem on the outside. It is psychologically confusing to be in an emotionally abusive relationship, and on average it takes most people _multiple_ attempts to leave. So really, Tessa can't entirely be faulted for struggling with that. Far too often abuse victims are stigmatised for being in these relationships or struggling to leave them when it isn't entirely their fault - these relationships are _designed_ to trap you and be difficult to disentangle yourself from. It's hard to even _know_ you're being abused. Trust me - I have an emotionally abusive parent whose been that way since before I was born. It took me till I was 19 years old and living away from my parents to realize that I had been abused at all. All of it had just seemed so normal up until then. Thank god I didn't get into an abusive relationship in college, because it probably would have been very difficult to get out of.
So true
Just take accountability and move on. I was manipulated or use by my ex not bcuz he has manipulative skill, simply bcuz I was so dumb at that time and didn’t see those red flags(they just sitting right there) . Now I have that accountability mentality , no one will use or abuse me again.
The not being able to have kids thing and the guy being the worst is EXACTLY what happened to me when I was 21. My ex had no interest in how much it had utterly ruined me. These movies suck but that thing is actually exactly what a lot to dudes do. It’s so tiring. They don’t see our loss as our own, it’s us failing. Anytime I told guys even when it was super casual that I can’t have kids they told me that I could never be a ‘long term option’. So yay. Thankfully I also realised eventually that I’m way more interested in women/ femme folk who aren’t horrible to me about that. But yeah. Not great
If it makes anyone feel better we could imagine that Hardin’s book in-universe gets as much hate as the real After books
As a Bulgarian I can say thank you for mentioning it. I was surprised that you even knew about us in the first place. But yeah, a lot of movies are filmed here because we have amazing nature and also great sets. And it's cheaper of course lol
You thought... that Amanda didn't know Bulgaria is a place?
I hope i can visit it someday
After Ever Happy sounds like something you'd hear in Shrek
LEAVE SHREK ALONE
i hate when shows/movies are self aware that a relationship or plot point sucks but they don’t do anything about it. it’s like, why have characters point out how stupid something is but you still continue to write it ☠️ pisses me off
If you ever got sentenced to community service whatever amount of hours you spent watching these movies should absolutely count, anyway enjoy the reactions
"You create your own storms, expect it not to rain and get pissed when it does."
They put all the actual disaster and self-awareness in this one instead of from the start & Hardin really comes off like one of my ex-best friends in certain parts.
New Cancer Bats top!
To be fair on the ball cap argument, one time for a youth event, we had to find people who were wearing disguises. One of the hardest guys to recognize for all of us was a guy who put on a baseball cap and took off his glasses. I remember only noticing him because I saw another team walking away from him, and only then did I realize who he was.
That sounds fun actually lol
@@moneyjar4606 oh, I had a blast at that event! Only problem was we didn't alert the mall about it, so one of our guys was walking around with a clearly stuffed shirt and obvious fake mustache/beard, and mall security started to think he was suspicious XD
@@nerdydivanikki LOL 😂 that’s hilarious!
Something similar happened to me under different circumstances. My school did a spirit week pre dances and one day they did Disney day, meaning dress like a tourist or a character. I dressed in a baseball cap (of a team people know I am a fan of) a sweatshirt and a pair of khaki pants (which all my friends have seen me wearing because they are uniform pants). So basically I was dressed as a father tourist and because of my baseball cap and that I was wearing clothing more casual than normal my friend did not recognize me until I spoke to him. It’s pretty easy to hide via baseball cap lmao.
Clark Kent had the perfect disguise then
All I want to know from this franchise is if Trevor got a happy ending.
I worry about the author's real relationships if this is what she thinks is romantic/sexy. I also feel like it is weird to write such an abusive character based on an actual person who you don't know in real life and say you have a crush on. If I read something like this based on me and I was a complete asshole through the whole thing I would assume the person hated me.
Especially since Harry Styles seems to be the complete opposite and the paragon of healthy masculinity 🤔
The author got married in 2007 at 18.
I mean, at the risk of defending her, it's fiction. Plenty of people explore dark, questionable etc concepts in fiction and, aren't terrible people irl. That being said, writing this about an actual person is very gross yeah
Movies went from being about Tessa & a toxic relationship to Hardin being the literal devil
Finding out that Hardin is the author had me fu©king ROLLING lmao
It's funny how Hardin embodies toxic masculinity while Harry styles is a soft boy who embraces healthy masculinity but are supposed to be the same person.
People never believed me when I used to say those 1D stans had the strangest hangups, and making the “Harry Styles is a violent bad boy” fanfic genre remains the ultimate example
It's because authors like the one who wrote After don't care about the celebrities and public figures they're writing about. The celebrities are just a vessel for them to use in their fantasies and little else
Harry gives me the ick too tho lol
Hello, I'm actually one of the fellow Bulgarians working for the film industry here. I'm a big fan of yours!
I did't work in After myself but I know 90% of the people who did and apparently it wasn't that bad. Also there have been movies getting made here for ages. All the expendables apart from the 1st one I believe were filmed here, Conan the Barbarian, Kung Fury 2, 300 the second one also the last Hell Boy movie, Rambo etc...
And yes they are alll bad movies :D
Something I would like to mention is that most of our movies get made in less than 4-6 months, the standard is around 2-3 months (without counting post-production). We work 12 hour shifts 6 days of the week. And because of the short time we have to prepare and the amount of work we have, a lot of the movies don't end up being the best they can.
Also a lot of the time movies (like Hell Boy) have nice scripts that we almost always have to cut down or simplify due to lack of time and mainly budget.
P.S. I work in Set Dressing
I can’t believe the entire After series just boils down to Hardin being the Bad Art Friend
I have never watched any of the after movies but the video’s people make about them are very amusing.
I feel like the Hardon having sex with an older women and then later thinking she is too old is the author’s toxic fandom coming out. Harry Styles has been rumored to have been with Tracee Ellis Ross and other “older” women, and his fans will trash them online, saying horrible things about how they’re not good enough.
They both want to be the one to do the breaking up.
They're addicted to their dynamic.
This shit happens a lot in many relationships.
Landon is on Landon's side, and Landon's side alone
This series really does make Ana and Christian look like a healthy relationship. WOW.
I need a shirt with "its not abusive its passion /s" 🤣
Hardin was like what I can’t pass on this generational trauma that’s not fair
I hope the film franchise helps the author of the series afford therapy. Because her view of romance is horrifying
I think the after movie show us a toxic/abusive relationship and now this movie is Tessa trying to leave him also showing the “I can fix the bad boy” doesn’t actually work and it’s not your responsibility to do that
I'm not gonna lie, when you were saying who Hardins dad was I thought you were gonna say it was Christian Grey....which would have made more sense honestly
The whole idea that he was willing to let her go at that party up until someone so much as got near her is so unsettling to me. It shows that he sees her as a possession and not someone he cares about. He doesn’t mind hurting her but seeing her with someone else in any capacity sets him off in a jealous rage. So abusive and completely out of touch with reality
They are making BEFORE into a film. She’s also writing a fifth book called AFTER EVERY THING, which will be the fifth movie and BEFORE will be the sixth…😂
She should write ' In the middle' . I don't get how this crap got published and filmed
this movie put me in physical pain. i could barely finish it tbh
I'm not ashamed to say I read fanfiction but I will NEVER understand real people fanfic.
How is there any kinda canon?
Just make a story based in the real world and say the person is based on [insert real person name] and/or looks like that person
4 videos in, I've just noticed that Vance is played by Stephen Moyer who I remember best as Bill from True Blood. Unfortunate he went on to be in something worse than the last several seasons of that
I cannot believe they Breaking Dawn Part 1 and 2'd this.
Hollywood is really about to milk the last third of a book and make it into a two-hour movie... but the one saving grace is that hopefully we're almost at the end of the After series? Hopefully? Please?
I often find these movies equally entertaining and frightening, but...damn. This one was emotionally challenging to watch. I get the impression that the actors were doing well with what they had to work with, but Hardin is scary. Even with just the snippets, I was nearly convinced Tessa would make the right relational move even though, practically speaking, I already knew she wouldn't.
Thanks for watching these things for us.
It's from a fanfic, I get it. Sometimes you just need the most convenient excuse to make your characters bang. But *GODDAMN* does it result in some truly terrible people....
"we're also only twenty-five minutes in !" ALL THAT IN ONLY 25 MINUTES ?
Damn, I work in a cinema where I can watch every movie for free and even with that condition nothing could convince me to watch this movie. So thank you, Amanda :D
It surprises me each time, to this day, that people still make thirst edits of this slice of white bread. (i.e Hardin)
We can all trust Amanda with her reviews. After Ever Happy seems to have lesser steamy scenes if we compare it to the previous films. Tessa and Hardin still have issues that they still need to sort out. They keep running in circles that seem to have no end.
So, then the moral of the story is: If you fall in love with a douchebag and don’t totally let him go, you also become a douchebag. It’s better if you’re just douchebags together instead of dragging people into your douchebaggy mess.
Noted. Thanks Anna Todd.
With all these Wattpad fanfics romanticizing abusive relationships become huge successes, I think it's time I write my fanfic romanticizing Phil and Ronnie Spector's marriage.
This feels so weird because now Hero Fiennes Tiffin has been in The Woman King which is actually not bad
I love fanfics, but RPF always gives me a weird uncomfortable vibe
I keep seeing trailers for this while watching TV with my mom… to her it seems like I’m just randomly shouting obscenities at the TV for no reason.
How is this story getting so many movies? The only good thing coming out of this, is that Amanda making videos about it makes me happy 😊
Oh no, Kid drama again, 365, Twiglight, Fifty shades and after have the pregnancy drama, and I just love how amanda describes it
So the abusive asshole gets the adjacent to her dreams and becomes more powerful and suddenly manipulative and continues to use her for sex and won't let her go. This.... is a mess
The title of this movie alone annoys me lol. It should be called “After Ever After”
Even "After Happily Ever" would be somewhat better but "After Ever Happily"?
Bruh, the hell is that title though "After Ever Happy"
What is with creating lucrative franchises out of all these abusive men!?!?
"fucking Trevah!" gets me every time.
This movie came out on my birthday and I was debating whether to watch this as my birthday movie but I was like “Nope not putting myself through this garbage”😂
What did you decide on instead?
@@Gobbostopper I watched Barbarian after my birthday. That was a good movie.
Talk about Harry Styles based films, i am really strongly hoping Amanda will do "Don't Worry Darling" with Pugh, Pine and Styles
Actually on Wattpad originally they never got back together.... After he released the book... We were left on a cliffhanger of "will they get back together or not?"
Okay it's happening. Everybody stay calm. STAY FUCKING CALM!
Am I the only one that kinda loves the title? A lot of the time they talk about how they expected their love story to be like one for the books, but as the title suggests it’s always instead been backwards and messy. A perfect fairytale ends with Happily Ever After, but After Ever Happy suggests it’s not quite there for Hardin and Tessa. It would’ve been extra symbolic if the mess ended at that, and they finally FINALLY left each other like kinda “after everything they were finally [for]ever happy without each other” but … that’s not what happens o___o I hate when a good title is wasted on content that doesn’t deserve it!
How does this author who is apparently a fan who wrote an entire novel about marrying Harry Styles, have a lower opinion of what he might be like as a romantic partner than I, some random guy who does not care about him at all? For the record I think he seems like he'd be kind of self absorbed, but I don't think he's a violent, abusive, lunatic.
I wonder how Harry Stiles feels about Hardern being modeled after him...
If I remember well he blocked Anna Todd on Twitter, so I don't think he liked this.
"Ken still sees him as his son...which I HOPE so because he raised him from BIRTH and all that!" Never go on Reddit, Amanda. Please preserve your hope in humanity.
These movies are the reason why intelligent civilisations from other planets haven't contacted us.