Netflix's PURPLE HEARTS is Dumb | Worst 'Enemies to Lovers' Explained
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What do you mean? 2002 was 10 years ago. If it was 2022, we’d have flying cars and hoverboards
Literally was about to write "More like 20 years ago" before I sunk into depression realizing how only I am
Oh, thank you for saying that. It was absolutely going to stop me from liking the video (jk)
@@apatheticsticker8137 I have a flying car but no hoverboard. Maybe its 2017...?
I was literally about to come in here and be like "oh my sweet summer millenial sibling, from one Canadian lesbian in their 30s to another (are you 30 yet? lmao), 2002 was not ten years ago" ilysm, I love your content, we gotta hang out sometime lmao
wild how all of these weird conservative/liberal romances are conservative man x liberal woman and instead of the man realising that maybe other people deserve rights, the woman ALWAYS compromises her beliefs for him
of course. it's what society expect. it's horrifying.
i'm trying to think of romances i've read where the opposite happens, and i'm realizing that the ETL authors i've read who might depict that would rather not waste their time with 200 pages of a man whining about realizing women are entire people when instead we could be reading ballroom masquerade swordfights.
I don't think a conservative woman would be with a liberal man, or at least I've never heard of that pairing. I do know several couples where a liberal woman is with a "conservative man" but every time, the guy just drops his beliefs/morals for the chance at getting some.
There is a historical series called 'The Great', but in it the woman is the one whose argument wins (she was liberal)
@@lydiacongdon8135 Kellyanne Conway and George Conway.
Someone said the movie is for girls with racist bfs and I wholeheartedly agree
So accurate
Maybe the girls are also racists
You’re not wrong 😬 specifically the girlies who also identify as liberal or like have “activist” or “blm” in their bios like…cmon now
@@jojo-he5gj the amount of those people who fight with me about black issues and the black experience in the US 💀
So my friend recommended this movie and in the same conversation said she hoped her boyfriend hadn't offended me with his homophobic jokes the day before. She said he was just being "silly" 🙃 Anyway, I'll be out trying to make new friends this weekend.
"This movie would've been at home in 2002 or 2003... But that was ten years ago"
Regrettably, according to my calculator app, 2002 was in fact twenty years ago. I'm sorry to be the one to break this to you. It hurts me too.
Came here to make sure I wasn't crazy. Just old.
Not me looking if someone else caught it 😂
Shhhh, the 80s were 20 years ago.
@@catyfaurie9446 This is accurate.
Time stamp?!
As Kennie JD pointed out, if he is still voting for you to lose your rights, that is not love.
Another American type one diabetic here-- I have the exact same insulin pump that Cassie is shown using in the movie and I shit you not, the company sent out an email on the day this premiered, practically bragging that they were featured in it...a movie where the core premise was someone needing to commit fraud in order to afford their life-sustaining piece of technology. The lack of self-awareness was STAGGERING.
It's not the companies fault you live in the ONLY shitty rich country that doesn't manage to establish a proper healthcare system.
The lack of YOUR awareness is staggering. It's not the company to blame, but the US government.
It's basically the majority of US citizens lacking any awareness. Every time they need to vote for better conditions some politicians just wave the star spangled banner and the brains go out of the window.
Your food is shit, your healthcare is awful, your educational system is a mess, prisons are full, power grid and water system are on the edge, people have to work their ass off for minimum wages...but hey, who cares...
Haha I hope your diabetes defeats you 😂😊
That is both hilarious and depressing.
How u get diabetes
And when
Former military spouse here (still married, my partner is just no longer in the military): literally no one cares if your marriage is "legit" or not. You're not required to prove that you're really in love with your spouse and no one would go to prison as a penalty for getting married to someone they didn't love.
The reason military personnel get housing allowances is because the junior enlisted do not get paid enough to afford housing. It's not "extra money"- you get it because you need it. (To clarify, that is not taking into account hazard pay for combat which is a thing and was thr situation in the film but generally speaking junior enlisted don't get paid a lot.)
Also for us the health insurance wasn't very good- the insurance I had through my job was much better than what the military offered. Of course it's different for everyone (and i am not diabetic) but we had very bad experiences with military health care overall.
And the US military hasn't sent troops to Iraq in literal years. Was this movie meant to be set in the early 2000s? (I genuinely don't know)
TLDR: This movie is silly.
I know it was universally razzed by the military community (for the romanticism) … while simultaneously the joke was that the setup situation was “any given Tuesday in the Armed Forces”.
Exactly my thought. Here they don't care why you're married. Maybe some people about immigrants trying to get citizenships, I'm not sure that's even a thing the bureaucracy is worried about either. But seriously, two US citizens getting married, there is no questions or anything asked about "why" "are you sure?" "Is this just for money?" because no one really cares.
This movie is like watching Cadet Kelly to help you with D&C 🤦🏾♀️
Seriously! My grandfather was military, and granted he had seven kids, but if he made the kind of money this movie implies he would for being married, my mom might not have grown up poor!
I mean if you have no health care, any health care is good and an upgrade. And sadly, if you are waitstaff and independently employed as a musician on the side, I am sure the military healthcare is golden in your eyes. That being said, I agree they ove embellished the monetary and health care benefits for the sake of the film. But I know plenty of folks in I went to high school with who saw the Military as their best choice, not because they thought they would be rich. But because they knew they would at least have a path to housing and health care as well as other benefits. And in comparison to like working at Target or something, it seemed like a golden goose to an at least decent adult life.
There is so many issues in this movie, the racism, the health care issues in America, the romanisations of the military, the misogyny, yet some people are loosing their damn mind over this movie and how good they think it is!!
Just because the 2 main actors are good looking, it doesn’t mean its sexy
people are pleased by simple things
Oh those are all issues, but also the dialogue was terrible, the plot was terrible and the acting was barely passable. Like I'm glad I had it on in the background because this wasn't it. I enjoyed Partner Track way more than this, even that Kat Graham romance was better even though it was bad it was better.
@@kgal1298 that Kat graham romance was egregious, but I agree with you. Did all of the movie directors not read Romeo and Juliet? It is not the epic love story they think it is
@@blueblack3591 honestly I think it’s just because both of the actors are really good looking! Like the amount of edits I’ve seen on tik tok of the scene where the guy demands the girl to sit down is honestly concerning!
Americans suck at actually watching movies
Those two end up in divorce court, and he ends up a thumb cop. She ends up a single mom looking for a healthy relationship. He gets away with domestic abuse because of his family connections.
This is how it would really end up. The sequel should be a horror movie.
Exactly and no sensible guy would ever go for a single mom who makes bad decisions, so she whines about it on social media. And the thumb cops gets married to some other vulnerable woman and becomes a wife beater, continuing the cycle.
it's so funny that he accused her of being rich when she works as a waitress
This is so funny to me bc military men dating for 2 months and then getting married to have better housing and money is a real thing that creates so many military bratz lmao
@sewer~rat Those leave such a distaste in my mouth because of Ms. Saigon and other wasian kid's stories. Because of the dads. 🫠💀 Many Asian-American kids realize how predatory this is especially when we have unsuspecting Asian women from Asia who have no idea that they fetishize Asian women and treating wasian kids as exotic (appearance wise) and natively born Asian American kids as exotic despite being born here. 💀 Too many times it's out of fetishizing I can't take it seriously even if it's actually love.
Even if you remove the very obvious military propaganda from the story, you’re still left with an incredibly toxic relationship that the film is trying to make you believe is “relationship goals”. The saddest thing is people are eating shit shit up. Can’t say I’m surprised though, and I also can’t say I’m entirely surprised Booktok loves this movie because… I mean they worship Colleen Hoover, and from what I know about her books, the relationships in them are varying degrees of toxic, so..
Who's the audience for this anyway? I've been assuming it's the same people that like God's Not Dead unironically, is that incorrect?
Lol my side of booktok would never
I’m no longer shocked by toxic relationships being idealized in movies. I mean, look at Twilight. The central relationship has more red flags than a communist military parade and yet some fans organized a whole convention dedicated to praising Twilight’s portrayal of love!
@@Xantar very true! And then we have the fan fix version of twilight, 50 shades of gray, and people were eating that up en masse.
So annoying because the relationship in the series is beyond toxic and actually abusive and because real BDSM relationships don’t (shouldn’t) work that way!
Ah so it's from Colleen Hoover? Now everything makes sense T _ T (never read anything from her, just the fame of her works follows her loudly)
Wait thats not how enemies to lovers works. Isn't it like the whole point that they actually have the same belive system but just have a wrong picture of each other/stereotypes?
That's one of the ways it works (and probably the best version). The other is the 'bad' one getting domesticated, or the 'good' one going absolutely feral (doctor/master in doctor who and hannibal/will in hannibal).
It doesn't work whatsoever if they just... Ignore the things that make them enemies because hot I guess?
What Zorae said. But yeah better way to do it, there's gotta be a connection somewhere.
That's how the best one I've seen in the game BIrushana worked. Both were very similar but were on opposite sides of a war.
@@Zorae42 the way you put this...effervescent
As a military brat, this movie severely overestimates the Marine Corps give a shit about 'real marriage'. I have seen people get married for less and never have issues. My aunt was the maid of honor for her friend's 'wedding' (justice of the peace four days before her boyfriend of three weeks deployed), she met the best man who asked for her hand by the end of the night with the romantic overture, "I'm moving to Guam on Tuesday, do you want to get married?" No one ever questioned them. Also, the jar-head attitude is spot on- I have heard that "good enough to fight for your ass..." line like a thousand times waiting tables near bases on payday weekend. This movie is complete dogshit, but they did get that right.
I graduated high school in 2001 so I had a *lot* of friends in the military. And a good majority of those friends were deployed.
Marriages that were just for the benefits were common across all the branches.
Basically the attitude was “why let these benefits just sit there being unused when I have friends in need?”
When the serviceman getting married wasn’t deployed, him and his “wife” just lived as roommates.
Everyone knew what the deal was and didn’t think much of it and I didn’t know anyone that went to these elaborate lengths to establish a fake relationship.
It’s not like they have MPs that sniff out fake relationships and people “StEaLiNg FrOm ThE gOvErMeNt”. No one cares.
that's such a sad thing to get right
The timing of the release of this show was pretty great. Around a week or so after it released the Republican party successfully blocked a bill that would've capped insulin prices. But hey, when you mix blue and red you get purple. So that's cool, right?
Naturally, those people should just suck it up & marry a military member! They can look over their differences in *looks at smudged writing on hand* beliefs on human rights!
@@spookyteal brilliant *chef's kiss*
Excuse me….the hell?!
It feels connected
"Things are getting a bit serious in war..." 😂
I’m a sucker for cringy romance. However, as a person who lived in a country that American Military got deployed to, this movie triggered my PTSD. It was clear military propaganda. The male lead had no redeeming factors or character growth. There was no reason for the female lead to ignore her core beliefs for a stranger who didn’t even try. If anything the female character was the one that compromised and literally fell in love with a man that doesn’t believe she deserves life saving meds because she’s poor.
Americans sure love their military propaganda, at least most people I have seen from both political spectrum does.
It's so weird because they can very clearly see what China is doing is genocide, but can't apply basic logic to America doing the same thing in an even worse way.
This movie could've been improved EASILY if the guy had decided to enlist to support his family or something like that. Then he'd have a reason to support being in the military that isn't, you know, american rights (?) and the couples' core belief systems wouldn't be so fucking different
And it wouldn't hypocritical as hell that he writes her off as a lazy liberal stereotype despite her working three jobs while he's in debt to a guy named Johnno
@@bigbearkat2010 well at least that's accurate to real conservatives
@@bigbearkat2010 I don't know. I think it'd only be hypocritical if he stereotyped her as a trust-fund kid with a Lexus paid for by her parents who is trying to cheat the system- while ALSO trying to cheat the system. Not only to pay off his hypothetical drug dealer- but also that he can avoid a DUI b/c his ex-cop father let him off the hook for totaling his $50,000 Corolla.
Now THAT would be hypocritical.
@@TheNumnutRandomness Glad none of that happened then. Oh wait.
I was about to say something snide but then I realized my abject hate for the enemies to lovers trope was coloring literally every remark I could think of, which is not fair to legit fans of the trope. I'm being subjective. I shall bite my tongue.
"2002, 2003... That was 10 years ago!"
Amanda, that was TWENTY years ago, actually.
right it really does feel like it though
😂😂😂
Lmaooo how tf did I not notice that damn
I just aged rapidly after you brought that to my attention.
Shhhh, the 80s were 20 years ago.
They were so close to being “ok.” Imagine if he said she couldn’t afford her life saving medication on the stand and said “what am I fighting for if I have to marry a friend for her to live!” CMON ANYTHING
I have never hated a movie that was so acclaimed by most of its audience until this movie came out. It got so much praise from a good portion of people and for what?? At least with movie series like 365 and After, the vocal majority *know* that they're bad.
To paraphrase a tweet I saw a week or two after it released, this movie is definitely made for the girls with racist military boyfriends...
honestly this movie seems so boring
@@blueblack3591 It is but in the most conservative, pro-military way possible
Yeap definitely made for pseudo progressive pick me girls who just want the cool points but won't give up the racist, sexist boyfriend 🥰
@Kirk Wolfe - Indie Music it’s red because of republicans and blue because of democrats but tbh I wouldn’t be surprised if they wanted to be quirky and include that too
It got good reviews because a lot of privledged people who aren't as directly affected by the ills of society (like being diabetic and unable to afford insulin for example) they want to pretend we live in a magical world where political differences are just twitter fodder that they never have to think too much about or take too seriously lest they be inconvenienced by the very harsh realities of our society. This kind of movie makes it okay for them to act like their political ideologies are just opinions that they have a right to vs real policies and practices that cause ACTUAL HARM TO PEOPLE.
"What rights for Americans are you fighting for in Iraq in 2022?" plus the sound effect killed me lmao😂. Brilliant commentary as usual.
shit, we all knew they weren't fighting for any american rights in 2003 either. even before we knew about the WMD lie, we all knew it was about revenge.
Brainwashed clowns. They're no better than drones.
Edit: Drones don't r4pe, so the'yre worse.
The diabetes and not affording insulin is spot on and no joke, my insurance did the same thing and decided to fuck with my prescription since it says to take between 3-15 units depending on what my blood sugar is at that time but my insurance company only saw the 3 and decided the refill date from that. Needless to say but I didn't have the 630 to pay out of pocket and it took nearly 4 days for my doctor to get things changed and preapproved and I ended up in DKA aka. dying and ended up in the hospital for 5 days. My only solace afterward was knowing my insurance had to pay for a hospital bill that was over 200 times the cost of the initially refused insulin. So yeah, you better believe I'd have no problem banging some Marine dude if it meant not going through that again!
Did the ins co or the pharmacy? I used to work in pharmacy and we’d have new people and didn’t understand insulin math (that it wasn’t complicated) and do the day supply wrong. Otherwise you probably just need a PA. Did the pharmacy give you that option?
@@nekograce7914 yeah most of the time my med issues are with the pharmacy techs. They like to look at the number of my pills and put it in as a three month supply (it's 30 days) and then they tell me it's too soon to fill it. It is frustrating trying to figure out whose error it is and being terrified of not getting your meds.
i had an opportunity to work in USA but I am diabetic as well, and when started asking my american friends about insurance was totally disgusted with way how it works. Prices are abnormal (not only for insuline but any other medical stuff) and bills for entering hospital is sth beyond my understanding. I pay monthly pretty high price in my work check but I have health care for free and noone will charge me if I go to hospital. Also insuline is for free, I pay just for needles and some of equipment (if I decide to have more fancy glucometer). My sallary is not so high in comparison but I don't have to worry if I will be able to pay medical bills
I'm so sorry that happened i hope you are doing a lot better now
This is so fekt. Wtf is wrong with America aside from everything?
personally i prefer the kitchen item wallpaper but wolverine does make the fine dining background a vibe
Agreed
The only thing I can say about this movie is that they got how racist and blood thirsty marines to be 100% accurate! My best friend is in the marines and his horror stories about it are absolutely disgusting.
So your best friend is racist and blood thirsty...?
my brief stint with dating a green army boy, i learned so many slurs i wish i could erase from my vocabulary. the brainwashing they do to force soldiers to be obedient and units to be cohesive made it impossible to try and reel him back from turning into a racist monster. :( how does someone compartmentalize against a centuries-old institution that's perfected the art of breaking down your personality and suffocating you with hatred for the Other until you have no energy left to question it?
It would've been an interestig commentary if ONLY they hadn't underplayed the racism just to romanticize the marines! This WHOLE movie's problem is that it romanticizes the messed up shit that could come up with.
@@IMayOrMayHaveNot Exactly! Like, news flash the guy is still going to be horrifically racist when he gets out of jail
Yup. A friend of mine from college was drugged and raped (repeatedly) by a group of off-duty Marines in Arkansas during spring break one year. She was a huge supporter of the armed forces, frequently donated to Wounded Warrior Project and other charities, volunteered for in her spare time, hugely patriotic. Not so much any more. Had to get an abortion. Fortunately, I talked her into hiring a private investigator (since she refused to go to the authorities), and later on I learned that several of the guys had been killed or disfigured in a fiery auto crash, so at least there is some semblance of justice in the universe.
"You're rich, I bet!" Sir, she is working IN A BAR.
I hated it. It was bad. Not even just the politics, but also how rushed the relationship felt. It was like boom boom boom in love. They didn't change as characters, just the relationship changed. Both have to grow and be dynamic or it is boring and falls flat. Layering that with the politics makes it worse. His beliefs are horrendous. He doesn't even see her mom as a person. Is her mom just gonna never ever meet that guy?
My apologies for not using names. I already forgot every name but Johno.
As an Australian who lives where every other guy has an 'O' added to the end of his name, honestly that was completely acceptable to me, haha
That's insta love at its best - or should I say worst.
I don't really understand why they should go to jail. It was, in a legal sense, a legitimate marriage, right? Papers signed and everything? As long as its legal the motive shouldn't matter. People marry for mercenary reasons all the time, and have done for as long as marriage has existed. It might not be a decent thing to thing to do, but it shouldn't be the governments/military's business if you marry for ~ Twue Wove ~ or just to make a household that benefits both parties. A dishonorable discharge for immoral behavior or something seems more like a punishment to fit the crime in this case
Can’t speak to the case in the film specifically but my step mom is an immigration attorney and the Government is VERY invested in making sure people get married for ~twue wove~ and not just to get citizenship status in that case, though I don’t think you get arrested in that case, the non citizen just gets deported.
there's a difference between a marriage for citizenship (one citizen and one foreigner) and a boot camp marriage (usually both are already citizens). And honestly, if they jailed all the military who didn't have ~twue wove~ marriages, our forces would be significantly depleted. it takes more than just getting married for benefits for the military to care. and yes, loss of rank and up to and including discharge would be a more likely consequence.
@@byMidnyt The difference is that a fake 'boot camp marriage' means you get benefits you have no right to, and nobody seems to care despite it being essentially a fraud to get 'tax payers money' everyone is always so concerned about when talking about social welfare or universal health care or anything poor people could benefit from.
While a marriage for citizenship doesn't necessarily mean you get government money, actually society as a whole could benefit from the spouse paying taxes etc., and there's still a huge effort to investigate those cases and punish 'offenders'. It seems that the majority of people don't have a problem giving money to the military, even if it's unwarranted, but don't want to give citizenship to foreigners, regardless if they would profit from it or not. I guess that's what 'patriotism' looks like in the US.
@@altothealtoiest1682 "twue wove" 😂
@@altothealtoiest1682 as others said, they don't seem to care about two US citizens (and why would they, they can't check every marriage) but more about the case you described (as seen in the movie "The Proposal" and other movies). But still, in this movie it shouldn't be an issue. A man and a woman, both US citizens, get married. So what? I don't think the military cares and others confirmed that.
When I was in high school I worked at an ice cream parlor. We didnt offer a military discount (as a lot of places dont) and one guy got pissed and pulled the "we r saving ur ass" nonsense. Even at 16 I asked him what rights hes fighting for that we dont already have? What would change if the military wasnt overseas?
...he was really pissed and stormed out. Never answered my question either.
Legit I work at a Starbucks in CA and one time this guy came in and asked about military discounts and he was BRITISH, he was in the UK MILITARY lmao
@@annelooney1090 There are things like "military discounts" in America? I never even heard about that. Now I wonder if we have it here in Europe as well. I'm pretty sure we don't have it in my country (Czech republic) but I need to check because that's interesting.
@@Eris_Norregard military discounts are not universal but some places have them, usually chain restaurants or clothing retailers. Sometimes only on Veteran's Day (what we call Armistice Day lol) sometimes all year round. Starbucks doesn't do them at all though.
Honestly, i work in the health care system and dated someone whose father was in the military. First off, the line about the "just date me to get good health insurance" hahaha, I laughed at that. I've seen the "health insurance" they offer and it's crappy. The person I dated can actually confirm this. So no thank you 🙂
I don't think she wanted it because it was the best insurance, just because she couldn't afford the good ones and as a military spouse it would have been free.
It is pretty bad lol. I have the insurance the military offers which is Tricare. Copay amount is ALWAYS way higher than other insurance plans. Sigh.
@@a_grape_in_space1016 plus, they don't try to help you prevent chronic diseases and wait till the problem that could have been prevented is at its max. Seen so many patients and they tell me the same thing, tricare sucks
@@wigglemelon8807 I completely agree, like honestly, I would too if it meant it was free and it helped me get something I needed to literally live. Not the best but it's something rather than nothing
Sorry, this is off-topic, but your profile picture is exactly the same image I used as a profile picture 7 years ago, and seeing it again gave me such a bizarre, disorienting sense of temporal displacement.
I saw some rando on Twitter saying something like “how you know a movie isn’t w*ke” with a graphic that showed this movie had a good audience score and bad critics scores. So I guess this is going to be a favorite of the crazies.
Those people are embarrassing.
I mean, they’re saying the same thing about stuff like The Terminal List, so..
A "woke" movie is just as bad. It's the other side of the same shitty coin.
@@Keznen please name a woke movie.
@@charmander466 Black Christmas 2019. Woke and also god awful.
Can we stop acting like "woke" is a bad thing? It seems like people just throw that term around to justify their sexism/racism.
“Oh my god, no! No- NOT THE *GOVERNMENT!”*
This will be my yearbook quote
I am so upset that Sofia Carson is in this film because literally she was in Descendants 3 which means she should know better!
She was in ALL of the Descendants movies! So she really should know better
Gotta secure the bag.
@@saininj she was one of the people absolutely gunning for the movie. (I think she was a producer or something)
She was a producer and worked on the movie for 5 years. I heard rumors that she also comes from a family of republicans so she believes in all that stuff from the movie.
@@camilas5722 oh no that's even worse.
"Let me TAKE some NOTES" is an entire Amanda mood and I am HERE FOR IT. Thanks for watching this terrible stuff for our entertainment!
As a connoisseur of bad conservative films, it’s amazing to me what these folks *put in their own movies.* They didn’t HAVE to make the lefty lady a diabetic whose choices end up between the Marine or literal death, thanks to conservative health care policies (or lack thereof) but they did. They didn’t HAVE to make the Marine’s debt to a drug dealer, but they did. So now they’re asking me to empathize with the small-minded jingoist hypocrite who won’t even defend his “wife” to his friends, over the woman with a job and drive and goals and no debt to a drug dealer because of a massive fuck up? Ok, movie, sure.
Like she's essentially being forced to prostitute herself to the marines on pain of death, what even the fuck
Conservatives have zero self-awareness.
In fairness, I think it's more of a "moderate" movie, in a "why can't both sides learn to get along?" And it shows exactly why that statement is s dumb. One "side" thinks the other doesn't deserve human rights, and you're asking them to get along. Cassie is the daughter of immigrants with a disability, and Luke supports a party who thinks she doesn't deserve to be in this country or live. "Why can't both sides learn to get along?" is asking one side to compromise but not the other, and that's exactly what happens in the movie.
Yeah I thought that was hilarious too. Like you could've at least tried to make the liberal girl horribly distasteful, but no lol. They made her a smart, resourceful, talented musician and the whole movie it was just her settling for someone who definitely didn't deserve a second glance like what?? 🤣🤣
It's not that they shouldn't take on these issues but they have no conception of how to handle them. It's like watching a child play with dynamite.
i've never been one for the enemies to lovers trend, mainly because hardly any story that tries it pulls it off well. i think film is a very poor vehicle for it and it's better suited to longform written works or a tv show. the thing about enemies to lovers is it requires massive character development. when done well it's a slow-burn, a gradual, believable arc from enemies to grudging allies to willing allies to friends, and so on and so forth, before lovers is even in the question. in theory it's really compelling but so many of these enemies to lovers stories neglect the development entirely. one second they hate each other for genuine reasons and then the next they're all over each other, but we never get to see _why_ they like each other now beyond surface level physical attraction. they're enemies because they have ideological differences, and then... they start sleeping together? despite the reason they're enemies never having been resolved? it's so shallow and i can't stand it. it such a waste of a hypothetically good trope.
That and the fetishizing abuse. Soo much fetishzing of abuse you'd think the enemies to lovers trope is a flimsy excuse for it (it probably is).
if those Sort of "ETL" stories were just honest about it and made it about enemies who sometimes had hate-sex, i'd be less bothered by it.
we need to start calling these bad ETL stories "enemies to fuckers".
And this is why I agreed with a saying I saw once: "don't try your hand at enemies-to-lovers unless you're Jane Austen.", not so much saying you gotta be as good as her overall to write, but rather that the trope only works if you develop it in a organic and gradual way to make it feel earned and convincing. Overlook both and what you get is this dumpster fire of a movie.
I see Enemies to lovers tropes within stories and movies as red-flags like even with the happy ending it’s like no this is gross 🤢
As a writer who writes this trope, I absolutely agree. It can take books, literal books to get that turn around. It's easier to make a character end up feeling neutral about the person, but a lot, a crap bunch more to get them to actually feel positively about them, let alone romantically. There are a lot of different ways to do it, but without the buildup it's an absolute wreck. Definitely not a great subject for just a movie or one season show.
It makes nnoooo sense. How did they catch feelings? She was mad about the one guy, but he's just as bad!! Why would you sleep with someone that just hand waved away someone he's about to go to wat with saying he's going to hunt humans?! Ma'am, he's kinda soft admitting he agrees and you want the d because he's afraid they might try to kill him back?! Fist big argument he's calling her a slur, I know it.
"Oh no, the pupper will be left alone!" The only valid concern with this movie!
11:18- I think Drop Dead Diva actually used that as a plot for an episode once. An ex-con got diagnosed with cancer while he was in prison, so almost immediately after getting unwillingly paroled he tried to get himself thrown back into prison on purpose so he could continue his treatments that he otherwise would have no hope of affording.
Oh Drop Dead Diva, that was a fun show 🙂
I miss that show. 😕
That was also a plot point in Orange is the New Black where one of the characters finally got out, but when she realised there was nothing for her anymore in society (especially as female Black ex-con), she got herself back in. The MC asked her why she came back and she said "I have nothing there anymore, what else can I do?"
@@grandempressvicky6387 I think they call that institutionalized. Old guy tried to do that in Shawshank Redemption too and Morgan Freeman had a whole monologue about it
“this is the type of movie that would’ve felt right at home when military deployment was at an all time high back in 2002 or 2003. that was 10 years ago” it’s 2022, amanda
No one has been able to keep track of time since March 2020
@@naomilamont3277 which was still 18 years after 2002
@@thasmin
Leave her alone she’s an aging millennial, her memory’s fading
How *DARE* them bring Florence and the Machine into this disaster! They are too good for this, you monsters!
They didn’t even do it believably!! That crowd at the Hollywood Bowl would have been full of flower crowns and glitter, Florence fans are generally a lovely group of people
Yep the white soldier and foreign woman fall in love trope. A tale that is boring as time itself.
Time is not boring😭😭
Hey...... Time isn't that boring
Do you mean cliché? Tropes can still be enjoyable if they are written well, however if it is poorly written to being unenjoyable, then it is a cliche. Though I can see where people come from for wanting to see different physical portrayals of the trope
....foreign?
@@riybtl Its a boring trope.
This movie feels like it was made by one of those guys on tinder who calls himself “fiscally liberal but socially conservative” but advertised as middle of the road and it’s actually painful 😔
to quote the great Kennie JD about this one: "imagine knowingly fucking a man who doesn't believe in you having rights. embarrassing."
what is a legitimate basis for marriage?? in most societies historically marriage for love is pretty uncommon and it’s such a subjective basis for a law anyways, how would you ever enforce that unless someone straight up confessed? i’ve never gotten married but i’m pretty sure the legal paperwork doesn’t make you pinky swear on your mom’s life that you feel butterflies in your stomach whenever you think about the person you’re marrying or anything like that
🤣🤣
You should look up how it is for people marrying for citizenship. In many cases, they do legitimately love one another but they have to jump through several hoops in order to "prove" it. Disabled people go through similar issues in their relationships; but more so that they often *can't* marry their able-bodied partner without losing health insurance.
Amanda has a great announcer voice.
3:56 "back in 2002 or 2003 but that was 10 years ago"
oh honey
I remember that time when my insurance only cover 14 days of medicine per month, medicine that I had to take every day, and then worrying about how I was going to afford the rest. Thank God I don't need to take that stuff anymore and I feel sorry for those who do. Not to mention the restrictions on pain medicine because some people abuse them. That really sucked
7:40 so funny story, this is the exact situation my Aunt was in when she married my Uncle. Granted she isn't gay but they had separated and my Uncle was a Policeman but after getting cancer he remarried my Aunt so she would get his benefits after he did since they were still on good terms
Okay, but Bella and Rosalie is SUCH a good enemies to lovers pairing, that's all I can fixate on
Very true
“Even with my favorite enemy to lovers pairing… Bella/Rosalie” AH A WOMAN OF TASTE I SEE
It’s okay I’ll cure my boyfriend’s racism through the power of LURV
But did she cure it? 🤔
And at the end,she just let go
Cindy's video was filled with comments of "I can't believe this Disney girl is on this kind of movie" or stuff like that, I liked her in her Disney roles but for this movie I can't ignore her family background of corrupt Colombian politicians, who are quite conservative, so it is not surprising at all that she is making a movie like this.
I had no idea and now I know I'm spending the next hour going down that rabbit hole 😱
What? Colombian? Oh shit... She's literally a Char... 😭
Wow. I didn’t know that but considering she is Latino, it makes sense. They can be ridiculously traditional/conservative sometimes to the point of toxicity. I’m glad my mother isn’t like that
@@brunacunha9705 nah, the "traditional valvules" have been here since Spain got its sticky hands on the continent
Wolverine is just the touch that dining room needs. He really brightens up the place.
What I picked up from watching Kennie, Amanda, and Cindy react to this movie is
1. the entire story premise is shit.
2. the female lead’s singing voice is super annoying.
3. how this man keeps getting acting roles is beyond me.
And now he’s cast as Prince Henry in Red, White and Royal Blue… Keeping my fingers crossed it won’t be terrible since I was pretty excited about that one.
Nooooooo, whyyy? I love Red, white and royal blue ant hes not Henry! Really not, i have no idea how Henry was described in the book but i imagined kinda Angel like Golden locks hahaha
And whatever i pictured it was not him!
(Still excited about the movie though )
@@queeneileen6752 he dyed his hair & it looks awful, I’ve already lost faith in the movie
@@ambershoba oh no that Sounds awful... i guess i'll have to reread the book till the end of time then...
Sofia's voice is actually amazing so if she sounds annoying in this movie, how did they mess that up
@@bluepeppermint3790 I think they messed with the audio way too much. It sounded like she was slurring her words even when she was supposed to be fine...😅
I do actually enjoy enemies with different beliefs to lovers when done well, but there are two caveats to that: A. That works best as a slowburn with lots of character development to explain how they reach a compromise or how one side gives up their atrocious beliefs.... and B.) I find it more enjoyable when it's grounded in a fantasy setting and not our real-world belief systems. Example: watching a monster and a monster hunter fall in love.
Enemies to lovers is usually kind of metaphorical, relying on heightened drama to create something relatable rather than entirely relatable situations, so grounding it TOO MUCH in real-world politics can kill the buzz.
Oh boy, I've been waiting for this one!
As someone who's been in the USAF for more than 10 years, I find this movie insanely cringe.
Also, highly unlikely that something like this would actually go to court martial. Just like how adultery is technically punishable under the UCMJ, but is never investigated or tried.
My cousin was in the army and when I told her a few years ago that I thought thought it would be fun being a military wife, she just laughed and said to not even consider it lol. She said they cheat so much everywhere they go, with locals, sex-workers, strippers, etc that's definitely not worth it.
@@wigglemelon8807 I'm in the Air Force, but I've seen my fair share of infidelity across the services.
It's not just the member, though. The spouses cheat plenty too. 😂
Kitchen food wallpaper!!! The painting of pies is oddly comforting! I do like the Wolverine though!
Amanda knows what her fans want and she delivers 👏
honestly what pissed me off the most in this movie was cassies singing... like no shade to the actress but it really was low key annoying
When you described the premise I immediately thought. two people in the military get married for BAH and BAS, and they don't really like each other. Sounds like every military base I have ever been to lol
Purple Hearts starring Nicholas Galitzine and Sofia Carson is truly a mess of a film. This was supposed to be an enemies to lovers, but the others beg to disagree. If a liberal and a conservative are being forced to fake marry, then it won't work out.
Never mind Nicholas was also in that terrible Cinderella movie with Camilla and I'm like "what is this boys career trajectory?"
@@kgal1298 dude pops up in bizarre rolls. His next project is red white and royal blue, a lgbt romance movie. He just pops up in weird random roles
@@kgal1298 taking any job he can get and being pigeonholed into Hallmark eqpsque roles whether or not he should be? (Yet to be proven yes or no imo)
Sofia Carson was also in that pandemic movie that thinly veiled COVID but make it more dysopitian! KJ Apa was her love interest...
@@kgal1298 oh no, that's him? I kinda liked him! He was pretty charming surrounded by a movie I found charmlesx
My current partner is a marine and very pro-military. I am very much anti military and normally avoid anyone with a military background. However, I did make an exception for my partner due to him having invested in extensive therapy and actually being a decent human being. But that still doesn't change my opinion on the military in general, and he knows this. It's not an easy topic for us but, at our core, we still respect each other.
This story is stupid because it insinuates respect is not a requirement in a working relationship.
Remember kids, if it doesn't have MUTUAL respect, it's not healthy.
This movie was absolutely ridiculous 😭😭 I felt so iffy while watching it. Can’t believe I sat through the whole movie
This gives me the vibes of a Christian movie that has a character convert the “immoral, lost” atheist love interest
Now you need to do Netflix' Love in the Villa... I certainly couldn't go from the horrible things they do to one another to happily dating someone who'd done those things.
I actually really enjoyed that one lmao, but yeah they both go way too far more than once
Hahaha still better than Purple Hearts, but that one was just as ridiculous.
Agreed. Also it kind of reminded me of Letters to Juliet at the beginning (which is better imho)
That movie was good 😊 though. He did acknowledge his bad behavior and she called him out on it. 🤣🤣It’s not a 365 DNI / Days or After franchise type of bad.
Omg it’s so romantic to marry someone so you can get access to life saving medicine!! Absolutely adorable I love America
Our country's broken.
But the REAL conflict of this movie is Cassie’s struggle to not have her hair awkwardly tucked into her shirt for half the movie.
With a partly torn tendent in my ankle, which I'm sure wouldn't be as painful as those wounds, and I can't go more than a few steeps with my boot before almost almost on the ground in pain. Going for a run is so out of the question, from just weekend legs, being unbalanced, and like you said messing up his recovery.
Insulin is also overpriced in Canada. We have free healthcare, but medication is still INSANELY expensive if you don't have coverage. My sister is diabetic.
I work nightshifts and one night a coworker made me watch this entire movie because she loved it (yheap, she was watching it for the second time). She cried and singed through out the whole thing. And I was just jiggling inside, thinking what the hell is this?! It let me emotionally scarred, for the wrong reasons. And finally, I saw Amanda's thumbnail, and oh lord, this was perfect. I laughed out loud, pointing my finger like that Leo DiCaprio meme. Nice one Amanda, one of your finest works.
You mentioning Cindy (literally the crush of my life) feels like my two worlds colliding with each other lol, I love your videos, you're effortlessly funny!
"If this released in 2002, 2003...~ that was 10 years ago!"
Who's gonna tell her?
Kennie JD, ReadwithCindy, and Amanda the Jedi - the holy trinity of reacting to bad art
Why does this make me want to write an "enemies to lovers" story like I'm not even a writer but I can surely write better than this???? 😭
Same 😬
I mean, a bunch of typewriters with only one monkey going at them could write a better ETL than this, though yours'd be a masterpiece in comparison to this shlock, I bet.
Military spouse here - he gets more pay when deployed. Also adding a spouse you get increased bah or housing allowance, the spouse gets Tricare which whole not perfect is comprehensive healthcare, also those in the dorms are able to move off base. I know for our branch they no longer do those dependent IDs but instead give us chipped cards now. Additionally many don't wait to get married till after deployment because there are programs for spouses to get support at home and I'm the worst case they spouse would get support. Many do court house before deployment and then big wedding after. Also some get married to other military members to just get out of the dorm.
I was an active duty Marine until 7 years ago, and I knew this would be poorly acted and poorly written, but was thinking maybe it would be a harmless and cutesy comedy about sham military marriages... nah, I was blindsided by how cringe this was. I couldn't finish it, so I'm just going to tell myself that once he comes home injured, it turns into a remake of Breaking The Waves.
Ha I love that movie.
@@smfreij same. Now I'm imagining a young adult Netflix remake of Antichrist and Dancer In The Dark
@@blaisetelfer8499 done right that would be…freakin hilarious
@@blaisetelfer8499 you’ve reminded me of movies I haven’t watched in years…I think tomorrow is gonna be a breaking the waves/dancer in the dark kinda day
I just got orders for NC and I couldn't be any more excited to leave. I'm so done with how Pendleton is basically Hollywood, and how Horno Marines are apparently the only Infantry out here.
Yeah my brother has type 1 diabetes and it's so hard for him to get not only insulin but test strips and syringes. He doesn't take his insulin as often as he should to make it last longer. Oh and his actual nurse told him to reuse his needles to make them stretch farther. Great medical system we have here in the US.
Amanda: this movie seems like it would fit better in 2002-2003. So like 10 years ago.
Me: ...wait
But seriously, YIKES this movie was a choice. I cannot believe Netflix greenlit this with how Not Good it is. But I guess it is getting watched and getting buzz, even if it's hate watching... I appreciate you and Cindy watching this and tearing it apart so that I do not have to
Haha right, I was like “Yea 10 years! Waaaaaait 👀” Dang
If it was ten years ago I wouldnt be twenty lol
Semantic Error is the only enemies to lovers trope I actually like.
Most of the time this, trope is coupled with bad writing and horrendous acting.
Words cannot describe how much I boil whenever I see that "hunting down Arabs" scene
I didn’t know I needed to listen to a fellow Canadian snark at the US military but yes and thank you
If she just needed the medical benefits why not marry another member who she gets along better with 🙄 There are literally SO many members waiting for a girl like that so they can live out of the barracks
Was just thinking this
I can’t believe I finally have something that I’m actually an expert in. As a mil spouse who’s had type one (for 30 flirty and fun years), I have notes.
First, in the beginning when she stumbles off stage and gives herself insulin. This is bad. If you have, or find anyone who’s like that and diabetic, you need to feed them. Not give them insulin. Feed them. Pour Pepsi in their mouths, or in even crazier situations, rub honey inside of their cheeks/gums.
Second, the thing they don’t show is how fucking sweaty you get having a bad low. Like I’ve had the cradled in the arms, gluco gel in the mouth situations. But there’s the added struggle because you are sweating so much, it’s like trying to steady a fish flopping around that’s refusing to drink a juice box.
I wish Gagetown was that close to a beach. Do you know how nice a destress frolic in the sea. Just sounds so much better than, like, ATV’s.
Would have been better if it had been called Purple Pancreases. The pancreas needs better PR, and we’ve been living off Nick Jonas for far too long.
(As a serious’er note, if anyone has any diabetes questions, send them here! I want to do nothing more than educate on an illness that people don’t really know about.)
Question: in those situations, of sweating profusely and being cradled to get the gel, how long does it usually take to recover? How do you feel physically and mentally after it?
@@paulmaccaroni It depends on how low the persons blood sugar is. I’m Canadian, so the normal range is usually 5.0-8.0, so people can start being all sweaty and weird as soon as they go below 4. The lower you are, the stranger they will act. It’s kinda like all of a sudden they are really drunk out of nowhere.
Recovery depends on how low you get. If it’s a mild low (3.0 and above), usually 20 carbs and 15 min and you are back to normal life. If it’s below 3, it’ll probably take longer. I’ve had lows last for a few hours before, so it’s a bit unpredictable. The hardest part is just having to wait for the glucose to take effect.
If I have a bad low, I’ll be absolutely exhausted, grumpy and out of it for the rest of the day. The worst is when they happen overnight, because it makes falling asleep again a little harder.
Let me know if you need any more clarification! And thanks for asking!
@@ellewhite19 Thank *you* for answering! I love learning more about experiences different from my own. Hope you have a nice day/night.
I am actually considering writing a marriage of convince story where the female lead marries her older military brother’s friend because she needs health insurance because of her diabetes.
damn at least give them Coca Cola.
For anyone who wants to see a true "opposites to lovers" movie, I recommend A Walk to Remember.
Yes, thank you. Or, for a good enemies to lovers book, The Cruel Prince. It isn’t a good enemies to lovers story if there’s no character growth.
@@RB-vo4gi "The Cruel Prince" is how you do a enemies to lover!!
‚enemies to lovers‘ is overhyped anyway, most of the time its just two petty people who mildly dislike each other not characters who are literal enemies who overcome their justified hate for the other person
I don’t think it’s overhyped I think it’s misused. Genuine enemies to lovers hits so different from bullies to lovers
Only time I like enemies to lovers is when it isn't straight.
"Two toxic people who are forced into a toxic relationship by a story"
Is this enemies-to-lovers?
Yah, most enemies to lovers I've read start to fall in love when they learn how similar and good they both truly are... Not that they are both capable of fear
@@samanthanorton4538 The alternative is slowly domesticating the 'bad' one until they're not an asshole anymore. Or, the 'good' one going completely feral. However, in any of the 3 story structures, it involves the couple evolving to have (or realize they have) the same general moral beliefs
ive watched reviews of this movie like 6 times but of course I'm going to watch amandas because shes my favorite
If the military cared that much about love and marriage, there’d be a hell of a lot less SA 😬
I’m happy that you’re doing a lot of videos it makes my day after stuff that been going on in the world
I'm with Amanda. I hate enemies to lovers stories, especially when they're poorly written.
Ah! It’s so funny seeing Linden Ashby (Johnny Cage!) playing the father in this movie. He is such a nice guy in real life. My fiancé was the DP on a few movies Linden directed and enjoyed working with him.
That's where I know him from! He's Johnny Cage!
I honestly was going to say I liked the food wallpaper background but then you pointed out the wolverine and now that is a background with potential. A new character every week maybe they start hosting parties back there idk just my thoughts.
Purple Hearts more like Red Flags
Watching the film
Iraq war and xenophobic came up
Me an Arab: I am very uncomfortable with the energy we created in the studio today
Real love must come from respect. If it doesn’t, it’s only infatuation, you cannot love me if you don’t respect me
You cannot respect me if you think my rights are negotiable or if you don’t see me as a human being
Bridgerton did enemies to lovers pretty much perfectly in Season 2 with Kate and Anthony. This wasn't necessary.
withcindy's review on the movie is delightful, and I'm looking forward to hear your thoughts as well. It's certainly...a movie. XD
Amanda just uploaded.
Me - drops everything and starts watching 💜
hearing amanda shoutout kennie jd and readwithcindy felt like the most ambitious crossover event in cinematic history
Oh, it was so terrible. I couldn't deal with her singing voice. Like nails on a chalkboard. I'm so glad someone agrees with me. My Facebook post about it got so many comments saying, "what? It's so good! I love her singing voice!" 🙄
Scores of American women were raised by the Disney Channel, and will continue to stan its alumni til the day they die.
@@blaisetelfer8499 Okay. Cool. Doesn't change the fact her singing voice is the most annoying sound I've ever heard. Lol. I was raised by Disney too. And American. And a woman. I don't have blind loyalty to every single person who has been employed by them, though. 🤷♀️
@@KissyAdair I didn't say you were one of them; I was theorizing why so many people on your FB post were defending an objectively awful, trash movie.
@@blaisetelfer8499 Gotcha
I honestly don't get the whole ''sham marriage'' premise here, or when it was for the green card in The Proposal. Correct me if I'm wrong, but two consenting adults can get into marriage for ANY REASON they want, right? Why do they have to pretend they are in love to get benefits? Since when it ''love'' a legal pre-requisite of getting into marriage? The only downfall of such arrangement would be the impossibility to marry someone else, even if they fall in love. But again, it's their choice.
The green card stuff is accurate, coming from a second gen immigrant. The gov is very invested in making citizenship as difficult and costly as possible. Source: immigration laws in general and how they're enforced
Not marrying in the US, but universally green card marriages are definitely scrutinized. And depending on the country it can be treated pretty harsh, with officials being sent to the country just to confirm the reliability of documents. Countries don't want to give away citizenship and make it difficult to go through it. In the country I currently live in (Germany) it can be pretty hard so there's a joke about everyone going to Denmark even to just wed, because they take forever to give marriage licenses to internationality couples. In the US, I know a couple who during their interviews it was revealed he didn't love her and he decided he wanted to just go back home. But the interview process can be very tedious.
The green card one makes sense. My parents had to do that cause my mom wasn’t a us citizen at the time so they had to prove they weren’t getting married just so she could stay after her student visa had expired. I know people who have had green card marriages and had to prove that they knew the other person prior. This military one makes no sense because they are both US citizens and consenting adults. This would never happen in real life.
1:00 i love how my favorite youtubers are all connected
So fun fact. I grew up in the town where this movie was filmed. I recognized so much just from the clips that were shown here. That was trippy.