It Ends With Us (Bonus Scorecard)
It Ends With Us (Bonus Scorecard)
Scorecard, Introducing a new podcast segment
The producers have been heavy on the horror/thriller genre lately, so we got a bonus scorecard to chat about the buzz Blake, Justin, Colleen, and company have been creating on the internet. With one of the biggest Thursday box offices, this one is well worth a Concession Stand Scorecard.
Here’s what we have for you this week:
Concession Stand Scorecard: It Ends With Us
Coming Soon: A podcast episode on the book & movie It Ends With Us
This week’s bonus movie - “It Ends With Us”
Letterboxd Description:
We break the pattern or the pattern breaks us.
Lily overcomes a traumatic childhood to embark on a new life. A chance meeting with a neurosurgeon sparks a connection but Lily begins to see sides of him that remind her of her parents’ relationship.
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End credit thoughts
You never know what you’re getting into with a book-to-movie adaptation. Are the people, places, and things on the screen going to hold up to the imagination? What are they going to leave out that was needed? And what are they going to keep that they shouldn’t have?
Overall, there were some significant changes, and much of the book was left out. BUT what they did do with this romantic melodrama was a pleasant surprise and a well-done adaptation (you do not need to read the book to enjoy the movie.)
Within 16 minutes, we felt the love, saw the tension, and could hear the inevitable. The scenes of Ryle and Lilly falling in love were heartbreaking because we, as the audience, knew what was coming.
Blake Lively posted an It Ends With Us BTS Spotify playlist a week ago, and the songs on there were AMAZING. However, many of Blake’s BTS playlist songs were not in the movie, leaving us wishing they were. There were a few well-placed songs, like My Tears Ricochet, that elevated the scene, making the character’s emotions feel like our own, adding teardrop seasoning to our popcorn 😭.
The casting was the most impressive part of the adaptation. Blake and Justin Baldoni really made us fall in love with them, and Justin did an amazing job of showing us Ryle's monstrous side. But it was the casting of the side characters that left us desperately wishing they had more screen time. Young Lilly and Atlas, how did they find such perfect younger versions of Blake Lively and Brandon Sklenar?? Alyssa and Marshall were the best characters in the movie, and Jenny Slate and Hasan Minhaj embodied the heart, mind, and spirit from the page, truly bringing the characters to life on the screen.
It Ends With Us is not a romantic comedy. Though there is some humor and romance, it stays true to being a melodrama. The movie dug deep into generational trauma and how hard it can be to break the cycle. There is drama buzzing around the internet about the cast and Justin (more on this in the podcast episode—see below 👀), but hey, if drama gets people to see the movie that shines light on domestic abuse…we’ll take it.
Get your people together and see It Ends With Us. Everyone would benefit from watching this movie in theaters, but maybe bring some tissues ✨
Coming Soon: A Medium Project episode on
It Ends With Us 💐
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If you are interested in the It Ends With Us book and diving into the adaptation from the page to the picture, this episode is for you.
A Medium Project episode is when we look at a movie that was adapted from another medium, such as a short story, novel, article, poem, or any other source that inspired a motion picture.
We discuss the adaptations through conversation and categories such as:
Best Adaptation
Worst Adaptation
Best Cast
Worst Cast
And other categories that look at the adaptations from the source to the screen.
Join us by reading Colleen Hoover's book It Ends With Us, watching the movie, and then listening to the episode when it drops in late August/Early September.
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