![]() ![]() Like, for instance, that I was thrilled to see the movie was rated R, allowing Lucy to drop some F-bombs here and there like a normal person would (and to comedic effect, especially during the paintball scene). Fine as in, if I was flipping through the channels 10 years from now and saw this playing at 2 pm on TBS, would I stop to watch? Probably! But man, there was such a missed opportunity here that mainly seems to boil down to a lack of chemistry between the two leads, a watering-down of the overall story, and finally, budget (we’ve got some Lifetime movie-level sets happening here).īut first let me dig into some positives. ![]() I might as well tell you right off the bat that this book is one of my very, super, tippy-top favoritest of rom-coms, so I was always going to be a little ~harsh~ with my movie critique here. But ‘nearly’ isn’t ‘fully,’ and the movie versions of warring office assistants Lucy Hutton and Joshua Templeman - played by Lucy Hale and Austin Stowell, respectively - fall short. ![]() The worst thing about The Hating Game’s film adaptation of Sally Thorne’s 2016 novel is that it nearly comes close to achieving the equally smutty and heartwarming magic that makes the source material so beloved. ![]()
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