Hey, everyone! I hope y'all are having a great day. Quite a few people have asked me to
make a video on the To All the Boys I've Loved Before trailer and so that's
what I'm gonna do. I don't know if you've noticed, but on my channel I don't really
do trailer reactions anymore. But since I have had people ask me to make this, I'm
here to serve you. So let's talk about it. In case you didn't realize, you're
currently on a book channel and To All the Boys I've Loved Before, while it is
going to be a film on Netflix that comes out August 17th, it actually is based on
a book--who would have guessed?-- also called To All the Boys I've Loved
Before by Jenny Han and this is actually the first book in what is a trilogy. I've
read the entire series. I have a review up for every single book. Hopefully,
future Sophia will link those reviews down in the pants, but if she doesn't,
just yell at her in the comments and she'll fix it. But yeah, this is a book series
about a teenage girl named Lara Jean Song Covey--I think those are all her
names--and she's half Korean, half white. And the first book is about the fact
that she likes to write love letters to all the boys that she has really big
crushes on in order to get over them, and then one day, all of her letters get
mailed out and she's like, "Oh my lord, my life is a disaster." This is a pretty
popular YA book series and the movie rights got optioned, and I guess Netflix
acquired them 'cause Netflix is the one that's, you know, creating and
distributing the movie. And yesterday, at least yesterday the day I'm filming, the
new official To All the Boys I've Loved Before Netflix movie trailer dropped
and so let's talk about it. So what are my thoughts on the trailer? It looks like
it's going to be a cute, funny movie. It doesn't look the most faithful to the
novel. For example, my first thought after watching the entire thing was, "Why is
John Ambrose McClaren in this trailer?" Like in the previous trailer we got, we
saw John Ambrose McClaren but he was, like, 10 years old at a Model UN thing, so not
the grown-up John Ambrose McClaren that we get to see in P.S. I Still Love You. But
no, in this trailer, we see grown-up John Ambrose McClaren and I was like, "What are
you doing here? You don't belong in this installment." Which has me wondering...
I know some people are hypothesizing that it's like a daydreaming sequence or that
it could be the very end of the film and kind of leave it on a cliffhanger, but
like, if they're combining elements from the different books in this first movie
Mm... mm... I don't know how I feel about that.
Granted, there's no guarantee that there would even be a second movie or a third movie,
right? So maybe they're just making one entirely cohesive story in this first
and only movie. But John Ambrose McClaren-- if you've seen my P.S. I Still Love You review,
you know that I love him--he deserves so much better than, like, a quick throwaway
scene in the first movie, you know? So I'm gonna pull up the cast list so that I can
talk about that. I've never seen a Netflix movie. I know The Kissing Booth
and Set It Up are both pretty popular, but I've never watched them. But Netflix
shows are good, so I'm hoping that Netflix movies are also good. I'm not
worried--the trailer looks like really great quality so. Aaaaalll right. So Lara Jean is
played by Lana Condor. I think she's so cute. She looks nothing like how I
pictured Lara Jean. That really doesn't matter to me. The way she looks and the
way she delivers her lines and her costuming doesn't look anything like the
Lara Jean I pictured when I was reading the books, but I'm not mad about it. She
seems like a pretty good actress. She almost looks like a little... a little too...
I don't know the word for it? She just looks like a little too grown-up to be
Lara Jean. I feel like my Lara Jean looks very innocent and youthful and childish
and Lana doesn't really look like that, but I think she has the complete
capability to make Lara Jean her own character. Peter Kavinsky is played by
Noah Centineo. Noah Centineo looks exactly like the kind of dude I would
never make eye contact with. To be frank, the first time I saw him, I was like, "Mmm,
he looks exactly like one of those gross frat-tastic boys from my university." And in
the trailer, he seems like such a prick. He's like, "I'm flattered, but, you know,
it's never gonna happen..." and I'm like, "Girl, you are so whipped by
the third book, like who are you to be saying that it's not gonna happen." He's
very pretty--don't get me wrong--but he just looks kind of, like, mean and
arrogant, which I don't think is bad. I actually think that really suits Peter
Kavinsky's character, because, if you didn't know, I hated Peter Kavinsky in
the first book. I didn't hate him, but I really did not like him. I didn't even
really like him in the second book, I don't think. I only liked him when he
became really sensitive and devoted to Lara Jean in the third book so. I know a
lot of fans disagree, but I thought Peter Kaminsky was a pretty big jerk in the
first book, so I feel like that casting is not--not too off the mark. Janel Parrish,
who I think everyone knows as Mona from Pretty Little Liars, plays Margot and
it's really interesting because she and Lana look nothing alike and they're
siblings. I just feel like Janel Parrish looks so much older than Margot is
supposed to be, because I think Margo is just supposed to be going off into
college, which would make her younger than I am, but Margo is also supposed to
be like a very sophisticated, adult-like older sister so that works. So overall, in
a nutshell, my thoughts on the casting is: They don't fit at all of what I imagined,
but they work in their own way. So this official trailer showed a lot more of
the circumstances of the actual story than the first trailer did, which I
think is great. Like in the very first trailer that they dropped, they never
said that Josh was off-limits because Josh is Margot's boyfriend, but they
showed that in the official trailer. And then the first trailer didn't show at
all the plot of the story, which is that Peter and Lara Jean pretend to be
together, and we finally get that important plotline introduced in this
official trailer. Honestly, the vibe of the trailer does not give me the vibe of
the book at all. Like, I feel like the aesthetic of this series and the
aesthetic of this trailer, while both are beautiful in their own way, are not very
similar. Looking at both of the trailers, I think the movie will be fun. I think
it'll be entertaining and cute. I don't think it'll be super similar or faithful
to the novel, but I'm not mad about that. I think it's really just taking the fun
elements of the book and kind of creating its own story. I feel like the
novels and this movie are going to be on different frequencies, if that makes
sense. I definitely wouldn't expect to go on Netflix on August 17th and see the
visualization of my thoughts when I was reading the books, but I think you would
see something that's fun and satisfying and cute. And honestly, I think the most
important thing about this is that I want this Netflix film to be successful
because I want--I want people to know that a film, especially a film meant for
teenagers and has a romantic plotline in it, can have an Asian girl as a lead.
Honestly. Have we ever seen that before? I don't know, I think about the movies
that I saw when I was growing up, like the Cheetah Girls and High School
Musical--I'm just gonna list a bunch of DCOMs (Disney Channel Original Movies).
When do you ever get to see an
Asian woman as the lead? When? Like, do Asian people not have stories to tell?
Like, are their stories not worthy of being main plotlines of media? So, like,
for me, regardless of how much the cast looks like how I pictured them or regardless
of how many lines of dialogue are lifted directly from the book--it doesn't matter
to me. It doesn't really matter as long as Netflix made a quality film and it
does well, a lot of people watch it and are excited about it. That's the real
goal, I feel. And if I'm being frank, I honestly don't even remember
enough of To All the Boys I've Loved Before, the first book, to really judge
this film on accuracy or faithfulness. But yeah, those are my thoughts so far on
the To All the Boys I've Loved Before trailer.
I'm still wondering how John Ambrose McClaren is involved in this first film,
especially 'cause the first book is really about Peter and Josh. I feel like you
don't get to see that much of Josh in the trailer. Regardless. So those are my
thoughts. Please let me know what you think of the trailer, are you excited for
the movie, do you think it's gonna be faithful, are you excited about the cast?
Let me know. Do you think they're merging multiple books in this one movie? Let me
know, I want to hear your thoughts. Thank you so much for watching. I hope y'all
have a fantastic day and happy reading. Bye!
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