Netflix Original Graveyard

Everybody knows that Netflix does not make good original movies (with very few exceptions). In fact, most Netflix Originals would end up in the bottom of a Walmart bargain bin somewhere if they had been released theatrically. However, because Netflix produced these films in-house, we don’t have to worry about them clogging up a landfill with their box office flops.

No, Netflix is where bad movies go to die.

Today, I decided to host a funeral service for the unlucky ones. An in memoriam, if you will. 

RIP to the following:

Red Notice- D

Red Notice is a boring, cliche action movie. It's not nearly as fun or memorable as the trailers made it out to be when it premiered last year. This is disappointing, but ultimately not surprising once you look at Netflix's track record with producing quality movies.

In Red Notice, everyone's favorite action heroes, Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot, star in this film about thieves who go head-to-head in their global search for valuable MacGuffins (jeweled eggs) in order to make their fortune selling them. Dwayne Johnson plays a mysterious FBI agent named John Hartley (which is already a red flag because he's an FBI agent outside of his jurisdiction for the whole movie), while Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot play the notorious art thieves Nolan Booth and Sarah Black (AKA "The Bishop"), respectively.

A few things about this movie:

1. Despite him being a producer for this film and the main draw for most people to watch it on Netflix, Dwayne Johnson was terribly miscast as the lead. His FBI character had no personality, and despite being the largest man in the room, he was the most boring character to watch. Because he was attempting to play the straight man to Reynolds' sarcastic thief, he lacked a certain amount of charisma in this movie. I honestly wished that they had cast literally anyone else, because Mr. Johnson was just there to collect a check, and I could tell.

2. This movie needed a drastic rewrite. Parts of the film feel like they were just half-baked ideas that they filmed and then never fully resolved. For example: the movie doesn't really have an ending. At the end of the movie (SPOILER) the bad guys all get away with all of their thievery, and everyone becomes friends. Suddenly, they're planning their next heist.

Which makes literally no sense if you think about it for more than two seconds.

The ending has literally no stakes, and it feels like a setup for the beginning of the next film, when this film didn't even have a satisfying conflict to resolve in a meaningful way. At least in Indiana Jones or Tomb Raider, the MacGuffin that they're after has some ancient lore or mystical power that could unfold the fabric of space time. This movie just had a bunch of unsatisfying fight scenes that inevitably went nowhere.

3. The twist at the end of the movie was jarring to me, and not in a good way. By the time the twist ending happened, I was laughing at how STUPID this movie became. It would have been one thing to play the entire ridiculous plot straight through, but throwing in a twist ending where (SPOILER) Dwayne Johnson's character was evil all along, was just too much. Mind you, it was a very obvious set up (as I mentioned in the beginning, what kind of FBI agent galivants around Europe looking for art thieves?), but I was so disinterested in the plot by this point in the movie that I had to just laugh when it really happened.

4. After shooting Red Notice, Ryan Reynolds was hospitalized for months after basically carrying this movie on his back. He was the best part of this entire film (and not just because he was playing himself in the movie). Reynolds' character had the best backstory, had the most comedic moments, and was overall about 1000% more likeable than Dwayne Johnson in this film. We stan.

Overall, my takeaway is that Red Notice is a bad movie.

If we’ve learned anything today, it’s that expensive doesn’t equal good, as Red Notice is Netflix’s most expensive film to date. Most of that money went to securing the major stars, as they amounted to about 60 million of the 200-million-dollar budget.

However, I'm sure Netflix doesn't mind. Judging from the lack of a conclusive ending, and by how many people watched this movie in the first 28 days on Netflix, Red Notice is bound to become a Netflix original movie franchise. (They already greenlit two sequels!)

Red Notice getting a sequel is just proof that zombies really do exist.

Red Notice 2- emerging from the grave in early 2024.

Tall Girl 2- C

Tall Girl 2 is probably the best movie on this list, but not because it’s a good movie. Tall Girl 2 just barely managed to clear the bar for a competent film. The movie itself is… fine?

For full transparency, I watched the original Tall Girl when it came out on Netflix in 2019, and I literally fell asleep halfway through the movie. It actually made me tired to see a conventionally attractive white girl complain about being the same height as most supermodels.

After watching it a second time to see what all of the fuss was about, though, I concluded that the original movie was trash. Jody, the titular "tall girl" was incredibly whiny about an issue that most people consider to be a non-issue. However, despite her unlikeable character, the blame can't be fully thrown at her size 13 feet. The writing of the first movie really made it seem like everyone in high school is obsessed with teasing people who're slightly taller than average. (The script also made it seem like the only tall joke anyone knows is "How's the weather up there?" when I could easily think up about 5 more without having to try too hard.)

Regardless, Tall Girl 2 arrived on Netflix a few weeks ago, much to the shock and chagrin of everyone who watched the first one. I'm pretty sure no one knew this movie was coming out until it was already out. That's mostly because, like me, a lot of people thought Tall Girl was trash and wouldn't warrant a sequel.

Unfortunately, (or fortunately, depending on how you feel about the Tall Girl cinematic universe) this phenomenon happened because so many people were talking shit about Tall Girl and commentating on the first movie after it came out. That drove up Netflix's viewership numbers, indicating Tall Girl's series potential. The thing is, Netflix doesn't care about why you're watching- they only care that you continue to watch. And, as my favorite YouTube commentator, Kennie JD, can attest to, people love watching bad movies.

Only, Tall Girl 2 is not a bad movie.

It's certainly not a good movie, but it's definitely not a bad one.

Let me explain:

Tall Girl 2 follows Jody from the first film as she tries out for her school's musical. After a successful audition, she gets the lead in the play. Now, with her boyfriend (who is arguably obsessed with her) and her newfound popularity, Jody becomes overwhelmed by the pressure of having to perform for everyone in the musical and the risk of losing her status as the "cool girl" now. The conflict in this movie is much easier to understand than the conflict in the previous movie. Jody has anxiety and she doesn't want to embarrass herself or let anyone down by performing poorly in the school's musical.

While the conflict is somewhat small scale, there is something to be said about simplifying a plot. The original Tall Girl invented a problem so that they could solve it, whereas this movie attempted to tackle something real, and so I admire the writers for at least trying to be relatable to high schoolers in this aspect.

The movie mostly follows Jody and her journey of trying to overcome her anxiety of being in the musical, while also fighting off a racially ambiguous hot guy who is not-so-secretly into her. (Which is a trope I actually am tired of seeing in romance movies in general. It's in everything from the Twilight Saga to The Kissing Booth trilogy). Jody and her boyfriend go through some struggles, but inevitably end up together in the end (because we all knew she wasn't gonna go for the objectively better racially ambiguous guy, amiright?).

Blah, blah. Boring, boring.

Unlike the first movie, this movie is pretty inoffensive. I sat through it and I wasn’t upset so much as I was disinterested. It wasn't dull enough for me to literally sleep through it, though, and so I think that's a major improvement.

The one thing I did like about this movie was that they gave her black best friend, Fareeda, her own plot line about fashion (because I remembered that being her thing in the first movie), and they even gave her a love interest. I thought that was a nice addition, even if it was only a C plot.

Overall, I think Tall Girl 2 is a perfectly passable Netflix original movie. At least, it's good enough to pass under the radar. I wouldn't consider this movie anything more than forgettable.

Oh, Tall Girl 2... Gone, but so quickly forgotten.

The Royal Treatment- D-

As a movie, The Royal Treatment actively makes me angry.

This movie is so bad that I was literally on my phone for 80% of it. I have nothing good to say about The Royal Treatment.

That doesn’t make this movie irredeemable, but that does make it a massive waste of time. I have a hard time rating movies lower than a D, because I genuinely believe that if I can sit through a movie, then there has to be something good about it that made me keep it on, when I could have just as easily turned it off.

The good thing in this movie are the leads Mena Massoud and Laura Marano. Despite their obvious lack of on-screen chemistry, I still enjoyed looking at them.

Everything else needed to be scrapped.

Everything- and I do mean everything- about this movie is broken.

For starters, Laura Marano plays Izzy, an Italian-American hairstylist from New York, who is asked to style Prince Thomas's hair for his wedding. Prince Thomas, played by Mena Massoud, is getting married back in Lavania (which is another fictional country in the Netflix Prince Cinematic Universe, or the NPCU for short), and he invites Izzy and her friends to his castle to help him prepare for the wedding.

This plot sounds fine, if not incredibly fanfictiony, until you hear Laura Marano's Italian accent for the first time, and your spirit physically leaves your body.

Now, I'm not sure WHO told Laura Marano that she could do an Italian accent, but they lied to her, and this movie will forever be a reminder of their betrayal.

Aside from the awful accent work (There is also a "French" character in the film who literally sounded like she was choking on her accent every time she talked), there were several missed opportunities for comedy in this supposed "romantic comedy." I don't think I laughed once in this entire movie. I believe this movie may have elicited a single chuckle out of me, and it was only because I was chuckling at the incredibly obvious joke that THEY FAILED TO MAKE.

I posted this on Letterboxd while watching the movie. This is literally the best joke I've ever made, and I'm ashamed- because it was the most low-hanging fruit ever.

Not to mention, I'm all for fanfiction and campy garbage, but after watching how Izzy and the prince have their meet-cute at the beginning of the movie, my suspension of disbelief was shattered. They meet because the prince's assistant calls the wrong hair salon. While giving him a haircut, the prince thinks it's cute that Izzy just talks back to royalty. If it weren't so played out it would be stupid. Too bad it was both.

After about twenty minutes of actually watching the movie, I had taken to reading scathing reviews of it on Letterboxd while the movie played in the background.

(SPOILERS, IF YOU CARE)

From what I could glean between terrible reviews, Prince Thomas fell in love with Izzy for literally no other reason than she acknowledged the poor, and she wasn't rightfully afraid of walking alone at night in a foreign country. However, inevitably, Prince Thomas's parents discovered that their son has feelings for Izzy, and they try to break them up so the prince can marry the girl they picked for him. Predictably, Izzy is humiliated by these feelings and returns to her humble life in New York. In the end, Prince Thomas breaks his engagement and travels back to the city to be with her, while- you guessed it- on horseback, for some reason.

It's not the predictability of this movie that made me want to die while watching it (although that certainly didn't help), but it was the way everything about the film fell flat. Nothing about this movie was even remotely likeable or enjoyable. The romance was forced, the comedy was non-existent (unless you count screaming, in which case, this movie was hilarious), and the plot was boring. Even a basic Hallmark movie manages to get at least one of these elements right.

Netflix, if you need someone to write you a better rom-com prince movie, call me. I’m available.

Overall, I would give this movie an F if I weren't so forgiving. However, Laura Marano and Mena Massoud were both cute in this movie, and so props to them for being good looking, even if their movie was terrible.

If this movie gets a sequel because of how secretly popular it was like Tall Girl or Red Notice, I swear it will haunt me for the rest of my life.

Now, let us all leave the Netflix graveyard, and journey forth into the bright future where these movies can no longer haunt us.

May God rest their souls. 

Amen.

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Forever Out of My League// Review #17

Well, we finally made it. We finally made it to the finish line of the Out of my League trilogy. And let me tell you, it was a journey to get here. 

Forever Out of My League is the third and final installment in the Italian Out of My League franchise, recently released on Netflix in the US in April of this year.

For those of you who don’t know or haven't been keeping up with the story of the Out of My League trilogy, allow me to clue you in. This trilogy follows Marta and her friends as they attempt to battle Marta’s cystic fibrosis and their various romantic entanglements. For more context on the series and my full reviews of Out of My League and Still Out of My League, you can click the posters below:

Out of My League (2020)

Still Out of My League (2021)

(Yes, in case you were wondering, they did change the romantic leads of these films midway through the trilogy, but if you’re going to get hung up on details like that, then this trilogy isn’t for you.)

For now, we’re just going to plow on, assuming that you’re up to speed about the nature of these characters’ lives. 

(Like the other two films before this, I watched the dubbed version of Forever Out of My League with the English voice actors and not the original Italian version with subtitles. However, the voice performances and the English translation have nothing to do with my review, and they weren't taken into consideration about my thoughts on the film when writing this post.)

Let us discuss the nature of this third and final film in the trilogy, and decide if it was worth any of the praise and/or criticism I gave the first two. 

Let’s begin: (SPOILERS, I GUESS)

Category 1: Plot- D+

Based on my experience with the second movie, I was expecting this movie to be bad, and so when it turned out to be bland it was both a disappointment and a relief.

However, like Still Out of My League, there are multiple plot lines in this movie, but no overarching, connecting plot. I suppose it could be argued that the main plot is Marta's recovery from cystic fibrosis, because that does seem to have a lot more screen time in this movie, but I would still argue that this is still only one of many subplots in this movie.

Let's get into it.

Now, because this film has three main characters (Marta, Federica, and Jacopo) you would think that they would all have something equally important to do. However, as you can probably guess, most of the subplots in this movie are completely unnecessary and borderline useless.

Again, like Still Out of My League, Forever Out of My League has an A, B, C, and D plot line. Again, the A and C plot lines are related to one another, the B plot line is completely out of left field, and the D plot line could be cut from the movie entirely, and no one would notice.

To break all of them down- here we go: 

The A plot follows Marta after she had lung transplant surgery to cure her cystic fibrosis. In the hospital, she sees Gabriele, and they get back together. After her recovery, she moves out of her apartment with Frederica and Jacopo to move in with Gabriele. She seems mostly okay, but is secretly worried that her cystic fibrosis is coming back. The related C plot follows Gabriele, as he attempts to locate Marta’s grandmother so that they can reconcile their relationship just in case something happens to Marta. Apparently, Marta and her grandmother did not get along at all, and Marta strongly dislikes her grandmother (who was never discussed prior to this film), to the point where she often tells people that she has no living family.

The random B plot in this film follows Jacopo and Frederica (who immediately quits her job at the beginning of this movie, thus making the entire job plot line of the second film more jarring and unnecessary in the context of this trilogy, but I digress). They need to rent out Marta’s room while she’s living with Gabriele in order to make rent, however, they end up renting out the room to a single mother with a baby. Unfortunately, one day the mother leaves the baby unattended in the apartment for several days with a note asking them to care for her. Thus, the unlikely pair are stuck with a baby that they have to care for until the mother returns. 

The final official plot of this movie has to deal with the completely unnecessary characters, Giacomo and Rebecca. Rebecca, if you remember from the second film, was Frederica’s famous cousin who was dating a loser. Well, in this move they’re still dating, and they go through some truly heinous relationship shit that really shouldn’t be in this movie.

Oh, there is also a romantic subplot featuring Jacopo and Marta’s doctor, but no one has time for how pointless all that is.

Surprisingly, despite all of the plot points, this film is stitched together better than the previous movie in this series. That said, this movie was also more boring than Still Out of My League. Whereas the plots from the last movie were messy and bad, these plots are just… kind of slow. The most interesting drama that took place in this film was between the two characters who have the least to do in it (Rebecca & Giacomo).

Again, Rebecca and Giacomo don't need to be in this movie at all, but they're still around, because apparently this movie cares so much about continuity with the other films (*rolls eyes*). 

I'll touch on this series' problematic continuity later, but for now, let's get into what actually worked about this movie.

Category 2: Themes- B-

I’ll give this movie props for having a theme and sticking to it. The first movie had a theme of “found family” with the three main characters referring to each other as their family. Notably in the first film Marta mentions that her parents are both dead and that Frederica and Jacopo are her family and have been since they were children.

The second movie veers away from this theming (instead choosing to girlboss too close to the sun with Frederica’s whole #metoo moment), but it has returned for this final installment.

In this film, Marta is forced confront the fact that she actually does have family that is still alive, her wicked old grandmother who she doesn’t speak to. She chooses not to tell her about any of her surgeries or medical problems, and instead relies on her best friends- her chosen family- to the point of becoming co-dependent on them.

This causes Marta to move out of her apartment with Jacopo and Frederica and move in with Gabriele instead so as to not worry them if she were to get sick again. However, of course they’re worried about her, and they remain like a chosen family, (SPOILER) even when Marta gets sick once more and goes back into the hospital.

(SPOILER, AGAIN) Even when Marta’s grandmother visits her in the hospital at the end of the movie, the film reinforces the theme of found family, because Marta’s grandmother admitted to not being a good parent or grandparent. 

Honestly, I believe that the overall theme of this film was probably the strongest aspect of the entire movie, and it ties the series up with a nice little bow.

Category 3: Cinematography- C

With each movie in this series the cinematography gets less and less impressive. 

The cinematography in this movie isn’t bad per say, it’s just not special. There is nothing about Forever Out of My League that makes it stand out visually from any other high-budget TV soap or mid-budget Netflix movie. Like everything else in this film, I was left feeling bored by how flat everything looked and felt. The colors were not warm and overly saturated like they were in the first two movies. In fact, there was no visual flair at all in this film. 

It was just... a movie.

This is fine, but not what I came into this experience hoping for. I suppose a normal looking film is better than a visually horrible one, but I just wished that this movie was more visually memorable, especially because the first two movies had more going for them in this category.

Category 4: Characters- C-

Unlike the previous movie, I was mostly okay with the characters in this film (sparing a couple of them, which we’ll get to in a moment). Marta and her grandmother’s dynamic, while not previously discussed in any of the other movies, surprisingly worked for me, and I wasn’t as upset at Marta for keeping secrets from people like I was in the previous movie. Everything she did seemed logical and understandable to a point.

As I mentioned before, Jacopo was briefly dating Marta’s doctor. It didn’t really work out, though, and so I don’t have much to say about them other than I’m glad Jacopo was dating someone who actually wanted to be with him unlike the previous movie. He was a much better friend to Marta in this movie, although I’m still not Jacopo's biggest fan because he seemed a little clingy, and his codependence between Marta and Frederica was likely the reason why the doctor broke up with him.

Surprisingly, Federica has been nothing but lovely throughout all of these movies. She’s been mostly unproblematic the entire time, and frankly she was a saint in this film for taking care of someone else’s baby with no indication of if or when the mother was going to return. Overall, 10/10 for Frederica. No notes.

…Then there’s Gabriele. (*sigh*)

I know I went off on him in my review of the last movie, but he’s actually a little less problematic in this film, albeit the same amount of anxious-obsessive, if you ask me.

Gabriele’s entire plot in this film revolves around him trying to make contact with Marta’s grandmother so that she knows Marta is sick and just had a lung transplant. This seems wholesome at first, considering that at the beginning of this film, he and Marta make up after the whole debacle with Tommaso (if you have no idea what I’m talking about, you need to read the Still Out of My League review first). It seems like he is trying to make things right, and connect Marta to her last living relative. Only, Marta expressly tells him that she wants nothing to do with her mean old grandmother, and YET HE KEEPS TRYING TO REACH OUT TO HER FOR MARTA. 

I understand that his intentions were pure in this film compared to the last one, but I just took this as proof that Gabriele doesn’t listen, and he has no concept of boundaries. Marta directly tells him that she doesn’t want anything to do with her grandmother due to previous abuse, and then Gabriele has to stick his nose into her family business to repair something that neither of them really wanted repaired. His anxious-obsessive personality wreaks of “I know what’s best for you,” and I didn’t like it.

Finally, there’s Rebecca and Giacomo. (*rolls eyes*)

Again, Rebecca and Giacomo are barely in this movie. They’re in the film for a combined total of about 10 minutes, but BOY do they leave an impact. If I didn’t feel anything about their cliche relationship before this film, I definitely have opinions now, and my opinion is that Giacomo is a saint, and Rebecca is the second worst character in this entire series (the first is Gabriele, obviously).

I say that Rebecca is the second worst person in this entire series because even though she’s dating Giacomo and claims to love him, the moment she sees him gain a shred of confidence or respect in public with other people, she feels threatened. This would be okay, if she chose to talk to him about her feelings and insecurities in their relationship. But you already know she didn’t do that, right? So, what does she do instead?

I’ll give you a hint: it rhymes with shmublic humiliation.

Rebecca wanted so badly to remain the hot popular one in their relationship that she was determined to pull her boyfriend down a peg FOR LITERALLY NO REASON. So, she posts a humiliating video of Giacomo peeing himself in fear after being threatened at a party before they were dating. Which is a vile and awful thing to do to someone you aren’t dating, let alone someone you introduced to your parents.

Eventually she fesses up to posting the video of him (after it went semi-viral) and like a saint, Giacomo forgives her, accepts her apology, and resumes dating her. I was and remain FLOORED by this. He knew his girlfriend was a shit bag and he just accepted her for the shit bag she was. 

Couldn’t be me. (And again, their plot line has nothing- and I mean NOTHING- to do with Marta or even Frederica for that matter, so why are they in this movie?)

My summary of the characters is that Giacomo and Frederica are basically saints, while everyone else in this series is varying degrees of terrible.

Category 5: Pacing- C-

I’m not gonna lie, this movie was rough to get through. And it wasn’t because it was messy and cliche like the previous one, or campy and dramatic like the first one, but because this movie was just…boring. 

A large portion of this movie takes place in the hospital with Marta coming in and out of examination and surgery, and it kind of makes this movie drag on. To top it off, none of the plots feature any exciting drama. Everything that happens is grounded in reality and so there are a lot of scenes where not much is happening or the characters are just hanging out with no underlying conflict.

(SPOILER) It’s not until about an hour into the movie that something finally starts to happen. Marta breaks into a coughing fit and begins to panic about her CF returning, even though she’s already had a lung transplant. This is when I was the most engaged, because then it seemed like something was going to happen. At that point, either Marta was going to be fine, or she was going to die. This moment added stakes for me, so I felt like I wasn’t watching such a dry movie.

I will admit, there are some good moments towards the end of the movie, like the conversation that Marta has with her grandmother. It’s actually surprisingly poignant, and it completes Gabriele’s story arc for this movie. There is also another really good scene at the end of the film in which all of the characters are gathered at the hospital, thinking that Marta is going to die. (SPOILER) They play this scene really seriously as if Marta has already passed away, only to reveal that she’s going to live and everything is fine. Everyone is elated, and then the movie ends.

Overall, I think that the best aspect of the pacing is that Forever Out of My League truly had an ending, and it wasn’t just a teaser for another movie like the second one was.

This movie truly was the end of an era, and I'm grateful for that.

Category 6: Continuity- D

The one thing I can say about the Out of My League franchise is that it's a little all over the place. Over the course of three movies, there've been two romantic leads, multiple subplots that went nowhere, a random family member appearing in the third film, and a battle with cystic fibrosis that is only mentioned in these movies for the sake of plot convenience. 

I hate to say it, but as soon as the films wrote off Marta's first love interest, Arturo, they kind of destroyed the continuity of the Out of My League universe. Because of that, the second movie, Still Out of My League, suffers from having a new romantic lead with new problems. It's pretty clear that the original Out of My League was meant to be a standalone film, as it ends with the two main characters, Arturo and Marta, literally getting married. However, I'm sure the reception to the original film was positive enough to warrant two additional films, whether or not the story was strong enough to fill out two more movies.

I stand by the opinion that Arturo shouldn't have been replaced in the second and third movies, but I'm sure the actor (Giuseppe Maggio) had better opportunities, or perhaps a conflicting schedule. He was also in the Italian Netflix movie, Four to Dinner (which I haven't seen) that premiered right around the time Still Out of My League launched on Netflix in the U.S. Based on the direction that Out of My League movies went after his exit, I'm not sure I blame him for not being involved in the later projects.

However, ignoring the ending of the first movie and presuming that Arturo and Marta truly did break up as the second movie suggests, it's incredibly clear to me that Forever Out of My League should’ve been the second and final movie in this franchise. Forever Out of My League feels like a more natural continuation of Federica and Jacopo's B plot from Out of My League, and it helps to build on the character development for Marta and her cystic fibrosis more than the actual sequel (which mostly forgets she has it until the end of the film when she's ready for a transplant). In my opinion, if you were to ask me which of these movies are canon, I would say Still Out of My League never happened and doesn't exist, and Forever Out of My League is the true sequel.

All conversations with me about this trilogy will henceforth be exactly this: "The Out of My League trilogy? What trilogy? You mean that cute duology with the sequel that only kind of relates to the first movie? Oh yeah! It's weird that they replaced the main guy, but it's still fine, I guess..."

Overall, watching this series has been interesting. Something I appreciated about the end of this film was the inclusion of the actors' audition tapes for the roles of Marta, Federica, and Jacopo, especially since they’ve been the core of this series since the beginning. It was a nice way to send them off and to acknowledge (and confirm) that this is the end of the line for the Out of My League franchise. 

Honestly, I’m kind of just glad it’s over.

This trilogy kind of feels like if The Kissing Booth trilogy and the To All the Boys trilogy had an Italian baby. I would be inclined to say that the baby favors To All the Boys more, but there are definitely some Kissing Booth-esque moments in Still Out of My League that are hard to overlook.

In any event, I'm glad I was able to write about all three of these films on this blog. This was the first trilogy that I've ever reviewed, and frankly, it was a lot of fun while it lasted.

Forever Out of My League is not the worst movie in the Out of My League franchise, but it was perhaps the most boring. For that, this movie will receive a D+, for at least managing to be more competent than the (non-existent) sequel. 

If nothing else, these movies have taught me that some foreign language films can definitely be worth watching (Out of My League), while some others, who will remain nameless (*cough* Still Out of My League *cough* Forever Out of My League *cough*), are not. I hope to watch more foreign language films in the future, and rant/rave all about them here with you.

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