With you, in dispirit
1 Book-to-screen adaptations: The Color Purple. A Good Girl's Guide to Murder. Uglies.
The Tearsmith. Damsel. It Ends With Us. Each screen version lacked depth. Plots were rushed, special effects sucked, and each failed to fully or properly portray all of the moral dilemmas that the books offer. Uglies was literally about a revolution, but the books just showed people excited to get pretty.
2 Alia Bhatt: The trailer for Jigra had us so excited. Vivek Gomber, OMG. Vedang Raina, woah. Directed by Vasan Bala, ufff. And Bhatt doing some real action, nice. It gave off a pulpy vibe that is largely missing in Indian cinema. But it was such a letdown. Where was the intensity? The emotion? The connection between the siblings that made us actually want to root for them? How did Alia Bhatt go from most bankable star to most annoying housewife?
3 Joker: Folie à Deux: did audiences wrong. They did fans wrong. More like folly, a don't. After all They did the actors dirty. And they basically that hype (and Lady Gaga), this was the biggest movie letdown of the year. They insulted the rich musical genre with their onenote storytelling. The only thing we can say is *clown face emoji*.
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