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Kickinthescience

Anne Hathaway has been pretty busy this year

Jala Rhone

Not everyone cares about RT.

Karina Alarcon

I have to say that I read the book a long time ago, and when I watched the movie, I was disappointed... They changed so many things and left a lot of things out, too. It feels incomplete.

VariantsWatchMovies

I read Verity for book club a few years ago, so admittedly, I've forgotten some of the details. Overall, I thought the movie was okay, but I was disappointed by a few of the changes from the book. I remember feeling that the book did a better job of building tension around whether Verity was actually mobile or whether it was all in Lowen's mind. I can't remember the specific details that created that tension, but I do remember that sense of uncertainty being much stronger in the book. I also wasn't a fan of changing the number of children and the circumstances of their deaths. I understand that adaptations need to make cuts and streamline storylines, and I wouldn't call this a critical change. I just didn't particularly like it. But the change to how Verity meets her end? That was BS. I can appreciate that the book's version might not have translated particularly well to film, but the movie's version creates some pretty significant problems. The initial choking absolutely could have left marks on her neck, and dumping an already-dead body into water wouldn't produce the same findings as drowning. There wouldn't be evidence of water being inhaled while she was alive, so the death wouldn't simply be ruled an accidental drowning. For me, that change just didn't work. I'm generally willing to accept changes in adaptations when they serve the story or the medium, but this one felt like it introduced problems that didn't need to exist.

Jala Rhone

Ok, you don’t have to watch it lol

fatoumata cisse

Rotten tomatoes is known for being inaccurate when it comes to scores, even if a movie is terrible, I never trust RT for the rating

Tania R

It was fun watching with you guys 🫶! Some of those themes were awesomely dark, so how on earth did they make this thriller feel so flat?! 😂 Lol! Like someone else said here, it very much felt incomplete. It's a 2.5/5 from me, gents. And the more I think about it, the lower that score gets, so I'd better post this quickly! 😂💕

Stephon Holmes

Yeah that’s why I also like their popcorn meter for the community reviews also

Don

“Well you’re not biting into a piece of Oak” “I’ll be the judge of that😏” LMFAO THEY’RE WILDING

fatoumata cisse

Also. 2.5 for me, it would be a 2/5 but Anne was so good in this I can't not appreciate her performance. I wish it was more campy, it felt extremely tame and boring for a thriller. It just wasn't executed well. I'm surprised it kept my attention honestly. It's so ridiculously bad that I couldn't help but laugh.

Marie RammGirl

The shower banter between you guys had me in bursts of laughter, as did Quinn's "It Must Be Soft Wood, You're Not Biting Into a Piece Of Oak" Oak's reaction/"I'll Be The Judge Of That" & reactions to "That's Just My Face" line & all look at Oak, all these moments were golden entertainment highlights haha. 😂 What a wild ride of twists & turns this movie was! certainly written in a way that left you wondering what's real & what's fiction, all 3 Actors crushed their roles, sending you on an a emotional rollercoaster of who truly 'Good/Evil' I will admit I wasn't keen on the open ending, but then after listening to your fascinating Post Review Discussion, you helped me find the closure needed about it, thanks guys for another great time watching with ya (yay for The Big Labowski reference too) ^_^ ❤️💙💚

Alanna Meyers 🍌

That’s true of 99% of book to movie/tv adaptations unfortunately. I have not read the book and watched the movie and really enjoyed it but I can see where you’re coming from.

dandelions2

You guys need to watch TRAP starring Josh Hartnett. It's infinitely better than this.

Aubrey

For me it’s pretty clear that Jeremy is abusive, and this is one of those instances where nuance might be lost on people who haven’t experienced this sort of thing. (Not a Colleen Hoover fan, but I do know this is her bread and butter.) We see his controlling nature with Verity from the very beginning when he demands that she switches to water. This is our first clue. He’s portrayed as being “noble” because her ability to consent is so important to him, however, the only account we have for this incident is the manuscript. This is our second clue. From the way he dresses, conducts himself, his confidence, and the house, we’re led to believe he has money. Verity initially believes this too because he takes her to the limo, this is clue 3. We find out that he really drives an old Honda Civic. When he recounts their meeting for Lowen, it’s almost verbatim—clue 4. The fact that Verity recounts every sexual encounter in the manuscript, including how she was so overcome with passion that she bit the headboard? I mean, come on—clue 5. Crew purposefully punishing himself with the knife to the roof of his mouth when his sister is brought up is indication of a diabolical level of abuse—clue 6. I think it was MQ that clocked the fact that Jeremy had to be following Lowen in the beginning which is a mirror of his first encounter and subsequent love bombing of Verity—clue 7. The deep insistence that Verity’s condition must be kept secret and her series completed, something Jeremy is heavily involved in, seems weird right? Until you realize that Verity, his cash cow, is no longer able to bring in income and since she’s, inconveniently, still alive, there is no life insurance either. So what does he do? Encourages the woman he’s about to seduce to ask for $500k. Whether that’s per book or total is left ambiguous, but in the publishing industry, per book would not be a stretch. Now he’s going to have the income from all of those royalties AND whatever Lowen will be bringing in—clue 8. When he attacks Verity at the end, she’s screaming please don’t hurt me again. This isn’t the reaction of a woman who was drugged and posed to look like she had harmed herself. This is the reaction of a woman who was physically, mentally, and emotionally abused—clue 9. The fact that she was so scared of him that she faked her condition—clue 10. The letter in the floorboard is the final clue. If she was so scared of him that she had to go through all of this, she wouldn’t have told him that she was taking Crew and they were safe, and she certainly wouldn’t have risked putting it there waaaaay before she had any intention of leaving. Apparently in the book, Lowen recognizes the note as being in Verity’s handwriting, leaving two possibilities. 1) The manuscript was a writing exercise and she’s clearing her name, or 2) Verity is really a master of deception. I think there is a 3rd option, in which Jeremy figures out she isn’t in a catatonic state and forces her to write it. It is how he ensures her participation. He could kill her and Crew and point to the note as evidence that they ran off. As Quinn pointed out, Verity could have removed and destroyed the thumb drive at any point, taken her son, and just left. It would be her word against his in both the death of their daughter and her accident. However, if Jeremy has a thumb drive with her initials engraved on it and this wild story, he controls the narrative (although I would argue that it’s circumstantial at best, which is the whole point of the movie). He places it in a decent hiding spot in Verity’s desk the day Lowen arrives and then prompts her to immediately begin working there so she finds it before Verity can. Now he has a sympathetic partner to corroborate that Verity is deceitful and, eventually, provide him an alibi. Personally not a huge fan of this sort of story. It allows for lazy writing that can be brushed off as being part of the mystery, and there’s no pay off. Like, are we just going to ignore the fact that Verity would definitely have bruises on her throat and face? We’re not going to talk about the fact that she would have no lake water in her lungs from drowning, as they claimed? There’s ambiguity and then there’s just plain ol’ plot holes. Anyway, 2.5/5 for me. It felt like a Lifetime movie to me. I’d definitely have a discussion about the ending with a friend, but I would not have watched on my own nor would I watch again.

Jordan_Sal 413

it was pretty meh. how'd this get picked over all the other better recommendations on the website with hundreds of upvotes lol

Alanna Meyers 🍌

It’s been getting a lot of buzz and it’s a new release (which often perform better on YouTube)

Risu

Because this was better than those other options...

Jordan_Sal 413

probably be in the minority on that opinion, but alright

Kiss the Librarian

This movie is often unintentionally funny. But Oak killed me at 1:15:10

Karina Alarcon

Exactly, I remember devouring the book in like 3 days, and when I watched it at the cinema, I was bored. You don't feel the tension; I don't know how to explain it, but it kinda felt like going too fast and too slow at the same time.