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i think people should’ve have looked more uncanny after the surgery because when Tally looks at old magazines with models in them she says that they're ugly, but the Pretties look like models today
@@jamiegdubois I think Shay is the only one who slightly hit the uncanny valley aspect of pretties, but that's only because it was a very drastic change (mostly personality wise) from how she was shown before. The pretties that they do show just look like filter washed versions of people who have IG surgery today and that's one of the main reasons I don't think they were as affective as they could be when conveying how uncomfortable the situation is. They're supposed to be mistaken as gods at one point and they just look like blurred normal people. Especially with the reveal of Joey King at the end - her face was still unsymmetrical and it wasn't an effective reveal. The pretties should have been CGI'ed a la Avatar (blue people) and I fully stand by that.
@@shadypalmtree2989 they did fine with the budget they had. Shay and Cable were particularly good imo. Cable had a very " Special" scary look to her beauty and Shay was almost unrecognizable. Absolutely no way this YA book series adaptation would have been given then same budget for a movie like Avatar.
@@luckyowl6432 I didn’t say it needed the same budget. It just needed to utilize the same technology of motion capture. Except instead of doing their entire body, it would be confined to their face, so it wouldn’t even cost as much as Avatar. Not including the fact that they’d really only need to do it for 5 of the characters since the other pretties are barely shown other than in passing. I think it’s realistic budget wise when you take all of that into account.
I literally snapped my fingers and said 'work bitchhhhh' she was so hot Prosthetic cheeks and chins could have given them a handsome Squidward meets Joan Rivers sort of vibe that the audience would find grotesque.
No joke, I BARELY watch television anymore because I'm burnt out from getting emotionally invested in stories that either get prematurely cancelled or take WAY TOO LONG (2+ year waits being "normal" is unacceptable!) to release new episodes. Even though this film has an ending that is clearly setting up a sequel (just like the book was) it still stings less for it to most likely not have any sequels because a lot of the arcs have some sort of "completion" by the time the credits roll. 😆
It felt like kissing booth, with all the montages. Her being cool just evolved really fast. And I didn’t get why the Smoke faction just trusted her so fast.
Peris and Shay both had more chemistry with Tally than David. I agree about the pacing. I needed just a few scenes addressing the fallout. Especially given Tally’s betrayal led to his father’s death. I was a bit soured on the third act with how quickly he got over that. When they met up with Tally’s old schoolmates, he was like “yeah I’m David” with a smirk. Just odd with the stakes and timing of things. I never read this series growing up so I have no nostalgia influencing me. Overall, I thought it was ok for a YA adaptation, could see my 13 yo niece liking it.
Definitely! I'm very aware I'm not the target audience for this series, which also makes me a bit more forgiving of the flaws and said that if there's enough of an audience streaming this first film they should go ahead and try again with adapting the second book. I have no idea what Netflix's "numbers" are though of what's considered "enough" so I'm just assuming this won't reach that because of how rarely they let stories continue. 😗
I think if Uglies was able to get out of adaptation purgatory earlier, it would have been a 2 hour blockbuster with multiple sequels. So many people have tried to adapt this series and for one reason or another, the project was scrapped. I was waited with baited breath for someone to break through and make an adaptation around the time The Hunger Games movies were coming out and I think it would have done serious numbers around that time. Unfortunately we now just get a middle of the road adaptation on Netflix that only a few people will watch.
@hayleyhellbound9513 it's already being worked on as an anime from Netflix ( allegedly in 2025 for it to drop he announced it when he got the uglies move release date)
As a book reader, I actually hated Peris's storyline. Mainly because, he's not that important in the books. Even after Tally becomes Pretty, he's sort of there but Tally became closer to Shay than him. And the "love triangle" (except not really) is between her, David and a new guy introduced in the second book.
Yeah I always thought Peris was gay. they were like close friends because they were outsiders in the town of outsiders. That could just be the thought of being a gay teenager. Shay should have definitely had more of her bisexual/pan/gay undertones shown better in the movie.
So I just have to say how much I LOVED that scene where Peris is saying how Tally brought back all of these emotions in him and made him feel good. In the second book, Pretties, Tally has gone back and become pretty to test the cure. But, of course, the operation has messed with her mind. She meets this guy and when she's given the cure, in the form of 2 pills, and they decide to split them, 1 for each. Well, the way the cure works is that one pill has these little nano virus type things that would eat away at the lesions and the other pill would stop it. The guy she's been hanging out with, Zayne I think, takes the one that starts eating away at his brain and ends up dying but Tally takes the one that does nothing except stop the first pill from eating your whole brain BUT SHE'S CURED! Somehow she thinks herself out of it. So the implication that seeing her was breaking Peris out too is SO SO SO cool, I LOVE that
@@raylynne5280 I had no idea that pretties could basically philosophize themselves out of their “bubbly” state since I’ve only read the first book, but that makes the scene so much cooler
I haven't read these books in over a decade but it surprised me how much the movie brought back memories. It wasn't a great movie but it was a good time and I hope it gets a sequel. I think they did a really good job with what everyone would look like post beauty Operation ( Cable and especially Shay, I didn't recognize her at first and the mannerisms change was fantastic... she turned into London Tipton 😂)
I also feel like people who are talking about the film without having read the book don't understand that people aren't actually supposed to be Ugly before they get the surgery. It's entirely about the brain lesions as a tool to control people. If the run-time was longer, perhaps it would've been less confusing to the general audience. 😂 I suppose it won't take as long as usual for Netflix to say whether or not they'll go ahead and do a sequel.
To be honest, I’d completely forgotten about these books until I saw the trailer a few weeks ago and it brought back a flood of memories. Just finished watching the movie this evening and, like you said, it wasn’t great or anything, but it was enjoyable. And I actually enjoyed how they changed up the 3rd act (normally I hate it when movie adaptations do that, but I think it worked in this movie’s favour).
I read this book dozens of times in middle/high school but its been awhile so I dont quite remember a lot of specifics, but a detail that really bothered me in the movie (dont remember if its in the book): When David finds Tally in the fire and scans her to find the tracker on the board, she says "I swear I didn't know that was there" and David says something like "I know, they always put trackers on the boards." And then he throws it into the fire, which alerts SC to their location. But then everyone is alarmed and suspicious when SC shows up to the field/outpost location, "they've never gotten this close before." So..were everyone else's boards/trackers not destroyed? Destroyed further away? I have so many questions. It seems odd that they would be so confident in their assessment that all the boards have trackers but be completely oblivious to the fact that throwing them into fire would ping the city
I’ve read the books too and was also a bit confused by this bit. After rewatching that scene as well as the scene where Dr. Cable sends a Special to the location, I think the movie was implying that Cable was specifically following Tally’s hoverboard (maybe as a secondary way to keep an eye on her). I’m assuming they don’t go after every tracker that’s destroyed in that field, so maybe that’s what made it suspicious. I could be totally wrong though.
tbh i thought that tally and david had very little chemistry, and seemed more brother-sister to me? ( i really prayed they wouldn't kiss and thank GOD they didn't). i also thought that tally and shay had waaaaay better chemistry and was wondering if there might be a sapphic route but wasn't at all surprised that they didn't go that way. i agree it needed more time to live in the world, hopefully the smoke. at one point it looked like there was a party or a gathering? would have loved to see more about that. i do hope for a sequel because i thought this movie was better than i thought it was going to be and does leave some questions. but i won't hold my breath because netflix hates art and artists
@@heavyrainstorm92 They start macking at night and next thing it cuts to them running out of a hut together the next morning. It wasn't the strongest implication, but I definitely yelled "did they bang it out?" at the screen. Not to add to your trauma...
In the books Peris and Tally were definitely set up to be an, “If only, then…” scenario- especially on Peris’ end. Major change in my opinion to make Peris a “Special” because ((SPOILERS)) Peris never becomes a special and has always been presented as cowardly to the reader through Tally’s perspective. Meanwhile, both Shay and Tally are forced to become specials. The movie’s presentation of specials I feel is a major fumble on their part. In the book Specials are WAY more than just mindless soldiers, they are extremely enhanced humans where everything is experienced at 150%. Specials also have a different set of brain lesions that cause them to have an extreme superiority complex and aversion to everyone who isn’t like them (pretties included). If the movie was going for this angle, they fumbled :( The ability to “rewire” your brain and change the way you think is a major plot point of the series. Taking away the special-superiority complex I feel like will severely detract from this point if they try to make it on in further films. Overall: hard 3.0/5
@@ElenaWaldhaus while it would have been nice to see more body type diversity, the whole point is that they aren't "ugly." They just look like individuals.
They're not actually supposed to be "ugly", plus this is a dystopian society so whatever standard of beauty they have would not apply to our actual standard norms.
I had fun with this adaptation. I had to unsubscribe from some channels cause of grievances with Laverne Cox. Hope they do more. I'll ❤ on Netflix and hope for the best!
I don't understand what would be 'tone deaf' about it? They don't want her to play a villain or something? I thought it was great casting because Dr. Cable is supposed to be someone with a commanding presence and Miss Laverne Cox most definitely can command a space. 🔥
@@LadyJeneviaI saw a particularly disgusting comment that read something to the effect of, “I love that in a movie about brainwashing kids with unnecessary surgery they cast a trans woman. Very appropriate.” Ugly af
@LadyJenevia I agree, Those white dresses were killing! I realize that "tone deaf" means "she's trans and she had plastic surgery." Not about her performance. Most rightly praise her. As an NB, I'm looking for superior content like yours🖤
I never read or even heard of this series until I watched on Netflix. It definitely seemed too rushed for me. When she gets to The Smoke, I was like "are they trying to make David like her?" We def got a better relationship build with Peris and even Shay! I thought Shay was going to be her love interest. David liking her just seemed to come out of nowhere. If it was a show I wonder if it would've been better
Just finished watching the movie and one thing I immediately noticed is that they never brought up the names they used for each other “Tally-wa” and “Shay-La” 😭 my friend and I read the books since 2008 (when we were 12) and were big fans and called each other “Ally-wa” and “Jackie-la” hahaha Edit: My bad, a comment below corrected me and reminded me their nicknames were only brought up in Pretties! It’s really been a while since I last the read books hehe
Also the “so pretty-making” and the fact that when you become pretty they do all kinds modifications to your body - skin, adding some durable material in the bones, etc etc. they don’t ever bring up all the things the surgery does to your body, they don’t ever discuss the oldies town where everyone goes when they’re really old, they barely side mention that the surgeries continue throughout your whole life to make you look nice even as an older individual.
i liked how much more of a role peris had, although i suspect it's only because they wanted a love triangle, but still, i surprisingly liked it. plus, i think, if I'm remembering correctly, it's kind of a teaser to pretties and specials, bc in those books, we find out that basically, adrenaline rushes can cure the lesions, and shay and a group of pretties cured their lesions, and were caught by dr cable and made specials, so him getting feelings after seeing tally again is affecting his lesions, so dr cable turned him
I don’t know why, the beginning exposition monologue just took me out of the movie completely. It was so pointless, everything they mentioned was repeated later in the movie, and the way it was presented felt like it also took down the quality of the rest of the film, with the scenes looking like they were stitched together from a stock footage website. Only way they could have made it worse was if it was just plain text with spoken exposition. When presenting a dystopia, the audience might not be familiar with the word, and will be curious as to what happened and how everything shifted. By answering those questions in the first two minutes, I felt way less invested into the word because it seemed like I had everything already explained to me, even though I knew the story already. Otherwise I didn’t mind the movie that much, it was okay 😅
Also book says tally and Peris snuck into pretty town more than once, not used glasses to spy. Why's it matter? They got bruised or fell a few times, they bonded over that. Book had more feels
I love how she didn't see any romance between Paris and Tally when reading the book, but from watching her video about the book, I thought there was supposed to be a romantic connection there.
Peris is BARELY in the first book. I've had commenters say he has more of a presence after the first book but there was nothing there for me to latch onto in the first book. THE FILM, however, was very effective in making him more interesting to follow.
@@LadyJenevia I think it needed those ghibli scenes of her on her hoverboard exploring the outside world for the first time. Maybe show what wildlife is still alive. Some rusties cars and artifacts. It felt so empty and rushed. Everyone was just sorta there.
Haven’t read the book. Didn’t even know this was a book series before i watched it. No plans of reading it either. But my god, why did i feel more romantic chemistry between Shay and Tally vs The Actual Main Couple 😭
Read the books. The movie was like a 2.5/5 and I read this series more than once and only other series besides Harry Potter that I HAVE read more than once. The books have so much more depth and tally is more realized as a flawed character in the books. She stays this flawed individual with messy character traits and makes her relatable as no one is perfect which is a great thought when you consider the worlds view of what is perfection and ok.
I loved it! I read the book in middle school, so I'm definitely feeling the nostalgia. You know more about the book than I do now. I'm really happy with what we got. Probably from my expectations being low from how bad adaptations can be, and it not going to theaters. I see how it definitely could've been better with more time in the smoke and the relationship she had with David. The weirdness of the regulars just getting out easily after being taken out of the cell. I guess I don't care because the movie was.. pretty. I would be excited for them to create the sequels. I hope they do.
As someone who was obsessed with the books in middle school and high school, I was disappointed in the movie. But i enjoyed it enough that I would still watch the sequels. I'm hoping they'll do better in the future
21:30 I think you missed the adapted version of the love triangle. In the movie Shay appears to be LGBT and I believe she has a crush on Tally. So you basically get David & Shay competing for Tally, with the Paris weirdness as well.
You said you're not familiar with OBX, but Season 4 is coming out soon and I'd love some analysis from you on that show. Its a ton of fun, and while some things are absolutely drama and needs some suspension of disbelief, but there's also more depth than you'd think of with a show of that genre.
**book spoliers** Tally has a second love interest in the books, Zayn. I wonder if in their hopes for further movies, they want to replace Zayn with Paris.
It seemed in the movie of a 4 way love ... square. David, Talie, Shay, and Peris. Shay seemed into David,but was willing to step back when she saw the gloves.
I have a question - how did the book and the movie handle race? In your previous video, when you said the pretty surgery made you an average - did that mean everyone got the same skin color as well? Like a light brown skin color? Based on the trailers, I can clearly see that movie did not go this route. But if the same actor is playing the character before and after the surgery, what exactly is different after the surgery?
It the books they did all have the same skin colour but it’s not just the pretties. The ugliest do too and they’re described as lighter than olive. It implies some pretty intense things about the fall of rusty society and the rise of the pretty society.
Everyone keeps saying they got romantic vibes from this movie between tally and peris but i watched it and i didnt feel anything romantic in this movie.
I’m a minority when I say that the movie was okay. It definitely needed to be 2 hours! We need more time! We need more time to breathe! We need more development! And THANK YOU! The pretties being uncanny Is Fine, Actually. As the audience, we are supposed to see that there is something very wrong with being “pretty.” Looking like an Instagram filter IRL was actually effective imo.
I was relatively forgiving of the film because it's been almost 18 years since I last read the book. I only remembered the broad strokes of the plot. That being said, the film hit on enough of the beats I remembered from the source material to turn on my "nostalgia glasses." For example, I felt myself grinning ear to ear at the hoverboarding on the rollercoaster because that was one of my favorite parts of the book. That being said, the film felt very rushed, especially the third act. I did not buy into Tally and David's romance at all, but Tally and Shay's relationship shined.
I think, personally, as a decade long fan of the UGLIES series, I share a similar view on the movie that you do. I had a lot of love/hate for the movie, and tho I have an overall positive view on it, there is a LOT that urks and upsets me over it. (SPOLERS BELOW) ----------- For starters, I STARTED the series not with UGLIES, I started with the side graphic novel, SHAY'S STORY. (I recommend that if, for whatever reason, if you do another video on this movie, read the first in the series. It shows the exact same story as UGLIES, but instead of Tally's POV, you see it from Shays.) The reason this is so important, is you get a LOT of understanding to Shay. I got to meet Croy, All of Shay's friends, who, btw, is how you meet the real third point in Tally's love triangle. Peris, in my opinion, was NEVER a love interest for Tally. EVER. It was always David, and one of Shay's friends, Zane. Who becomes VITAL in the second book, PRETTIES. Shay, David, Croy, they and many other side characters HAD fleshed out stories, that, in my opinion, should had been considered apart of in the first movie. ESPECIALLY since we aren't truly hindered to Tally in the movie! We should have had a better understanding of Croy, and Shay acts (in my opinion) weirdly different in the movie, and without her backstory, it seems like her behavior in the beginning comes from nowhere. If we had that background, that vital information of what REALLY happened with her group of friends (she had been tricked to back out. And she then plays it off as "I chickened out" when in reality, she was too worried she was going for all the wrong reasons.) And without ANY of this, she just comes off as a cool, tricky kid, who really is just too scared to commit to something "so natural for them." Her entire story, imo, falls kinda flat in the movie. PERIS.AS.A.LOVE.INTEREST. Peris in GENERAL. Felt too wrong to me. I HATED seeing Pretty Peris, or ANY of the pretties in GENERAL. Because there was NONE of the fleshed out Slang, or Behaviors in the pretties, until SHAY GETS HER SURGERY, then, suddenly, there's this giddy and almost vapid pretty, who's only there because she's there. They all felt too our time modern. The shot of NPT while Tally is running around finding Peris, they all felt like Instagram stars, living in Manhattan, or Beverly Hills. Not Giddy party hungry/horny "young adults" who just want to have fun, be beautiful, and do crazy or goofy shit because they can. The glamour of NPT that SHOULD have been there in the beginning, just, really wasn't. For the first time, I was more invested in the drama and emotional heartbreak that I knew the main characters were gonna get into, FAR more than I should have been in the world building and the storyline or even really the characters themselves. ALL the pretties felt flat IMO. Even if they dropped one or two slang terms from the book, I'd have felt happier about this. Peris was my first mark on this. IMO, Peris in the books, even as a SPECIAL, was a chicken shit. He HATED being outside the city norms. He REFUSED to flee in Tally's SECOND time in PRETTIES. He doesn't do tricks the same way tally or even Shay had. He only did it for fun. Even as an ugly. Shay was the FIRST Specialist/Cutter (the name of the special ops team Shay/Cable create by the end of PRETTIES). So for Peris to become the first, and so early into the movie, URKED me. I loved Chase playing Peris. IMO he did GREAT. ESPECIALLY as a Specialist. But Movie Peris could have been SO different. But overall, PERIS SHOULD NEVER HAD BEEN A LOVE INTEREST. The ONLY reason I see them doing this, is because they would have already decided to NOT continue the Series. So for Peris to take over for Tally's REAL second love interest, Zane, WOULD make sense. BUT I STILL HATE IT. It feels like they gave Tally that "Female Main character can't have real male friends" cliche from a-many pre 2010s media we see. When it was NEVER THE CASE. Moving on, I 👏LOVED 👏LAVERNNE 👏AS 👏DOCTOR 👏CABLE. I truly agree, I would SLAM my fists repeatedly into the front desk of Netflix, Credit Card in hand, for more screentime of her. She did a STUNNING job as her. FANTASTIC. INCREDIBLE. MY ONLY PROBLEM is SHE HAD SO LITTLE SCREEN TIME. Even in her own scenes. THE LIBRARY SCENE? I was SO. HEARTBROKEN. In Shay's story, I fell in LOVE with Doctor Cable in that library. And I fell in love AGAIN in Uglies. And those last scenes of her having almost murderous intent inside the lab DID feel off, IMO, but I was STILL on the edge of my seat. The other major thing I really have a gripe with, (other than the flower field scene, but that's just me) is I agree the movie is SO. RUSHED. It felt like the movie flew by in ALL the wrong ways. I wished that Netflix had really taken it's time with it, and had given us a two, two and a half hour movie. Other than that, I agree it's worth watching. I had watched the movie with family. Seeing the movie come to life on screen, a movie based on a series that was so. SO important to me for over a decade now, and still is, was like breathing for the first time all over again. I got to feel the first reactions I had to both Series' First Books AGAIN. A Decade later. And more importantly, My parents, who are well into being adults could really get into, and feel and understand the story, just as much as I did. My 40-something step-father, who is WAY into Horror Movies and Chucky, was GENUINLY invested in the movie. Which was beyond any of our expectations. I believe it's worth watching. And I am so glad that a lot of older AND new/er fans are also feeling the same, regardless of our mixed feelings.
I watched it with my sister and she left about halfway through because it was too fast paced for her and since she had never read the book she thought it was confusing
watched this days ago but i forgot to comment this. i saw some clips of what you were talking about as laverne cox… oh my god.. she’s so good. 😭😭 but anyways, i absolutely love this format of videos. very organized! just the way i like it! 🧘🏾♀️
I don't like when they take a book and make a movie too much is rushed and lost. I perfer when they do series and spend more time fleshing out the materials
As someone who never heard about these books before randomly watching this movie I hated it tbh. I felt like I knew nothing about tally or any of the other characters as people and they really didn’t have any personality. I also found the graphics incredibly annoying, but I have a general disdain for the lack of set building in contemporary sci-fi movies. I found the theme also quite underdeveloped. I do not plan on reading any of the books and probably won’t watch any sequels if they make them, because this film felt slow but also way too fast, trashy but serious and I just really didn’t like the cast (except our queen mother laverne cox). I get why people who read the books would be excited this, but imo this was horrible.
So you’re going to let a less than okay film ruin your interest in the books which are sooooooooo much better. The movie was mehhh but the books are fantastic. Only one of two hooo series I read more than once. First like of the book is what drew me in “The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit Of course tally thought,you’d have to feed your cat only salmon flavored cat food for awhile to get the pinks just right.” Like to start off THAT way was so good so I kept reading.
As someone who hasnt read the book the film was good but I was confused about some parts that you explained. Although I wont lie, for me it was more of a queer love story between Shay and Tally. Every other connection that played out before fell flat, I didnt believe it. Would I watch part 2? hmmm - Yes to see it through not necessarily for the entire plot
Wrt the scanning and David, did it matter that the students were scanned so many times? They are always talking about what they want done, so it seems that its not like there is some objective algorithm based on their body type/shape. I haven't read the books, so is the scanning some sort of placebo procedure, to build psychological ties to the surgeries for propoganda?
I watched the movie, thought it was trash and was wondering whether the source material was trash too and that's how I stumbled upon your videos.Tally is the most boring character. Things being rushed is a huge problem, but I had more issues with... things are just happening. Tally is soooo passive and whenever she gets in trouble she just gets lucky. Tally needs to escape from Prettytown? Good that bungee bags are just laying there for her. About to be caught by the hovercraft? Shay just happens to be there to get her to safety. It's just lazy writing and I just rolled my eyes watching it. She barely makes decisions of her own and it happens at the end of the movie, after I spent most of it not caring for her
Also, i dont understand why people are allowed to personalize their appearance. If they're supposed to be all equal and given new skin and hair and eyes then every should look the same post surgery
It was explained in the books, if you read them ever, that the morpho tool was literally the same as what we do now with apps and social media etc etc etc today, ANY thing we’d use to pass time that’s what it was for the ugliest. They don’t explain that it being a tool to also reinforce your hate for your ugliness and make you want the surgery. It allowed people to come up with different ways to make your face pretty to see kinda what they might do when you get the procedure. It’s like how we use filters to see what we’d look like as a __ or __ blank based on the whatever filter. It was a what-if tool to make you want the surgery and and reinforce the worlds ideals on you.
@@Seabasstard22 then i guess the follow up with brain lesions make sense, is not the surgery "equalizing" everyone its the brain damage. They could literally look like anything
To be super honest. The colorblind casting REALLY ruined this movie for me. The book is so clearly about a yt girl growing up in a yt super**** town/city. She literally knows of other races because she LEARNED about them. Not because she knows them or has ever known them. The long deawn out scenes in the book of the hover board are ment to convey HOW isolqted this racist town is. Ughhhhhhh. like ira sad actually. Because this book is exactly what ppl need right now.
I'm sorry to say worse than book and bad movie. I mean way shot camera shots with Dr cable, that actress was taller than most and if you already have an actor with big presence, why have the special scouts, then there my thoughts on costume, loss of feels because not enough time and bad character development. I wanted to cry
I did NOT pay enough attention to the marketing of this movie, I had no idea it was coming out so soon! This is how I’m learning it’s on Netflix!! Be back u in 90 minutes 🫡
You are not the first person to comment on one of my UGLIES video saying they didn't know the film was (coming) out. 😂 Glad I could provide that information! 🍿
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i think people should’ve have looked more uncanny after the surgery because when Tally looks at old magazines with models in them she says that they're ugly, but the Pretties look like models today
I actually thought they did a somewhat decent job with the whole uncanny aspect. The reveal of “pretty Shay” was borderline creepy imo
@@jamiegdubois I think Shay is the only one who slightly hit the uncanny valley aspect of pretties, but that's only because it was a very drastic change (mostly personality wise) from how she was shown before. The pretties that they do show just look like filter washed versions of people who have IG surgery today and that's one of the main reasons I don't think they were as affective as they could be when conveying how uncomfortable the situation is. They're supposed to be mistaken as gods at one point and they just look like blurred normal people. Especially with the reveal of Joey King at the end - her face was still unsymmetrical and it wasn't an effective reveal. The pretties should have been CGI'ed a la Avatar (blue people) and I fully stand by that.
@@shadypalmtree2989 they did fine with the budget they had.
Shay and Cable were particularly good imo. Cable had a very " Special" scary look to her beauty and Shay was almost unrecognizable.
Absolutely no way this YA book series adaptation would have been given then same budget for a movie like Avatar.
@@luckyowl6432 I didn’t say it needed the same budget. It just needed to utilize the same technology of motion capture. Except instead of doing their entire body, it would be confined to their face, so it wouldn’t even cost as much as Avatar. Not including the fact that they’d really only need to do it for 5 of the characters since the other pretties are barely shown other than in passing. I think it’s realistic budget wise when you take all of that into account.
I literally snapped my fingers and said 'work bitchhhhh' she was so hot
Prosthetic cheeks and chins could have given them a handsome Squidward meets Joan Rivers sort of vibe that the audience would find grotesque.
its so sad because the book series would be so cool to see over a couple of movies - but literally everything is getting cancelled these days 😔
No joke, I BARELY watch television anymore because I'm burnt out from getting emotionally invested in stories that either get prematurely cancelled or take WAY TOO LONG (2+ year waits being "normal" is unacceptable!) to release new episodes.
Even though this film has an ending that is clearly setting up a sequel (just like the book was) it still stings less for it to most likely not have any sequels because a lot of the arcs have some sort of "completion" by the time the credits roll. 😆
If Joey King was able to get three Kissing Booth movies happen, I think she can get three Uglies movies to happen.
It felt like kissing booth, with all the montages. Her being cool just evolved really fast. And I didn’t get why the Smoke faction just trusted her so fast.
Peris and Shay both had more chemistry with Tally than David. I agree about the pacing. I needed just a few scenes addressing the fallout. Especially given Tally’s betrayal led to his father’s death. I was a bit soured on the third act with how quickly he got over that. When they met up with Tally’s old schoolmates, he was like “yeah I’m David” with a smirk. Just odd with the stakes and timing of things. I never read this series growing up so I have no nostalgia influencing me. Overall, I thought it was ok for a YA adaptation, could see my 13 yo niece liking it.
Definitely! I'm very aware I'm not the target audience for this series, which also makes me a bit more forgiving of the flaws and said that if there's enough of an audience streaming this first film they should go ahead and try again with adapting the second book. I have no idea what Netflix's "numbers" are though of what's considered "enough" so I'm just assuming this won't reach that because of how rarely they let stories continue. 😗
I was looking for this comment, tally had the most chemistry with Shay as far as I’m concerned
Even in the books there was more chemistry so that tracks
@@lainadelpay yeah I thought I was the only one feeling like Tally and Shay should be a couple
I think if Uglies was able to get out of adaptation purgatory earlier, it would have been a 2 hour blockbuster with multiple sequels. So many people have tried to adapt this series and for one reason or another, the project was scrapped. I was waited with baited breath for someone to break through and make an adaptation around the time The Hunger Games movies were coming out and I think it would have done serious numbers around that time. Unfortunately we now just get a middle of the road adaptation on Netflix that only a few people will watch.
The gentleman with the wheelbarrow in the smoke is scott westerfeld ( the author of uglies) he got a cameo
OOOOOOOOH, I didn't know that! Thank you for sharing that! 😊
@LadyJenevia i found out from watching the cast react to the trailer otherwise i wouldn't have caught it
@@Nightbat1321 that’s so cool!! I hope Netflix also considers doing his other trilogy, Leviathan
@hayleyhellbound9513 it's already being worked on as an anime from Netflix ( allegedly in 2025 for it to drop he announced it when he got the uglies move release date)
If Joey King was able to get three Kissing Booth movies happen, I think she can get three Uglies movies to happen.
different budgets
@@jzhvaeduh does anyone know the budget for Uglies? I’m guessing around $50-100 million but I could be way off
As a book reader, I actually hated Peris's storyline. Mainly because, he's not that important in the books. Even after Tally becomes Pretty, he's sort of there but Tally became closer to Shay than him. And the "love triangle" (except not really) is between her, David and a new guy introduced in the second book.
Yeah I always thought Peris was gay. they were like close friends because they were outsiders in the town of outsiders. That could just be the thought of being a gay teenager. Shay should have definitely had more of her bisexual/pan/gay undertones shown better in the movie.
Twink and a red head
So I just have to say how much I LOVED that scene where Peris is saying how Tally brought back all of these emotions in him and made him feel good. In the second book, Pretties, Tally has gone back and become pretty to test the cure. But, of course, the operation has messed with her mind. She meets this guy and when she's given the cure, in the form of 2 pills, and they decide to split them, 1 for each. Well, the way the cure works is that one pill has these little nano virus type things that would eat away at the lesions and the other pill would stop it. The guy she's been hanging out with, Zayne I think, takes the one that starts eating away at his brain and ends up dying but Tally takes the one that does nothing except stop the first pill from eating your whole brain BUT SHE'S CURED! Somehow she thinks herself out of it. So the implication that seeing her was breaking Peris out too is SO SO SO cool, I LOVE that
@@raylynne5280 I had no idea that pretties could basically philosophize themselves out of their “bubbly” state since I’ve only read the first book, but that makes the scene so much cooler
I haven't read these books in over a decade but it surprised me how much the movie brought back memories. It wasn't a great movie but it was a good time and I hope it gets a sequel.
I think they did a really good job with what everyone would look like post beauty Operation ( Cable and especially Shay, I didn't recognize her at first and the mannerisms change was fantastic... she turned into London Tipton 😂)
I also feel like people who are talking about the film without having read the book don't understand that people aren't actually supposed to be Ugly before they get the surgery. It's entirely about the brain lesions as a tool to control people. If the run-time was longer, perhaps it would've been less confusing to the general audience. 😂
I suppose it won't take as long as usual for Netflix to say whether or not they'll go ahead and do a sequel.
To be honest, I’d completely forgotten about these books until I saw the trailer a few weeks ago and it brought back a flood of memories. Just finished watching the movie this evening and, like you said, it wasn’t great or anything, but it was enjoyable. And I actually enjoyed how they changed up the 3rd act (normally I hate it when movie adaptations do that, but I think it worked in this movie’s favour).
I read this book dozens of times in middle/high school but its been awhile so I dont quite remember a lot of specifics, but a detail that really bothered me in the movie (dont remember if its in the book):
When David finds Tally in the fire and scans her to find the tracker on the board, she says "I swear I didn't know that was there" and David says something like "I know, they always put trackers on the boards." And then he throws it into the fire, which alerts SC to their location. But then everyone is alarmed and suspicious when SC shows up to the field/outpost location, "they've never gotten this close before." So..were everyone else's boards/trackers not destroyed? Destroyed further away? I have so many questions. It seems odd that they would be so confident in their assessment that all the boards have trackers but be completely oblivious to the fact that throwing them into fire would ping the city
I’ve read the books too and was also a bit confused by this bit. After rewatching that scene as well as the scene where Dr. Cable sends a Special to the location, I think the movie was implying that Cable was specifically following Tally’s hoverboard (maybe as a secondary way to keep an eye on her). I’m assuming they don’t go after every tracker that’s destroyed in that field, so maybe that’s what made it suspicious. I could be totally wrong though.
Uglies felt like The Giver meets Divergent! I hope for more Dystopian movies in theaters over Netflix!
Croy is so damn good-looking that we bestowed his "ugly" nickname as: Post-op lol
@@beesees especially because his nickname was Freckles. Where were the freckles
tbh i thought that tally and david had very little chemistry, and seemed more brother-sister to me? ( i really prayed they wouldn't kiss and thank GOD they didn't). i also thought that tally and shay had waaaaay better chemistry and was wondering if there might be a sapphic route but wasn't at all surprised that they didn't go that way.
i agree it needed more time to live in the world, hopefully the smoke. at one point it looked like there was a party or a gathering? would have loved to see more about that.
i do hope for a sequel because i thought this movie was better than i thought it was going to be and does leave some questions. but i won't hold my breath because netflix hates art and artists
They DID kiss, it's in the film and they even showed it in the trailer! 😂
@@LadyJenevia you know what. i must have blocked it out. trauma response.
@@heavyrainstorm92 They start macking at night and next thing it cuts to them running out of a hut together the next morning. It wasn't the strongest implication, but I definitely yelled "did they bang it out?" at the screen. Not to add to your trauma...
I can't lie, maybe I was a hater but I'd argue they didn't have much chemistry in the books either.
@@kimberleywilliams7802 i haven't read the books in like. two decades so i can't remember LOL but i believe you!!
I wish the Smoke had more time dedicated to it. And that the library and Boss were shown.
100 percent!!
In the books Peris and Tally were definitely set up to be an, “If only, then…” scenario- especially on Peris’ end. Major change in my opinion to make Peris a “Special” because ((SPOILERS)) Peris never becomes a special and has always been presented as cowardly to the reader through Tally’s perspective. Meanwhile, both Shay and Tally are forced to become specials.
The movie’s presentation of specials I feel is a major fumble on their part. In the book Specials are WAY more than just mindless soldiers, they are extremely enhanced humans where everything is experienced at 150%. Specials also have a different set of brain lesions that cause them to have an extreme superiority complex and aversion to everyone who isn’t like them (pretties included). If the movie was going for this angle, they fumbled :(
The ability to “rewire” your brain and change the way you think is a major plot point of the series. Taking away the special-superiority complex I feel like will severely detract from this point if they try to make it on in further films.
Overall: hard 3.0/5
The fact that the "uglies" front cast all are looking absolutly beautiful , model - like even was bonkers to me.
@@ElenaWaldhaus while it would have been nice to see more body type diversity, the whole point is that they aren't "ugly." They just look like individuals.
They're not actually supposed to be "ugly", plus this is a dystopian society so whatever standard of beauty they have would not apply to our actual standard norms.
I had fun with this adaptation. I had to unsubscribe from some channels cause of grievances with Laverne Cox. Hope they do more. I'll ❤ on Netflix and hope for the best!
What do you mean by "grievances"? Were people not giving her praise, or...? 👀
@LadyJenevia LOL. So many called it "tone deaf" to cast her. Guess they only hear Bacic B tones.
I don't understand what would be 'tone deaf' about it? They don't want her to play a villain or something? I thought it was great casting because Dr. Cable is supposed to be someone with a commanding presence and Miss Laverne Cox most definitely can command a space. 🔥
@@LadyJeneviaI saw a particularly disgusting comment that read something to the effect of, “I love that in a movie about brainwashing kids with unnecessary surgery they cast a trans woman. Very appropriate.” Ugly af
@LadyJenevia I agree, Those white dresses were killing! I realize that "tone deaf" means "she's trans and she had plastic surgery." Not about her performance. Most rightly praise her. As an NB, I'm looking for superior content like yours🖤
I never read or even heard of this series until I watched on Netflix. It definitely seemed too rushed for me. When she gets to The Smoke, I was like "are they trying to make David like her?" We def got a better relationship build with Peris and even Shay! I thought Shay was going to be her love interest. David liking her just seemed to come out of nowhere. If it was a show I wonder if it would've been better
I feel like it should have been more fleshed out and David needed more of a warlord Khal Drogo sort of vibe.
Just finished watching the movie and one thing I immediately noticed is that they never brought up the names they used for each other “Tally-wa” and “Shay-La” 😭 my friend and I read the books since 2008 (when we were 12) and were big fans and called each other “Ally-wa” and “Jackie-la” hahaha
Edit: My bad, a comment below corrected me and reminded me their nicknames were only brought up in Pretties! It’s really been a while since I last the read books hehe
That doesn't happen until Pretties! Those nicknames
Also the “so pretty-making” and the fact that when you become pretty they do all kinds modifications to your body - skin, adding some durable material in the bones, etc etc. they don’t ever bring up all the things the surgery does to your body, they don’t ever discuss the oldies town where everyone goes when they’re really old, they barely side mention that the surgeries continue throughout your whole life to make you look nice even as an older individual.
@@caitlingillThanks for the correction!! Omg it’s been so long I forgot about that 🤣
i liked how much more of a role peris had, although i suspect it's only because they wanted a love triangle, but still, i surprisingly liked it. plus, i think, if I'm remembering correctly, it's kind of a teaser to pretties and specials, bc in those books, we find out that basically, adrenaline rushes can cure the lesions, and shay and a group of pretties cured their lesions, and were caught by dr cable and made specials, so him getting feelings after seeing tally again is affecting his lesions, so dr cable turned him
What messes with me is how did Cory get the chopper there. Tally and David didn’t fill it there.
Oh, sorry, my actions caused your father’s death.
*Sure, don’t care, won’t even mention it once.
😭😭😭
(hears opening line) YES yes I've been SAYING!!!
Movie: How much Laverne Cox do you want in here?
Me: YES
They should make it a series !!!
Doing the first book as a series definitely would have fixed the whole "this feels rushed" issue. 😗
I don’t know why, the beginning exposition monologue just took me out of the movie completely. It was so pointless, everything they mentioned was repeated later in the movie, and the way it was presented felt like it also took down the quality of the rest of the film, with the scenes looking like they were stitched together from a stock footage website. Only way they could have made it worse was if it was just plain text with spoken exposition. When presenting a dystopia, the audience might not be familiar with the word, and will be curious as to what happened and how everything shifted. By answering those questions in the first two minutes, I felt way less invested into the word because it seemed like I had everything already explained to me, even though I knew the story already. Otherwise I didn’t mind the movie that much, it was okay 😅
Also book says tally and Peris snuck into pretty town more than once, not used glasses to spy. Why's it matter? They got bruised or fell a few times, they bonded over that. Book had more feels
I love how she didn't see any romance between Paris and Tally when reading the book, but from watching her video about the book, I thought there was supposed to be a romantic connection there.
Peris is BARELY in the first book. I've had commenters say he has more of a presence after the first book but there was nothing there for me to latch onto in the first book. THE FILM, however, was very effective in making him more interesting to follow.
I really loved specials and extras. I'm sad that they might not get made. But it's okay. I feel like something was missing. It felt too ya.
90 minutes of story when there's THAT much in the first book is such a WEIRD choice, someone needs to explain why that was the decision. 😂
@@LadyJenevia I think it needed those ghibli scenes of her on her hoverboard exploring the outside world for the first time. Maybe show what wildlife is still alive. Some rusties cars and artifacts. It felt so empty and rushed. Everyone was just sorta there.
Haven’t read the book. Didn’t even know this was a book series before i watched it. No plans of reading it either. But my god, why did i feel more romantic chemistry between Shay and Tally vs The Actual Main Couple 😭
Read the books. The movie was like a 2.5/5 and I read this series more than once and only other series besides Harry Potter that I HAVE read more than once. The books have so much more depth and tally is more realized as a flawed character in the books. She stays this flawed individual with messy character traits and makes her relatable as no one is perfect which is a great thought when you consider the worlds view of what is perfection and ok.
I was stoned while watching this and had the time of my life watching it
Saaaaaaaaaaaame
10:09 they DIDNT make Paris a special in the first book- or any of them… and I was Thrown when that choice was made
@@Seabasstard22 agreed if threw me wildly. book Peris wouldn’t be caught DEAD doing anything he did in the second half of this movie
i genuinely hope they do renew this movie because this was way better than anything i could've expected out of it
I loved it! I read the book in middle school, so I'm definitely feeling the nostalgia. You know more about the book than I do now. I'm really happy with what we got. Probably from my expectations being low from how bad adaptations can be, and it not going to theaters. I see how it definitely could've been better with more time in the smoke and the relationship she had with David. The weirdness of the regulars just getting out easily after being taken out of the cell. I guess I don't care because the movie was.. pretty. I would be excited for them to create the sequels. I hope they do.
As someone who was obsessed with the books in middle school and high school, I was disappointed in the movie. But i enjoyed it enough that I would still watch the sequels. I'm hoping they'll do better in the future
At 6:02 those cyberpunk glasses reminded me of the ones you get from EBay and Etzy.
Nice blouse you were wearing.
I had to keep remind myself I wasn't watching Divergent. Also, why is the last act missing? I am confused.
21:30 I think you missed the adapted version of the love triangle. In the movie Shay appears to be LGBT and I believe she has a crush on Tally. So you basically get David & Shay competing for Tally, with the Paris weirdness as well.
You said you're not familiar with OBX, but Season 4 is coming out soon and I'd love some analysis from you on that show. Its a ton of fun, and while some things are absolutely drama and needs some suspension of disbelief, but there's also more depth than you'd think of with a show of that genre.
**book spoliers**
Tally has a second love interest in the books, Zayn. I wonder if in their hopes for further movies, they want to replace Zayn with Paris.
What I don’t understand is how did Croy get out of captivity of the special people??
It seemed in the movie of a 4 way love ... square. David, Talie, Shay, and Peris. Shay seemed into David,but was willing to step back when she saw the gloves.
I have a question - how did the book and the movie handle race? In your previous video, when you said the pretty surgery made you an average - did that mean everyone got the same skin color as well? Like a light brown skin color? Based on the trailers, I can clearly see that movie did not go this route. But if the same actor is playing the character before and after the surgery, what exactly is different after the surgery?
It the books they did all have the same skin colour but it’s not just the pretties. The ugliest do too and they’re described as lighter than olive. It implies some pretty intense things about the fall of rusty society and the rise of the pretty society.
Everyone keeps saying they got romantic vibes from this movie between tally and peris but i watched it and i didnt feel anything romantic in this movie.
I’m a minority when I say that the movie was okay. It definitely needed to be 2 hours! We need more time! We need more time to breathe! We need more development!
And THANK YOU! The pretties being uncanny Is Fine, Actually. As the audience, we are supposed to see that there is something very wrong with being “pretty.” Looking like an Instagram filter IRL was actually effective imo.
I was relatively forgiving of the film because it's been almost 18 years since I last read the book. I only remembered the broad strokes of the plot. That being said, the film hit on enough of the beats I remembered from the source material to turn on my "nostalgia glasses." For example, I felt myself grinning ear to ear at the hoverboarding on the rollercoaster because that was one of my favorite parts of the book. That being said, the film felt very rushed, especially the third act. I did not buy into Tally and David's romance at all, but Tally and Shay's relationship shined.
Ignore the age bump for actors that are supposed to be teenagers but aaaaren't...
I think, personally, as a decade long fan of the UGLIES series, I share a similar view on the movie that you do. I had a lot of love/hate for the movie, and tho I have an overall positive view on it, there is a LOT that urks and upsets me over it.
(SPOLERS BELOW)
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For starters, I STARTED the series not with UGLIES, I started with the side graphic novel, SHAY'S STORY.
(I recommend that if, for whatever reason, if you do another video on this movie, read the first in the series. It shows the exact same story as UGLIES, but instead of Tally's POV, you see it from Shays.) The reason this is so important, is you get a LOT of understanding to Shay. I got to meet Croy, All of Shay's friends, who, btw, is how you meet the real third point in Tally's love triangle.
Peris, in my opinion, was NEVER a love interest for Tally. EVER. It was always David, and one of Shay's friends, Zane. Who becomes VITAL in the second book, PRETTIES.
Shay, David, Croy, they and many other side characters HAD fleshed out stories, that, in my opinion, should had been considered apart of in the first movie. ESPECIALLY since we aren't truly hindered to Tally in the movie! We should have had a better understanding of Croy, and Shay acts (in my opinion) weirdly different in the movie, and without her backstory, it seems like her behavior in the beginning comes from nowhere.
If we had that background, that vital information of what REALLY happened with her group of friends (she had been tricked to back out. And she then plays it off as "I chickened out" when in reality, she was too worried she was going for all the wrong reasons.) And without ANY of this, she just comes off as a cool, tricky kid, who really is just too scared to commit to something "so natural for them." Her entire story, imo, falls kinda flat in the movie.
PERIS.AS.A.LOVE.INTEREST. Peris in GENERAL. Felt too wrong to me. I HATED seeing Pretty Peris, or ANY of the pretties in GENERAL. Because there was NONE of the fleshed out Slang, or Behaviors in the pretties, until SHAY GETS HER SURGERY, then, suddenly, there's this giddy and almost vapid pretty, who's only there because she's there. They all felt too our time modern. The shot of NPT while Tally is running around finding Peris, they all felt like Instagram stars, living in Manhattan, or Beverly Hills. Not Giddy party hungry/horny "young adults" who just want to have fun, be beautiful, and do crazy or goofy shit because they can. The glamour of NPT that SHOULD have been there in the beginning, just, really wasn't. For the first time, I was more invested in the drama and emotional heartbreak that I knew the main characters were gonna get into, FAR more than I should have been in the world building and the storyline or even really the characters themselves.
ALL the pretties felt flat IMO. Even if they dropped one or two slang terms from the book, I'd have felt happier about this.
Peris was my first mark on this. IMO, Peris in the books, even as a SPECIAL, was a chicken shit. He HATED being outside the city norms. He REFUSED to flee in Tally's SECOND time in PRETTIES. He doesn't do tricks the same way tally or even Shay had. He only did it for fun. Even as an ugly.
Shay was the FIRST Specialist/Cutter (the name of the special ops team Shay/Cable create by the end of PRETTIES). So for Peris to become the first, and so early into the movie, URKED me. I loved Chase playing Peris. IMO he did GREAT. ESPECIALLY as a Specialist. But Movie Peris could have been SO different. But overall, PERIS SHOULD NEVER HAD BEEN A LOVE INTEREST. The ONLY reason I see them doing this, is because they would have already decided to NOT continue the Series. So for Peris to take over for Tally's REAL second love interest, Zane, WOULD make sense. BUT I STILL HATE IT.
It feels like they gave Tally that "Female Main character can't have real male friends" cliche from a-many pre 2010s media we see. When it was NEVER THE CASE.
Moving on, I 👏LOVED 👏LAVERNNE 👏AS 👏DOCTOR 👏CABLE.
I truly agree, I would SLAM my fists repeatedly into the front desk of Netflix, Credit Card in hand, for more screentime of her. She did a STUNNING job as her. FANTASTIC. INCREDIBLE. MY ONLY PROBLEM is SHE HAD SO LITTLE SCREEN TIME.
Even in her own scenes. THE LIBRARY SCENE? I was SO. HEARTBROKEN. In Shay's story, I fell in LOVE with Doctor Cable in that library. And I fell in love AGAIN in Uglies. And those last scenes of her having almost murderous intent inside the lab DID feel off, IMO, but I was STILL on the edge of my seat.
The other major thing I really have a gripe with, (other than the flower field scene, but that's just me) is I agree the movie is SO. RUSHED. It felt like the movie flew by in ALL the wrong ways. I wished that Netflix had really taken it's time with it, and had given us a two, two and a half hour movie.
Other than that, I agree it's worth watching. I had watched the movie with family. Seeing the movie come to life on screen, a movie based on a series that was so. SO important to me for over a decade now, and still is, was like breathing for the first time all over again. I got to feel the first reactions I had to both Series' First Books AGAIN. A Decade later.
And more importantly, My parents, who are well into being adults could really get into, and feel and understand the story, just as much as I did. My 40-something step-father, who is WAY into Horror Movies and Chucky, was GENUINLY invested in the movie. Which was beyond any of our expectations. I believe it's worth watching. And I am so glad that a lot of older AND new/er fans are also feeling the same, regardless of our mixed feelings.
I watched it with my sister and she left about halfway through because it was too fast paced for her and since she had never read the book she thought it was confusing
We need all the movies
28:00 this was something I thought I’d be alone in at noticing.
watched this days ago but i forgot to comment this. i saw some clips of what you were talking about as laverne cox… oh my god.. she’s so good. 😭😭
but anyways, i absolutely love this format of videos. very organized! just the way i like it! 🧘🏾♀️
She was great, I would’ve watched 2 hours of Dr. Cable being a menace. 🤭
Loved the books. I was VERY disappointed in the movie. I actually hated it.
I saw that it was on Netflix, I thought it was going to be in theaters.
As someone who didn't read the book, the movie felt so rushed. The scene transitions did not flow well.
I don't like when they take a book and make a movie too much is rushed and lost. I perfer when they do series and spend more time fleshing out the materials
Peris was a good character and actor, but damn, he defintiely chose the Chad face for his template. Bleargh!
As someone who never heard about these books before randomly watching this movie I hated it tbh. I felt like I knew nothing about tally or any of the other characters as people and they really didn’t have any personality. I also found the graphics incredibly annoying, but I have a general disdain for the lack of set building in contemporary sci-fi movies. I found the theme also quite underdeveloped. I do not plan on reading any of the books and probably won’t watch any sequels if they make them, because this film felt slow but also way too fast, trashy but serious and I just really didn’t like the cast (except our queen mother laverne cox). I get why people who read the books would be excited this, but imo this was horrible.
So you’re going to let a less than okay film ruin your interest in the books which are sooooooooo much better. The movie was mehhh but the books are fantastic. Only one of two hooo series I read more than once.
First like of the book is what drew me in
“The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit
Of course tally thought,you’d have to feed your cat only salmon flavored cat food for awhile to get the pinks just right.”
Like to start off THAT way was so good so I kept reading.
Considering all Netflix shows only have like 8 episode a season, this would have been perfect for anetflix show instead of movie.
I've never read the books but I really thought Shay and Tally would end up together while watching cuz they had sooooo much chemistry
Hopefully they make a second movie so I can see my boy Zane 🙏😭
OBSESSED WITH THE POLITE SOCIETY POSTER!!!
Spoiler alert (but not really because it's for my own video 😂), when I did my Top 10 Films of 2023 video that was my number one!
I know that this is about the Uglies movie, but I'm getting distracted with that Grease 2 poster
As someone who hasnt read the book the film was good but I was confused about some parts that you explained.
Although I wont lie, for me it was more of a queer love story between Shay and Tally. Every other connection that played out before fell flat, I didnt believe it.
Would I watch part 2? hmmm - Yes to see it through not necessarily for the entire plot
Wrt the scanning and David, did it matter that the students were scanned so many times? They are always talking about what they want done, so it seems that its not like there is some objective algorithm based on their body type/shape. I haven't read the books, so is the scanning some sort of placebo procedure, to build psychological ties to the surgeries for propoganda?
Ive read the whole series and all I can say is Tally was way more likable as a Pretty
Peris was dynamic!!
I would be genuinely shocked if they get a greenlight for another movie. This is just so disappointing for lifelong fans like myself.
I thought David and Tally`s chemistry in The Film was fine, I`m aware that`s not a popular opinion though.
I watched the movie, thought it was trash and was wondering whether the source material was trash too and that's how I stumbled upon your videos.Tally is the most boring character. Things being rushed is a huge problem, but I had more issues with... things are just happening. Tally is soooo passive and whenever she gets in trouble she just gets lucky. Tally needs to escape from Prettytown? Good that bungee bags are just laying there for her. About to be caught by the hovercraft? Shay just happens to be there to get her to safety. It's just lazy writing and I just rolled my eyes watching it. She barely makes decisions of her own and it happens at the end of the movie, after I spent most of it not caring for her
Also, i dont understand why people are allowed to personalize their appearance. If they're supposed to be all equal and given new skin and hair and eyes then every should look the same post surgery
It was explained in the books, if you read them ever, that the morpho tool was literally the same as what we do now with apps and social media etc etc etc today, ANY thing we’d use to pass time that’s what it was for the ugliest. They don’t explain that it being a tool to also reinforce your hate for your ugliness and make you want the surgery. It allowed people to come up with different ways to make your face pretty to see kinda what they might do when you get the procedure. It’s like how we use filters to see what we’d look like as a __ or __ blank based on the whatever filter. It was a what-if tool to make you want the surgery and and reinforce the worlds ideals on you.
@@Seabasstard22 then i guess the follow up with brain lesions make sense, is not the surgery "equalizing" everyone its the brain damage. They could literally look like anything
It really should’ve been a series and not a film, sad
To be super honest. The colorblind casting REALLY ruined this movie for me. The book is so clearly about a yt girl growing up in a yt super**** town/city. She literally knows of other races because she LEARNED about them. Not because she knows them or has ever known them. The long deawn out scenes in the book of the hover board are ment to convey HOW isolqted this racist town is. Ughhhhhhh. like ira sad actually. Because this book is exactly what ppl need right now.
I'm sorry to say worse than book and bad movie. I mean way shot camera shots with Dr cable, that actress was taller than most and if you already have an actor with big presence, why have the special scouts, then there my thoughts on costume, loss of feels because not enough time and bad character development. I wanted to cry
And no, Peris was never a special in any of the books.
Uglyville, not Ugly Town lol
Squint wanted to be pretty.
well i HOPE the books are better bc the movie was TRASH 💗
They’re amazing movie was rushed and not that good
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i was so shocked when shay and tally never kissed, their chemistry was insane
I did NOT pay enough attention to the marketing of this movie, I had no idea it was coming out so soon! This is how I’m learning it’s on Netflix!! Be back u in 90 minutes 🫡
You are not the first person to comment on one of my UGLIES video saying they didn't know the film was (coming) out. 😂
Glad I could provide that information! 🍿
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