One Day (someone will make a better film than this)

I haven't read the book, so I am probably the closest to the perfect audience for this film as you can get. My mind hasn't been influenced by beautifully written material and I have no requirements when it comes to cast, locations and anything really.

And it still sucks.

I have no idea where to start, to be honest. One Day is just a horrible film. There is nothing about it that was persuasive, identifiable or heartbreaking to me. I have read different reviews (after I have seen the film, so my mind stayed uninfluenced during the screening), and some people cried. I didn't even cry.

It is very poorly written and because it has been written by the author of the book, and even though people have been calling it a book of the decade, I am not sure if I want to read it now after what I have seen. The characters are irritating assholes, the story is monotonous and badly paced and everyone just seems to be trying much too hard. I hate how years have been distinguished by so called important events. In 1993 everyone was watching Jurassic Park and in 2000 everyone was listening to S Club 7. It's like badly written '80s film. Nobody will see these references in ten years, guys, so you have just made your film appealing to very limited audience.

Why isn't Emma played by an English actress? Is it really too hard to find anyone? Or is it because otherwise the American audience will ignore the film, if their people aren't involved? Also, Anne Hathaway is a pretty horrible choice, I think. She has become really lazy recently and focused on repeatedly playing the same role over and over and over again. And here, we see her as exactly the same protagonist as usual, just more irritating and less naked.

Beautifully romantic story (I guess, it was supposed to be) has simply turned out to be a story of people wanting to sleep together. And they do. But they never show us! It's not that I am some sort of a pervy member of audience who just wants to see Anne Hathaway naked (I've had enough, I've seen Love and Other Drugs so I know her body better than my own), but if it's so crucial that they sleep together, let us enjoy this moment with them.

But enough about the plot. Technically the film was even worse. I sincerely can't believe the director of An Education could have done something so bad. The direction is simply dreadful. It's just like they were too lazy to change the camera lense and every fucking shot is filmed in medium angle. You have Paris, London, charming cafes and hills, and everything is medium shot. It's just ridiculously how much potential has been lost in this film.

Jim Sturgees is ok, I think but he still too much of an asshole to me to like him. Soundtrack is just begging us to cry and dialogues are dreading with fakeness. Every single supposedly funny like delivered by Anne Hathaway dies immediately; she seems to have an amazing talent to make all jokes lame. So overall, did I like it?

I fucking hated it.

And it will take more than a week for me to even look at the book.