Walk in the Park

On a nice sunny day, I took a walk to a park within my town that I haven't visited in ages. I feel that the amount of time I've gone past it made it becomes something that was just there but now I've realised it is actually a beautiful park that we most likely don't appreciate as much as we should. These are some photos I took while I was there.

Edited with VSCO.

#1. Before I Fall // Grape Movie Marathon

I love movies, I love writing so I've decided to combine the two and create the Grape Movie Marathon. I have bookshelves full of movies I've watched and love, I've got a list of movies both new and old that I'm dying to see so it's about time I got around to watching all these movies and sharing my wonderful, and maybe not so wonderful, opinion on them. Let's get started!

February 12 is just another day in Sam's charmed life, until it turns out to be her last. Stuck reliving her last day over one inexplicable week, Sam untangles the mystery around her death and discovers everything she's losing.

When I first saw the trailer for this movie which is based on a book, it came across as a teenage Groundhog Day (I imagine, I haven't actually seen that movie..) mixed with The Butterfly Effect. I wasn't wrong but it's also your typical bitchy teenager movie. 

You have all your usual parts. The group of friends who are all popular with the leader of the pack and then the main character being the friend who seems to be just following along. You have the guy who has an interest in the main character, with some sort of back story, but she ignores for her popular boyfriend who is most likely a massive douche. Then you've got that one student who the popular groups pick on for whatever reason, with the added bonus of a lesbian character (yay for LGBTQ+ representation) who is also picked on briefly (..or, maybe not so yay?).

So very, very true.

I wanted to like this movie, the trailer had me looking forward to watching it but after 20 minutes of popular girls asserting dominance over those who don't fit their standards, I was done. I wish I could stay that by sticking the movie out, it surprised me but it didn't. As the main character, Sam, continued to relive the same day over and over, slowly coming to the realisation that she must put things right to get out of the cycle, I feel like no real lesson was learnt. 

I can only assume the message behind this movie is "be nice to people because you could die tomorrow" and while it's a good message to have, although alternatively you could just say be nice to people and don't be a dick, it's a shame that she had to repeatedly live the same day to both realise and fix this. While also managing to fit in a day of being a dick herself because well, if you're gonna live the same day repeatedly you might as well just do whatever you want with it. 

Maybe my dislike for this movie doesn't have a real purpose other than me thinking everyone should just be nice anyway without having something happening that makes you realise you need to, but I do feel it could have been done in a better way. Did the group of friends really have to be mean to everyone, even to each other? Did the girl that they singled out really need to fit this stereotype of outcast that movies have? I'm now nearing the age of 27, so maybe teen dramas just aren't my cup of tea anymore, especially when you've seen as many as I have but it would be refreshing to see a movie that doesn't feel the need to have all the parts you'd find in every other teen drama. 

While it was the same old, it wasn't the worst movie in the world and even if I did find it stupid at times, the story line did have me interested in how it'd play out.

I give it 3 out of 5 grapes.

(cause who needs stars?)