I know what went wrong with the Vampire Academy movie
So just because it was there and I love Vampire movies, I gave a watch to the movie Vampire Academy, and good lord is it bad. Actually, no, it wasn't that the movie was bad, it's that the director and screen writer took what was made for girls/women and written but a woman, and put it all throug the male gaze. That and the screenwriter did a HORRIBLE job and adapting a long novel into a 104 minute movie. The entire downfall of the movie begins in the first ten minutes. The first ten minutes of the movie we are introduced to the main characters, we are given multiple back stories, find out there is a monolouge, and also learn that the jump cuts with no context are to be the norm. The first ten minutes of the movie sets you up to be confused and dissapointed for the entire rest of the film. But that is what you get when the screenplay was written by a man and not a woman. Like I said a second ago, when you take a story about women, written for women, written by a woman, and then ...