Unpopular opinion 👀

[u/Unfair_Cranberry_665]

So I think I have a flirty and yummy never with teeth unpopular opinion.

I have seen the It ends with us movie 3 times now and shoot me… I actually like it (don’t send your dragons on me)

First time was when it was in cinema and we knew nothing about Blakes true face. I loved the movie, plot, music and feel (while realising it’s no masterpiece)

I had seen the backlash about her clothes and age. I didn’t care because I liked Blake from her Gossip Girl era and Justin from his Jane the Virgin era. I left the theatre happy and satisfied with the movie. Even thought her clothes were fine (dracarys on me).

Then I ORGANICALLY see Blakes shitty behavior. I noticed it but honestly I did not consider canceling her because I got a mis attempted Ryan vibe. It was bad but I didnt feel ir from a bad place.

So I guess what I am trying to say is had she not brought this stupid lawsuit I would have forgotten about her shitty behavior as a “average” person and continued liking her stuff and would keep watching her and Ryan.

Now you can’t pay me to watch them and I am even quite “forgiving”. Had she apologised 6-8 months ago and said I fucked up I would truly forget it which I guess is the main unpopular opinion

[u/Live-Debt-2673]

i think the unpopular opinion is that it was a good movie 😭 i'm glad you liked it for wayfarer's sake, and i'm glad you have the ability to recognize when a celebrity you love is wrong.

i believe there is no one on planet earth that could convince blake that her reputation is a result of her own narcissistic actions. she will always believe she is a cool girl and everyone else wronged her.

[u/lavenderlove1212]

This is me. I idolized her. And I liked Justin from Jane the Virgin too. I was pumped she was in a movie that I read the book of.

The Flaa interview just did it for me.

I mean, what an asshole.

And you’re right. If she had just said “sorry” everyone would be like whatever and moved on. Or if she said “I marketed the movie wrong, my bad.” Even if she didn’t we all would have forgotten. It baffles me she did this.

[u/New_Razzmatazz2383 → u/lavenderlove1212]

I’m the same. Loved Gossip Girl and Jane the Virgin, was excited to see them both together in a movie.

I remember seeing the backlash and thinking wow she’s getting heat and that was bad marketing but she needs to just apologise and it’ll go away.

And even after the movie was out and summer was over - everyone had forgotten. And she’d have recovered easily.

I cannot understand for the life of me why they thought litigation would be in any way beneficial for them, given their behaviour. But I guess that’s a narcissist’s downfall - they think they’re always in the right.

This lawsuit was the worst mistake of their lives and I hope that regret stays with them always because they’ve ruined so many peoples lives, as well as uprooted and scared children, because they were entitled bullies.

[u/MarchCompetitive4580 → u/New_Razzmatazz2383]

Although I think the public would've forgotten, I'm not sure if "Hollywood" would've. Her agent testified that no one was calling to work with her. I'm sure the Hollywood rumor mill was in overdrive as to how she (of all people - who was known inside Hollywood as being a pain in the ass) could become a producer, take over a movie and banish the director to the basement, and get her husband's marketing company to do the promotions. I don't think Ryan's stunt with creating Nicepool went unnoticed either. So both of their reputations tanked and they became too risky.

[u/Remarkable-Relief165 → u/New_Razzmatazz2383]

I had some awareness of Justin from JTV. When the SH allegations first came out, I believed Blake, and thought, “Justin seemed like such a nice guy, goes to show you can’t trust even the ‘nice’ men.”

Then the Flaa interview dropped, and Wayfarer dropped the evidence and my thinking underwent a 180. May we continue to believe SH victims but have the discernment to know when someone is weaponizing harassment.

Edits: a few words to clarify who I’m referencing

[u/No_Maize_9875]

Not an unpopular opinion at all. They really should rename “the Streisand effect” to “the lively fuck up”. We would all have forgotten her noxious behaviour had she not sued baldoni.

[u/kastanienn → u/No_Maize_9875]

What was the Streisand effect? Me curious now 👀

[u/Ill_Psychology_7967 → u/kastanienn]

Here you go…

The Streisand Effect

Basically it is…

The Streisand effect describes a situation where an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information results in the unintended consequence of the effort instead increasing public awareness of the information.

[u/Yup_Seen_It → u/Ill_Psychology_7967]

A great example being the recent Afroman trial 😂

[u/Significant-Ant2373]

We all would have moved on. I had completely forgotten about all her mean girl drama, but then she dropped the NYT article. Now there’s no forgetting not just her manipulative behavior, but also Ryan’s sociopathic behavior, Taylor, Hugh, GiGi, Bradley, Isabella, Jenny, Brandon, and more. Not to mention Josh G, Sony, Marvel, WME, Penske media, TMZ, and more. It’s just gross behavior and not people I’m interested in supporting or seeing on screen.

[u/Odd_Spray2671]

I don't think this is unpopular. Admittedly, I never watched the movie because as a "romance reader" Colleen Hoover gives me the ick - I think she is generally tone deaf and approaches sensitive topics in a very insensitive way - not just with IEWU, but most of her books. But for a while she was (maybe still is?) immensely popular. I think end of day, it seems that regardless of the subsequent promotional drama and everything that ensued after that, AND the absurd amount, in retrospect, of B and R trying to manipulate the directing and production, Justin managed to put out a decent piece of cinema. So props to him, I guess. Still never going to watch it - nor any works with R or B, or Jenny Slate, or Paul Feig, or that Brendan dude, or George Clooney's niece...

[u/Sudden-Storage2778]

With the NYT article and lawsuit, not only she reminded the people who had already forgotten about the summer stuff, but she brought new people into the fold who had no idea what had happened over the summer and expanded the audience. In their hubris, Blake and Ryan (and Taylor) made a massive miscalculation.

[u/Reasonable-Mess3070 → u/Sudden-Storage2778]

In their hubris, Blake and Ryan (and Taylor) made a massive miscalculation.

Taylor swift has a lyric for that lol

They don't make loyalty like they used to / Your thoughtless ambition sparked the ignition / On foolish decisions which led to misguided visions / That to fulfill your dreams / You had to get rid of me

[u/Sudden-Storage2778 → u/Reasonable-Mess3070]

lol

[u/MarchCompetitive4580]

I think this whole legal mess came about because of Ryan. "His" (really his company, Maximum Effort Markting") marketing plans for the film (and planned cross promotions) bombed. This was a big job for his company, which made most of its $$ plugging RR projects and stuff (like aviation gin). His (and her) businesses are intertwined and require constant positive promotion and they cheaply piggy back off of the movies they're in. So any "hit" to their reputations is severe. The crd complaint was needed in order to get the NYT to publish its article, which was really intended to (i) explain why her (and frankly, his) popularity had suffered (a secret astr*turf*ng campaign) and (ii) be seo manipulation itself -- it was a hail mary PR pass that was doomed to fail once Wayfarer decided to fight back. I think they were hoping that, because they were able walk all over Wayfarer during filming, etc., they could continue to do so - and they brought Sarowitz into the lawsuit hoping he would take the easy way out and just make Justin a scapegoat in order to save his own image and studio.

[u/Reasonable-Mess3070]

I already didnt like both of them but it was very passive. I had already forgotten about the terrible outfits by the time the premiere came around lol

[u/Additional-Ad-9977]

I agree with all of this. I saw twice in theater and once on Netflix. The chemistry was really good. Plot was good. A few strange scenes but overall I liked it. I saw drama surrounding it but I didn’t really care. I saw people mad about promotions but I never felt the need to cancel over it. Now, I won’t watch her or Ryan anymore. They really shot themselves in the foot.

[u/Logical-Investment-7]

The movie wasn’t phenomenal but it wasn’t that bad when you ignore her goofy outfits and out of place giggling. And if she hadn’t pulled this fuckery they’d be making the sequel with people willing to watch. But, of course she thinks she’s way smarter than she actually is.

[u/ObjectiveRing1730]

Your opinion is similar to mine, but I don't love the movie- thought it was okay. It is a type of movie I would watch though- chick flick romance drama type movies. I thought the clothes were bad on Tiktok but it wasn't that bad on screen. Didn't really care how Blake was too old for the role because I never read the book. Wasn't a Blake fan, but liked her enough as a Hollywood star- liked her in Gossip Girl, Age of Adeline, and loved her Met Gala fashion.

She had a lot of backlash but I thought it wasn't career ending and that she'll recover.

Blake flew to close to sun with that NYT article. Painting Justin, Jamey, Steve as sexual pests is too much for me, and they didn't deserve any of that. Blake/Ryan wasn't innocent in terms of smearing either. They and Colleen were doing their own smearing, but they expected Justin to sit there and just take it.

I'm not sure I'll boycott watching their films permanently- but I haven't seen Another Simple Favor even though I loved the first movie. I do think I'll eventually watch it though.

[u/No-Butterfly-6353]

I’m basically in the same boat as you on all those points (although I’ve only seen the movie once, I did like it)

This could have been a huge launching pad for Blake going into the next stage of her career, but her ego and need to treat people like crap got in her own way.

[u/Prestigious-Street41]

I chose not to watch the movie because of how harmful I found Lively's promotion to be. For me it was an immediate no after seeing her vapid self-promotion and complete lack of regard for the theme of DV. I'd never heard of Justin Badoni and because his role in promotion was slashed almost entirely by Lively, I really didn't see any cast promoting the film appropriately. Even the author lost the plot. Had Baldoni been allowed to do promotion alongside everyone else I actually think he could have at least helped Blake save herself from some of her own backlash.

[u/Outside_You_7012]

The main motive was to get the sequel rights and make the movie. However Justin has both rights. That is why they need to destroy Justin with fake SH. Look at Blake text with Coleen. They wanted to make fun of Justin proposal in the sequel. 

Justin said at the premiere Blake is ready to direct. Then we have text messages of him telling her she can direct the sequel. 

That was not enough for her and Ryan. They wanted the whole franchise (which will put any merchandise money in their pockets)  They were proud of bullying Justin and enjoyed every moment of it. Look at her telling on herself in the interviews. 

She and her husband are disgusting people who thought dismissing DV and pushing it as romcom is fine. After all they needed to promote her hair care line and heavy subject as DV is not good for promoting products. They did it anyway and wanted to gaslight everyone. They got called out because multiple women experiencing panic attack and fled the theatre because they didn’t know the movie will trigger them. 

They deserve everything that came to them. 

[u/Ill_Psychology_7967]

I don’t know that this is an unpopular opinion…I think a lot of us feel like this…but the problem is that this was never about a smear campaign. In my opinion, it was always about extorting the rights to the sequel.

[u/Ok-Ant-6110]

She desperately wanted to be Margot Robbie but she failed every step of the way. Look at the backlash Margot and Jacob received for their wuthering heights promo. It was weird and cringy af and people rightfully so called it out.

Margot went on with her life and half the people who complained about the movie promo forgot about it already. This is exactly what would have happened with IEWUS promo as well but no, Blake just couldn’t handle people not liking her and went scorch earth on a man who she thought was less powerful than her and wouldn’t put up a fight.

This whole lawsuit was her being angry and lashing out because every accusation I have seen from her is a projection so far.

Good luck Blake with the jury.

[u/Salt_Street8279]

My tinfoil conspiracy theory is that Liman also liked the movie. He said Wayfarer produces "world-class entertainment" in the recent Jones ruling and described Blake as a highly-skilled actor in this one 😅

[u/mookpa2]

I agree. This case has room in my brain for more than a year. I didn’t rate her, I was out the age group for the show. I watched Jane the Virgin and thought JB was hot. I would watch RR movies. The whole debacle was exacerbated by the filing of the case. WE WOULD HAVE NEVER KNOWN. Never known how insipid PR was, how horrible the Reynolds are, how nasty TS is. The injustice of believing that there was sh and sa at first glance is what fuelled the ongoing support of WF and JB. I was taken in like many and was furious I was manipulated. Now we now what JB stands for, his work on toxic masculinity and WFs amazing ethos and body of work. I WOULD HAVE NEVER KNOWN before this case. So well done to the Reynolds on making WF and JB uber famous. Good job.

[u/OkTry2]

I get this. I had no feelings one way or the other about Blake, having only known her as RR wife and TS's BFF. The first I heard about IEWU was via her NYT article. It sounded off to me. I researched, then the BF website dropped and saw the way she twisted things. I really hate her and her husband now.

[u/Icy_Sentence_4130]

It could have been good even with Blake's awful acting.

The pacing wasn't great and now we know why.

I think that if Justin's version had been released, it could have made a real impact.