they didn't make the "Pretties" grotesque enough, the main bit of the book i remember was Tally finds this old magazine and is looking at a picture of a supermodel and is disgusted, like how she feels looking at all the other Uglies, and she says the model is almost "Pretty" but not quite - the Pretties have huge eyes and tiny noses etc, and as a 12 year old this made a huge impact about how beauty standards are completely manufactured and totally dependent on your upbringing etc

Really bold of them to end the movie in a cliffhanger fully believing they will get to do a second one

imagine being one of the people in a dystopian universe that has a normal name and an average life. you're the kid named steve, trying to get through the 4th exposition assembly of the week, and it keeps getting interrupted by a girl named Chartreuse driving her motorcycle back from the Saving Human Rights Club

My favorite part was when Carly stopped caring and kept calling Cable ‘Cradle’

Nose was so funny because they made Chase wear a prosthetic nose but they didn’t put one on the actor that played him as a kid so he had like a perfectly straight, normal sized nose

it is so crazy to hear you say "i was kinda hoping they did a blood pact" because they LITERALLY DID IN THE BOOK. i barely remember this book and i do not believe i finished it, but i distinctly remember the main character describing how she and her friend made a blood pact to be friends forever, and/or to make themselves "blood siblings" or whatever. that is EXACTLY what they did, and i feel like changing it makes the matching scars way more hollow?? like i'm not gonna get all sentimental about the time you broke my ipad, dude

i was in a test audience for this movie a few years ago and im so sorry they didnt take our feedback into consideration, lol

OKAY FINALLY SOMEONE TALKED ABOUT THE BIRTHDAY ASSEMBLIES. It actually bothered me so so much, in no world does it make sense. They give so much exposition but it still doesn't make ANY sense

like I’ve been waiting for you specifically to cover this I’m serious

I think the book came out when the plot was actually interesting. Early 20s we didnt have much self image love for teenage girls. The first book came out before Hunger Games and it felt very different at the time.

But in 2024, we've had the body positivity movement. We've had the dystopian teenager will save the world and there's a love triangle trend. It feels like this movie came out 15 years too late

Uglies is joining Beastly in the cursed genre of horrific adaptations of books I checked out from my middle school library

If Joey King's big round eyes are squinty then what are mine 😂

I wish they had dug into it, Hunger Games style. The surgeries in the book were unnerving. Waking up with different bones and skin, no longer being able to bruise, having all of your teeth removed. I also remember being really fascinated by the "middle" and "late" pretties. Aging is something that you go to a hospital to get done, to achieve a more age-appropriate look (i.e. while still looking young). So instead of getting to experience a lifetime of changes in your pretty body, you age maybe twice, artificially.

There's a Korean movie with a similar concept  but it's executed a lot better because everyone literally looks the same. Not human same though. They all look like paper or plastic dolls. So the audience can't even be like, "well the protagonist is prettier than the definition of pretty" or whatever. Like they're not yassified, they're literally....dolls. Lemme find the name of the movie

Edit: Human Form is the name of the movie I'm talking about

if i was in the pretties universe i’d choose to get purple eyes so i could be the first person with alexandria’s genesis

Something else about this movie - one of the producers (Joey King's manager), Dan Spilo, was ejected from Survivor season 39 for groping contestants and crew members. This was 5 years ago.

when i saw this thumbnail i actually out loud said “oh thank god”

“and the cops chase her for being ugly” such a relatable thing to say omg 25:44

I wish it were directed by Ryan Murphy. Not like it would be good or anything, but it would be a more entertaining mess, like glee.

this is my time to speak of the birthday paradox: there's a 50% chance that in a group of 23 people, 2 of them share the same birthday. so 9 people out of 500 sharing a birthday is pretty sound