Paper Towns Movie Review

Hey guys!(:

I did do a previous review to a movie called "San Andreas", but I really wasn't very proud of it, but i do enjoy making reviews so I decided to try again, this time with Paper Towns.

Please don't judge this very harshly being that I'm fourteen year old girl with no experience in the movie background. I read the book over two years ago, so I'm not going to make any comparisons to the book, because frankly I don't remember all the details. Everything underlined is more of criticism.

SPOILERS AHEAD

General Info:

Title - Paper Towns

Initial Release - July 24, 2015 

Director - Jake Schreier

Genre - Thriller, Romance, Drama, Mystery

Summary:

Margo Roth Spiegalman (Cara Delevingne) is a daring and confident girl who at a young age moves next to a very shy boy names Quentin (Nat Wolff). They instantly become friends and start going on amazing adventures together, until they slowly start drifting away. By the senior year of high school they are practically strangers. One night Margo knocks on this door and asks to go on another adventure with him, they have an amazing night, but the next day, Margo has disappeared and has left clues for Quentin to follow in order to find her. 

Plot:

Let's start from when Margo knocks on Quentin's door and asks him to help her out with her revenge plan. Lacey and Becca are Margo's best friends, and Jase is her boyfriend. Apparently Jase has been cheating on Margo with Becca for a while and Lacey (who knew) never told Margo a thing. Eventually Margo finds out and this is when the revenge plan comes in. Margo tells Quentin that he needs to drive her first to a supermarket to get supplies, Q hesitates a lot, but agrees. 

At the supermarket they get a few things and the first stop is Becca's house, where Jase is currently in sleeping with Becca. They first put sort of a lock on Jase's car, so he can't get in. Then Margo calls Becca's father and tells him his daughter is sleeping with someone in the basement. See, this is where I question, how did Margo know they were sleeping in basement together on a school night? I decided to overlook this a bit because I assumed with Margo being this smart, she did her homework. Becca's dad rushes downstairs, and then Jase runs out naked, holding his junk, and just at the perfect moment Q snaps a picture of Jase naked. One thing I didn't get was, if Jase was running, holding his junk, why would he take his hands of that area? He obviously saw something, and I would imagine the first thing he would want to do is protect exactly that area. Anyways, Jase runs to his car and can't get in. Then Q and Margo go inside the house, throws a catfish under Beccas bed (I think) and spray paints the letter M. 

Margo and Q at the supermarket

Next stop is Lacey's house. They saran rap Lacey's car, and when the time comes to spray paint the letter M onto the car, Margo hands over the paint to Q, which hesitates for a while to do it, but finally has the balls to do so. I should also mention Margo is leaving notes, and she has this theory that the letters in the middle should also be capitalized, so she writes with random capitalized letters. 

They lastly go to Chuck (Jase's best friends house) and the plan is to shave on of his eyebrows. Margo picks the house lock and walks right in. They go up to Chucks room and Margo gives the honors of shaving Chuck's eyebrow to Q, which again hesitates but does do after a while. Margo spray paints the letter M, takes of the shaving cream from Chuck's face revealing a shaven eyebrow, he then wakes up and they both run out of the house closing Chuck's door. Beforehand, they had put vaseline on Chuck's door knob so he can't open it. Margo and Q did make a lot of noise when leaving the house and I found it extremely weird that Chuck's parents didn't wake up. 

Then to finish it all off, they went to the SunTrust building, which Q once again hesitated to do. Turns out Margo knows the security and they walk right in. While in the top of the building, Margo points out how she thinks their town is a paper town and that everyone in it is paper people. Then some very convenient slow dance music is playing and Q asks Margo to dance. Hold up, the guy that was scared to spray paint an M onto a car now is asking the girl he is in love with to dance? Wow, adrenaline. They then go home and Q sleeps.

The next day his mom wakes him up and is not in the least surprised that he has just slept in his clothes. He goes to school the next few days and realizes that Margo is missing. Oh I forgot to mention that Jase threatens to beat up Q but is tames by the picture of him naked on Q's phone. Q hold the phone right up to Jase's face and somehow Jase does not feel the urge to grab it and delete it. 

One day while at home with his two best friends Ben and Radar, Q sees there is a new poster hung up on Margo's window. It is a Woody Guthrie album poster. The three friends look him up and find out he lives in New York, they then bribe Margo's little sister Ruthie to let them into Margo's room. They find the Woody Guthrie album which has a song called "Walt Whitman's Niece", which they then find a book by Walt Whitman called Leaves of Grass, which leads them to a poem in the book called "Song of Myself" which has some verses circled and highlighted. One of the lines in poem is about a unhinged door, he does this to his door and finds and address. 

Q, Ben and Radar.

The three friends follow the address that leads to a very creepy place which has written "You Go TO The Paper Towns And You Never Come Back'. So we know that Margo was there. The three get creeped out and leave. A couple days later Q wants to go back to this place but his friends rather go to Jase's party, so Q goes alone. There he finds a space where something was once hung up. He gets a call from Radar and decides to go to the party where he finds a map and believes thats what was once hung up. He takes Radar and a drunk Ben to the creepy place where they are so scared they decide to sing, ugh this part was amazing. They hand up the map and it fits perfectly, and even has a few holes in it from pins that were once stuck. They get to the conclusion that Margo is in Agloe, New York which is a paper town. Lacey which had previously shown interest in finding Margo had followed them to this place and they all decide to go look for Margo. 

So they all go on this road trip (Quentin, Ben, Lacey, Radar, and Angela which is Radars girlfriend). The trip is awesome and I'm not going into much detail with it. One thing I  found weird was the fact that everyones parents were cool with it, because mine would literally kill me, and where did the money for gas and clothes come from? I didn't know they just carried around a lot of money because none of them dropped home to pick up any cash. 

Angela, Lacey, and Q buying food for the road trip.

When they finally get to Agloe, they find out that Margo is not there and wait around for an hour. Q wants to stay for longer but all his friends want to leave to get back in time for prom. After a big fight, his friends leave and Q is left waiting for Margo. After a while he decides she isn't really there and walks to the nearest town to buy a bus ticket home. While in a store buying chips he sees someone that looks a lot like Margo and follows her, it does turn out to be Margo. Margo isn't very happy to see Q and says that she did leave clues but they weren't exactly for him. This is when I slightly flip out. 

What do you mean the clues weren't for him? There was a poster on your window that faced his window where you never hung up anything, and an address in his door hinge and the clues weren't for him? And this was a very good elaborated plan, like when did you have the time to think about all of this? The way I understood it, you had found out about Becca and Jase that day, and you decided to leave that night. So you just thought of everything on the spot? 

Anyways, Margo buys Q a milkshake and they disscuss everything. Then they kiss, Q gets on the bus back home and goes to prom. The ending was really cute but I'm not going into too much detail. 

Margo and Q saying goodbye in Agloe, New York

Cinematography: No problems. 

Writing: No problems. 

Set/Costume Design: No problems.

Soundtrack: Fricken amazing. 

Characters: I'm probably gonna get a lot of hate for this but I don't think that Cara Delevingne was a very good choice for Margo. She is gorgeous but I felt like the American accent was a bit forced and she just looked a lot older and way too mature for Q. I know she is only two years older than Nat Wolff, but I don't know, it didn't really work for me.

I did enjoy this movie and would definitely recommend it. 

Leticia xx,

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Things I Bought While In Europe

Hey Guys!(:

I told you all that there would be coming a post about the things I bought while on my trip to Europe, so here it is!

I would like to say that all opinions are my own and that I'm not being sponsored by any company. I would also like to add that I'm very blessed to be able to purchase these things and I'm very grateful for all the opportunities I have.

Objects:

The first things I got where two sort of metal plac? I just know that I saw one with my name and freaked out, the other one I though was super cute and I couldn't not have it. I also got a black and white picture of the eiffel tower which I asked to frame to put up in my room, and some very cute post cards. All these things are from Paris, (small shops in Paris), except for one of the post cards which I got from the store of the "Berlin Story" museum.

Clothing: 

When going to Europe I wasen't planning on buying much because the euro is three times a real (Brazilian currency), but I found a few clothing items worth picking up. I got this big "University of Paris" sweatshirt from a small shop in Montmarte in Paris whic was about $18 euros I believe, and the other two are things I got at H&M in Berlin. The first is a black muscle tee which was around $8 euros, and a black acid wash pair of jeans which was around $22 euros. None of these prices are exact because I don't really remember, but just so you guys have an idea. 

Makeup:

On the last day of Berlin we decided to walk around and I saw a department store so we stopped by to look around. I ended up getting the Benefit Roller Lash Mascara, the MAC Pro Longwear Pressed Powder in the shade "Medium", and a MAC Pro Longwear Lip Pencil in the shade "In Anticipation". Coincidently on the last day of Paris we saw a Sephora and I couldn't just not go in, so I did and got a few items as well. I firstly got the NARS Radiant Creamy Concealer in the shade "Vanilla" and a Too Faced Melted Lipstick in the shade "Melted Nude". 

Leticia xx
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6 Things I Learned In Europe

Hey guys,

I am back from my trip to Europe! I visited Berlin and Paris, and it was amazing! I did miss blogging a lot though, but I had the time to think of many new blog post ideas so stay tuned. One of the post ideas I thought was very clever was a "Things I Learned in Europe", which is what I'm writing today.

I'm sorry I'm not putting many photos up today, it's because I came back yesterday at night and I haven't even had the time to import any photos, they will come soon though! I also did film a lot of stuff so I will be editing a video and putting it up on my channel (Eliberar).

3 Things I Learned In Berlin

1) Bikes Are A Thing

This was probably the first time that I've ever been more scared to get run over by a bike than a car. They are everywhere! I say kids, adults, and elders riding them and I saw them for sale/rent all the time. I guess it is the easiest and cheapest way of transportation around Berlin. It also really got me excited to get riding my bike again!

2) When Going To Berlin, Pack For All Types Of Weather

Ok this is a big one! It's supposed to be summer in Germany, why the heck is it like 17 degrees celsius? On the first day it was unbelievably got, the second day was chilly but not too bad, and the last two days where freezing! The biggest problem wasn't even the temperature but definitely the wind. Always pack for cold weather when going to Berlin, trust me.

3) WW2

I believe that unlike some countries, Germany doesn't try to hide their evolvement in WW2, and try ot honor the people who died as much as possible. i went to one museum and one cemetery dedicated to the holocaust and they both went into WW2 with such detail.

3 Things I Learned In Paris

1) Bakeries 

Wow. Literally every two or three buildings there is a bakery, and they all have amazing food! It's insane, I legit believe I gained like 10 pounds. Everything you eat is so delicious!


2) Gift Shops

Now if there isn't a bakery every two or three buildings, there is definitely a gift shop. They're everywhere! And the price range is insanely different. I suggest going to Montmartre for the best prices and it's so fricking gorgeous.

3) Metro

In Berlin it's bikes and in Paris it's the metro. There are like 15 lines and they go everywhere! We travelled everywhere by metro and it was definitely the best choice. Some stations are very big and crowded, so you might have to walk a lot. When we went to Montmarte we stopped on the station Château Rouge, and it took 136 steps just to get out of the station. Some trains are also very full, but noting too bad.

Overall I feel so grateful to have had the privilege to visit these two wonderful cities and I most definitely recommend them both!


Leticia xx
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Whats In My Carry On!

Hey guys! (:

I leave on Sunday for Berlin and Paris, I'm so excited! When I am there, I'm not sure that I will be having good internet connection and since I'm not brining my computer, it will be very hard to post. I'm thinking of posting either a day-by-day diary, or maybe a video? What do you guys think?

Anyways, I wanted to put up one last post before my trip so here is what I am packing in my travel carry on.

I'm bringing this light brown shoulder bag, that I got in a local store in Orlando Florida. It has a lot of pockets and is perfect for organized people, hahaha.

Inside, the first thing I'm bringing is my journal and a book, this one is the 1984 by George Orwell. To write in my journal I have a series of pens, mechanical pencils, and a highlighter.  

Next I have a sort of emergency kit, which has a lip balm (a Baby Lips), some tissues, a hand sanitizer, an elastic, and this cool little purse where my pads are located. I don't wear makeup on planes, because I like to be as comfortable as possible, therefore I'm not bringing any in my carry on.

My earphones and my charger for my phone is definitely an essencial too!

Since I wear prescribed glasses, I need my case and just so my sunglasses don't get smashed in my suitcase, I put them in my carry on. I own these pairs of Ray Bans. 

I most definitely need my wallet! This is a gift from a friend, but it is from Vera Bradley. 

Last but not least, is gum! I always end up chewing a whole pack of gum on the plane, this is the Mentos Pure Fruit in a strawberry flavor. 

Leticia xx

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Whats In My Travel Makeup Bag

Hey guys!

I'm so sorry I haven't posted on here in a while, I've been super busy in these last weeks of school, and no my school still has not ended yet. On Sunday I will be traveling to Berlin and Paris, so here is what I am bringing in my travel makeup bag!

Bag: 

I got this bag from Forever 21 for like $15 dollars, and I love it!

Skin: 

I don't do much for my skin, so all I'm bringing in my Nars Pouder in the shade Deuville, Benefit Hoola Bronzer, and my Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Concealer.

Eyes:

I rarely use eyeshadow, but just in case I'm bringing my Benefit the Porefessional primer, Urban Decay Naked Basics, and my Maybelline 24h Color Tattoo in the shade: Barely Branded. I am also bringing my eyelash curler, Benefit they're Real! Mascara, and two eye pencils: Mary Kay black eyeliner, and my Maybelline Color Show nude eyeliner. 

Lips:

I actully can't remember the last time I wore lipstick so all I'm bringing for lips is my Maybelline Baby Lips Tinted Lip Balm in the shade Strike a Rose and my Burt's Bees Ultra Conditiong Lip Balm 

Brushes:

To apply the makeup I am bringing these brushes: a Real Techniques one (that I don't remember the exact name), a couple of brushes from a brazilian brand called "Make B", my beauty blender, kabuki brush, and a spooly.

xx,

Leticia

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(early) July TBR

Hey guys!

I know this is a really weird time to make a TBR, but I recently got into booktubing and I was really in the mood to make a TBR for vacation to get me motivated so here it is!

1) 1984 - George Orwell

I have to read this for school, so instead of reading the 400 pages in my busy week, I thought reading it during my vacation would be ideal! I have heard nothing but great reviews for this book so I am very excited to get into it! This is a dystopian novel written in 1948, and it is what George Orwell imagines the world being in 1948. 

2) Eleanor & Park - Rainbow Rowell 

I have started reading this forever ago and never managed to finish it! So, I definitely will this summer! This is a contemporary about a girl named Eleanor and a boy names Park that fall in love and their many complications with the relationship.

3) The Rvenge of Seven - Pittacus Lore

This is the 5th book in one of my favorite series, I am Number Four. I haven't managed to start it yet but am super excited! I would give a sinopses, but that would involve spoilers!

You will hear more about all these books in either reviews I will do or if I do a wrap up!

xx,

Leticia

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San Andreas Movie Review

Hey guys!

I just came back from watching the new movie called San Andreas, featuring Dwayne Johnson and Alexandra Daddario. I thought I would review it here for you guys. :)

MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD

I think I should just sum up the movie and then get more into it, so here it goes: The movie is about this huge earthquake that hit the whole of California because of tectonic plates and geography shit that I can't be bothered to talk about outside of school. This geographer (is that a thing?) called Lawrence had made a new discovery about how to tell when an earthquake is about to hit, but was too late to get a message across. Meanwhile, Ray is a very successful fireman who recently got divorced with his ex-wife Emma which is about to move in with her new boyfriend, Daniel. Ray and Emma had two girls together Mallory (which recently died drowning, which is something they are all trying to cope with) and Blake, a super open and friendly young lady. The movie is about this wholes town (but in specific this family's) experience with this terrifying earthquake that ruined everything. 

Characters:

The whole family situation I found super typical, I had sworn that I had heard the same story fifty times. Ray is exactly how a strong father should be, and of course he blames the death of Mallory on himself. All the characters where exactly how you would expect them to be, so not much to say about this. The characters could be greatly improved. 

Graphics and Quality:

This part was absolutely insane. Everything was exploding with so much detail and the quality was insane. The camera angels where amazing and nothing looked at all artificial. They had a lot of underwater shots that where extremely impressive, and also a lot of smoke filled shots that didn't bother me. I feel like a lot of movies the camera angeles change every five seconds, but this wasn't the case for this movie, so i applaud them for the graphics and quality. 

Plot(ish):

I though a lot of what was going on very predictable. I was sitting next to my friend and I would just guess what was going to happen and usually got it right. For example, the whole movie Ray was just saving everyone including Emma and Blake, and even though they had set backs, everything ended up perfectly in their favor. In the end when Blake was almost dying, it was so obvious she wouldn't. Also, a pattern started to repeat which I find dangerous in an action movie, because it could turn the movie very boring. Every time everything was going smoothly, there would be either a tsunami or and earthquake, and this happened every time. So the plot was very repetitive and predictable. 

Coherence: 

This part had some serious issues. In the beginning, Blake gets her legs trapped under a cart seat with a huge part of ciment holding it in place. When she finally got rescued, she started running immediately after. Also to do with people being hurt, Ben also hurt his leg very severely (there had been a huge piece of glass inside, which was removed by Blake, which is also pretty weird), he was struggling in the beginning but after like 20 min he grabbed Ollie on his back and ran up stairs. Also in the beginning, Emma was in the middle of a falling building and when she fell, got smashed by what looked like five different stories of ciment, then all of a sudden got up and started kicking some serious ass, with just a few scratches. She also proceeded to climb a lot of the ciment with more ciment falling behind her, IN HEELS. Like seriously, we can barely walk in heels. I also find it weird that none of characters ate during the whole movie, just saying. Oh and what the heck all of these characters can like breathe under water or something.

Huge Coincidences:

This happens in every movie but honestly, people need to talk about it more. Oh how convenient that Blake decides to sit next to an extremely attractive british architect with a brother that happens to like her too. Oh how convenient that when Ray and Emma jump of a plane they land exactly inside a huge baseball stadium where they could land safely.  Oh how convenient that every other skyscraper in California falls except the one Lawrence is in. Oh how convenient that after literally been hit my a tsunami twice, the flashlight once in Blake's pocket is still there.

Overall:

I did enjoy this movie and would recommend it, but could be greatly improved.

xx,

Leticia

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