The One You're With

...atrocious execution.

The one you're with tell the story of a man and a woman who get stuck living together after a first date when a national state of emergency strikes. It's a concept with so much space to move, huge potential and high release date relevance. It's the kind of concept that should have made it an instant cult classic.

Unfortunately the way the female lead was written can only have someone conclude C. Bailey Werner (aka Chad Werner) has never actually spent any real, quality time with a woman. Every interaction between the characters is disingenuous in the most tedious of ways.

Characters have a tendency to change their personalities completely from scene to scene, and there are no consequences from negative interactions in previous scenes. This creates inconsistent, unrealistic characters that are impossible to relate to, and zero stakes to invest the viewer in.

The one you're with, is a movie that tries way to hard instead of just being itself. The woke jokes are clumsy or worse go completely unnoticed.

A complete waste of your time, and an insult to everyone. Give this one a miss.

Great easy watch, kind of gave me nostalgia for the early quarantine days.

I saw this on Youtube. A hidden gem. Definitely unique in style. I absolutely loved the ending but it hits close to home. And I thought it was realistic about relationships in a way that rom coms are almost never, although I'm not sure rom-com is the right description. The leads were great. And the bit parts were also great. Very romantic balanced by an almost over the top humor. And he uses the music to advance the story and set the mood so well. I don't think of this as a good independent movie; it's just a good movie and one keep watching over and over. Reminds me of another gem I found on Youtube - The First Love. A labor of love that gets dismissed as a teen romance but is so much more. This could be dismissed as a rom com but it's trying to do something more. I'm even nicer to my wife as a result.

Without spoiling anything these are my thoughts.

What I think they did well: Funny Awkward Changed up rom com formula Show how people change personality the longer they're with them.

Romance

What i think they did bad: Some of the editing cuts were a little poorly made and made the movie overall feel more unprofessional then it needed to be. Like this one scene where I think he leaves her food and she looks over and the way he jumped outta sight just seemed off.

Their were some parts I felt like the writing was a little weird and some parts I felt bored because it felt a little slow.

Overall: Honestly this movie was very refreshing and did something new and for an indie movie I was very impressed. I didn't think I'd enjoy this but I really did.

Senseless.....pretty dumb.....better off washing the dishes.