People think Taylor Swift wrote a movie. It's SO BAD.

I watched (and read) Argylle, a movie based on a book that people think was written by Taylor Swift. I want my money back.

[MagicalGirlFia]

Saw a poster for the movie where the cat was front and central. When I looked up the book/movie and found out that it was not about a secret cat spy named Argyle I completely lost interest.

[Jabadamazo]

Conspiracy Theory: The "book" was just marketing for the movie, especially given the plot of the movie being about the author of the book, but then they leaned into the publicity stunt a little too hard, people started to actually demand the book in droves, and they had to drum up some ghostwriters to slap it together to appease people, which is why it kept getting delayed and there's clearly no actual Elly.

Edit: Made this comment before I finished the video. This is literally what happened lol.

[Ramblin_Dan]

Sounds like a British writer's room started the book, and AI finished it.

[MoaisNotmyname]

What annoys me even more than the lack of quality in both book and movie is that they spent so much money on the marketing and still FAILED at it!
If they had released the book first as a regular fun spy thriller, and then based the movie on the author of the book and the adventures she gets into BECAUSE she wrote the book it would have been so much more interesting.

That way it’d blur the line between fiction and reality, the book Argyle would exist both irl and in the movie, and it’d be so damn easy to have a fake social media account as the author making posts about where she got the inspiration, they could even have left little clues in those posts. Imagine a person appearing in the background in several of the author’s selfies, and they turn out to be one of the ”real” spies in the movie.

I genuinly don’t understand why they went about it in the way they did. Such a wasted potential.

[HoodieHorizon]

i remember seeing exactly 1 trailer for this movie, thinking "hm that looks interesting" and then never thought about or heard about it ever until this video

[monicag_]

17:52 "Her surgically lifted breasts hover in front of her chest like a toddler's strapped on flotation device" ???? what the actual fuck 😭😭

[cynicalmoose]

As a Canadian, "dicking around" is 100% something we also say, but "dicking about" is definitely british

[DiamondDogVenomSnake]

The trailers we saw in theatres for this were so well edited, it seems the better the trailer the worse the movie is lately.

[PeggyLuWho]

"You must have gone to spy school at DeVry University." I am deceased.

[wilburmaldonado]

seeing d’angelo’s clothing style evolve in to something he’s truly happy with has inspired me more than i realised and it just clicked today. wearing bolder and more colourful outfits has improved my mental health and helped me become more confident in myself as a person, and that didn’t really start until a little after i saw him do the same. my fiance as well was a huge help, encouraging me to get clothing that made me happy and not just what i thought people wanted me to look like. i’m excited to pick outfits now, and i hope everyone is able to get to that same point one day

[wirradaisy]

This is why I read fanfic. If it’s bad, it’s just something someone wrote on the internet for fun, no harm done. If it’s good, someone wrote it on the internet for fun and I got to read and enjoy it for free!

[Walternatum]

Wonder if the book is AI generated and that's the reveal we'll get in time, would explain the repetitive descriptions, the American/british mix-ups and unoriginal story

[aliveasalways]

Hollywood would jump through any firey hoops to get the publicity of a film to blow up, but will do nothing to actually ensure said film is worth watching.

[goblinhunt]

"no need to introduce me it's like introducing the sun I'm hot and everything revolves around me" okay uh, subscribed

[Wiredoomed]

8:01 I DID NOT EXPECT A DANGANRONPA CLASS TRIAL HERE... 😭

[sagecorduroy]

just now realizing Argylle isn’t the name of the cat

[abbywolffe]

Matthew Vaughn saying that a random ghost-written book "reinvented the spy genre" is so funny when he's literally the man who low-key did reinvent the spy genre in one of his movies

[kravenscroft]

this is so disappointing because i saw an ad for this when i went to see saltburn, and although the concept is stupid and it’s not a movie i would enjoy, i remember being excited to see a NEW IP and not a remake or a throwback. This was literally like the ONLY AD that day in the movies that was an original IP.

[averyeml]

I love that their first conclusion is “Taylor Swift wrote this” instead of “a Swiftie wrote this” which is MUCH more possible

[accountnotinuse_]

Respect to D’Angelo for subtitles. You never see that from big channels. As someone who’s half deaf, thank you