LoveHard

For Christmas, I have decided to watch some terrible Christmas films. I love a bad Christmas film, the cheesier the better, and streaming services mean I can watch all the Hallmark-style ones I want.
 
We’re kicking off Christmas week with Netflix’s new holiday film LoveHard; I did not expect this film to be bad, the trailer made it look great! But this film was frustrating beyond belief.
 
This is all to do with the main character, Natalie, played by Nina Dobrev. I don’t know how, but I always end up hating every character she plays – they are all self-involved, hypocritical, and always manage to make themselves the victim – and this film is no different.
 
I think this is the first time I have watched a rom-com and haven’t wanted the two main characters to end up together. Natalie is awful to Josh (played by Jimmy O. Yang) and manages to completely contradict herself throughout the whole movie. Their relationship starts with her saying she hates Love Actually because everyone in that movie is superficial and only fall in love based on looks (which I completely disagree with by the way), only for her to drop Josh and pursue Tag (Darren Barnett) based entirely on how each of the men look.
 
Now, I do agree with how angry she gets at Josh catfishing her by using Tag’s photo, and I love that they manage to help him get over his insecurities. But during this process he is helping her completely change her personality so that Tag will date her, even though she hates every single thing that he is into.
 
She catfishes Tag, in a worse way than Josh catfishes her! Then gets annoyed when Tag finds out! Only to completely humiliate Josh in the process!
 
So, whilst the acting may not be bad, and the storyline may be fun (and it opens up a larger conversation on catfishing and modern dating), I hated watching this movie. If they removed Natalie I think I may enjoy it more.