Lara Jean and Peter’s First Kiss

As much as I love the movie adaptation of To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, I will forever be bitter that they switched the first kiss she had with Peter in the book to the one she had with John Ambrose in the book in the movie.

The book version, it’s a lot more deliberate on Peter’s part and would make that line about the kiss being pretty hot for the 7th grade make so much more sense because it wasn’t a kiss in a game of spin the bottle, it was a kiss where he looked over to her and couldn’t help the feels bubbling inside if him and he kissed her. Though we already knew he always thought she was beautiful but that conveys it in a much better way than a simple peck on the lips while everyone is watching.

The movie did a great job of translating the book to film which was honestly surprising to me since the book is in first person and when films adapt books like these they tend to be over saturated with voice over and usually in an annoying way that explains the exposition rather than show me it. Anyway, my point is I have no real issue with the movie, but I feel kinda of robbed of their first actual kiss because it was so much more intimate, explains their relationship a bit more, and makes Gen seem a lot less ridiculous (even though she was still being ridiculous in the book).