"Leave the World Behind" film

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Anonymous wrote:How is this movie THIS bad? (Leave the World Behind). I just about gave up in the opening scene when Julia Roberts is standing by a window, the camera zooms in on her aggressively to the point where you can see the pores on her nose, and she's like, "I hate this world" and I'm like WTF who made this s**t.

Which is too bad because apocalypse films are my favorite, because I do in fact hate everything about late stage capitalism.

Can someone watch the rest of this dumb movie and tell me if it's worth the rest of my Friday night.

It was HORRIBLE, bad, terrible, sad, depressing, cynical, had both overt and subtle American messages ("make as many enemies as we have" when referring to North Korea), boring, and overall leaves you with an ick feeling after... Oh and of course the requisite/elitist snobby vocabulary ALL of the characters used (vs just one character). (Oh and Netflix advertising Friends ad nauseam. "nostalgia for a time that never really existed")


Overall theme - humans are terrible, especially American humans.

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Anonymous wrote:I will watch anything Ali is in; he’s such a good actor. I’ve loved him since House of Cards.

I thought Ethan Hawke did a great job too. I wish there had been more Kevin Bacon. I liked the movie.

Kevin Bacon is such a good blue collar character.

When the $hit goes down, those are the kind of people who survive. Like Daryl Dixon. I was shocked he wasn’t at the neighbors already (where the daughter went).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The book made me say WTF. I can’t believe how long the movie was, and it was better than the book. It’s an eerie movie. The casting of the kids felt weird.

They looked like kids of billionaire investors..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t waste your 2 hrs and 18 minutes

Yeah it was too long. The only cool scene is the beach scene. Literally.

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Anonymous wrote:The book made me say WTF. I can’t believe how long the movie was, and it was better than the book. It’s an eerie movie. The casting of the kids felt weird.

I looked up the girl because that had to be nepotism. Yep.

Julia Roberts sucks. She was just ok when younger in vapid movies. She has not grown into an actress. She’s just tired looking and ruined the movie.

I think it's more like she really needed the paycheck (do these spend all their money as soon as it flows in?) and phoned it in for this role. It's so clear that she did not give a f**k and only joined this movie for the paycheck.

Now compare that to how Julia Roberts performed as the evil stepmother in "Mirror Mirror" (the only live action Snow White movie I've ever liked). She ROCKED that role. Best evil stepmother of Snow White ever, IMO. Of course, that could also be because of the writing, the script and the direction. All three of which were complete trash in this movie.

I think in her mind she's helping to educate the ignorant masses in a thought provoking role.

[Anonymous]

The fact this movie has triggered such passionate reactions proves it was worth watching. We Americans always want the happy endings. Well, that’s not always realistic. It’s a movie about the end….the end of what exactly, we don’t know. It was thought-provoking and left us with a sense of unease. That was the whole point.

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I read the book last year and really liked it. It was one of the best books I read all year, so I was both excited for and apprehensive of the movie. I read a bunch of negative reviews last Friday but then watched it myself on saturday and... I enjoyed it. I went in knowing that it was different from the book so that helped. yes, the acting was clunky. But I like any relatively decent portrayal of world-ending that seems realistic. I do think that when the $hit hits the fan, it will start small, like our cell phones not working, and we'll all think it's temporary. The great part of the book is that it goes much deeper into the characters' journeys of processing the fact that this is indeed a big bad deal. But yeah, I could've done with a different ending. Even just the music at the end was like WTF?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The fact this movie has triggered such passionate reactions proves it was worth watching. We Americans always want the happy endings. Well, that’s not always realistic. It’s a movie about the end….the end of what exactly, we don’t know. It was thought-provoking and left us with a sense of unease. That was the whole point.

Yes thank goodness for Julia Roberts. Without movies like this we'd all be so unintellectual...

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Anonymous wrote:I read the book last year and really liked it. It was one of the best books I read all year, so I was both excited for and apprehensive of the movie. I read a bunch of negative reviews last Friday but then watched it myself on saturday and... I enjoyed it. I went in knowing that it was different from the book so that helped. yes, the acting was clunky. But I like any relatively decent portrayal of world-ending that seems realistic. I do think that when the $hit hits the fan, it will start small, like our cell phones not working, and we'll all think it's temporary. The great part of the book is that it goes much deeper into the characters' journeys of processing the fact that this is indeed a big bad deal. But yeah, I could've done with a different ending. Even just the music at the end was like WTF?

Were they all so hyper intellectual in the book?

[Anonymous]

Julia is not a good actress. I just rewatched Steel Magnolias and she is painful to watch in that.

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I won't watch the movie because the book ruined me. I hated thinking about how my family would handle a similar situation but maybe that's the point. I don't think it's far off.

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Needed a happy ending.

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Anonymous wrote:I will watch anything Ali is in; he’s such a good actor. I’ve loved him since House of Cards.

I thought Ethan Hawke did a great job too. I wish there had been more Kevin Bacon. I liked the movie.

Kevin Bacon is such a good blue collar character.

When the $hit goes down, those are the kind of people who survive. Like Daryl Dixon. I was shocked he wasn’t at the neighbors already (where the daughter went).

PP here who pointed out that Ali’s wife, not daughter, was in the book. Kevin Bacon is the contractor, huh? Wasn’t he Latino in the book? Not that every character has to match. I’m open to white characters in books not being white in movies, so I need to think on whether going the other way is a big deal in this movie. In any case, they are interesting choices coming from the Obamas’ production company. (And I love the Obamas.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Needed a happy ending.

Why? That's not realistic.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I will watch anything Ali is in; he’s such a good actor. I’ve loved him since House of Cards.

I thought Ethan Hawke did a great job too. I wish there had been more Kevin Bacon. I liked the movie.

Kevin Bacon is such a good blue collar character.

When the $hit goes down, those are the kind of people who survive. Like Daryl Dixon. I was shocked he wasn’t at the neighbors already (where the daughter went).

I mean, sure, but also the rich folks who live farther out and happen to have access to a fully equipped survival bunker.