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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[/quote]

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.  [/quote]

THIS.  Don’t forget:  “Never trust white people.”  🤮[/quote]

You must not have finished the movie. It is a natural suspicion on the home owners part but Julia Roberts' character ends up protecting the young girl in the end, the white neighbor barters, the homeowner lays it down for the renter's son to form an alliance. None of them should have been naturally trusting or trustworthy and their conflicts stemmed from those gut feelings. The beauty of the movie was the characters working through it internally and externally. They go from "people suck" to "we need people". It was a hopeful turn in the most bleak setting. 
As far as the vocabulary of the characters, it was refreshing! Most people have much bigger vocabularies than the typical movie script.[/quote]
Forgot to mention Ethan Hawk also steps into the line of fire to reach the settlement for meds. Just because you don't like their initial reactions to each other doesn't mean they were cast as stereotypes.[/quote]

DP.  I guess I'm wondering who it is you're responding to because none of the above posters have said anything about stereotypes.  [/quote]
The poster saying white people were not to be trusted as in that was a message from the movie. No, it was a sentiment of one character who clearly had her view disproven so painting the movie as discriminatory is incorrect. [/quote]

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