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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]

What?  I watched the entire movie, and still think that line ("never trust white people") was garbage.  The Amanda and Clay characters didn't trust George and his daughter at first, and for good reason - not because they were black, but because they were total strangers claiming they owned the house and needed to stay there with them.  I honestly wouldn't have let anyone into the house who just showed up like that - regardless of what color they were.  But clearly, the daughter thinks Amanda's rudeness is due to the fact that she and George are black.  [/quote]

Well I guess Ali's character could have forcibly removed the family from the house. It's not like they could call and complain now could they. Also, Ali was the only one with access to a firearm to make his point. It was abundantly clear he was the homeowner. He knew both Julia's first and last name, he had access to the liquor cabinet, and he knew the layout of the house. If it was me, once they left the house to go back to the city, Roberts' family would have been sleeping in the basement. [/quote]
Dp
I was putting myself in different characters shoes too. I would have been suspicious until he showed up with keys and the knowledge of her name and their emails. If I was him, I'd have been more forthcoming about why I returned but he actually did tell her what/why the next day. If I was the daughter I would have not trusted what Julia Roberts' character and her prickly personality was capable of and resentful she didn't leave and stay away (so nothing different). I would have been less hospitable on their return BUT look where that would have gotten them as Julia's character protected the girl and their little girl ended up finding the jackpot bunker. I don't know if in reality that it pays to trust/not trust others but my tendencies would have been either extreme of over protective Kevin Bacon or floundering Ethan Hawk.[/quote]

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