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Anonymous wrote:Well, the book wasn’t that great either.

+1 I DNF and don’t have plans to watch the movie.

I thought it was realistic that a young person of color might have more distrust of white people (in 2023) than their parents. I liked that the movie addressed that.

I thought she was incredibly rude, obnoxious, and full of herself. Of course the Julia Roberts character was leery about letting two complete strangers in the house, much less letting them spend the night - her husband should have been just as concerned. Their race had nothing to do with that. I wouldn't have let two strangers in, regardless of what they looked like. And then the daughter tells her father that Clay wants to have sex with her. As if.

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Anonymous wrote:I really liked the book. It kind of makes you uneasy..I feel like the movie is achieving this..Julia Roberts has pretty much played unlikeable roles for a long time...it's her thing now.

Yes, both the book and movie have a feeling of unease. Even though it's not a horror or thriller, I had strange post apocalyptic dreams after watching.

I thought this part was pretty well done - generating a growing sense of unease but you don't really know the source. You get a real horror vibe for a good part of the movie and then it starts to become clear that it's man made events and there's a different sense of horror. I agree that the ending was unsatisfying, but it also made sense.

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Anonymous wrote:Julia is 56…too old to play the mother of a 13 year old imho…very unlikely.

Do you live in NYC or DC. There are 56-year-old mothers of 13-year-olds. all over the DMV and NYC. NBD.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, the book wasn’t that great either.

+1 I DNF and don’t have plans to watch the movie.

I thought it was realistic that a young person of color might have more distrust of white people (in 2023) than their parents. I liked that the movie addressed that.

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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 is

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Well, the book wasn’t that great either.

+1 I DNF and don’t have plans to watch the movie.

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.

Anonymous wrote:What a creepy movie. Why did they add a qr code to the map in one scene??

Anonymous wrote:The timing of this movie and Zuckerberg's bunker is funny