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Anonymous wrote:I really liked this movie right up until the ending. HATED the ending. What a build up to...nothing.

+1

They should have at least showed what happened to the families.

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

I agree with most criticisms of this movie, but I think this one is unfair. Many women manage to get pregnant in their 40s and I think our society is way more ageist with women than with men.

I think it’s distracting to see an over-exposed celeb like Julia who we all know is closer to 60 than 50 playing a mother to a 13 year old. Why not give her two older teens?

She’s entered the part of her career where she needs to play her age or older…not younger.

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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.

Indeed, her not wanting to let them in was racist. Didn't believe "they" could own a house like that when Julia and family were just renting it for the weekend. YOU sound like you have some issues of your own, especially your "as if" comment. PP , you sound simply dreadful.

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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:Needed a happy ending.

Not every movie gets a happy ending, sweetie. What did you think? The internet would be restored magically, Rose could watch the last episode of Friends somewhere other than a bunker? The deer and flamingoes would become friends and live peacefully together ever after?

I am shocked by the negative reviews but as another PP said, this isn't a very "deep" group. In fact it's a rather dim group.

I think it would have been better if the boy got better from the medicine and the families were reunited. They could have all been in the bunker and bonded and then come out afterwards.

DP. Use your imagination! Rose hears Amanda calling for her, so obviously we know Amanda is close by and she was heading towards the house anyway. Clay and George were heading back at the same time. Of course they’re all going to meet up there and ride out the war. Maybe they’ll survive, maybe not. But we know they’ll be safe for a good long while. Not everything has to be spelled out.

Anonymous wrote:I really liked this movie right up until the ending. HATED the ending. What a build up to...nothing.

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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.

I'm not understanding the negative reviews here. We watched it this week and liked it. Def an atypical dystopian angle. It was a little slow and too "artsy" at points. But we liked the plot and the acting. I actually loathe Julia Roberts and never understood her appeal much so she was perfect in the bit---y mom role. The other actors were fantastic, I thought. And the ending was abrupt but appropriate. The girl got what she wanted before the world "ended", so to speak. Hinting that what was coming was really, really bad and it was the kid's last happiness before that.

That's not how I interpreted that scene at all. Yes, she got closure with the last episode she had been obsessing about. But we know everyone will be fine - at least for a long while - when they all get to the bunker to ride things out.

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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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Only Christians are not of this world. It’s a dead end and only Christians see it clearly. Everything else is fiction in the end.