Filter to 1-star and note how many reviews are direct copies of each other - many referencing that the Obamas are executive producers.
Filter to 1-star and note how many reviews are direct copies of each other - many referencing that the Obamas are executive producers.
I saw it, didn’t know who produced or directed it
Don’t watch it, It had potential, I loved the main actors, but it sucked badly. Fair warning: possible spoilers below.
The music score is way too loud, and annoyingly weird. For example, rap music in a supposed suspense thriller movie at points that made no sense, then some romantic “there’s about to be sweet sex” music while somebody walks through a house, exploring it. It was annoying when I watched it, we then had it on as background noise to hide sex sounds and had to turn it off because it was so damned annoying.
The story literally goes nowhere, yet is all over the place. The ending leaves loads of opened threads unfinished, and it’s quite obvious that the writer(s) heard “cool” things yet failed to grasp the basics.
The microwave emitters they were talking about have ranges up to hundreds of meters, not the hundreds of square kilometers required to reach them in the middle of nowhere.
The airplane crashing was supposed to be cool but one had already crashed many hours before, why was this one still in the air? Also, you can’t really “hack” airplanes to go down, pilots can easily take over.
The Tesla’s famously can’t drive themselves like they do in the movie
The kid would get acute radiation sickness from those microwave attacks? Oh come on. And then the rest of them are unaffected, somehow? And then they go get medicine? What medicine? The kid as shown is dying an agonizing death within two weeks, you can get him painkillers, perhaps.
What the fuck was up with the deer? What was that supposed to do? You could cut all the scenes and nothing would change.
What’s up with the girls addiction to friends? It literally ends the movie somewhere in the middle or something because so many questions are left, so many threads opened that aren’t brought to a satisfying conclusion.
The writers had a cool idea yet had no idea what to do with it. 1.5 stars out of 5, it was a waste of my time
Its a movie, not a documentary. Part of that is suspension of belief. Did you also not like that batman movie where they used the microwave device?
The ending is very tipically post-modern.
Yeah keep an open mind but not so open that your brain falls out.
I have no issues with suspension of disbelief, I watch star trek (only the non trash classic ones from 20-30 years ago) and it sets up it’s rules within that universe and tries following them. This movie just went all over the place without any rules, it made no sense and then at one point you simply can’t suspend disbelief anymore.
What the hell was it with the deer?
The ending was shit, whatever you want to call it. Half the plot threads were still open, but now the girl finally gets to watch her friends episode which she wanted and that somehow is an ending? Wtf?
What was with the different flyers being thrown around? Like they opened threads left and right and then… Did nothing with it.
All that together still would have made a mediocre movie that had so much more potential, but the music, dear god, it was invasive and intrusive and even an annoyance when it was on in the background.
I think what we are seeing is cinema catching up to the abserdity of the current era. There are a few other recent films that do this that I really enjoyed, The Menu and White Noise.
Its also “suspension of belief.” “Suspension of disbelief” is funny though, and sort of fits.
Ethan Hawk’s character says “oh deer. In mezoamerica deer were a sign of good luck” (paraphrased). But as you’ve noted, we are breaking the rules. The deer as a symbol don’t represent what they have traditionally/in the past. I think its nod to how many factions in our current culture are outright trying to bend language/tradition for their own benifit and to the detriment of others.
The little girl is the viewer, is you, is all of us finding comfort in media and comfort in fantasy/things that don’t actually exist, even while the world is literally falling apart. She’s also a child and i s relatively without the agency to change things, as you and I are in the current geopolitical climate, and rather than try and gain agency to maybe save herself/family, she burrows into the thing that will give her immediate gratification.
Its misinformation. Somehwrre else the writing was Chinese. Its whatever the current boogyman is.
Yes the point was to make it uncomfortable.
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