Bird box (SPOILERS)

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Were her eyes affected at the end? Or was I just seeing things?

As we are doing spoilers I just wanted to point out that I said all along the blind people would save the day!

XmasPostman I kept saying to my DH as we were watching it, why don’t they just blind themselves?!

I was so stressed watching it hahaha I get majorly sucked into these type of films hahaha

I really enjoyed it. I can suspend my disbelief for things that could happen, even if they’re far fetched, like the rapids bit.

This is my favourite genre though!

I thought it was good

But i prefered the book

As far as I remember she was alone a little longer in the book, the ending was definitely bleaker and there wasnt the forest bit or gangs of insane people...but its been a while since i read it

But overall i 'enjoyed' it

I found this so exciting and moving. Was riveted for the whole film. I love Sandra Bullock - especially when she plays an intense introvert with not-always-likeable characteristics.

I bought the book to read waiting for dh in a waterstones cafe

I had to text him to say

DO NOT come up behind me!

Just watched it and really enjoyed it! Love a tense thriller.

Agree The Road is better, but this is still very good. I watched The Road when I was pregnant with my first, 8 years ago, and wept for ages after!

As far as I remember she was alone a little longer in the book

She was. She and Tom never hooked up in the book, he died when Gary killed everyone and she was left to raise the kids alone.

hulks

Thats what i said to dh

Ive a dreadful habit of hedging my bets on here...i should have the courage of my convictions!!

Really enjoyed it. Was different to other films and I loved the positive ending.

I think someone mentioned "a quiet place," upthread, watched it last night. Don't bother. It's dire

I enjoyed it and liked John Malkovich - but pretty much like him in anything these days

Found it tense and glad the ending was happy

I really liked it. Not scary but creepy. I was very disturbed by the book when I read it two years ago, it is far far darker than the film.

It's been awhile since I read the book, but if I remember correctly she physically hurts them (hard pinches and slaps) if they disobey her.

Yes, and she trains them from birth to have super hearing so they can guide her on the river. That was downplayed a bit in the film.

Did she teach them how to swim I wonder? They handled the rapids pretty well.

I'm coming to this a bit late but here are the things that bothered me.

The rapids, it would have been more believable if she had them in life vests. Given they are by a river it would have been fairly easy to find so e sort of floatation devices for them.

The birds would never have survived the rapids.

All the indoor people would have had vitamin d deficiency.

The children would have had some severe issues. I've seen what happens to children who aren't socialized. They wouldn't just want to run off and play at the end. They would be shocked to see so many other humans.

Having said all that, and despite hating Sandra, I massively enjoyed the film. It gave me very messed up dreams.

Just watched this. Quite enjoyed it. Did comment when she was banging on to the kids about not looking that shes bound to poke their eyes out now to save any hassle and I thought about the people being blind before she got to them.

Agree about John malkovich just being a bit meh when his wife is killed.

Motherhood is tough enough withoit doing it a) blindfolded and b) running from scary beasties.