Leave the World behind with Julia Roberts, any good?

[galaxybeyond]

Just come across this on Netflix....any good?

It’s great. I’ve watched it twice. The ending works well.

it’s a corker if you enjoy moderately intelligent movies and are ok without every question being answered for you.

I enjoy such movies.

This wasn't one, in my opinion.

It was stupidly scripted, written & acted. The characters were one-dimensional & unbelievable. The background music was annoying AF. It wasn't remotely creepy or tense, just eye-rollingly silly.

I'm glad you like it. For me, it was one of the worst films I've ever watched.

Worth a watch. Didn't mind the ending. At least 30 mins too long though.

I thought it was a brilliantly thought-provoking film and the ending was absolutely perfect.

It actually kept me awake the night I watched it. Brilliant storytelling.

I loved it!!! Thought the ending was brilliant

Spoilers - sort of

The bombing - why?Whom? Radiation counter productive & serves no one.

Deer - warning or sinister ?

Flamingos - bizarre.

House owners no ID at all? Unlikely.

Teeth re: son - zombie, alien hybrid thought, anyone else?

So many identical self drive cars. How/why? And only them…

I really liked it. Also enjoyed reading all the conspiracy theory people takes on the symbolism in it afterwards. And speculating with DH about why the Obamas would deliberately include various conspiracy dog whistles…

The book is excellent. The film not so much but I liked it. Think the book would have been much harder to film. I actually liked the new ending .

I thought it was too long and rather boring
I list the will to live by the end and wasn't invested in the characters at all
The car thing was just weird.
Maybe the book is better ? It has good reviews

Lost rather !

I preferred the film to the book. The book had too much naval gazing and even less story.

I think the film is reasonable.

I enjoyed it. Lots of suspense and creepy bits. It's not going to win any Oscar's but it's a good watch.
I got the ending.

I loved it . Watched it twice .

Really enjoyed it - and I don’t even like dystopian/creepy movies like that

it was entertaining, had a lot going on and really really made me think!

stellar cast too - love Kevin Bacon

Enjoyed it. Might even watch it again.

I enjoyed it and thought the ending was perfect.

I also thought there was a lot of explanation towards the end of the film - GH explained exactly what was happening - so don't really get that criticism!

The whole point was that with all the communications we rely on being disrupted, the family didn't really understand what was happening at first.

REALLY good. Not your classic disaster film, but very thought provoking in terms of a major event - how would information work, how would we treat each other etc. Recommend.

found it interesting, Hitchcock-ian, a claustrophobic sort of slow burn horror. Some of it was a bit overwrought, but it is American after all. It made me think, which I liked. Definitely worthwhile.

Yes I thought it was a lot like Hitchcock. I thought it was fabulous!

My DH spent 30 minutes yesterday explaining the plot to me so I don't have to watch it.

He consumes so much streaming content that I think it's compromised his ability to be critical, sadly.

He concluded that it was "an intelligent thriller type dystopian thing with a sort of twist ending that I was sort of ok with..

So I will swerve...

Could you fill me in? I feel like I kinda get it…but also like maybe I’m missing the point?

It definitely could have been shorter without compromising anything.

Ending was terrible. Acting ok but a bit overdone.

I think there’s a couple of interpretations:

1. The negative - that all ‘kids’ nowadays care about is media and she’ll just die watching DVDs in a bunker whilst the world burns around her
2. More positively - that there was hope - represented by the bunker and by Friends along with the huge DVD library which would keep her, and hopefully others, busy for a long time. She was old enough to be ok in there for a while, even on her own.

I really liked the shelves of DVDs that mimicked the vinyl shelves seen earlier. Each generation can be really critical of the next’s entertainment and I felt like this demonstrated that perhaps the next generation would be ok.

i like that it was left open to interpretation and that the ending wasn’t tied up in a bow because life is messy and this reflected that. I’m sure there’s a lot of other stuff I missed too!

I enjoyed it and really liked the ending - it was thought-provoking rather than big explosion everyone except so and so dies the end. To me the ending represented a nostalgia for a time that never really existed. It made me think about how far we are from each of those times now - that depicted in the film and also that depicted in the television programme? I think I'll go on to read the book now.

i enjoyed it - more than Don’t Look Up mentioned in pp