Leave the World behind with Julia Roberts, any good?

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

Dull
Too long
Dull

Those who read the book.
Is the daughter THAT annoying even in the book?

Really irritating why didn’t the power and water go off? Why do they al keep wandering around losing each other why couldn’t he drive into town instead of just driving around randomly. Stupid people all of them.

'Don't look up 'was good, this was just dull

I hate films that don't have a proper ending.
Pretentious ass hat film makers think it's 'artistic'
"We'll leave the ending up to the viewers interpretation...."

Yeah, great well done...
Stories are meant to have a beginning, a middle and an end.

'once upon a time in a land far far away, a beautiful princess was cursed by a wicked witch. She lay in a death like sleep for decades until one day, a prince kissed her and she...' The End.

And She What? Woke up? Met some miners? Played with the forest creatures? Realised the Prince was gaslighting idle abusive twat and she had to leave but she felt beholden to him for waking her?

I hate it when things are just going along, like they're building to some big point, and then they suddenly just

Mixed feelings about it but I did think Julia Roberts was great in it.

I liked the ending. No one listens to her and something that was important to her was dismissed by others, this was her having a tiny bit of freedom and finding a utopia all for herself.

Also when Julia Roberts said something along the lines of “why are you trying so hard to believe everyone else and side with everyone else except your wife” really hit hard.

I really liked it (and also liked the book). The ending was ambiguous because if that happened in RL things would be ambiguous wouldn't they, until whatever was happening began to happen directly to you. And you wouldn't know what that was or when it was coming.

Stories are meant to have a beginning, a middle and an end.

In key stage 2 literacy sure; for adult fiction I like to think writers and filmmakers can have a little more artistic flexibility, life could get boring pretty fast otherwise...

Without satnav he was useless - he got lost.

I assume that even with communications down, water and power plants would have emergency systems that keep them going for a while.
These events were only a few days in, weren't they? Even in Gaza and Ukraine they have water and power even intermittently.

I thought it was rubbish - I fell asleep whilst watching on Saturday night so had to rewind to what I could remember on Sunday and watch the rest. Maybe I wasn't concentrating hard enough on it but I didn't get it at all and certainly not the ending. I will admit to preferring fluffy romcom type films or things like Mission Impossible which don't take much brain power to figure out.

Yeah, I liked that the characters didn't know what was happening and in that situation we wouldn't either. It would have been a very different movie if they were in the city.
The kids particularly are still focussed on their immediate world - one of my children would have been exactly the same, just trying to find a working screen

It's good, but the ending was weird

Boring as anything. Had to keep fast forwarding. Ending is Shit. Book is meant to be much better and with a better ending.

I think people are looking for an explanation in the ending when actually it is just - war is confusing and civilians on the ground won't know what is happening and just need to focus on their immediate needs.
Your average person isn't going to understand the geo-politcial context or even know who the enemy is. The family might survive in the bunker or maybe microwave weapons and radiation is going to kill them slowly anyway.

It's sort of a moral tale, black and white families thrown together in what looks like might be an apocalypse don't trust each other initially but have to in order to survive, 'we have to work together', plays out to the theme tune from Friends tells you everything. But we don't know if they did survive or not, room for a sequel maybe?

Not a bad film but not a must see, I haven't read the book, but books are usually better than the films

Don't waste your time on this. Agree the ending is rubbish.

Hated it.

Felt like I wasted 2 hours of my life watching it and was just willing it to end because it was so bloody boring 😴😴😴

As many others have said too, the endings a big shitty disappointment.

I think we only stuck with it to see what was going on or if there were any kind of explanation for the cars etc

It’s very good OP, lots of subtleties that will go over many peoples heads, if you’re that type that likes an obvious conclusion then you may not understand the nuances. It’s definitely not Pretty Woman.

Worth a watch. But, it felt like the beginning of a story. The set up. The middle and end were missing.

I didn't mind the end or not having explanations served to me. Lots of mainland european movies/series are like that, if not all. You connect the dots. I like "aha!" moments.

I did not enjoy some of the characters at all tbh and it kind of ruined it for me.

I was enjoying it and then it just ended. But isn't that the problem with all dystopia films and books. They all start great - first signs of trouble, normal life starting to break down - but how do you end it? The main protagonists either die or live very bleak lives, usually.

I liked the ending. We were seeing destruction from a different point of view to usual.