Leave The World Behind | Netflix

rp2000 said:
7/10 - usual Netflix fare, loads of advertising, big actors (big $$$) and the output is a film you will probably never watch again, let alone remember existed in 12 months Could have told the same story without the 4 "big" name actors as well.
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I’d agree with this. I did enjoy it, thought it was nicely made. Good performances, tension, camerawork. The bit with the cars on the freeway was original and nicely done. It’s a slow burn but that’s kinda the point. No “omg apocalypse boom now it’s straight to our bunker” or start shooting the **** out of your neighbours.
 
i thought this was a good watch to be honest, also like the fact that it didn't want to spoon feed the "wider story" at any time. The ending was quick, but i thought was effective
 
I liked it, thing is was what its like when all communication is lost, you don't actually get to figure anything out or what really happened etc, its told from that view point and the paranoia that circles around it all.
 
Watched this on a flight so didnt lose any real time, as it was a bit of a waste.

Liked the suspense around working out of the ‘owners’ were real or not, I didn’t know which way the film was going. It started out being about a family who looked like they were going to be conned/scammed or whatever, I took the end of the world bits as a red Herron. When it did turn out that way, it was a very underwhelming. Felt like that was the first half of the movie (plot wise).
 
cu3ed said:
I liked it, thing is was what its like when all communication is lost, you don't actually get to figure anything out or what really happened etc, its told from that view point and the paranoia that circles around it all.
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Indeed. I don't think people quite realise how ****ed we'd be without modern communication, if something like this kicks off.
 
The characters spoiled this for me, I liked George and the son was ok, but I found every other character intensely annoying and irritating and as a result I really didnt care what happened to them, spent the majority of the film just wanting them to kick the bucket so that I didnt have to listen to them any longer.
 
Watched this last night, anyone know when they're going to release the ending? :rolleyes:

Started off OK, as others have said, building suspense when nobody knows what's going on, but seems like they got bored or ran out of ideas half way through and just though "**** it" and rushed the ending.

Quite a few glaring plot holes:

what was the point in that bug thing that bit the son? They needed some excuse for the dads to go meet Kev Bacon sure, but he could just as easily (and far more believably) just have fallen and broken his leg or something, rather than some random and unrealistic bug bite causing his teeth to fall out.

a cyber attack causing deer to start behaving strangely, herding and approaching humans... within 24 hours... really?

Guessing they decided to add things like the above to make "the event" seem more mysterious than it actually was (assuming a cyber attack), when they should have just focused on making the breakdown of society the focus, and done a good job of that instead of 30 seconds of a Spanish woman shouting and 5 minutes of Bacon waving a gun around before becoming a friendly neighbour again.

Not the first Netflix disaster/apocalypse movie where the ending has been missing (struggling to remember the other one, but do remember exchanging the same "wtf" look with my other half when the credits started rolling in the middle of the story)

Edit: "How it Ends" is the one I was thinking of. I can only assume the title is exactly the question the writer was asking themself the entire time they were filming :p
 
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Yeah I wondered afterwards if I'd somehow managed to keep dropping off and thus miss crucial plot stuff.
It was a waste of a good cast.

I wouldn't recommend.
 
It had potential but 100% agree with the above plot holes. They ruined it. Also not recommended.
 
Hades said:
It had potential but 100% agree with the above plot holes. They ruined it. Also not recommended.
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I think you guys have missed the point. a lot of the drama in the film is about the sheer confusion as to what might happen in such an event where you're deprived of any information through usual sources e.g. internet, phone, TV. For example;

Yes the bug bit the son. But was it the bug that caused his teeth to fall out, or was it the radiowaves like in Cuba as KB said? We don't know, they don't know. No-one will ever know. Exactly like it could happen IRL.

I thought the first KB scene was good. They rocked up assuming he'd help. In a real war/breakdown of society there's no flags saying "ok guys, we've now hit the point where guns do the decision-making and money doesn't matter anymore. And that neighbour you thought was a friend, actually isn't anymore". That's literally the point. I can see interactions like that happening IRL if some big event like that happens. You think when there's a natural disaster like Katrina or something, there's some sort of broadcast that says "ok guys, it's all gone to hell so we've hit the point now where you can go and loot and shoot people up". No, these things are all grey areas and they happen rather naturally.

This sort of thinking from the filmmakers was flagged at the beginning when GH turns up saying it's his house. Bullock is thinking, but doesn't want to say that she doesn't believe him - because he's black. It's a very real-world interaction, lots of grey areas. I thought it was all well done.
 
Scam said:
I think you guys have missed the point. a lot of the drama in the film is about the sheer confusion as to what might happen in such an event where you're deprived of any information through usual sources e.g. internet, phone, TV. For example;

Yes the bug bit the son. But was it the bug that caused his teeth to fall out, or was it the radiowaves like in Cuba as KB said? We don't know, they don't know. No-one will ever know. Exactly like it could happen IRL.

I thought the first KB scene was good. They rocked up assuming he'd help. In a real war/breakdown of society there's no flags saying "ok guys, we've now hit the point where guns do the decision-making and money doesn't matter anymore. And that neighbour you thought was a friend, actually isn't anymore". That's literally the point. I can see interactions like that happening IRL if some big event like that happens. You think when there's a natural disaster like Katrina or something, there's some sort of broadcast that says "ok guys, it's all gone to hell so we've hit the point now where you can go and loot and shoot people up". No, these things are all grey areas and they happen rather naturally.

This sort of thinking from the filmmakers was flagged at the beginning when GH turns up saying it's his house. Bullock is thinking, but doesn't want to say that she doesn't believe him - because he's black. It's a very real-world interaction, lots of grey areas. I thought it was all well done.
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I get that side of it, it just all seemed very contrived. Like they had loads of potential "good ideas", but instead of actually thinking about how/if they would fit in and make sense, they just wrote all of them in and didn't bother trying to develop them in any way.

the shed in the woods was another one, what on earth was the point in that?
 
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