My wife and i watched this. It had many failed opportunities to make points. Was a boring, lousy movie so far much that i dozed through part of it.
(e.g., you can’t hit a beach on Long Island on a hot summer day where there is not a crowd).
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There is a 1941 movie called The Devil and Miss Jones where one scene takes place on a coney island beach and the people covered every square inch of the beach. I did not think that was real so I did a search for a photo of the beach in 1941 and discovered it was in fact possible as you could not see the sand for the people.
I thought Kevin Bacon was in this movie?....................
I watched the movie not knowing anything about it, it was incredibly poorly made and written.
Ethan Hawke was terrible and never managed to fit into the movie, Julia Roberts was good and the teen boy gave an impression he could act if the right film showed up, the black girl gave the same impression, she was unlikable in this film but she showed talent, nothing made any sense at anytime, anywhere in the film, it was just bits and pieces that didn’t fit.
Random pieces that never fit, never made sense, and everything was incoherent like a committee was taking turns writing and directing, no pay-off, no explanations, contradictory directions and scenes, and plenty of woke and subtle and overt anti-white racism.
Watched it this morning. The “don’t trust white people” is just the flip side of Scott Adams’ “there is no fixing this.” I had no problem with it.
Dan Bongino talked like it was the scariest thing he had ever seen. There was nothing new in it if you have any familiarity with SHTF and what comes next.
It had high production values, decent dialog, reasonable character development. The end worked for me though it seems to bother some people. Life will go on for the survivors.
When all is said and done, it’s just a movie.
Right. The movie was over and didn’t explain whether was it an attack. Or was it an alien invasion? How did the elites know it was coming?
Thank you. Christmas vacation, its a wonderful life, a christmas story, jingle all the way, Christmas with the cranks, the grinch, and I’m sure I can find my copy of diehard to watch instead.
In short the waste of a good cast, but they got paid.
“[on Jaws: The Revenge (1987)] I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built, and it is terrific.” - Michael Caine
I intend on watching it, I like post apocalyptical stories so I am disappointed you gave it a C.
Figured it was a turd that would drop from Obama’s butt, but I will give it a chance.
Does anyone know what the Spanish woman was wailing about?
I watched it too last night and agree with many of your points...especially the stupid music. I didn’t get “the flood” either..maybe it was a metaphor?
To be honest I didn’t hear or notice the white people line. I know Julia Roberts was supposed to be racist but as you pointed out in that situation she was just being mostly reasonable.
The Tesla thing bugged me because it was obvious (at least to me) that it was meant to diminsh people or scare people about Teslas...and that’s because we KNOW they have a score to settle (and many scores to come) with Musk.
The animal thing was never really addressed either...why they were acting weird. Are we supposed to think that nature was being THAT affected by what was going on?
The producers certainly knew about the upcoming federal action on this and exploited it or invented it.
Julia Roberts and Ethan Hawke were whiny little girls.
Big Mike wanted it this way so Netflix did it.
Filled with overt and covert racial and idealogical messages. Here’s what I got:
*Junior Racist black teen who flatly dislikes, distrusts, and sees the worst in whitey.
* White dad who doesn’t have a clue and is the last to catch on to everything. Cliche, but Hawke plays it pitch perfect.
* White “Karen” who is the mom; she’s both the manager and the first person who would demand to see a manager
*Tanker runs ashore, named after first slave ship “White Lion”
* Clocks and mugs read 666 in whitey room
* Radio station set to 1619 (slave ship year)
* Blacks relegated to wooden basement, looks like below deck of ship
* Whites usurp black home, live above level with sea painting subliminal that keeps changing as chaos grows
* white Teslas crashing
* House is White (White House) black family no longer lives there, but owns it (still controls operation of White House)
* White prepper seen as new enemy in post apocalypse, simply because he’s thought ahead to this, but viewed as greedy bad dude for not contributing health care to the obtuse white dad and his boy
* White kid teeth fall out, showing loss of financial and social security (my own opinion! Losing teeth in dreams... )
* Deer is “nature”, judging man for encroachment...climate statement.
* Flood waters at our door scene, but man tries to shut it out and turn his back on it.
* Latest addition to guy’s music collection has crude lyrics, common to where we’re at now, culturally
* Young girl says “fck” in front of adults without hesitation, just rolls off her lips.
* Spanish speaking only immigrant tries desperately to get help from white man, to no avail.
* Straw bedding on floor, where someone was sleeping in grape wood Shack, indicative of slave quarters.
* Black and white painting keeps changing throughout movie, until it becomes more gray, showing equality among races, since everyone is now screwed at an equal level.
You want to watch a real horror story, watch World War II: From The Frontlines.
There’s speculation here about the nature of the attack... EMP? Aliens? Cyber?
My analysis is that it came in three parts, but the culprit is not 100% clear.
However, it came in three waves:
1) Cyber attack, affecting planes, ships, newer autos, grids - but not everywhere.
2) Disinformation triggering societal distrust, especially among Muslims and Asians. In desperate, scared times, they’d be the first shot with questions asked later (or never). Easy to identify, easier to hate.
3) Nuclear/radiological attack in major cities with sonic or microwave weaponry.
In this fictional scenario, who would be most likely to launch this unconventional warfare, causing internal division and destruction from within - and against Asians and, presumably, Asian/Middle Eastern Muslims?
Is there a predictive programming message being sent or is it just good, old fashioned fun?
It’s been proven yet again that obama would probably have benefitted by turning the task of writing over to bill ayers; for the third or fourth time.
FR movie review! What a great idea. BTT for now.
Thank you for the review.
A co-worker was raving about it to me yesterday.
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