Julia Roberts & Mahershala Ali's new film a hit with Netflix

[melancolour]

Whoa! Netflix's new star-studded #LeaveTheWorldBehind flick was watched by a massive 2.6M US households over its first three days 🤯

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- Samba TV (@samba_tv) December 11, 2023
Roberts & Ali's new movie came out, and folks like it

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[melancolour]

I really love disaster movies and I've been feeling like there hasnt been a good one in ages, so was very happy with this one! It was like a more successfully achieved "dont look up" imo.

[carolinalily]

I really liked it too! Subtle but very realistic in so many ways.

I never read the book so

[Spoiler (click to open)]Amanda being a micro aggression Karen. Rose being the youngest and no one ever listening to her (me, can relate). The tanker. Doomsday menacing Danny in the grocery store parking lot. The deer at first then the deer later!! The distraught Spanish woman. And Archie’s teeth wtf! Danny pointing out the flyers in different languages were disinformation depending on where they were dropped. The evil cabal knowing how to orchestrate a coup from within (what does Obama know lol! But yeah we already saw that with J6).

Like on the one hand it was so much to take in, what direction was it going changed by each scene, but otoh it was really holding my attention and keeping me engaged.

Died from lol at the ending.

[chuckisfuckis]

I agree with you completely, especially with the end! lol

[melancolour]

[Spoiler (click to open)]Spookiest deer were the night deer imo. I jumped lmao. I liked how they played Rose a lot, I thought she was supposed to be like a writer mouthpiece when she was going on about the West Wing, but on reflection I think even that anecdote was meant to emphasize how detached from reality she was, because that story isn't originally from the West Wing. So she's not being listened to as she interprets and experiences the real world around her, but is when she's parroting pop culture. It felt like a bit of a call out of e.g. me who consumes media lol, I enjoyed it!

[Spoiler (click to open)]I really enjoyed the ways the different adults played off each other, Julia-Karen/Myha'la-Millenial, then Myha'la with Ethan Hawke and Mahershala, Julian/Mahershala was obviously great. I think Ethan / Mahershala was really only there as they talked to Kevin Bacon. I just really enjoyed all the dynamics and the tension the characters revealed in each other. Enjoyable!

I was surprised at how long the movie was, but I generally enjoyed watching from the start. :)

[trynabme]

Umm...what was the point of the deer?

Also, what was the spanish lady alluding too?

[carolinalily]

Spoilers

[Spoiler (click to open)] I thought at first the migration changes and approaching humans particularly with Rose was some way of animals trying to alert humans that shit’s going down, which is not unheard of, like animals sense hurricanes tornadoes, shifts in weather patterns etc. Then later when the deer herd were aggressive and menacing to Ruth and Amanda it was like uh what is happening.

[melancolour]

I'm just learning spanish but I think she mentioned the plane that had gone down

[sweetwaterlane]

i thought she said there was a plane that was dropping "rojo gas" or "gas rojo" (i rewound to try and catch it) so i think she saw one of the drone planes dropping the red papers?

[trynabme]

Greenland was actually pretty good!

[melancolour]

I hated Greenland more than any other movie I've seen in recent memory. Actually loathed it lol. Not only did Gerald Butler's character make selfish and imo immoral choices over and over (never getting his comeupance), he actively made choices which got many other people killed. Total villain, felt like an alt-right fantasy.