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I liked the film but then again I liked Personal Shopper too.
Depends on how mainstream you like your movies I guess...
Agreed that this it is a beautiful movie.
Considering Casey Affleck was completely hidden from view and had no dialogue I felt that he conveyed his characters feelings perfectly.
The only negative I found was that some shots were drawn out for way too long. His partner dragging out the trash, eating the pie in the kitchen at the start of the movie etc. Surely those 10 minutes could have shown some more character backstory or reasons why he didn't want to leave the house.
Great film regardless :)
It really speaks volumes if you have to nit-pick through a film to see if you can get anything from it. There are no supernatural elements to this film, there is no hidden depth to this film, you're trying to find something that simply isn't there. Because the whole initial experience is so vastly underwhelming your brain is telling you to continually pick away at it in order to be satisfied with what you've just experienced.
VERY poor movie.
Concluded that the best thing to do is agree to disagree, the film is a disaster imho and the masses seem to agree and that seriously makes me happy on this occasion. I've worked within the cinematic media industry for nearly 30 years and I am constantly sickened to the back teeth of movie stuidio's dirty tactics such as continually offering editorials such as ours 'bungs' for writing positive reviews or offering students money to post positive comments on sub-par movies on movie/movie magazine related internet forums in the hope they can reap back some of the inevitable lost revenue due to the film turning out to be a dud (word of mouth and social media being the final nail in the coffin for it) I failed to see how you could sing the praises on such a shallow pointless film and I put it down to this being yet another fake review that is becoming so common place that I'm almost becoming desensitized to it which is a worrying foreboding for the future of the movie industry and how they decide on blatant lying to market their products. Thus ends my reasoning for my initial approach to your post, if it's an honest review then so be it everyone is entitled to their opinion and as my dear old father used to say "opinions are like arseholes, everybody has one".
Nostromo I understand the movie just perfectly, that's the problem it's whole existence is just pathetic and pointless - there is NOTHING to understand or interpret. I'm not attempting to "provoke" or "belittle" anyone, I simply can't understand how a fellow human being could take anything positive away from this movie, let alone officially go on record on this forum saying that this movie is "Fantastic" and singing the praises on the director.
I had a quick look on IMDB to read the latest reviews to see if I was alone in my feelings and fortunately I was relieved to see that my despair of humanity wasn't as low as I'd feared and that plenty of other like minded people realized that they'd wasted 90 minutes of their life on this mess of a movie.
I guess we now live in a world where cinema goers are so used to being force fed the crap that Hollywood shovels out on a regular basis to the masses that very few people are now left to spot a real stinker when they see one.
I truly fear for the future of Cinema if there are people in this world that can honestly hand on heart declare that in their opinion "It comes at Night" is a "Fantastic" film.
Just a shame that in the end it wasn't any of the things you listed above :(
So surprised that nobody has mentioned the obvious story theft from John Carpenter's 'The Thing' (1982)
Exact same premise, this is set in the woods not in a polar frozen landscape but other than that it's clearly a blatant rip-off.
What makes it worse is that Joel Edgerton who plays the main character in this movie actually stared in the 2011 remake of "The Thing"!
Maybe that's why director Trey Edward's asked Joel Edgerton to star in this movie as he wouldn't have to stretch himself to do anything differently from what he did on the set of 'The Thing' 5 years prior.
I was glad it did, I'd suffered enough after that 90 minutes of crap.
agree with you that it was boring but it wasn't he 'boredom' that got me, it was the whole 'pointless' feeling that the movie left me with. There was no fear, no feeling, no point, no story, just nothing.
how so?
The couple were both infected and they'll both die soon as their son did.
No interpretation needed.
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