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Bird Box (2018)
A painfully average movie with a stellar cast.
I watched this movie the night it was released on Netflix having not heard a single thing about it or the book it's based on. So I had the good fortune of not being exposed to the hype and going in blind... sorry I couldn't resist. I wish I could get as into this movie as everyone else but it was just really average in my opinion. I had no complaints about the cast, especially the little girl who was absolutely adorable and managed to make me feel genuinely nervous when she was in danger. Chalk that one up to me having daughters. Honestly the rest of the movie was kind of just a bore, the creatures get absolutely no info given other than their modus operandi. Mystery is always great but it would be nice to at least see the creatures that are so dangerous they've brought humanity to it's knees and make the survivors have to give up their most important sense to survive. But no, the most you get is the drawings that Gary does before going on the out of left field murder spree. It's never explained how some people see the creatures and live and become crazed servants. Maybe it's just me but I like SOME answers. Hell I'll take a news broadcast like Night of the Living Dead or a comment about a mysterious portal opening up to spew out a bunch of fog and eldritch horrors. Instead we get long scenes of people talking, arguing, having ridiculous petty problems, being mean to cute kids, and having awkward sex. Also with a sprinkling of brutal suicides and a sappy feel good ending that seems a bit at odds with the nightmare world they tried to establish. It's not the worst movie I've seen by a long shot, just one you have to accept getting absolutely no answers from. If that's something you can over look then you will probably enjoy it.
Ooops! Noah Is Gone... (2015)
Nothing great but not a bad movie for a free Google play movie.
I got this movie for free on Google so I didn't lose any money. I figured worse comes to worse it's boring and I can delete it and lose nothing.
I was pleasantly surprised by how cute it was and it actually had a few jokes that made me laugh. Nothing new or spectacular about the whole "opposites have to work together" premises but it's tried and true so if it ain't broke don't fix it. I don't know what the deal is with people calling it Christian brainwashing or indoctrination, it literally never mentioned God or showed Noah (or any human for that matter) on screen. It's a movie about weird animals that find out how to deal with a crisis and have a happy ending. Nothing religious involved at all besides the setting. You could take Noah and the ark out of the movie entirely and achieve the same outcome. So don't let the rabid anti religious review (you know who you are) and the confusing evolution vs. creationism (you too) thing that cropped scare you away from this movie. Your kids will probably like it, it's face paced and the jokes and slapstick comedy are pretty rapid fire. It's a turn your brain off movie for children, not an art house flick.