Actually it's an old trope with demons, vampires etc. You have to invite them in. They don't respect property, they just respect walls. They trespass a lot. 🤗
Dude I just realized how fucking powerful Daredevil would be in this movie I’m now wondering why they didn’t include a “blind guy” character that teaches them how to try and navigate without seeing. Not like in a Daredevil way, just in a normal.... blind guy way....
From reading about about 30 pages plus the ending of the book (so qualified, lol), the sanctuary is actually a home for the blind. To be admitted, they are then required to blind themselves. So yeah, you get the normal blind people just living their lives when it's all over.
How blind is blind enough? There are a lot of blind people that can still see something. I wear glasses, if I take them off am I immune to the creature?
I'm more wondering.. Well I'm certain the alien monsters have a certain color So if you use cameras and have them set to not show that color...you wouldn't see them?
Yeah but if Kratos was in the film it wouldn't be much of a film. "The monster is dead" "how did you kill it without looking?" "All I see is another enemy"
This is how the movie would go if Kratos were in it: Atreus: "Where'd all those monsters go? And where did you get these new rugs?" Kratos: "You answered your first question with your second question."
I also love how John Malcovich's character is right the whole time and the movie is trying to make you hate him so hard. Like literally every time people don't listen to him, they die.
This is exactly how I described the plot to my boyfriend. "A bunch of people refuse to listen to the smartest person in the room simply because he's blunt and uses a mean tone". John Malcovich was the best, most intelligent character in the movie and people refuse to listen to a damn thing he says. They all deserved to die in my opinion lol
Paraphrasing his line: "You want to know the only difference between us? I'm always right." Seemed more like a message from the writer than actual dialogue to me.
But...he was only right one time. Every other time he voiced his opinion it ended up being wrong...you can even see that when the group treats him the way that he wanted to treat everyone else after he proves to be more of a liability than an asset.
@@dustedjotaro3078 Yes, for a while I thought he was gonna save that film. Eventually. Then he died. I thought - NO! He could've saved that film! Then the film ended and I thought - nah, he couldn't have saved it even if he had wanted to.
Daredevil would have a better chance, certainly... But I'm not really sure. If it's as good as it is in the Netflix show (where he actually pretty *clearly* saw Claire way back in Season 1 when he was telling her about himself and we got a quick shot of how he "sees" everything) then it might not help that much? It's anyone's guess, really. Hard to say without knowing the full extent of those things's power to make people kill themselves after they look at them....
@@DrJellyFanguzzz Definitely clickbait, but clickbait isn't inherently bad. Especially in a media climate where most content is free, the whole thing becomes competitive based on who can pull the most people in. The issue arises when the content isn't of quality or is completely unrelated to the thumbnail. But the quality was fine and he still pointed out all the flaws of the movie that could be deal breakers for others.
@@valeoncat13 Uh, no. Clickbait is understood to be bad, which is why it's named after the concept of eating poison or metal hooks disguised as food. There's getting the attention of your audience, then there's lying. If you say "why this movie sucks", then you say "it doesn't suck at all, it just has flaws", then you knew what you were doing. That would be called a review or a breakdown, and either of those would've brought an audience.
That must be embarrassing; getting your ass handed to you by a blind dude, who's only weapon is two small sticks on a chain. And you are literally Cuthulu.
Cuthulu 1#: Wait! What if we bring in the worshipers! They can swarm the red bit! Cuthulu 2#: WHAT WORSHIPERS?! *Over the clearing of pine trees, the camara cuts to a Worshiper get there head torn off by a blind Punisher* Punisher:REMEMBER BITCHES! I CLAWED MY EYES OUT TO GET YOU COWARDLY FUCKS! AND IM GONNA GET MY MONEY'S WORTH.
@Michel Houellebecq Two things.. Trending, and new content is always at the top of the page when released. Even more so with an actress like Sandra Bullock as the main. Not diminishing it's viralarity though
@@jamiegreyy Well it's new content they want to trend sometimes, and by just keeping it constantly at the top with the trailer running they can hook most curious viewers. Thank god I'm not a Sandra Bullock fan and didn't watch it.
I forgot the bald dude name who lost his wife. But he was right through the whole movie. Calling him an asshole for what, because he spit logic and common sense 😁. If only they had listened to him
His character was actually wrong for most of the movie. Remember he wasn't in his own house, defending his family. He was let into his neighbor's house, who he didn't even like, and then he decided that nobody else was allowed in, even though by that logic he would've been dead before the movie started. His "common sense" was basically him being selfish and getting pissed when other people didn't listen to him.
this is also one thing i love about this movie douglas who plays the asshole was not completely an asshole, unlike in other movies where similar character is usually made into the quintessential dick
@@christophergibbs2616 Judging by all they knew about what was happening when the apocalypse hit, not letting anybody in would be quite reasonable. Also he warned the house owner not to watch the video. He didn't listen and died. He warned the people not to let the obviously shady dude in who ended up killing them all. He also saved Sandra Bullock and died in the process. John Malkovic's character is the unsung hero of this film.
I'm right with you there. I was so upset when they showed the monitor and it was literally just an image of outside. He said that he'd just be reading heat signatures or whatever.
If I remember correctly, he was talking about the image, the monitor's heat, not a heat camera. And it was a plan worth trying to know if you could indirectly see the creature; like the serpent from Harry Potter, which didn't kill if looked through a mirror.
@@isaacsmith2997 Monitors emit heat, he was describinn why he thought it would work. He said pixels, heat, i think colors, etc. It makes sense just think about it.
I was so confused to be honest, I'm thinking that maybe he lied bc his husband had died and he wanted to go too......... idek, but that wouldn't make sense either, he could have just killed himself from the beginning. OR NETFLIX OVERLOOKED THAT WHOLE SCENE.
MGK: “man we’re so fucked, we’re fucking trapped, it’s the end of the world baby you never know” 😏 gets laid and disappears lol that was his entire script 🤣
I loved the metaphors with his response to "why did you have a problem with my expansion" to "because I have to see it" all the way to being told by his murderer "it's a shame you couldn't see it" because the truth is he always did see (the reality of the situation). His bullshit detector went off with the holey story of that man who walked in and the old woman knocked him unconscious, not seeing the obvious
Maybe i'm stupid but I thought Malorie named them Boy and Girl so that the entity wouldn't be able to coax them with their name like it tries to do to Malorie...
Interesting theory 🤔But wait couldnt the demons just call out Boy and Girl?? I mean it doesnt really matter if they werent given proper names, thats literally all Malorie called them right? I doubt she ever sat them down and explained that to them or even the importance of proper names
@@superkamiguru4615 Thats pretty logical and that's what I thought too but then at the end they say "We don't have names" meaning they knew that Boy and Girl were not actual names but just what Malorie calls them. So maybe they can't be tempted because it holds no real weight to them except if Malorie is the one calling them Boy/Girl?
Ian Loh Ern i mean, near the end where they were almost at the safe house.. the monster pretty much whispered/shouts all the name that was close to her in some way.. so if "Boy" & "Girl" was close to her (evident of the little speech she gave to make "girl" come back to her), why cant the john cena monster give an exception and whisper "Boy" and/or "Girl"? to Malorie to confuse her'?
Exactly! Thats why the thing keeps on calling Mal but only calls the kids right at the end of the movie *with Mels voice* (cause shes with them) and not Tom’s, the kids liked Tom the better, his voice would be more efficient in telling the kids to take a look
zAc0n OP if you were a blind Buddhist Monk that mastered Hand to Hand Combat, Blade Defense, Swordsmanship, and Vibration Detection then you've basically become God on this new Earth 😂
R u saying that bird box is a good movie cuz if that’s actually what ur talking about then do u not kno that there r so many reviews and they said it’s crap and I agree
Zachary Palacio you do realize that the blind people are doomed to be easy prey to the people being controlled by the monsters right ? Along with the fact that you have the leader Rick just giving away his position to strangers so they’re all doomed . This movie was just trash .
@@anthonydominguez4744The blind would be completly fine because they can't see the monsters (that's kinda the definition of blind) and the people who can still have the blindfolds
When I saw what the sanctuary was, I really thought the twist would be that they had to be permanently blinded to live in peace from the monsters, like the personal dilemma in that H. G. Wells story.
Yeaah, I honestly had the feeling that they would be given the ultimatum of 'extract your eyes or we won't let you in' kinda shit because being sighted they can still be dangerous to others...
Yup in, the book the sncutary is the same but alot more people blind thesemves in addition to the just blind people. including boy girl and the main character they blind themselves I belive when they get there.
@@ashwhiting7056 i kinda prefer the movie version where boy and girl keep there sight becasue they get to see and play with all the other children like tom said.
It made more sense in the book because they had audio playing on loop by the building. Honestly, I don't know why they didn't put that part in the movie. It would have made more sense, and honestly, that part's pretty sad.
Pepper Salt its not as effective as the other method though because the birds make noise whenever the monster is near, even when they can’t see it. in the book they had a voicemail from tom playing on loop which made more sense because then mallory would definitely know where to go and there’s be no confusion.
She didn't hesitate, she looked sad because she understood that Malorie was conflicted about which child to choose and was afraid she would choose her because she loved Boy more.
When he offered it was out of just wanting to please his mother, the girl offered because she understood what was going on and knew the consequences. That hesitation you mentioned was her processing the situation.
Yeah it was pretty clear to me that Malorie had more conflicts with Girl which led to their disconnect. Like Girl not listening to Malorie and leaving the boat to try and save her.
Why were the characters so annoying? Literally I can’t understand what it was. But when ever someone other then Sandra bullock started talking I started getting super pissed off
I think the characters were annoying for 2 reasons. 1. It was meant to be realistic, if youre stuck in a house with 6 strangers, theres a chance that they can be dumb and not think like you. 2. They were meant to show you how dumb thinking doesn't lead to survival in situations like this
I only got pissed off when Sandra started nagging at Tom about his story, falsely accusing him of lying - and again, when she herself took up his story and wittingly lied to the kids about it. Hypocritical bitch, giving others a hard time for no reason and then indulging in the exact activity herself.
The demon was basically buttfucking them at the short distance they had to walk at the end you think it wouldn't try for that long of a walk and not succeed? Plus its harder to ya know walk a long ass time through a forest blindfolded
@@ryancruz8358 Eh, a forest is no harder to walk through blind than a ranging river is to swim blind... the forest actually sounds a lot safer lol, even with a persuasive monster.
Jake Moore The psychological warfare works in this scenario because the kids are easily manipulated and Malorie was mourning Tom’s death, which makes sense here considering she didn’t actually see him die.
This movie is a MUST SEE for any cinema student. It's really easy to deconstruct and figure out exactly what it is that makes it bad, and figure out ways to make it better
As soon as I saw "five years earlier" I knew the movie was going to be bad. See, the reason you start a movie at the _beginning_ of the story and not the end is so we _don't_ know what's going to happen. When a movie tells us right off the bat which character's are going to be alive at the end by showing that first, when any other characters are introduced, we instantly know they're going to die. There is no longer any tension, and it becomes a matter of simply waiting for the movie to go through the motions. It becomes even worse once they lock themselves up in the house and we instantly know they're going to follow the _Night of the Living Dead_ formula and we can predict everything that's going to happen pretty much beat-for-beat. I could almost swear anyone who was surprised or scared by this movie has never seen another movie before.
@@frankovich213 That's not the point. When a movie has a vague beginning you start creating theories in your head. And when one of your theories was actually correct, you get disappointed. Because let's be honest, this was a simple "oh they're all probably going to die except the mother" guess and the plot twist is completely inexistant. Where's the suspense? You already mapped out in your head all the cliches you've seen in horror movies.
@@elevatormusic4000 It's not original though. The Mist. The Happening. That movie where the family couldn't make sounds. A lot of the success is just spending a shit ton of money on a bunch of acclaimed actors and promoting the shit out of it.
Robin A. C. I hope so too, I can’t stand have a full pair of glasses on and then half of one on my third eye, it’s just awful feeling so inferior to others 😞
@@greglapointe1311 he's the cliche apocolypse dude. I like his character in apocolypse story cz he makes sense but it's so cliche. The one character that hates everyone apart from maybe 1 person and doesn't care about anyone else and would let everyone random person they encounter die as long as his group survives. His decision is what matters yadyafafa
The scarier thing than a monster is the human imagination. That’s honestly why the monster wasn’t shown. And it was funny what it originally looked like apparently. And plus it shows your worst nightmare so it’s different for each person.
I mean it doesnt really matter how those monsters look like. They cant really touch you and even if they look big and scary it is not what makes them dangerous. From what ive understood they make you see your biggest fears which leads to you killing yourself. Also it didnt really seem like those monsters were flashy and big cause in a lot of scenes especially in the beginning some people start hallucinating and some dont. For example the sister somehow sees something and sandra bullock doesnt see it. You know what i mean? So i see them more like ghosts and i personally dont believe anyone can even see the monsters. Its just invisible entitys that make you see those visuals. So what i wanted was not to see how the monsters look like but i wanted to see how one of those visuals looks like. And how it looks like to the worshippers
Its insane to me that they decided to adapt a book where lack of sight is the primary hook into a MOVIE, a VISUAL medium. Clearly they should've made a limited-run podcast.
No one thought it was weird that a *FREAKING DOCTOR* leads the children to play with other kids, while they are still: 1. Cold. 2. Wet. 3. Possibly hungry. 4. Tired. 5. Possibly sick. 6. Severely traumatized.... Like, someone makes an effort to dump some dry clothes on the lady, but isn't anyone gonna offer them a hot bath? Stay with them to ensure the clothes fit? Offer them some food? A nice bed to rest? Some music, or something to soothe their nerves? Cus a bunch of birds all squawking at once ain't gonna do it. It just made it seem like the ending got rushed, like they didn't really know where to stop the scene.
agreed, a lot of the plot had holes and defy logic but i think the ending where the kids got to play with the kids was more symbolic. like how the kids would of never had the future Tom explained he had experienced but now they can.
@@lulikesrain 5- 10 mins that we probably don't really need to see...sometimes you can kind of makes assumptions on whats going to happen after the movie ends. or when a character is not in a scene..it's not like when the scene isn't focused on a character then that character becomes frozen in place.. you can kinda assume they are doing other things. maybe they played for a little while then got a bath? idk.. I feel like people need everything single detailed explained to them instead of using their imagination..
What annoyed me was that the creatures could touch trees but couldn't touch humans... WTF?! And if they can touch trees, why can't they touch rocks to throw through windows?!
Steven Hatfield they never actually touched trees that was just that was just a wind effect from their energy or whatever. Still a so so movie. Had good points and really bad points
I really liked that the kids have no names, because this shows the distant relationship between their mother. So I don't think that they have to get more depth in character, cause it just fits the whole atmosphere of the movie. BUT you're right other characters could have been more in depth and maybe get more background information. What seemed also very illogical to me is that these demon creatures couldn't go into a house when the door is closed. Like what? These are creatures from another dimension or idk but I don't think that a closed door could have stopped them. Yeah, but all in all I think it's a stable movie, which could have been more short
@CrayZ Cookie Yes they were large, but I'm not quite sure, if their body is physical or you can go through it, you know what I mean. That's why I was confused why they didn't go through the walls
Also about Boy and Girl - when they were in the forest at the end, I was thinking, maybe she didn't also named them, because names are actually pretty strong? They don't have names so like demons can't talk to them using their names - and it is really easier to make someone interested just by using their names. I bet everyone of you always look around when someone says your name in the public. Like when the three of them were in forest - all the monsters, constantly was mocking Sandra Bullock using her name, but children could be only trickee using her voice. Like - they were safe unless they would start to be stupid or that she wasn't around them.
I had no clue what you were on about, returned to my subscription feed and stared blankly at the thumbnail of this video until I realised you were joking about how Sandra Bullock looked. I then bursted out laughing when I realised I had thought the exact same thing before watching the video. You won the internet, you glorious son of a bitch.
They evidently also do not get hypothermia and numonia despite having been dipped in the ice cold rapids and walking around with wet clothes after that.
are you fucking serious are you really fucking serious, they were clearly cold which at least girl literally said she was cold so much so that her mom had to make a dangerous stop over for blankets, also when they fell in the rapids they were clearly under duress/survival instinct which would give the adrenaline that surpasses all the symptoms of the cold at the moment(me and my brother were hit in a car accident once and i didnt fell any pain until we both got to the hospital and were stabilized) so what, did you want them to put a subtitle in the movie like **characters are currently experiencing hypothermia** or if you had kids that fell in cold water would you not save them because youre feeling hypothermia, or would not run from fucking cthulu beecause youre feeling hypothermia, common they are humban beings not chicken
Nicholas C. It’s a month later so I don’t even know why I care but. Adrenaline doesn’t cure you of damage, distress or disease to your body. That pain you described afterwords is what they’d have to deal with afterwords. Regardless of the moment.
Dang. I didn't even think of that. And no one else has mentioned that either. Maybe Sandra Bullocks character was scared of the unaffected people or running out of food?
Hey I think it might of been too long of a walk that's why by river it was just 2 days trip plus what if crazy ppl around what I don't understand is why they didn't just follow the river to the place once they fell off the rapids they just went straight into the forest but many I missed something
If they'd walked the crazy dude who swam up to their boat and/or more random crazies probably would've killed them. imo it makes more sense to go by boat, but n o t i the rapids... they should've risked it by that point
You can kind of get a sense of speed when you're in the river and also hear your approach on the rapids portion... Why not just paddle on one side of the canoe to make it turn towards either one of the shores, at that point???
It was really the last five minutes that ruined the entire movie for me. Felt like a happily ever after dream sequence and was just out of place. Like within two minutes of walking in the door Sandra meets up with her podiatrist from the start of the movie, names both her kids, releases the birds, and sends her kids off to play. From a character that's typically slow to trust this should've felt off.
Book spoilers ahead: Something interesting is that in the book, when she arrives at the place she discovers that they had a practice of gouging out the sighted peoples eyes because in the book if you saw a monster you were violent towards anyone around you before killing yourself. They had had an incident where a sighted person had seen a monster and had killed half their population. So there was this moment of panic when she arrives and see's all these people with no eyes and freaks the fuck out because...I mean why wouldn't you freak the fuck out? They later tell her that they had since stopped doing that because they had security measures up and no longer needed to worry about the sighted people seeing something, but the initial fear made the whole ending feel a lot less clean. Also she never met/saw her gyno.
@@shawnmoran7956 wow honestly that would've been such a massive improvement, I could take the rest of the movie being how it is but Jesus if that ending wasnt pathetic
Do not watch it if you get grossed out easy. I first watched when I was a kid and almost freaked out for months. I am an adult now and re watching it just makes me sometimes not wanna be touched my my bf but ehh. I is a good song, and like a old fashioned anime horror like video.
I freaking remember seeing this video and freaking out as a kid as well... Was kind of depressing because everyone just freaking dies, and i never understood why.
