Bird Box | Trailer Netflix (12/21, Sandra Bullock, John Malkovich, Sarah Paulson, Trevante Rhodes)

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Just watched it.....I have a question.


Where did the 2 people that took the jeep go? Did I miss why the up and left the crib?

They didn't say. I think they were there just to show how everyone in the house wasn't trustworthy and how things were going to fall apart. It sort of reminded me of how the Mexican family split from the main group in The Walking Dead season 1. It finally got resolved I think last season of what happened to them.
 

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brehs name was f'n Tom

black men go by Thomas or T

breh being used as an agenda chess piece
To be fair, it’s based on a book so the dude was probably white in it :manny: they just went and added a black dude who made it for 5 years so we wouldn’t say “they killed the only black dude first”
 

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Ok. I finished. I'll admit, I enjoyed it. It was entertaining. And I don't even like horror movies. It has a lot of plot holes though. But the acting was good, so it covered up the flaws of the movie. The ending was strange. But I understand it from a thematic standpoint. She finally accepted the kids as her own.

Question, why could the birds sense the monsters? Did it ever explain that?
 

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Ok. I finished. I'll admit, I enjoyed it. It was entertaining. And I don't even like horror movies. It has a lot of plot holes though. But the acting was good, so it covered up the flaws of the movie. The ending was strange. But I understand it from a thematic standpoint. She finally accepted the kids as her own.

Question, why could the birds sense the monsters? Did it ever explain that?
Wasn't really explained in the movie, but generally speaking...

Birds can Detect Predators by Sense of Smell... The researched focus on whether or not these common garden birds used their sense of smell to detect danger and alter their behavior accordingly. Many animal species detect and avoid predators and other dangers by using their sense of smell.

And there's this...
How Do Birds Use Their 5 Senses?
 

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I feel like people are hating on this movie because of how big the discussion and memes have gotten on social media for it. I don't really get people saying it's overhyped because this isn't like a typical blockbuster with some crazy budget. I never saw a trailer for this movie. There wasn't some huge media push, I didn't see nothing for this until my boy tagged me in a post on Facebook and asked for my opinion on it.

With that said, I went in with minimal expectations and I was pleased. I didn't think it was the GOAT movie or anything, but now that I see so many people calling it trash or mediocre I just hit the...
:dwillhuh:

That's why you shouldn't really let other people shape your opinion before you check something out yourself. My take on the film below, I just basically wrote what I got from it and gave my perspective. I've seen a lot of people trashing it because "nothing was explained"...


Here we go:
The creatures/monsters were people's demons or internal fears visualized. The storytelling explained this through various character's dialog throughout the movie. Rel's character broke it down in the beginning when he was describing the end times... how everybody sees it as something else, but this is "it" per se.

The white dude with the bald head alludes that the psychological effects that the people were displaying (mass suicides) was caused by chemical warfare, specifically psychocemical warfare... See below:

"Psychochemical warfare involves the use of psychopharmacological agents (mind-altering drugs or chemicals) with the intention of incapacitating an adversary through the temporary induction of hallucinations or delirium. These agents have generally been considered chemical weapons and, more narrowly, constitute a specific type of incapacitating agent. Although never developed into an effective weapons system, psychochemical warfare theory and research -- along with overlapping mind control drug research -- was secretly pursued in the mid-20th century by the US military and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in the context of the Cold War. These research programs were ended when they came to light and generated controversy in the 1970s. The degree to which the Soviet Union developed or deployed similar agents during the same period remains largely unknown."

The beginning of the movie also provides context to the chemical warfare aspect, because the news was reporting cases of this happening in Russia, which is known for doing this kind of research since the Cold War as a way of having a trump card on the US if things ever went that far...

Those who weren't effected were... the mentally ill (they already have visions/hallucinations and are battling their demons), the blind and pregnant women. The man that Olympia's goofy ass let in was clearly not right. He gives a story about how he made it to the house, and he says, that a group of mental patients were forcing people to look and see what was out there, and he somehow escaped... and made it to the house without a blindfold on. His story sounded like bullshyt when I heard it, so I knew he was with the shyts.

I say that pregnant women weren't effected either, because dude waited until they both gave birth before he tried to make them see outside. Olympia also, made it to the house without a blindfold when she was pregnant, but after her daughter was born, she threw herself out the window.

I'll leave it at that, but essentially, I don't agree with the notion that the movie didn't explain the events that happened. They didn't spoon feed us, but they gave us tidbits along the way, and I was entertained and felt the suspense from the jump.

:manny:

I don’t think the movie was terrible at all. Just really flat and didn’t do much of what it was trying to do that well. I’m glad it didn’t spoon feed us anything. But I didn’t feel the suspense because of the way the story was structured. 5 min in, we’re told we’re going to have three survivors so there’s no point in investing in anyone else. Which makes what Sandra and Trevante did even better because they sold something I knew wouldn’t last and it worked.
 

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Question, why could the birds sense the monsters? Did it ever explain that?
Birds have usually have had the ability to sense things throughout the history of time. I will usually see birds going ham way before bad weather comes in and many natural disasters have been signaled by birds before they have happened so maybe it transitioned over to this.
 
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