The Invitation (2016)

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Ok but fell short.
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“The Invitation” flirts with ideas that it doesn’t develop, including the nature of trauma and the allure of salvation, particularly when it comes to the kind of spiritual hokum that can send reasonable people around the bend and not just in Southern California.
The skeleton was there, but it simply didn't flesh out its themes enough. The third act fell completely flat. Final shot was :francis:
 
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i liked it alot....there was a couple really clever scenes...when the woman leaves the party & the creepy guy says he has to move his car (you see another car pass by, making it seem like she's safe), and the chick making weird faces in the mirror....
 

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i liked it alot....there was a couple really clever scenes...when the woman leaves the party & the creepy guy says he has to move his car (you see another car pass by, making it seem like she's safe), and the chick making weird faces in the mirror....

Glad you liked the movie. Could you put that stuff you wrote in spoiler? :ld: Some people here haven't seen it yet and I want to encourage more people to watch it.
 

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Decent film I predicted the ending
i thought they were all poisoned from the jump when they starts drinking it was just gonna slowly kick in. They coulda done better with fleshing out the cultish theme they left it too vague. The tweaked out girl was too much of a dead giveaway she spoils the movie. Good concept but the execution was meh. I wonder if there will be a part 2
 

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Saw the trailer yesterday, but the mixed review in here got me annoyed i need to fire up the laptop to stream or download it, don't want to waste money on the rental if I fall in the camp that doesn't like it
 

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In a nutshell -

The skeleton was there, but it simply didn't flesh out its themes enough. The third act fell completely flat. Final shot was :francis:
i don't think the film maker was trying to "say something" about dying, salvation, how people death with death or anything and I don't think fleshing out those themes would've done anything to help the film. It's a simple thriller film, I think it accomplished that goal well, especially if you didn't watch any trailers before hand.
 

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I went in naked without viewing any trailers. 7/10 rating from me :ehh:

Brehs, I would have
bucked once that weird ass bald cac finished that story about his dead wife. :wtf

I'm assuming he bodied Claire too? :martin: And I agree that creepy chick broke the movie, I knew some demonic shyt was definitely going down once they introduced her. Tried to make the main look crazy but the whole time I'm screaming hoping him and Kiera would just get the fukk out of there.
 
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