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John is a thirteen-year-old kid who cares about nothing. He goes through his boring, meaningless days with no purpose and no hope of change. John is a privileged kid with parents who dote on him while neglecting to provide the things he needs most, their time and attention. He fills his days with tedious tennis lessons and mindless activities while desperately wishing he was an adult. Growing up means an escape from his dull, lonely life.

One day he finds a half-finished bunker in the forest near his house. He drugs his parents and older sister and tosses them in. While they are stuck in the hole, he engages in wish fulfillment. He drives his parent's car around town, withdraws large sums of money from his family's bank account, buys a television for his room, eats junk food, and invites his friend over for a sleepover. None of it changes the monotony of his life, so he lets his family out of the bunker, and the film ends with them eating dinner together as if nothing happened.

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People are calling the creature a spaceship, people don't understand about the chimp. People say after M. Night's first movie the rest were no good. Shyamalan made his directorial debut in 1992 with the film Praying with Anger. There was another after, and then came The 6th Sense. If you watch that a second time knowing the twist, it will just look unbelievable. And I thought Unbreakable was great.

If there were things in Nope you didn't get, read the trivia page for help connecting the dots. The girl who was attacked by the chimp was unconscious, not dead. It was just one alien being, not a spaceship, and it swallowed the people. And if you didn't get how horses played a part in things I don't know what to tell you.

But Nope was too long. I'd take out at least one scene and trim down others that lingered unnecessarily. Several shots had way too much empty space and just kept on going. A good three or four times there were scenes or character dialogue that ended up not connecting to anything down the way. It's like they were just random one-offs. I didn't understand them at first but figured things would take place later that explained them. Nope. They never ended up connecting to anything. I thought they could have showed more of the creature as far as more of what it looked like from other angles and given it more character instead of an ambiguous thing with a tornado mouth. And Keke Palmer's character was annoying.

It also wasn't very scary, although there were a few good parts that were more thrilling than scary. The scariest things were the chimp and what ended up being the kids in the stable. But the cinematography was great, the story idea was fine. Had the execution been there, this would have been a much better movie. I wonder if his next one will be titled "Maybe?"

A woman's carefully reconstructed life gets upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past returns, forcing her to confront the monster she's evaded for over two decades.

David found Margaret when she was young and vulnerable; she finally felt wanted and important, he saw her as prey. He systematically brainwashed her. He took her identity and replaced it with what he wanted her to be. David is a deranged sociopath and violent sadist and gained control of Margaret through a variety of ways, culminating in the murder of the baby he eventually came to see as a threat to the sick symbiosis he'd created. Margaret fled in terror.

This was was tense and unnerving. It's sad that it's being dragged down because of the many people that appear not to understand things. I've seen the same types of comments in reviews for Braid and Men. And yes, like another reviewer questioned, there are some deep, in between the lines things happening.

If Ressurection wasn't for you, I understand. But it's too bad about all the extremely low ratings for such a powerful, gripping and ultimately sad story.

That most here seem not to like it. I don't agree with all the 10's, obviously written as soon as the page opened up reviews and obviously all fake. Like ridiculously, painfully obviously fake. You're cheapening yourselves, your work, and making a joke out of the site and the ratings by doing this.

That said, I thought this was a really good character study of a nice, average, if not somewhat naive guy and a chameleonic sociopath. Check it out, see what you think.

It wasn't scary or intense. Ethan Hawke was fairly creepy but that was about it. There was no real conflict or dynamic between him and the kid. Hawke made his appearances, acting appropriately strange, but never seemed extremely threatening.

It could have capitalized on Hawke's character. It could have been darker. It could have had much more suspense. It could have been written better and shot more uniquely to ramp up tension and intensify dread.

Plus the plot items. Kids are being taken all the time, including this kid's friends, but he stops to talk to a conspicuous, suspiciously-acting, scary looking dude in a black van. I mean he has a whole conversation with the guy. Then he sees the balloons and asks...are those black balloons? Wow, kid, what a surprise. How dumb can he get. Yet he wises up so much that by the end he has this perfect trap in place and everything goes just as planned.

It was like an 80's movie with a group of kids defeating the bad guy. I'm surprised we didn't get a nifty montage of him training, working out and getting all the pieces in place. And it never shows how Hawke kept his brother from knowing or suspecting anything.

This had some very dark themes with potential and possibility but ended up with just that: only potential. It could have been horrifying.

A nightmarish fable of a woman struggling to cope; she had major trauma and needed to go through the healing process. I figured the different guys (all being the same of course) represented parts of her psyche, such as the vicar = guilt, and all the guys were also her dead husband. They all treated her horribly just like he did and I think it was an allegory of what was going on in her mind trying to deal with everything.

The Green Man symbology represents rebirth, which I think is essentially what happens when a person deals with trauma- having to get through it to come out on the other side- as well as the different symbologies of each of the men rebirthing themselves to reveal what it had been about all along: her husband and how she was dealing with his death as well as everything he put her through before that.

It's dreamlike, nightmarish and surreal. I'm still working it out...I'll have to see it again sometime. I wanted more and wish it had been about 2 hours long. Alex Garland is a trip. Two others recently seen that were also strange and enjoyable were Involution (2018) and Braid (2018).

I can see this movie went over a lot of people's heads. All can say is, I'm sorry.

Petula has schizophrenia and multiple personality disorder. Daphne is the "mom" who tries to comfort, Tilda is the strength she needs when she's having a manic episode. Tilda and Daphne seem to have more control overall, fighting over who's "host" as Petula is still struggling between her mental disorder and wanting to live a normal life. Except every time she tries, she's brought back to her reality which is in the mansion, being stuck in this loop. Petula is also the only one with a real backstory while the others just exist. She goes to sleep/kills her (them)selves as a way to end the episodes, just for them to start over again hoping for a new outcome. Insanity.

I knew there would lots of people who rated it badly because they didn't understand it, which is why it has such a low rating. Especially fedor8, who wrote an entire essay and appears to have a severe lack of comprehensive skills.

"The two girls escape the cops, as if cops wouldn't block all exists whenever they are on a drug raid."

"Clearly the director knows next to nothing about the real world."

Talk about ironic statements. I mean, maybe people didn't see the end?

I'd seen Madeline Brewer in Still, and I'm looking forward to checking out The Uncanny and Saint Clare by Mitzi Peirone.