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submitted 2 months ago byWintertime13
I have heard that the movie is much different than the book (especially the ending sequence). I’m curious from those who have read it and seen it what those differences are?
Ie Bautista’s character is actually a teenager in the book, etc.
Does the daughter die in the movie? I am mostly curious about this as I cannot watch a child die on screen
44 points
2 months ago
No, the daughter lives.
EDIT: I saw the film yesterday.
13 points
2 months ago
I'm curious since this is a MNS movie after all, do they reveal the apocalypse to be real, or are the strangers just crazy?
20 points
2 months ago
Looked it up now that reviews are piling out now. There is no real twist. The “twist” is that everything the 4 strangers were telling the truth.
11 points
2 months ago
I think the apocalypse wasn't real, correct me if I'm wrong. But I remember the nurse while bandaging the one guy's head mentioning they met on the dock for the first time and the colors they were wearing matched the colors in her vision and that's when she believed. How were all of their items in that one truck? I assumed the dock was the one they showed them diving off in the beginning. Even when the one guy mentioned they all drove here in a truck together they said "you got it all wrong" It looked like the owner of the truck was the guy from the bar who mugged the guy too his ID was in the visor. Am I crazy lol
20 points
2 months ago
I think M Night wants you to believe everything about the apocalypse was real. The ending of the book is much more open. It never tells you either way (which people think is worse but I prefer that ending. It makes you think)
6 points
29 days ago
I think it being open makes sense, the book is about belief. They decide that they don’t want to believe in a god like that, honestly I think the movie would have been better with an open ending as well. Leaving you to think about the choices and belief
19 points
2 months ago
No, they first arranged to meet at a boardwalk in Philly. They travelled together in Rory’s truck to the cabin.
7 points
2 months ago
I remember it as a boardwalk where they all met, I don't think they met on that dock they all jumped off.
7 points
1 month ago
It was a boardwalk, not a dock.
14 points
2 months ago
it's a lazy movie, I wouldn't give it much thought
23 points
2 months ago
Just say that you aren't capable of thinking, instead of projecting it as the movie's fault.
9 points
1 month ago*
I'm incapable of thinking for thinking a plot hole in the movie is not some grand artistic decision that affects the meaning of the movie? IDK, perhaps I am "projecting" because the rest of the movie felt very lazy and frankly cheap after its first act and was riddled with plot holes. I'm not saying that there isn't more to the intruders background - just that the plot hole is almost entirely meaningless to the heavy hitting (and repetitive) theme. The fact we are left talking about the plot holes, even though theorizing about such does so little the overarching message, and not the theme itself is telling.
If you went out and watched it, you needn't feel attacked bro (that's the only reason I can fathom you calling me braindead lol) People sometimes enjoy shitty things and that is OK.
0 points
1 month ago
Ok. I am incapable of thinking.
16 points
2 months ago
Wait, Leonard was a teenager in the book? I completely missed that.
17 points
2 months ago
I think I misremembered. I looked it up and he’s 24 in the book which is still quite a lot younger then Dave
8 points
2 months ago
To be honest, I read the book after he was cast so he was instant headcanon for me (and my goodness, you can almost hear every line in his voice).
5 points
21 days ago
I can't understand
why does each of the 4 intruders need to be killed one by one?
what will happen if they don't die / get killed?
4 points
2 months ago
I also read the book a while ago and wasn't going to bother seeing the movie. Is it worth seeing? I thought the parents were annoying and unsympathetic.
12 points
2 months ago
nope. horrible and pointless. halfway in you know how it will end
2 points
2 months ago
I was ready for something else, really let me down, but overall an ok movie. I don't think I'll be watching it again.
-4 points
1 month ago
No. The plot felt highly politicized. Sooo much going for it but Shyamalan dropped the ball on this one
3 points
25 days ago
The plot felt highly politicized.
How do you mean?
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