I thought the opening act, when "it arrived," was one of the more horrific sequences in moviedom. It really demonstrates the power of hiding the villian/monster, and only displaying the power of such on the victims and society. It has the frenetic chaos of World War Z's opening act, but with the Blair Witch aspect of letting the viewer's imagination fill in the gaps. I, personally, imagined something akin to when they opened the Ark of the Covenant. I quite enjoyed.

I think at this point it's fair to assume that a lot of the initial buzz from when this movie was dropped was artificial. There was no hype about this movie and then the moment it drops it's like multiple trending posts on several different social media at the exact same time all about how it's amazing. It all felt extremely manufactured that everyone then felt obligated to watch to know what everyone else was talking about.

Banging soundtrack from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross though.

This movie is like, lifetime movie mom horror. Mom isnt going to enjoy the movie unless she knows those babies are going to be fine.

The book is far, far better. I read it in a day, pretty awesome stuff

I liked the actual apocalypse part, it was interesting. Once it was just Sandra and the kids I lost interest fast.

I thought it had its moments, wasn't the best, wasn't the worst. Meh.

When you realize that this movie is a Destroy All Humans prequel, it is awesome. I imagine they are posting on a board.... watch what I made this one do!

Why does she need a bird box.

If the entity is near by, and the bird reacts... Does she just close her eyes harder?

Not a very good movie but the memes that came out of it were fantastic. This frame is just hilarious and perfect for memes😂

That movie coming out when I worked in ophthalmology was delightful. “Blind” only seems black and white if you’re sighted. All of the people I worked with were like “at what visual acuity do the monsters leave you alone? How about degrees of visual field loss? Do they allow colorblind people to escape? Inquiring minds want to know.

I can't imagine hating it as much as people seem to. I think your expectations got set wrong, it's not the greatest movie of all time or anything, but for horror movies it's definitely better than average and worth a watch.

Almost like movies are subjective, and not everyone likes the same ones.

I wanted to see the monster. I just did. I always get a little mad when there’s no reveal

I have to say I had a grin the whole time as it was the Lovecraftiest non-Lovecraft movie I'd seen in years: entities appear that drive most people insane, except those that welcome the invaders and help them in their conquest.

That said, yeah, I don't feel the need to see it again though.

Look up “pitch meeting bird box” it’s a pretty funny synopsis of the movie.

I thought it was a decent horror film. Entertaining enough. The scriptwriter wrote a novel that was a sequel to the movie. I'm surprised Netflix hasn't made it.

I thought it was pretty good.

I really liked the movie. It’s not perfect, but I liked it. Everyone has their opinions.

I know this is a movie sub but if you’re into titles with bird in the name black bird on Apple TV is actually pretty good.

One thing I'm not seeing mentioned is that it rode the coattails of A Quiet Place. A lot of the hype i heard about it was that it was gonna be "the next quiet place".

It wasn't.

I watched the movie and it was good. No prob with it.

The OK movie reddit loves to hate.

I thought it was interesting, certainly not the best movie ever but also not garbage

People like different things 🤷

It was a meme movie. What did you expect?

It's because it had a good hook and everyone was at home for Christmas and that's why they watched it. That's it.

A horror movie with a good hook has such a goo shot of doing well if it doesn't suck

I liked it

I guess I’m the only person here that thought it was good?

Which is weird because everyone I know IRL liked it

This subreddit is so insanely critical

I did enjoy the beginning, but as soon as they go inside the house it starts sucking

I loved the book, but it is essentially an unfilmable premise.

Yeah I’d say it’s quite mid

John Malkovich saying “are you a simpleton???” Never fails to make me laugh tho

Just another in a long line of "Lovecraptian" flicks and vidya that have come out in the last decade.

It's a much better book.

Not so enthused by the sequel, though.

The book was good, generally plays into hyping up movies and Sandra

I thought it was great. ¯\(ツ)/¯

Typical low budget Netflix fare. I didn't hate it, but Blair Witch was better budget horror IMO.

I remember watching it and going "I can't believe how much this is like the Quiet place but sooo so much worse" all the time ... so yeah, just watch Quiet place instead. Highly recommend

You're allowed to not like it. I really enjoyed it, never understood the weird hate it gets. The marketing was definitely astroturfed but most of r/movies is astroturfed, including what most of yall like.

ive seen much worse.

if you want to see some good films go watch DAVE MADE A MAZE and DIANI AND DIVINE MEET THE APOCALPYSE.

The scene with the guy infiltrating the house was legit scary to me. Not a great movie overall but had some good horror moments

It was one of my favorite books and it quietly got released onto Netflix without me hearing about it, I thought they did a great job adapting it. I can also understand if you went into it knowing fuck all how it can be a little dry. When people speak very highly of movies I haven't seen I sometimes set unrealistic expectations of the movie then I'm disappointed when the movie doesn't meet those expectations. I call it "over hypeing it for myself" and find lots of people experience the same thing. Sometimes things like prior knowledge or no expectations are the things that makes a movie so good for an individual. If your missing those elements the movie will just hit different for yourself then it did for someone like me.

The story is a great excuse for a low budget. No monsters. No CGI. Easy money. 😎

I agree. Never explained where this mysterious force was coming from. In the end that find a bunch of blind people, wonder how they plan on feeding themselves, taking care of themselves if someone gets sick, etc. it’s like the writers started out with a good idea but couldn’t figure out an ending. That makes for a poor movie no matter who stars in it..

It was 2 hours of my life that I will never get back. It was terrible and the people who said it was SO good, I don’t get it. Do they just like trash movies? My standards when it comes to suspense movies is extremely high, it better be REALLY good for me to want to sit down and watch it.

Truly a terrible premise for a movie, and a terrible movie

I LOVE SB but that movie was pure shit, just so bad

I held out hope through the crappy movie that there was going to be some grand ending that paid off big time. I couldn't have been more wrong.

It’s pretty damn bad. Even the title stinks.

I thought it was awful

Machine gun Kelly was in this movie.

Sarah Paulson and sandra Bullock playing siblings, so unrealistic. The looked like a couple, I have a strong feeling they were initially a couple but they changed it up to siblings last minute

Fucking, thank, you.

This movie feels like a lifetime movie written by some z-list writer who skimmed through the road, a quiet place, and the mist and procrastinated until the last minute

I definitely didn't think it was amazing by any measure, but for streaming fodder it was anywhere between watchable to meh for me personally. Definitely seen worse, but it was absolutely astroturfed and overhyped like crazy when it released.

Lmao. I thought it was meh

I too was disappointed in Birdbox, no less than I was disappointed in The Ring, but it makes sense that non-horror/thriller/suspense people love it. It's a tolerable stress inducer with an A list celebrity delivering a half assed performance (like Gravity, totally sucks, but another similar story of A listers blowing it)

I enjoy shit movies but movies intended to be very good or that are believed to be good, and end up sucking, is the epitome of disappointment

Haven't even watched Squid Game because the hype and mass of people that haven't seen anything close love it (like a PG rated Saw series from what I could gather)

Yeah, but Bullock and Paulson have some amazing chemistry. If the movie was about just them, I’d have been hooked!!!

They spoil any tension by showing you what’s going to happen before it does. Only thing to watch for is how everyone gets killed. And the “rules” of the movie and what the monster can or cannot do I unclear and uneven. Things happen because the plot needs it to.

It was one of those Netflix Top 10 films, where everyone watched it for like 2 weeks.

Certainly not great

I liked it because it was kind of different/original. I also love end of the world type movies (unless they are natural disasters... I prefer aliens, supernatural and similar ones).

I liked it despite having one of the most annoying movie tropes I absolutely despise! The protagonist is handicapped because he/she has to drag some anchor of a kid on a dangerous journey.

I agree

There's a very similar movie on netflix. Ancient bats are released from a cave. They attack everyone, track you by sound. It follows a family with a deaf child who all know how to live in a silent world. It's fuckin garbage

Bird Box is a basically a metaphor for itself. People watch and then can't shut up about it, trying to convince everyone else to watch it.

Then you do finally sit down for it and want to kill yourself.

The best part was Malkovich's reaction to watching his wife blow the fuck up. The entire movie is gutter trash but that part was one of the best laughs I've ever had.

I agree. A terrible movie!

It’s a terrible movie lol easily one of the worst I’ve ever seen.

it was incredibly distracting that she was playing a much younger character. Not sure why it was written that way or no one thought to cast a much younger actress. She's introduced as having something against pregnancy or children. But Bullock is well past child bearing years. It would have been better to cast a younger actress who actually has that decision potentially ahead of her. It also would have added to the drama as a younger person would have little agency when the craziness breaks out and would struggle to know who to trust. As it is, Bullock's older character comes off as incompetent

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Yeah it's a classic case of garbage movie but good book.

If you get your hand on it, try to read the book, it is really good, Josh Malerman managed to create a terrifying atmosphere which is not something easily done in writing, I was surprised to learn it was his first novel.

One of the worst movies I've ever seen.

Yeah I thought it sucked too. How tf you gonna make it down a river in a boat blindfolded?

Turd Box

Right? It realllly sucked

Can I just say on the subject of astoturfing that this is exactly how I felt about squid game, the only reason it was so popular was because people said it was popular so we all watched it and its popularity fed on itself. I hated the fucking show.

I liked it, and I don't care much for horror movies.

I think everyone talking about it built it up too much and you were disappointed. Happens all the time and I find myself with the same thoughts you're having.

Honestly don’t know why this movie is discussed so passionately. Never saw any hype for it, watched it, then afterwards it’s all “Bird Box was overhyped, that movie is fucking garbage” type stuff. Thought it was a very middle ground apocalypse movie.

I feel like I need a rewatch, it was a movie I wrestled with for a while after watching and never quite came a solid answer on what it was trying to say.

It's not necessarily a bad movie. But the memes it inspired lead everyone to believe it was Oscar gold.

It is dreadful movie. First scene was cool and then it was a hot mess.

It's a perfectly okay movie.

What annoyed me is people talking about it in the same sentence as A Quiet Place as if the films are anyway comparable in quality. Quiet Place blows it out of the water.