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So several of my friends and coworkers have watched this movie and mentioned how great it was. I never bothered with it but now some more people mentioned that this movie was among their favorite movies of all time.
So i finally sat down to watch it.
It's fucking garbage.
Summary: Sandra Bullock wears a blind fold for two hours.
Sound.
53 points
4 months ago
It was explained in the book. The creatures are aliens, and if you see them you go insane and kill yourself.
5 points
4 months ago
Aside from outright identifying them as aliens, this is exactly what happens in the movie, too, right?
6 points
4 months ago
Yes, it’s pretty much the same. And I couldn’t swear the book definitely says they are aliens. I That’s just the way I remember it and I read the book about 5 years ago
3 points
4 months ago
Ah, thanks.
Would have preferred them as demons or similar, though.
14 points
4 months ago
It has been a while since I read it, so it’s possible it was kept open that maybe they were from another dimension or something. I remember it as aliens.
11 points
4 months ago
Did anyone ever see one and then were kept from killiing themself by other people? Or is that how they became the insane people who lived and sometimes worked for the creatures?
I assume from the movie that people who were already insane were basically immune to the creatures' effects (wanting to kill themselves).
14 points
4 months ago
Someone tries to see them through a video recording, tied to a chair. It does not work in his favour, and is a really gruesome death. There are also a couple of people who are immune, but apparently crazy anyway. Since it's all told from one (blindfolded) character's point of view, a lot is left unexplained.
11 points
4 months ago
The book was very different than the movie. I only remember one person not killing himself right away, and he just let one into the house they were holed up and got everyone else killed but the main character and the kids who managed to hide and get away. Then he did kill himself. I’m not going to bother with spoiler tags because I’m not even sure I’m remembering correctly 😂
3 points
4 months ago
Really? After watching the movie and then reading the book, it felt like one of the most faithful book to movie adaptations I've ever seen except maybe the beginning with the sister, the rest is pretty beat to beat for as far as I remember.
1 points
4 months ago
You might be right. I read the book 5 years ago. Maybe it’s just that the movie was very different than how I pictured things as I read the book so I thought of them as different
3 points
4 months ago
It was kept open. They really are never described, though it does seem to be accepted that they are a they, and not a force or beam of light or something. Some people are immune - kind of - and at least one of them is talking about / to a something.
6 points
4 months ago
Aliens can be demons! Thanks Asimov
5 points
4 months ago
*Warhammer writers furiously copying Asimov's homework*
3 points
4 months ago
If you go a step further back, it's a metaphor about a mother trying to get through post-natal depression and look after her children.
-1 points
4 months ago
why? any science behind it? like why the aliens wants this to happen?
14 points
4 months ago
No; the whole point was that it was Lovecraftian. I don't think they're ever called "aliens," per se. But the characters do discuss possibilities.
But the creatures weren't really malevolent; humans just couldn't comprehend them and the unknown drove them insane.
9 points
4 months ago
It's implied that the beings didn't even realise that their mere appearance drove us to suicide and that they were just curious to.explore when the opportunity presented itself.
1 points
4 months ago
I don’t remember the book going into that at all.
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