Bird Box

[kimblebee]

***SPOILERS AHEAD***




Have you seen the movie? I watched it today because of all the hype. I thought it was only ok. It had a good premise but didn’t really keep my interest.

I’m curious about what others thought of it.

 

[MarBee]

I have not, but I thought it looked super interesting. However, I am not a big horror fan. Would you classify this as horror or more suspense?

 

[nicolita3]

Reminded me a lot of the movie "The Happening". Was just ok for me...but I'm a big horror fan and it just wasn't very scary to me.

 

[Meriweather]

I watched it yesterday. It was okay, but not great.
I liked A Quiet Place better

 

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

The book was great IMO. I don’t want to ruin it with the movie!

 

[dclpluto]

I liked the movie a lot. I watched it the first day it came out. Netflix reported they had over 45 million accounts that watched it in the first seven days it was out. This is a record for Netflix.

 

[Skellingtonj]

Had to turn it off after the first 10 minutes. Little too intense for me

 

[2forMe]

I have not, but I thought it looked super interesting. However, I am not a big horror fan. Would you classify this as horror or more suspense?

Not horror, some gorry bits, but mostly suspenseful

 

[1GoldenSun]

I liked it a lot but the book was way better. They almost always are.

 

[Hikergirl]

The book was great IMO. I don’t want to ruin it with the movie!

I watched the movie and didn't know it was based on a book until the end. I decided I'm going to read the book because I'm sure it would be better than the movie.

The movie was OK, I don't think it lives up to the hype.

 

[mamamary]

I thought it was just OK also. My husband liked it more. Also both my kids watched it and thought it was OK too.

 

[LSUmiss]

I have not, but I thought it looked super interesting. However, I am not a big horror fan. Would you classify this as horror or more suspense?

Suspense. I loved it.

 

[katie01]

Had to turn it off after the first 10 minutes. Little too intense for me

Same here, but I made it about halfway through. It just felt stressful to watch, when I wanted to relax after all the holiday rush. I did read spoilers for the ending.....


Spoiler alert....





and thought the ending sounded not very satisfactory with too many unanswered questions, so I’m not sure if I will attempt to go back and finish the movie either

 

[mjkacmom]

I liked it, hate horror, love suspense, it had some holes, but after the week I had, it was a nice 2 hour distraction.

 

[jaiminee krikit]

I liked it until the last 5 minutes or so. It was very suspenseful, not too gory. But the end left too much unanswered IMO.

 

[amberpi]

It was a pleasant way to pass 2 hours, Bandersnatch though is much better.

 

[MrsCobraBubbles]

I enjoyed it. I also watched it because of all the hype, and was pleasantly surprised that it wasn't super gory, like most of these types of movies seem to be now. I prefer suspense to horror and that's what the movie was, but I feel like they could have advertised that fact better because I watched most of the movie with my finger on the pause button because I was worried that it could turn into a slasher flick/gore fest. So for anyone reading this who has those same reservations, without giving away any of the plot I will tell you that the movie is scary but the violence and gore is very light. The ending was a bit of a letdown, it felt rushed.

 

[runwad]

I liked it! I really liked that it wasn't too gory. I just can't do gory anymore, prefer suspense.

I didn't much care for the ending either, and I'm kinda lost "who" or "why" these things did what they did. And "where" did they come from? It was noisy and I missed some of the dialog :-(... can fill me in?

 

[ronandannette]

I guess I just don’t have the right kind of brain for that genre. I’m a very literal thinker and most dystopian, cataclysmic end-of-civilization-as-we-know-it movies have illogical and incredulous story-lines that I find frustrating. I watched Bird Box and needed it to have much more explanation of the crisis to have really been able to enjoy it. I do generally like Sandra Bullock though and I thought the little girl was adorable and a masterful actor for such a young child in such a dark role.

 

[Meriweather]

I missed all the explanations too..........