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sheothebudworths said:
I watched Birdbox with my daughter a few nights ago - just cos we'd finished (re)watching all of Catasphrophe on 4OD in preparation for the new series :cool: - and it came up and we thought, meh, cba to search around and it was quite enjoyable in that respect, as a random choice (although yeah, we both thought the ending was pants :D ) but now I keep seeing lots of *news* about 45 million people having watched it, like it was some big deal :hmm:

My guess is just that there were 45 million (-2) other people sitting around in that same post-Xmas stuffed sloth state, too tired to go for anything not immediately showing up, rather than it being anything *amazing* :confused:
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The news originated with Netflix who never make their viewing number public. From comments here and on social media, for some reason that’s the film on Netflix everybody seems to be watching and talking about, even though they've released far better films around the same time.
 
If the script had made more sense as a whole and the ending more satisfying, it would have been a great film. Unfortunately it isn’t and it has various flaws, but I found it very engaging and tense from the off even if I suspected the end wasn’t going to deliver. I was entertained for 95% of the film and counts for something in my book.
 
T & P said:
If the script had made more sense as a whole and the ending more satisfying, it would have been a great film. Unfortunately it isn’t and it has various flaws, but I found it very engaging and tense from the off even if I suspected the end wasn’t going to deliver. I was entertained for 95% of the film and counts for something in my book.
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I didn’t think the script made less sense than many similar films and the ending was ok.
There is logic to the blind inheriting this new world.
It was far better than Shyamalan’s very similar and widely ridiculed The Happening from a decade ago. I just thought it started to drag in the second half and the whole thing was a little overfamiliar.
 
I think I just can't bear Sandra Bullock which I didn't realise before starting to watch Birdbox.

Maybe it's Sandra Bullock doing srs dramatic acting in srs dramatic film that I can't stand
 
Me76 said:
I'm getting 'You' thrown at me. Anyone watched it? Looks like stalker murder stuff.
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I watched two episodes today. It's not great and not sure I'll watch more. Might be something to doze to. I must admit I like it cos the main dude was from gossip girl.

miss direct said:
We watched/played black mirror last night. But due to language misunderstandings between me and my boyfriend (stupidly, they dub the talking into different languages but not the choices), he made a wrong choice related to the father, which led to a grim story and I had to give up and turn it off after a while of being stuck in a loop.
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I don't watch Black Mirror so this has passed me by, but is this a show where you make choices that change the story??

marshall said:
Enjoyed the book, but won't watch the series as the casting looks so wrong.
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i didn't realise it was a book. Will look into that.
 
Reno said:
The news originated with Netflix who never make their viewing number public. From comments here and on social media, for some reason that’s the film on Netflix everybody seems to be watching and talking about, even though they've released far better films around the same time.
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Well cos it was first up on the new releases and..it's Xmas, so lots of people sat about with time to watch something, sorta thing!

I also watched the whole series of Murder Mountain (which WAS interesting - I was entirely unaware of the 'Emerald Triangle' but I Google earthed the fuck out of the place after and...yep, still going strong! :eek: ) and have just started on series 3 of Wanted.

Very glad to hear there's more Ozark coming. :cool:
 
I really want to watch Birdbox because it's called Birdbox and that is a terrific name :( I've read all the reviews, I just can't get over it being called Birdbox.
 
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Reno said:
It does feature birds in a box who are central to the plot. If it’s birds in a box you are after, this is your film !
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Actually....that might be one of the things that annoyed me from the start.

"I wonder why it's called Birdbox?"

Oh look....she's putting some birds in a box...I wonder if that will have some sort of mahoosive significance later on? Bah.
 
Mrs Miggins said:
Actually....that might be one of the things that annoyed me from the start.

"I wonder why it's called Birdbox?"

Oh look....she's putting some birds in a box...I wonder if that will have some sort of mahoosive significance later on? Bah.
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You may have to take that up with the author of the novel the film is based on. In all fairness, for the first half of the film, which covers five years, they are in a cage.
 
Reno said:
You may have to take that up with the author of the novel the film is based on. In all fairness, for the first half of the film, which covers five years, they are in a cage.
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Nevertheless....Birdbox....birds in a box....bollocks :D

And she put the bloody birds in a box right at the beginning of the film. That may not have been the start of the actual story but it was the start of the film :p
 
Mrs Miggins said:
Nevertheless....Birdbox....birds in a box....bollocks :D

And she put the bloody birds in a box right at the beginning of the film. That may not have been the start of the actual story but it was the start of the film :p
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Sometimes other people’s specific hang ups are not that easy to relate to.

You don’t have to justify switching the film off, just watch something else. :hmm:
 
Mrs Miggins said:
Nevertheless....Birdbox....birds in a box....bollocks :D

And she put the bloody birds in a box right at the beginning of the film. That may not have been the start of the actual story but it was the start of the film :p
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Yeah, it was very obvious that that was going to be relevant!
We were like...'Oh okay so that's why she put the birds in the box, blah, blah, blah'...without that feeling like we were being at all *bright*, iykwim. :rolleyes: :mad: :D

Tbf, I think that's why we enjoyed it really - the backwards and forwards stuff and the effortlessness of putting the pieces together - total Xmas slobbing film. :thumbs:
Fun to watch but there was defo nothing *clever* in it.
 
I liked BirdxBox because Sandy B is great.

The film's too long by 20 minutes and although there are some well-known actors in there few get any proper time. Even Malkovitch's character gets a rubbish back story and has little to do.

The most interesting stuff was about Malorie and Girl/Olympia. The bit in the canoe where a decision was being made was pretty tense because they had taken time to develop the relationship, they got a good performance from that wee one.
 
Reno said:
I didn’t think the script made less sense than many similar films and the ending was ok.
There is logic to the blind inheriting this new world.
It was far better than Shyamalan’s very similar and widely ridiculed The Happening from a decade ago. I just thought it started to drag in the second half and the whole thing was a little overfamiliar.
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Perhaps ‘not making sense’ was the wrong way to describe it. I don’t mind films leaving some stuff unexplained but I felt not enough questions were answered once it was over. It wasn’t as bad as Lost, but I could have done with a bit more explaining, if only for my own satisfaction.
 
T & P said:
Perhaps ‘not making sense’ was the wrong way to describe it. I don’t mind films leaving some stuff unexplained but I felt not enough questions were answered once it was over. It wasn’t as bad as Lost, but I could have done with a bit more explaining, if only for my own satisfaction.
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The only unanswered question was what the creatures were and the characters never get to find out either. I just assumed they were aliens. They were a device to facilitate tension and the Medusa-like premise, so any detailed explanation might have been sci-fi gobbledygook anyway.
It didn’t pile mysteries on top mysteries like Lost did.
 
Reno said:
The only unanswered question was what the creatures were. I just assumed they were aliens. They were a device to facilitate tension and the Medusa-like premise, so any detailed explanation might have been sci-fi gobbledegook anyway.
It didn’t pile mysteries on top mysteries like Lost did.
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Okay, so it sounds as if I missed or didn’t register some stuff (a common enough occurrence for me). For instance, was it explained or suggested why some people
were not driven to suicide when looking at the ‘things’?
 
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