Leave the World Behind shoots to No 1 on Netflix – but viewers lodge complaint

“Leave the World Behind is a weird, often funny, often stupid, and ultimately cynical mess of a movie. The film takes an awfully long time to finally arrive at the point, and when it does, the point is cartoonishly pessimistic and narratively unsatisfying. I did not care for it,” one viewer commented on X/Twitter.

“I’m watching Leave the World Behind. Here’s why that’s a mistake. I wanna watch other things and this movie is almost 2 & a half hours long,” another complained.

littlebluespark,
@littlebluespark@lemmy.world avatar

Just, read the fucking book. It’ll take about the same amount of time, and there’s quite a lot more to the story that way. Granted, I appreciate the change of the mother/daughter from the book/movie, as it makes a few of the social beats more complex, but the deer scenes in the flick were flat-out stupid and there were far too many missed opportunities for narrative fulfillment in the translation to screen. Still, nice to see Hawke, Roberts, and Bacon getting work? 🤷🏼‍♂️

B0NK3RS,
@B0NK3RS@lemmy.world avatar

Some like it and others do not… Who would have guessed.

obinice,
@obinice@lemmy.world avatar

Cynical and pessimistic? Sign me up!

There’s far too much “everything’s gonna be okay” media out there, every movie seems to end with the good guys winning, everything getting better, fascism being defeated, climate change being reversed, etc.

I want a film that reflects the real world a bit more instead, explore the actual world narratively instead of always loving in pure fantasy land :-D

Hyperreality,

I recommend watching Terry Gilliam's Brazil.

Fluid,
@Fluid@aussie.zone avatar

Just cause people are watching it doesn’t mean it’s good, it means they are checking out what looks like it might be good. Spoiler alert: it’s not.

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