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Just saw. I thought 10 Cloverfield Lane was really bad. [SPOILERS] by blackwater 04/13/2017, 5:10pm PDT
Just a warning, I am going to be dropping a lot of spoilers here.

So they had a great premise: a girl wakes up in an underground survivalist shelter. The guy who owns the shelter tells her that there are aliens outside and she's safer inside. But is this really true, or just a lie he's telling her? What is really going on outside? In the hands of a great writer like Philip K. Dick, you could have a lot of tension and drama here.

But it's all completely ruined because the guy who owns the shelter is just so obviously a bad guy. He might as well begin every scene he's in with MWAHAHAHAHA I am the BAD GUY! It's just obvious that he's lying to her, from the very first scene, and that she'll eventually have to escape. So the only tension is just waiting for the movie to get where it is obviously going with its Empowered Female Protaginist.

There is a twist later in the movie where she discovers that even though the shelter guy was evil, there really are aliens outside. So, in a "nuking the fridge" moment, she kills one by throwing a bottle of whiskey at it.

The short version is that this movie is a character study of characters that are completely cardboard. You have evil survivalist nut guy, empowered female protaginist, and loser drifter guy. And now that you've read the preceding sentence, you know everything that is interesting to know about these characters. They're just stereotypes.

Has Hollywood EVER made a movie where survivalists were not EEEEVIL? I can't think of one.
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10 Cloverfield Lane (SPOILERS) by Fullofkittens 07/25/2016, 4:40pm PDT NEW
    Also the score is wack. NT by Fullofkittens 07/25/2016, 6:05pm PDT NEW
    Just saw. I thought 10 Cloverfield Lane was really bad. [SPOILERS] by blackwater 04/13/2017, 5:10pm PDT NEW
        Pre or post apocalypse? by fabio 04/13/2017, 5:34pm PDT NEW
        The director has a long way to go by Vested Id 04/13/2017, 6:44pm PDT NEW
            I was the key grip of Phantasm IV, motherfucker! NT by Daniel Trachtenberg 04/13/2017, 7:28pm PDT NEW
                Better, he was a YouTuber and podcaster by Vested Id 04/13/2017, 8:15pm PDT NEW
                    If the word "cuck" didn't exist, it would have to be invented for Anthony Burch. NT by what a faggot 04/14/2017, 1:57am PDT NEW
        Re: Just saw. I thought 10 Cloverfield Lane was really bad. [SPOILERS] by And Hot 04/14/2017, 9:25am PDT NEW
        Tremors NT by @thereealmichaelgross 04/16/2017, 7:54am PDT NEW
 
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