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If you haven't watched Bird Box on Netflix yet, I highly recommend it. I've heard great things about the book but never read it and I wish now that I had. I have nothing to compare it to other than the obvious comparison people are making to A Quiet Place. Which I'll be honest, I didn't like. I wrote a whole post about it on my site over the summer after watching it. I liked what they tried to do and aggressive quietness of the movie, but found most of it lacking.
Bird Box on the other hand. I had doubts about it based on my opinion of A Quiet Place, but I am pleased to have been wrong. It's longer than I expected and it does take some liberties but oh, I thought it was so, so good. Maybe it's because I'm a mother to a daughter that isn't mine biologically. Maybe because I watched it after a bit of an emotionally stressful day. But the scenes near the end had me in real, almost uncontrollable tears. I don't cry easily at movies, or at least not in a really emotionally charged way. Few television shows or movies have made me cry like this.
I don't know if that's a ringing endorsement for other people.
Even without that, I'd recommend it. So good. I might write up a sort of non-spoilery, not quite so emotional post about it in the future. I don't do many reviews or recommendations these days, my site's been empty for a few months. But part of my goal in getting back to DW is also writing posts on my site again too. If you'd be into reading more about the movie - actual details, not just my emphatic WATCH IT - let me know.
[I plan on having some Yuletide recommends up in the next few days too, I'm stoked by my gifts. And the stuff I wrote was very well-received too, which is a really great Christmas present to me.]
Bird Box on the other hand. I had doubts about it based on my opinion of A Quiet Place, but I am pleased to have been wrong. It's longer than I expected and it does take some liberties but oh, I thought it was so, so good. Maybe it's because I'm a mother to a daughter that isn't mine biologically. Maybe because I watched it after a bit of an emotionally stressful day. But the scenes near the end had me in real, almost uncontrollable tears. I don't cry easily at movies, or at least not in a really emotionally charged way. Few television shows or movies have made me cry like this.
I don't know if that's a ringing endorsement for other people.
Even without that, I'd recommend it. So good. I might write up a sort of non-spoilery, not quite so emotional post about it in the future. I don't do many reviews or recommendations these days, my site's been empty for a few months. But part of my goal in getting back to DW is also writing posts on my site again too. If you'd be into reading more about the movie - actual details, not just my emphatic WATCH IT - let me know.
[I plan on having some Yuletide recommends up in the next few days too, I'm stoked by my gifts. And the stuff I wrote was very well-received too, which is a really great Christmas present to me.]
