I haven't enjoyed american movie as much as this, in a very long time. You can totally see why someone such as them would decide to go offline for a while, considering that all conversations they have with their peers, are exactly the things you will read if you have spent 2 days online. There doesn't seem to be an original thought between all of them. It kinda reminds me of how these days no one understands that "original quote" is actually just "jack of all trades" which isn't necessarily offensive, and no one uses that phrase anymore, instead, everyone says: "I really hate it when someone says 'jack of all trades, master of none', cause that's not full quote" and so on. When "master of none" was added later, and what they are adding, is completely made up by whoever was the first to create such post on internet. You've all heard people say how they hate that expression? Well, they hate it cause they all heard someone else say it. So now they all repeat it uncritically, and they perpetuate the myth that these recent changes are original, when they are not. I recently heard a guy, who with his pregnant girlfriend, lives in canadian woods, off grid, who also started repeating all that nonsense. I guess he thought it was super original when he heard it for the first time, but didn't understand we've all heard it million times.
So, characters in this movie, have such vapid conversation, where they just repeat things they heard online, none of which they cared to verify, and of course, as you watch them prattle on all this nonsense, you would be forgiven thinking how vapid, and obnoxious they are. But, it's fully intentional. They are meant to represent average person, from this day and age, and no one else, and they have to be incompetent, useless and with zero marketable skills. What better way to convey that, other than having them speak in memes?
So in that setting, our two main characters, one of which is guy from "Search Party" where he plays exactly the same character, and he does it so good, they decide to go offline for a week. Obviously, the very same day as they go offline, the apocalypse starts off, and they are blissfully unaware of any of it, as they are vacationing in cabin in the woods, and they brush off all signs of the doom that reach them, as "sounds of nature" or something similar, cause, as I said, they are that clueless.
At any rate, it's very well executed, very well done, but you have to know what you're watching, and not be put off with how trivial and uninterested these characters are, that's exactly where the fun comes from. Unless you want fart jokes, in that case, this might not be for you.
So, characters in this movie, have such vapid conversation, where they just repeat things they heard online, none of which they cared to verify, and of course, as you watch them prattle on all this nonsense, you would be forgiven thinking how vapid, and obnoxious they are. But, it's fully intentional. They are meant to represent average person, from this day and age, and no one else, and they have to be incompetent, useless and with zero marketable skills. What better way to convey that, other than having them speak in memes?
So in that setting, our two main characters, one of which is guy from "Search Party" where he plays exactly the same character, and he does it so good, they decide to go offline for a week. Obviously, the very same day as they go offline, the apocalypse starts off, and they are blissfully unaware of any of it, as they are vacationing in cabin in the woods, and they brush off all signs of the doom that reach them, as "sounds of nature" or something similar, cause, as I said, they are that clueless.
At any rate, it's very well executed, very well done, but you have to know what you're watching, and not be put off with how trivial and uninterested these characters are, that's exactly where the fun comes from. Unless you want fart jokes, in that case, this might not be for you.