Into the Forest (2016)

From my favorite movies..

I saw this movie before reading any reviews, and I thought it was very funny. I was very surprised to see the overwhelmingly negative reviews this film received from critics.

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

This is a bad movie. But I think this is how America would be if it was ran entirely by women. They'd just burn it down and leave.

THE GOOD,acting was low key but suspenseful ,the interaction between spoiled brat sisters touching. The cinematography very good. Made me check my survivalist stockpile while realizing I could survive but could not survive my angry , isolated ,fragmentary, diversified ill prepared America neighborhoods ...that safe zone forest road that those two sister take for granted is a thousand miles away. THE BAD.The narcissism between all the characters (except Dad) was exhausting...maybe mirroring the unraveling American society and how Hollywood is now fixated on male typecasting..rapist,creep or beta male. Now these isolated female slackers eat Rice n Beans for a year while the unseen society over the hills implodes.Both are two self absorbed to bother experimenting with rudimentary forest skillfulness , bitching or pouting for months on end]The selfish defiance statement as the end is how it would end.

Electricity goes out, two sisters learn to survive off the land around their woodland home. And not to spoil the plot, but the power goes out and never comes back on. The explanation was sketchy and even North Korea rations electricity. Not the case here. Yes, the sisters get by and the film is more of a drama than any kind of action film as even the action scenes are made low key...more like real life. So if you are waiting for something to happen, it does, and life goes on without much fanfare. Good performances, realistic, once you get past the electricity never comes back on, however the entertainment value, at least for me is low.Evan Rachel Wood is actually younger than Ellen Page pushing 30...still playing a teen.Guide: F-word, sex, rape, brief nudity (Evan Rachel Wood, Ellen Page)

I'm a sucker for apocalyptic movies, and when this popped on my Amazon Prime queue I was like, oh yeah!Just think of the incredible catastrophe of a world with... no electrical power. Ooooh. How scary. The movie starts with a dreadful whiny song in the background and some pretentious dancing of one of the characters.Then power goes out, people do stuff.Then idiot dad gets himself killed while cutting wood.Then the girls argue. The dancer dances to a metronome. They argue. They eat berries.A boyfriend appears, and they start an astonishing road trip from west to east coast! Whooo---apocalyptic road trip. No wait. It doesn't happen. Girl goes back to her sister, dude continues on.Then they argue. They eat stuff. And she dances to whiny music. And stuff.I have an idea how to make this a true apocalyptic thriller - JUST FORCE PEOPLE TO WATCH IT AND MOST WILL KILL THEMSELVES.I've been playing whiny songs and dancing pretentiously so I can improve my health and recover the 1 1/2 hours I lost watching this garbage.