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This movie is what happens when M. Night Shyamalan hears that a novel is unfilmable and takes that as not just a challenge, but an invitation. What we got is move where Dave Bautista cries through some of the most awkward and cringe moments ever put to film.

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Avatar of @angibalangi
@angibalangi
06.02.2025
did you guys watch that one ai generated video of Joe rogan and Ben shapiro talking about the Beach that makes you old?
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@ringer1324
06.02.2025
Is there a beach that makes you old in this one? If not I’m not watching it.
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@enigmaj1494
06.02.2025
Guys, you need to read the original book to know how terrible this is as an adaptation. I’ve only ever watched three M. Night movies, The Last Airbender, Old, and parts of 2012. I only know the full plot of this and the book because I watched Amanda the Jedi’s video on it (because I knew that one of the dads had to die, and I wasn’t going to even entertain the idea of watching a movie with that premise), so unless he has any more movies with source material, this puts Shamalyan 0-3 in the sport of adaptation!!! Old was barely passable until the end in that regard. He also has a really bad time with adapting ambiguous endings, but since I haven’t seen anything else, I can’t just conclude he lacks the ability to be subtle (even though I get that feeling from him.) It sucks because he literally took the most atheist-affirming story starring gay men I’ve ever heard about (I still don’t have the widest knowledge of narrative art, so give me recommendations if you know any) and turned it into “Well you’re irrational for trying to say people with next-to-no legitimate evidence aren’t likely to be correct; just believe lol!” I now know I don’t like this man as a creative and frankly a person, and I don’t feel bad because he still has the power to make these shit movies.
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@oldhorsemen6200
05.02.2025
I am glad that the Beach that Makes You Old and the Bubo Pit made their grand return. It is terrific that Dave Bautista is in movies outside Marvel, such as Knock at the Cabin and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Also, another content creator I watch, Brandon Likes Movies, did a review comparing Knock at the Cabin to 10 Cloverfield Lane.
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@ThatGreenMach1ne
05.02.2025
Dave Bautista seems like the best part of this movie, ngl.
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@etharchildres3976
05.02.2025
I don't know what these guys are on about this sounds like a masterpiece. This is hilarious.
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@getschwifty5537
02.02.2025
The book has a better ending.
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@Pvale777
02.02.2025
Damn. YouTube didn't notify me again!
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@hiurro
02.02.2025
Just based on the description of the plot it seems like the moral of the movie is believe in God kill gay man and that makes me really uncomfortable. Especially when based on the comments it seems that part is Shyamalan's addition not part of the original.
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@Joey245
01.02.2025
"The ocean is just punching stuff now..."

DAMMIT LAPIS YOU WERE MY FAVORITE GEM WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS
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@frakspikes2619
01.02.2025
here is my own best attemp at playing Shamalan's attornei



Giat Water Fist = War. Maybe as a refrence to water and earth as powerful elements both linked to life, but who are otherwise being compleatly diffrent, and the giant water fists are something better akin to Kiogre vs Groudon, but only having it reffrence 1 of the 4 mystical elements

Super Flue = Pestilance for sure, but element wise, unless you cout virus as "Nature" and therefore, in a roundabout way making it earth rather thain air i don't know how to properly add this piece to the puzzle i'm currentlt trying to help you all solve

Falling Planes = Famine, kind of. If you know how supply chain work world wide, and how they are single handdedly responsible for keeping "Western" civilisation from collapsing under the weight of its demand for food and other products, then planes falling from the sky makes sence, especially if they just so happen to land on roads and traintracks (but that wasn't added in the reports on the movie, so i'll keep it as amuted point). Also, falling planes Air duh.

Neverending Lightning = Lightning strikes you, very unlikely that you'll come out alive, so yeah Death. Also to those who haven't watched avatar the last airbender the animated series
do
IT
NOW
and then you'll get why lightning = fire

and that's my best defence for M "Never do a movie again please, for all our sanities" Shaymalan choice on enterpreting the 4 major plagues in this movie
sure it isn't perfect
but then again
neither is the movie
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@halfmettlealchemist8076
01.02.2025
Need someone to make one of those AI voice memes where Biden talks about how he went to the Cabin from Knock at the Cabin
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@michatarka2642
01.02.2025
Holy fuck the kids I coach line is brutal. So stupidly powerful
Avatar of @troyjardine5850
@troyjardine5850
01.02.2025
Reasons why Shyamalan should have been blacklisted from filmmaking after The Last Airbender; number 7.
Congrats M! In addition to continuing to vilify the mentally disabled, you created a movie in which a gay family needs to be destroyed in order to save the world.
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@robertallan8035
01.02.2025
Hey, I have a recommendation that I think might be up your alley. It's a horror film on YouTube called Emesis blue, full length and animated in SFM. There's a bit of jank to the animation and Voice acting, and the premise is based on the game TF2 and might be a bit confusing, but I walked away considering it one of my favorite psychological thrillers, and it came out only a few days ago.
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@silverwingwarlock3755
29.01.2025
We don't want to end the world, but we will end the world, to save the world
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@Bouncy_Seal
29.01.2025
Knock at the Cabin is a movie which asks the question "wouldn't it be messed up if this happened?" and then the answer is yes and the movie ends
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@familyguyfeline
29.01.2025
This is my least favorite episode of Shyamalan Boyz
Avatar of @kidkangaroo5213
@kidkangaroo5213
27.01.2025
The more I think about it, the more this movie seems to be just kind of a bargain bin version of Everything Everywhere
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@ThisIsYourGodNow
27.01.2025
weird that you guys didn't acknowledge that it was an adaptation of a book. They really shouldn't have changed the ending.
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@ladyj.3020
27.01.2025
At least Dave gets to wear a pair of delicate little glasses again
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@Gloomdrake
17.01.2025
Signs x The Happening? The Sign Spinning?
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@BallisticCryptid
17.01.2025
So I have some input about this movie.

This movie was originally based on a book called The Cabin at The End of the World and in the book the four people who show up at the cabin are actually there against their will. Like, there are numerous points throughout the story where they're trying to actively combat their own urges to follow through with this plan of sorts and because the book is in part shown from their points of view, you actually know that its an otherworldly force taking hold of them in order to make them carry out the apocalypse. What also makes this so interesting in the book is that the disasters within the book are much more coincidental, such as reports of several tsunamis and plane crashes appearing on the News, but not being overt if that's actually caused by the deaths of the visitors. So because of this, it's ambiguous if this is actually part of the apocalypse, or if it's more so a bunch of coincidences that happen to make it seem like the apocalypse is occurring. The biggest difference between the book and the movie is that Wen actually dies by an accident in the book which drastically alters the ending of the movie where instead of one of the fathers taking their life to stop the apocalypse, they determine that even if an apocalypse is actually occurring that it would be pointless to stop it because whatever god is causing this did this to their daughter and therefore, they don't want to make a higher power succeed. It's a very bleak and nuanced story which I feel isn't given proper justice in the movie.

If any of you are interested in hearing more about the book, Amanda the Jedi did a fantastic comparison between the two.
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@nullvoidnaraka
17.01.2025
4:13 That sounds like the first Purge movie
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@sugoiuseismoeabuse4058
11.01.2025
Why is M Night Shamalayan Homophobic? This movie really seems like it. Before I could meme about old because it's such a ridiculous premise but the fact this film ends with "yes god is real he hates gays and you the gays are bad and let other people die the gays will let everyone die if it benefits them" is a bit fucked.
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@J_CtheEngineer
11.01.2025
In this, the cabin that makes you old.
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@kaemonbonet4931
11.01.2025
Imagine if instead of the plagues given it actually was war famine plague and death and the last bit of the movie with Dave Bautista was like, "nukes have been launched, you have 30 minutes to make your decision. " And in miraculous fashion all the nukes fail to detonate after the sacrifice has been made.
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@RiaxaraCo
09.01.2025
So apparently I’m the book this is based on they’re actually compelled by some being or whatever to do all this, so it makes more sense than the movie.
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@DelBunny19
09.01.2025
So, judging from Old and Knock At The Cabin. The message I'm receiving is that M. Night should stop being allowed to make adaptations of better material. Like SERIOUSLY
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@MadameTamma
09.01.2025
Here's an idea. What if instead of each zealot sacrificing themselves triggers another plague, it was changed to 'All of the plagues were about to be set off all at once, but through a sacrifice, they were able to make it so only one plagued happened for the time being.' That way instead of slowing CAUSING the apocalypse to happen, their sacrifices were mitigating damage and buying them a little more time. It seems like a small change like that would have made a lot more sense.
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@MrDrewwills
08.01.2025
Kinda funny how both this movie & Old have strong beginnings as they largely follow the plot of the book/comic they're based on, then fall flat when M. Night changes something.
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@vfxninja5503
08.01.2025
I like how Shyamalan's ending just completely spits in the face of the book he stole the plot from.
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@leothelion6245
08.01.2025
U realize halfway thru this movie that the only reason why this gay family goes through a magical hate crime is because shyamalan felt like it lol
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@SunshineCasy
06.01.2025
That kind of violence veiled in flattery and denial is exactly what modern homophobia looks like. "We have nothing against you being gay. In fact, we picked you because your love is soo deep! Nah, this religious-coded violence that makes you choose between a gay family and everyone dying is completely unrelated to the fact you're gay."
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@bobburger4282
06.01.2025
Didn't watch due to the 2 big pics on the screen that block all the scenes. I'd say loose the cartoon picks.
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@nozon5686
06.01.2025
35:22 This is probably grasping at straws but maybe the water flood/fist is war because of "war on nature" and the fist was nature striking back. The planes famine because airplane food which is bad because you lose your sense of taste at high altitude. disease is obvious. The lightning is the hardest but the only things I can think of are either people being smited as an act of God or some other entity being a significant death or because lightning was thought as something from heaven and essentially becomes a bridge.
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@mathieuleader8601
04.01.2025
Dave Bautista character here could double up as a great Dr. Hugo Strange in the Matt Reeves Batman films
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@wolfclaw719
04.01.2025
so the plot of this whole movie is god wants a gay couple to die?
I'm amazed I haven't heard people trying to cancel it
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@toyotatacoma1616
04.01.2025
Truly one of the worst adaptations in recent memory. It’s actually impressive how much it mangles the themes of the original book.
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@WhenyoBrainGoesNumb
28.12.2024
I was watching a video (I think by James Somerton) about this movie before it came out and he said that in the book, they do kill the daughter
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@cortomaltese5206
28.12.2024
This premise feels like something written by a person with too much free time on their hands.
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@AndaraBledin
28.12.2024
"This is peak Shyamalan."

Only, this is only barely Shyamalan at all because it's based on a book, and only the changed ending really belongs to him.

Honestly, Gus, you should have done at least enough research to know about the source.
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@NoHandleLol13
12.12.2024
This is just the fifth wave
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@Nitzah
12.12.2024
In the source material from the book “Cabin at the End of the World” while the entire thing is left ambiguous and up to the reader to decide if these were actually the 4 horsemen or some crazy people with a shared dillusion, it is described as them having an uncontrollable compulsion to carry out each sacrifice to release the various plagues on humanity regardless of their own will against it. Almost as if the 4 intruders are being held hostage as well but in a more presumably supernatural manner and while I won’t spoil the main twist and ending, I will say they do cover one of the intruders who is at the end pretty fucking done with everything and does their best fight off the voices and compulsion (almost possession..?) for as long as possible before ultimately succumbing. If they had more of a way to express that in the movie and kept it pretty faithful to the book’s twist and ending it could’ve been a box office banger
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@BunnyLove5763
12.12.2024
Wow ok I finally watched this movie and this was garbage. I hate this so much. People like to throw around the term “kill you gays” a lot when discussing any fictional conflict involving gay people, but this is a real a true example of the trope.

The only way for the conflict to be fixed is for a gay man to make a biblical sacrifice and kill his own husband. There’s no good way of slicing that resolution. And the fact that the movie tries so hard to be like “Nono this isn’t because of homophobia at all!” Just makes it so goddamn pretentious.
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@fishlordusername891
10.12.2024
I will say I thought the awkwardness of the characters was fun, didnt know it was a horror movie. That being said it was definitely average and the fact that they collapsed the question of whether it was real or not, the straight wiggling about of "no of course in totally cool wirh you being gay! We're not homophobic!" And what felt like kind of needless violence for rhe story made it hard for me to enjoy it beyond passive entertainment.
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@amazingedits6912
10.12.2024
I’m gonna say this as a pansexual Christian who has seen the movie… I feel like people thinking the movie has a homophobic message, isn’t really a nuanced take. Idk.
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@Ashtonyss
10.12.2024
Imagine writing a book that does well enough to get a movie adaptation and then finding out Shyamalan is going to be directing. Now that's a twist.

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