The HUGE Problem with Knock at the Cabin…

To quote Mark Whalberg from The Happening: “WHAT NOOO…”

Honestly liked the film more than I thought I would have. While I am happy they didn't go that one route the book did, at the same time, there were little stakes.

But mainly I felt it was refreshing there was no convoluted twist in it. Hadn't read the book for myself, but I can see why some people are upset that there is no ambiguity here.

2:20 I don’t think that Knock at the cabin can be disappointing because it never promised anything in the marketing

I love Shyamalan in his good , bad and in the middle. There are always Shayamalan movies and I enjoy them everytime

I didn't even know this movie was based on a book until I watched this video. But I feel like it would be better if this adaptation stuck with the book's ending because throughout the 1st and 2nd acts of the film, I kept guessing if one of our three leads would be sacrificed or none would and the apocalypse will carry on. But the book ends in a 3rd option, leaving the audience to guess what's next. Overall, I liked this movie and it's the best one Shyamalan has put out in years

I would bet you money the person who made this video is straight. This movie is a lot worse than you think it was! Bury your gays Trope the movie!

His films are always elevated or saved by the performances

This movie was so annoying and boring holy shit. that one character was constantly in denial and accusing them for being homophobes it got annoying real quick. i cant even see how this movie could have worked. maybe if youre christiab

I think Cabin in the Woods did this way better and one thing that is never explained with Knock at the Cabin is why the four visitors had to die.

It just fizzles out to another generic film

Endings are what give a film meaning. Yeah, that ending is a... choice.

I think the three changes I would make to the film to make it better are pretty simple.
1.) make it common knowledge that the world is seemingly ending. I heard the book is more of a home invasion set during a apocalypse. As if to say that everyone knows the apocalypse is happening. That way it’s less about are they telling the truth about the world ending, which is something they can easily prove in the first 20 minutes, but instead do they have some unique revelation about the cause and solution to the apocalypse. Each time ever sacrifices himself, did it have a direct effect on the apocalypse, or was it just a coincidence or planned out to look like they have a inside scoop on how to save he world. This is much harder to prove for the group, and it focuses attention on what really matters, that being whether or not they are a mentally ill group of people or rather not they are actually sent by God.
2.) have the condition to save the world not be that one of the family members randomly must be chosen to die, but instead both parents must sacrifice their child. Not only is this infinitely a harder choice to make, as with the original you can just choose yourself as the parent, but also this would make the climax much more sense. As we would see one parent converted willing to sacrifice their daughter, and the other parent completely disagreed, and seeing them fight over this would have The audience on the edge of their seat. Especially if it got physical. This also would ask many more philosophical questions.
3.) And finally, recast the movie. Jonathan Groff is the only actor giving a semi believable and somewhat moving performance. The actor who plays his husband is not good at all, the worst of the actors is easily the actress in plays Wen, at some points her performance is actually painful to watch. And yes I would also recast Batista, his performance is mediocre at best. He just delivers his lines in a semi-dramatic and melancholy way, and it doesn’t help that the entire time the audience is just thinking I’m looking at Dave Bautista right now with glasses dressed as a teacher. It’s distracting. He has the body of a literal God, not a middle school gym teacher.

I believe with a cast I can truly grip the audience in and move them, and have us believe in this absurd scenario, and with those two changes to the plot, it would easily be his best film since unbreakable. I will also add that some of the camera movements were distracting and unnecessarily showy.

Also, the grasshoppers in the jar metaphor is so stupid. Like what questions does it ask? What is the metaphor implying? It’s an empty metaphor, with no actual significant value or depth. I was just ask some sort of suicidal question about the relation between the grasshoppers and the family, because they literally have none besides their situation. Or are we supposed to ask the philosophical similarity between Dave Bautista and the rest of the four horsemen and the Wen who has captured the grasshoppers? It’s a pointless metaphor that’s just there to see in clever.

I RAN out to see this because of Bautista...very disappointing

Very obvious bias against Christianity

So woke