I can forgive certain character flaws in films, but void of all logic stupidity isn't one of them! It totally and abruptly jars me from any sort of immersion I may have been having, and that is exactly what happened here with "Into the Forest(2015)".
The premise is quite interesting, and everyone acting in it do their jobs diligently, and professionally, but somewhere in either the writing, or the directing, or both, something is amiss.
It honestly wouldn't have taken much to make this mediocre film into something much more memorable. It's the whole void of logic thing that ruins it.
When you watch films like this you are constantly thinking what you would do in the exact same situation, and when the film deviates from what most would do is when that immersion gets lost. Unfortunately this happened way too many times for this movie to be salvageable.
Spoilers ahead!.....
From the very 1st drops of water falling from the ceiling in the living room any thinking person would be like "hum, we better see what we can do about that before the roof caves in". I mean seriously an 8 year old would have the sense that water from the ceiling is bad, and it will only get worse. Apparently these 2 educated, late teen-early 20 somethings didn't have that notion, and guess what happens! This is just one of the many easily foreseeable blunders that plague this movie.
There are a couple of times where after we know society is crumbling, and the girls might not be safe, and they have a gun yet they don't keep it with them when they sleep...not even in the same room? Or like when the girls for some ridiculous reason decide to leave the fortification of their home to go into the woods to a hollowed out tree to have the baby. Now in the scene just before they smell smoke from a fire that is not their own...so they know strangers are near, but do they think to bring the gun with them to have this baby? At this point I was like "Oh come on, gimme a break".
This film just kept rolling them out is this fashion, and although I really wanted to like it, eventually you just hit a point where these faux pas' just can't be forgiven.
The premise is quite interesting, and everyone acting in it do their jobs diligently, and professionally, but somewhere in either the writing, or the directing, or both, something is amiss.
It honestly wouldn't have taken much to make this mediocre film into something much more memorable. It's the whole void of logic thing that ruins it.
When you watch films like this you are constantly thinking what you would do in the exact same situation, and when the film deviates from what most would do is when that immersion gets lost. Unfortunately this happened way too many times for this movie to be salvageable.
Spoilers ahead!.....
From the very 1st drops of water falling from the ceiling in the living room any thinking person would be like "hum, we better see what we can do about that before the roof caves in". I mean seriously an 8 year old would have the sense that water from the ceiling is bad, and it will only get worse. Apparently these 2 educated, late teen-early 20 somethings didn't have that notion, and guess what happens! This is just one of the many easily foreseeable blunders that plague this movie.
There are a couple of times where after we know society is crumbling, and the girls might not be safe, and they have a gun yet they don't keep it with them when they sleep...not even in the same room? Or like when the girls for some ridiculous reason decide to leave the fortification of their home to go into the woods to a hollowed out tree to have the baby. Now in the scene just before they smell smoke from a fire that is not their own...so they know strangers are near, but do they think to bring the gun with them to have this baby? At this point I was like "Oh come on, gimme a break".
This film just kept rolling them out is this fashion, and although I really wanted to like it, eventually you just hit a point where these faux pas' just can't be forgiven.