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Turning off their phones was the dumbest idea on the planet.
A young Brooklyn couple head upstate to disconnect from their phones and reconnect with themselves. Cut off from their devices, they miss the news that the planet is under attack.
Save Yourselves!
2020 Directed by Eleanor Wilson, Alex Huston Fischer
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Joshua Blum Adi Ezroni Philip Erdoes Avi Nir Peter Traugott Kara Durrett Mandy Tagger Alon Shtruzman Andy Youmans Jared Kash Rebecca Feinberg
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神啊来救救我吧, ¡Sálvese quien pueda!, Desconectados, Спаcайтесь сами!, Mentsétek meg magatokat!, Védd magad, jönnek!
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the fact that john early was only in this for one minute, in which he danced to weyes blood & then never appeared again is very personal to me. also john reynolds & sunita mani are so charming i love them so much and i was to bake bread with them!!!
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Save Yourselves! is a horror-comedy film for hipsters: rife with millennial self-loathing, an emasculated male figure, technological addiction, and a neurotic couple with zero understanding of how to properly change a baby's diaper.
In thematic alignment with this source material, Save Yourselves! is but a doodle of a film. Though some moments are relatable—with the lovable Sunita Mani & goofy John Paul Reynolds awkwardly mirroring the follies of contemporary monogamist relationships a bit too cannily for comfort—it is ultimately just silly fluff: a fact that the film is consistently self-aware of.
Save Yourselves! is so lighthearted and fatuous, in fact, that the film seems to be annoyed by the necessity to come up with a satisfying ending; thus, (**half-baked spoiler alert**)…
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”Pouffe on the roof!”
“What?”
“Pouffe! On the roof!”It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
Here’s what happens when a hipster millennial couple decides to take a new age break from the digital world and nearly ends up missing the end of the real world.
It’s an ambiguous slow burn of a movie with Sunita Mani and John Reynolds carrying 90% of it on their backs. I can see how others may find it a bit too slow or abstract, but I enjoyed seeing everything through their eyes and never receiving any easy answers.
Now, if you’ll excuse me I’m going to go fire up my phone a do a little pouffe shopping of my own.
”I think maybe that’s not just a pouffe.”
“Yeah, I guess I don’t really know what a pouffe is.” -
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Critters but with two useless hipsters instead of two awesome shape-shifting bounty hunters from outer space.
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Save Yourselves is another top-notch American indie comedy you would expect from the Sundance, and is a somewhat refreshing addition to the alien invasion sub-genre.
Telling the story of a couple on a technology-free retreat while the outside world is being attacked by fuzzy, murderous aliens, Save Yourselves is pretty much in the same vein as Shaun of the Dead, where unsuspecting protagonists are forced to deal with the sudden apocalypse, with an almost American sitcom like vibe. What's most impressive about this is the likeability of the two main characters, and the awkward yet hilarious manners they are forced to fight off the evil aliens. The ending is also the unquestionable highlight of the movie, which is going to blow some minds for sure.
Overall Save Yourselves is definitely a decent watch and a nice 90 minutes to kill, if not the best movie in the world.
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A weekend away with Su and Jack,
To get their Brooklyn life back on track.
Trying to disconnect,
Means they don't expect,
That the pouffes were on the attack. -
Oh, my God, the extent to which John Reynold's character in this film is relatable is physically painful. For better or worse (I like to kid myself and say mostly for better), I too am a millennial man who approaches "adult" things much like the way Reynolds's Jack does: simply hoping for the best.
This is a really funny, weird movie that feels perfect for this moment. Reynolds and Sunita Mani, who many will recognize from Netflix's GLOW, have great chemistry, are really likeable, and make this one of the most pleasant end times features I've seen in a good while. It occasionally smacks of other projects (mainly a combination of Seeking a Friend for the End of the World…
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A.V. Club review. A comedy for those, like myself, who think Shaun of the Dead peaks when Pegg wanders his neighborhood in a hung-over daze, oblivious to the zombies and carnage. Here, that danger bubble—created when our two heroes decide to unplug during a vacation in the country, cutting themselves off from the news and everyone they know—remains unpopped for fully half the movie, facilitating plenty of background gags while millennial oversensitivity gets razzed up front. Inspiration flags a bit once panic mode finally sets in, but the dialogue remains sharp ("Watch out, they're fast and sneaky." "Those are Earth-based attributes, but yeah, okay") and the aliens' combination of innocuously floofy body and deadly frog-like tongue (or proboscis?) makes…
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This is the perfect quarantine movie, especially for us millenials. I wish it would have actually had substance regarding society constantly needing technology 24/7. BUT, this was immensely enjoyable. It's inventive with great effects for a small budget, two quirky leads and I love how the first thing you see on screen is the following
"The Year Humankind Lost Planet Earth".
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This is a movie about the dangers that can happen when you disconnect and turn off your phone, so I used that as justification for playing on my phone the whole time while watching
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