 Whoo, I have feelings. Hello, everybody. E here. Welcome to a review slash spoiler discussion slash Whatever you want to call it. We're gonna do a deeper dive into the bird box movie and the book So right up front if you're worried about spoilers for either one because I'm gonna be talking about what I liked and didn't like about both ones this isn't book versus movie because I don't remember the book all that much all I have to go on is my review of it That is from 2014 But all I remember about the book is what I didn't like so if you are worried about spoilers Please click away now. So I'm gonna jump right into it one of the main Problems I had with the book was the main character Mallory completely one-dimensional is a very lazy author tactic Especially for a male author if you want to make your female characters if you want to make people care about your female characters You make them pregnant That's the easiest way to do it because nobody wants to see a pregnant woman Anything bad happened to a pregnant woman either that or make it either single mother or that kind of thing It's a very overused tactic by especially male authors and I had a problem with that When I first had my review up I caught a lot of flak because the strong woman ideal I even got I got threats for death threats. I got threats of doxing Since then I have moved from the last address. It was somebody who'd bought in a book from me. I shipped to them I put my actual address on the package and they threatened to tell everybody about it If I didn't get rid of the review. So I got rid of the review. I buckled. I won't do it again mistakes are made But as far as now, I have the link to the review. I guess they didn't even know it was up I forgot it was up, but it's on book likes So if you want proof that they literally changed everything that I ditched about in the book to suit the movie Which is a little bit of validation it if you would like to actually read that I will link it down there in the comments below Next up with another huge problem I had with the book is you of course you never see the monsters, but on top. I don't I don't mind that like I say in their view I can dig leaving the monster to the Imagination of the reader what I can't dig is not having anything whatsoever to go off of this movie Completely fix that there are scenes with the leaves coming up the shadows the noises the the Might probably one of my favorite scenes and it's very early on is when Charles is explaining a possibility That these things might be demons that show you your sphere your sadness Whatever that is a terrific scene and that's all I really wanted from the book if there was a scene like that in the book Then I completely missed it. I don't think there is but because I remember throughout the entire book I'm like, why doesn't anybody say something about what are these things? Why don't they even just go into some kind of speculation? Next thing the kids with the names of course they did not change the name aspect But one of my aggravations with that is if even calling the children boy and girl You're calling those children By a name even if it is boy or girl It's kind of like I say if you're gonna cuss and you change fucking to freaking you're still cussing because the intention is there You know if you call the child boy and girl Yeah, and it's really obvious early on even in them in the movie who whose child is who I had a Huge problem with the fact that this one person and not just because she's a woman But this one person was able to survive for four and a half years with two children from infancy Infancy and never did they describe how she did it not once about farming or anything Which they put in the movie not once did they mention that she had any help Tom survives longer in the movie Not once do they tell you how she managed to keep a blindfold on two toddlers by herself Obviously actually I'm actually just guessing here But I'm gonna go ahead and guess that Josh Mailerman has no children because keeping a blindfold on one toddler would be bad enough I'm not too worried about the infant part, but a toddler Keeping a blindfold on the toddler would be relatively impossible, but two of them. That's just nuts I mean there is so many things wrong with that Next up I have Gary in the basement problem if you read my review I don't remember anything of this other than Gary ends up hiding in the basement And I think they got really dawn character completely, but Gary's in the movie One guy sneaks the other guy in the basement and then some shenanigans happen at the end But they got completely rid of dawn I believe and they replaced him with Douglas there might have been a Douglas in the book John Malkovich Really truly nailed that role. I love that character I also love Sandra Bullock's character for the reason why I talk about the reason when I talk about at the beginning of this video She added heart and emotion and she made me love the character of Mali Mount Mallory She was so there was so much feeling there and all of that was missing from the book in the book in this one Tom is more of a love interest. He survives. I love Tom Tom's my favorite Tom was actually my favorite character in the book He's the only one who felt like a real person while all the rest of the characters felt like characters You know you have this person basically It's like he was checking off boxes like I need this type of person this type of person this type of person they did keep and I didn't go into to too much detail on this but they did keep the fact that the The odd coincidence of having two women pregnant the exact same time going into labor at the exact same time like they syncing up periods I'm not sure if that really works what happens. I was talking to shell about it She hadn't heard anything about it. I could probably ask some other women I don't know. I could probably even ask an OBGYN friend of mine. It just seemed rather odd To have that double problem. I guess it's so at the end she can have the war back and forth in which child She loves more hers or the other one. I have no idea Which brings me to the ending of the book. There is an absolutely ridiculous scene at the end of the book where Olivia I guess it is the the second pregnant woman gets jumps out of a window after seeing the creatures and She I'm stuck. Oh, I have I have a moment every time I think about this I was checking. I told shell and she'll do something What what? The woman swinging from a window that she just jumped jumped out of by her umbilical cord You kid I mean it's in the book y'all and I guess he's trying to make it super creepy because you could like hear her Sliding against the wall or something like that But I was laughing the entire time and to have a book so literary and so stark And then throw in this goofy ass like it's almost like a scene out of like a Friday the 13th movie To throw that in there at the end. It's completely killed all of the tension for me But that's everything but I really want to it kind of I don't kind of roll around in the validation here every single problem that I had With with the with the book was fixed in the movie. I caught so much shit So much shit early on when I did this review because I was just a hater I was looking too far into it. I was this I was a misogynist. I was sexist I was all this stuff all of that was ridiculous as well And then the doc the threats of doxing and death threats and all this crap that popped up And it's some lady named Melody something like that. I don't know but anyways. I've long since blocked her But to see all of that stuff changed in the movie and to see it work Really really well is just a little bit of validation. Am I tooting my own horn? Hell, yeah I am because I caught so much shit over that only to turn around and find out that they fixed every single problem I had with it in the movie So how do you feel about bird box? Please comment down below. Please tell me why you liked it That's the one thing I look at this book and I don't understand I would love to talk to people who would actually want to talk about why the book was good Considering all the stuff I just talked about same thing with it like a Paul Tremblay's head full of ghosts Do you like that one? It's just a reboot of the exorcist There's so much horror out there coming out right now that I don't understand the popularity of It just seems like it's very basic low-level stuff, but it gets a lot of praise So am I just on the outside? I'm on the outside. What is it? Let's talk about this down there in the comments below, but until next time I have any you've been you It's been a movie review kind of rambling video. I'll talk to you guys later