I remember seeing the trailer for this movie a while ago and I was kinda excited to see it. It's always nice to see Steve Carell in something and a lot of other comedians I liked where in it too. So I was really happy to see it pop up on Netflix the other day.
*Spoilers after this*
It seemed to really explore all the different scenarios that would play out in a modern pre-apocalyptic world. Once everyone realizes that they only have 3 weeks to live they seem to still project a sense of well being but everyone's a lot more reckless and desperate which is pretty funny to watch play out. Probably my favorite part of the movie was this scene with Patton Oswald about how the apocalypse has "Leveled the Playing Field"
His level of degradation is a perfect example of what all of these people are feeling at the party. Shortly after this moment a woman announces to everyone that someone brought heroin as if it was a bottle of champagne. Everyone is doing all of these things that they would only do because its the end of the world while out main character is just depressed the whole time and then attempts suicide. This is where it started to take a turn for me.
After his suicide attempt he gets stuck with a dog for some reason and ends up meeting one of those "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" played by Keira Knightley. At this point I'm having some trouble writing about the movie actually. I could go into the characters but there are so many characters and the only ones who are in more than two scenes are Steve Carell and Keira Knightleys' character. This would be fine but we really don't even get to know these characters very well besides their Introvert and Extrovert stereotypes. It's almost like every scene is used to learn more about the characters they meet along their way and then we never see them again. By the end the only thing different about our main character is that he fell in love with the other main character and then the world ends.
Overall I feel like this concept for a movie has a lot of potential and the filmmakers realized that. However it just feels that maybe it was too rushed for what was expected of this movie. There are a lot of different quirky qualities about a lot of the characters we meet but because we don't have anytime to explore them they just seem forced. Probably exactly how this post feels because I started writing about this movie and realized halfway through that I had nothing to say.
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