Netflix's CHOOSE OR DIE was a Quibi Reject | Explained

So i liked this movie for being a fun ride

see, i think this might have actually made a better quibi. if it was mini encounters with the game rather than a full arc with one cast. you never take it far enough to hit the obvious flaws and plot holes. there could be small details about the curse revealed in each video. ignoring the fact that quibi was never gonna work.

You know Netflix is desperate for content when they take Quibi rejects.

I was sort of hoping they'd do this movie in a bandersnatch sort of way and let the audience choose the path. Like... I think all of the issues would have been fixed if it were interactive and and a choose-your-own-adventure format. What a missed opportunity! It was the perfect format to do so!

“but who knows if they’re gonna get greenlit for it…” it’s netflix. they’re making 6 after movies. have made 2 365 days and 2 tall girls. they’ll green light anything if people talk about it enough.

YEP Elvis got his out first that bastard I'm sure it's great go watch it too. Yes Doctor Strange video is coming.

I love how curs>r is spelled with a greater than symbol showing how the game is more powerful than reality

With this specific show, it feels like it would’ve been better to have mini episodes focusing on a different person going through only one level of the game each; letting us see how different people react differently or the same to this game, despite how different they all appear on the surface. And with that, you can slowly build up the rules of your game across the entire season and the bigger mystery. Episode 1's Protagonist has already started at Level 5 before we arrived to the story, so we're just plopped right in the horror show, having no idea what's happening or who this person is. Just the gruesome horror of it all. Episode 2's Protagonist, we see is paranoid and clearly avoiding something. We come to see they've gotten rid of all their electronics and have isolated themselves, but going even further, they've gotten rid of anything that could become a "screen," like windows or mirrors. At the end, much to their horror, they see the game insists upon being played no matter what. The game won't be ignored and since the Protagonist got rid of all its potential "screens," it starts to carve the words through their own skin – “Level 4. Start.” Episode 3's Protagonist, isn't one of the players, but one of the people being controlled by the game or player. Maybe it's the diner waitress, and we see her interacting with different people who are all on their phones or laptops, and then something strange begins to happen. Perhaps we see she fully thinks eating glass is her own choice, we even hear her say "I'm starving," before she starts gobbling down the glass much to our and the diner's patrons’ horror. Or going in another way, some unknown force controls her and she's struggling to fight against it, but can't stop herself. People start to call for help, she collapses and we hear the diner door open (the bell) and quickly shut, as an unknown person rushes to leave the scene with their laptop. In the dead eyes of the waitress, we see the words -- "Level 3 Completed. Thanks for playing." Episode 4's Protagonist is eager to play. They are having fun doing this to other people. They are enjoying tormenting the people in their lives. This is a sick twisted game and they are loving every second they are having with it and controlling their "loved ones." I think it could work well if this protagonist was a teenager or a kid. And we see that the people they are controlling are their parents who are terrified of what's going to happen as they've already been injured from the previous level. The game prompts a choice and the kid tells them what it says. Perhaps at the start the parents were a united front. Willing to take the injury for the other, but as the level gets more and more intense, we see them turn on one another. Begging their kid to spare them and to just hurt the other, as they reveal more and more horrific things about one another to the kid, to get them to hurt the other parent. Really showing how twisted this family and these parents were before the game enter the kid's life. At the end of the level, the kid proclaims that Level 1 was so much more fun than this level and walks off to get a snack, leaving one of the parents to clean up the body of their spouse. Episode 5's Protagonist, we see starts out without the game and we see how they come across it, how the game established itself and its rules, and how it kind of lures the player into playing the game, based on how they react to it's prompts. Perhaps it starts out harmless enough, bending reality, as this person is more of the cautious sort or just not a psychopath. "Get another drink? Yes, or No?" They select yes and one appears right before them, you know that kind of thing. As they continue with level 1, the game starts being like the game we know it actually is and things get worse for this episode's Protagonist. After the harrowing experience of level 1 - the game informs the person that they won level 1. It also tells them what the consequences will be if they stop playing or try not to play, or cheat. As well as the potential reward for winning all the levels. Perhaps at the end of this episode or throughout all of them, we see that they all have a connection to the company named Kismet. Laying out the bigger mystery of this story and making us wonder if these people were in fact just randomly chosen by this supernatural force, or instead another person chose them specifically for whatever reason, to test them or just sees what happens.

I get that I'm overthinking the premise,but "torture choice" stories don't work for me. Why would you trust Torture Guy,when he's Torture Guy? One might figure he has issues. He seems unreliable. Why would you have any plan but fight or outfox Torture Guy? The other options are so horrible as to not be worth considering. Dying in defiance is kinda heroic. It's better then being torn up forever. I get that the overall artistic point is that people will supposedly do anything to survive. But I smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol. I want one of these where the target just lights a smoke,"We all gotta die,crazy guy".

The most unrealistic thing about horror movies now, is them fighting so hard to survive. In this economy? Like why?

The part that really got to me in this movie is the characters just like...accepting stuff and being chill. Like the two protagonists just talking and eating noodles knowing that in a few minutes a game that had LITERALLY KILLED SOMEONE BEFORE will booth up. There are not enough freak outs in this movie, feels fake.

This is one of the rare times I've actually watched something Amanda is talking about. Idk if I should be happy about that

I laughed when you said 'with kid's gloves' instead of 'with kid gloves'. Just picturing someone trying to gently handle the characters while wearing those mittens made for babies.

Frankly, the prize money in this flick should have been adjusted for inflation.

I actually really liked the fuck the eighties moment because I swear I have almost given my uncle an aneurysm for saying I don't care about the 80s just because he had a good time in them.

I liked this movie, honestly. I thought it was a fun throwback to 80's cheese with some really good sequences. The part when she thinks she's controlling her mother to save her only to realize she's controlling the rat and trying to kill her mother is great. The simple visuals of the game plus the mother's terrified screams are brutal. It's no masterpiece but it's not trying to be. It's a cheesy, fun romp and I had a good time with it.

I feel like they could have had a scene of the beginning of both of them playing the game where it asks what they each want. For him it could be like "for them to pay attention", then you see him backspace 9 times hit enter. For her maybe we don't see until the end. But the idea that this cursed game might give you a wish rather than just a lump sum of money probably would have helped give the characters motivation and inform what choices they were given.

The first scene didn't make any sense, because it says her ears/his tongue, choose or die. He doesn't choose, but he also doesn't die, because the game chooses "his tongue" for him. So it takes like 5 minutes before the movie breaks its own rules.

A cool rule for the curse if it really is someone coming up with the choices would be that you cant make someone choose between options you already gave them. Like, for example, if you want someone to do x and you make the choices "do x or cut off your hand" and they choose to cut off their hand, you cant just keep spamming "do x or suffer" until they do it.

The girl that had to literally eat broken glass really made me flinch. Incredibly brutal given that she was aware while doing it but couldn't control it.