This is yet another quirky/weird indie film that I felt I didn't really 'get' at all. I wasn't especially bothered about (or interested in) the characters and I didn't feel compelled to keep watching, although there is something mildly intriguing about it at times. It features sort of space-y type music which leads me to believe that the film was made with hopes of being regarded as some sort of art-y symbolic film but it doesn't work for me. Plus, what is it with the distorted, almost sort of trippy-ish, the voice of a talking cat - what's that all about?!. Suffice to say, I can't say I felt entertained by it and I wouldn't recommend it, no.

Miranda July's idiosyncrasies and quirkiness are not quite enough to float this meandering movie about ... two characters meandering around trying to find meaning and not finding it. Johnny C had to bail. I gotta go.

funny for a certain type of person, that person is not me.

I hated this movie. If you hated Weiner Dog, you will probably hate this movie even more like my husband and I did. I thought it was going to be a sweet, quirky movie about a cat who wonderfully changes a couple's lives. No, it is like the feel bad movie of the century. Plus, there are so many moments where nothing is happening; people are shuffling around.

This is the kind of arthouse film that makes one want to stick needles in their eyes.

The movie looks nothing like how the future will really look. This movie was filled with nonsense and unwanted characters and scenes that could have been pulled from the film. From the opening scene with the sickly sounding "cat" (that we find out later in the film) to the talking moon and the unexpected and unneeded superpowers, makes this film thrown into the garbage. While the opening scene really made my face, look confused and curious the opening shot of the two main characters sitting in a green filtered room made me feel uncomfortable and nauseous. To add onto my uncomfortable feeling was the awkward and quirky acting that made no sense in the film at all. The film had no plot to it and didn't make sense to anything that it showed us. The cat that was talking about wanting to go to his/her new home made no sense in this film and could have been happily and easily cut out since the voice sounded grossly sick and most importantly, it didn't help the main characters story at all. The cat was just a random item the director threw in to fill up the movie time to make it longer. When the cheating happened, I thought this was the climax of the film and maybe it will turn around and interesting things will happen, but it didn't, it got weirder and weirder. She lived with the man she cheated with and nothing special happened between them. She was still the same quirky and awkward girl that did strange things and the man just wanted sex which seemed like that was what their relationship was based around, and also, he's in his 50s while she's in her 20s? Isn't that a little weird? Let's not forget the superpowers that made no sense. I didn't understand what he did in the very beginning of the film when he "freezes" her and why she was still talking to him when she was frozen. Was she pretending? His powers never get explained in the film which I would have liked for them to add some interesting things to it. What I didn't get is when he stopped her at night when she was going to tell him she was cheating. He stopped her for almost the same time he did in the beginning but three days didn't go by at that time. So, why did so many days go by the second time he did it at night? Was it because of the moon? Was it because it was at night? Also, what's with the moon? This was the first time we even heard about the moon talking to this guy so why put it in at the very end of the movie to leave us questioning it? It makes no sense. Like how the movie started us with questions, it ends with even more questions making us say, "this movie is not worth seeing".

they almost lost me in the beginning, but i got there. now i have as many questions as answers, but isn't that the point? i just wish i could ask the creator if Jason has cancer. i suppose not, or he couldn't have met future jason...

Painfully annoying. Avoid.

I like how the film conveys emotions towards a subject with observable actions than just words. It's whimsical in that you would not use logic to watch it, which makes it a little interesting to my personal taste.

At the end of this crazy movie, one feels he or she has watched something quite profound, but has no idea why.

The most interesting, but sad part of this is the cat. This is about a couple who are boring and they decide to do something different. Both end up drifting apart, but it's just too boring to watch... to indie, mumblecore, whatever.

I found The Future somewhat tolerable, and in the days since I watched this "filmovie" I've found myself struggling to interpret Miranda July's work. In that sense, it's "art," but I can't say it's good art. There were some sincerely endearing and moving moments, mixed with quirk, pity and despair. That shouldn't necessarily be a negative; how many great pieces of art evoke whimsy, sadness, tears, hopelessness, fear for our future? This filmovie, however, left me fearful of the future of so called up-and-coming film artists. I struggled to realize a genuine point of contention between the two main characters (or the state of their lives), which is the fault of narration and direction. Atop this, there wasn't enough of a tipping point for me to realistically believe the after-climax narration. I understand that this "filmoive" was trying to deeply and critically analyze that point when adulthood becomes less of a choice and more of a fact of life, but it fails. Sizably.

Very weird and made no sense. Had read about it in an article about movies that were good but we might have missed. Not sure what the person who wrote the article was thinking.

"The Future" plays like a parody of Miss. July's previous movie, her performance and Hamish Linklater's are overdone, and any chance of the story expanding is blocked by (late to the game) post-modern experiments that fail to reward the viewer.

I thought "Me and You and Everyone We Know" was eccentric enough but "The Future" had multiple layers of eccentricity, which worked and didn't work to the film's advantage. I was swaying back and forth from liking it to finding it pointless to pondering its themes to disliking the characters of "The Future."

Strange movie in a good way. It certainly has something to do with Schrödinger's cat's paradox (alive and dead at the same time until an observer decides weather he's dead or alive, but the cat talks so he's conscious and it brings the paradox to another level like Wigner's interpretation or parallel universes), but frankly I didn't understand all of it (and if it's the case, I wonder if July really did). The photography is very good and the dialogues are quite original. It's a movie that makes you think and surprises you several times.

The Future is really a life-affirming film, once you look past its deep undertones of self-loathing and despair.

The Future is really a life-affirming film, once you look past its deep undertones of self-loathing and despair.

kind of a love / hate. would never recommend, but as background noise, there are some good bits that will stop you in whatever it is you are doing.

The weirdest script ever... Yet pretty clever and captivating.