The Invitation : Who was your favorite character?

Who was your favorite character?

I really liked Gina. I loved Will but other than that Gina was cool.

Eden seemed like she would have been cool pre-Mexico. She was so fake at the party. Same with David. He was probably a great guy to be around not on coke and before the cult.

Really disliked Pruitt. Sadie got on my last nerve in every scene she was in. I really despise the whole "look me at me I'm so shy and cute" with one leg curled back-thing she had going on.

The gay couple was a little obnoxious.

The only one I liked other than Gina and Will was Claire. She seemed the most level headed. Level headed enough to see that there was something very wrong long before anyone else did.. even though the signs were glaringly obvious.

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Pruitt

come on, the guy was the perfect freakazoid - huge, ominous, the unsmiling look he gives everyone. he put the creepy factor over, bigtime.

the movie would have been far less without him. in one of these threads, i read the screenwriter wrote the part with him personally in mind. good call.

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Eden was hot.Loved her big booty.but she wasn't my fav character.

my fav character was David at least till he lost his *beep* and creepy.

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Gina had to be my favorite. But i really felt for Kira in the end. She seemed to have the most development given the little screentime she had.

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Tommy. (SPOILERS)

He told Will earlier in the garden that he would keep him safe and he would protect him.

And even though I am sure how things went down is not what he had in mind when he said that, he did. In my opinion he deserves that blowjob that he asked for.

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Lol! ^You are so right!?????

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Tommy was mine too. Miguel also, but I loved that Tommy took out that chick and fought back and didn't run away as fast as he could and left the others behind.







Make him do it again - Ilithyia
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Will

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I didn't care for any of them. That didn't keep it from being compelling, however.

"We never would've made you mad if we knew you had superpowers!"

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Claire. Cuz she wasn't dumb enough to fall for this crap.

Even Tommy (who had the honor of finishing off the nightno spoiler here)was buying into the evening, acquiescing to the events before it all ended.

The other characters weren't that great. I did like Will, cuz he was the only other sensible person in the group. Kira was underused, but seemed cool.

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Claire was also my favorite.

Five minutes before she announced that she was leaving the party, I was wondering, "Why the hell are these folks staying?" I would have politely excused myself and got the hell out of dodge. The cult video, the odd behavior of Eden and her boyfriend, and the new friends straight out of an episode of "The Adams Family" would have made me leave.

Claire was the only one who seemed to have any wits to her. Sure, Will suspected that something wasn't right but he didn't follow through on his concerns until it was too late. Claire bolted immediately when she was uncomfortable.

Re: Who was your favorite character? *SPOILERS*


Tommy. (SPOILERS)

He told Will earlier in the garden that he would keep him safe and he would protect him.


WowI'd kind of forgotten that part. I was actually (*SPOILERS*) really happy that Tommy survived. It was unexpected (when he sort of disappeared for a while at the end I just assumed he'd been killed by Sadie's slashing knife attack) in terms of who you'd expect to live. And his line "I need to go back to get Miguel" at the end was heartbreaking.

Tommy surviving also shows the massive flaw in the the cult's plan. Tommy now has to live with the loss of a loved one. Just think: for every person they "saved" that night, they would be pushing siblings, spouses, parents, friends, etc into a whole new level of pain. The cult is "solving" their own problem, but creating a ripple effect of pain that will impact a ton of other people.


I also had an affection for Tommy's character because of being so familiar with the actor from his work on SVU.

I really liked Kira, just because she seemed very level-headed and real.

I liked Will because even in his worst moments he was incredibly sincere in his grief and his guilt over his son's death.

I liked Claire because she had the guts to leave the party. And she did it in such a respectful way: "Hey, this isn't my idea of fun. You guys enjoy yourself." Given the whole theme of the movie, seeing someone who was willing to stand up to peer pressure was really refreshing.

David was SO patronizing and smarmy. And while I thought that the actress did a good job, I felt like the character of Gina was just the worst. She asks a person with a history of addiction for drugs (I know it was a joke at first, but why would you do drugs right in front of a recovering addict?). She plays along with Sadie, who is giving off serious mental illness/creepy vibes. I felt like Gina was egging on some really unstable behaviors in the other guests, which is naturally going to make an already-tense situation worse.

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hands down, Claire and Tommy.

Claire was awesome, looked really nice, smart, sensible etc.
Tommy was solid IMO, I liked the talk he had with the main dude in the back, seemed like a really good guy.
I'd say Tommy's boyfriend but I HATED that he called the dude out about the pills, the guy is obviously a very serious person and to throw him under the bus was kind of annoying to me.


Side note, to the person calling David out, I respected how serious/protective david was actually and I don't think he just "got out" because those people were all his friends, so he felt obligated to stay and make sure everything actually was "OK" like eden and her husband kept assuring, or to make his move convince/save his friends if there really was danger.
Kinda struck me as an quiet alpha wolf type not to sound corny, saying that I think is fitting considering the intro scene with the wolf and the car, you see that he grew slightly unkempt facial hair etc.

notice also that he refrained from drinking most of the night, not saying it's super alpha and badass to not drink, but I liked how he stayed alert.

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Side note, to the person calling David out, I respected how serious/protective david was actually and I don't think he just "got out" because those people were all his friends, so he felt obligated to stay and make sure everything actually was "OK"


I think you're talking about Will, not David (Will is the main character, David is Eden's new husband), but I agree with you. We get introduced to Will first (in that really intense coyote scene) and so we latch onto him and come to think of his survival as being the most important. But those are his friends, and he has an uneasy feeling about what is happening.

Even though there wasn't a ton of character building with the secondary characters, I thought that the actors had a believable chemistry as a friend group. It was enough that I understood why they all stayed and put up with some of the weirder things (like Will's outburst or the cult video).

And Will already feels like he failed as a protector (because of his son), so I think that he is really sensitive to not letting his guard down. You see that in moments like him offering to walk Claire to her car and watching her leave.

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All the normal friends

I'm not crazy, I just don't give a fck!

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Will is the best character

Tommy and Pruit I like because one is a good 'nice' character and the other a good villain

she fell through a hole, and was never seen again

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Claire for having the sense to leave. Will and Gina were likeable too.

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Will, Kira, Tommy, Choi (lol he was in one scene for like 5 mins but he seemed like a good guy with a great personality) I did like Gina except for the ONE part where she asked for Coke in a recovering addicts home. But I let her off the hook a little because 1) David the "recovering" coke addict KEPT COKE IN HIS HOUSE? and 2) David was planning on killing all their friends that night. So, even though that was an insensitive and selfish move on Gina's part, she had been drinking, and she was even kidding, even though the comment itself is insensitive but he ENDED UP HAVING THE COKE LOL. So, how can you stay mad at her really? Lots of people disliked her but I thought she was really fun and cute. I also liked Claire, because the minute she said she wanted to leave it reminded me of me. I am fun and goofy like Gina but also confident and level headed and if I feel weird, I am confident enough to not give a eff and get myself out of the weird feeling environment not caring what people think. I've done it many times. So I could relate to her the most actually. And the other guy who's wife wasn't there I forget his name he was just meh. Was his name Ben?

Eden, David, Pruitt Sadie and Miguel all reaaaallly annoyed me.

Eden just acted crazy and fake. In the kitchen she literally says "You don't need to feel anger" and then slaps Ben across the face with rage lol. CLEARLY you're full of *beep* and not ok hun.

David- Just an a-hole.

Pruitt- EFFING psycho path! What an a-hole!

Sadie- Crazy. Annoying.

Miguel- Obnoxious. When he immediately told David "Will thinks you guys are on pills" Like why? Just why? lol

Ben or whatever his name was- Yeah I can't even remember his name so it that's why he's just meh. He wasn't too annoying or too cool he was just there..

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Ben. For taking a bitch slap with a smile.

Eden. That dress. That ass. Yummmm

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"Who was your favorite character?"

death.

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Kira easily. She did what I haven't seen in a movie in a long time finish the bad guy completely the heck off. I felt good when she kept hitting him over and over.

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Will.

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a) Will

b) the actor who played him - did a really believable job.
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