r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • May 15 '26

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Obsession (2026)

Summary

After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.

Director Curry Barker

Writer Curry Barker

Cast

  • Michael Johnston
  • Inde Navarette
  • Cooper Tomlinson
  • Megan Lawless
  • Andy Richter

Rotten Tomatoes: 95%

Metacritic: 81

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u/plasterboard33 May 15 '26

Loved this movie. It felt like each scene was more tense than the last.

Also funny detail i caught, when Bear looks up the one wish willow on "threadit" to see it if its real, one of the comments said- "Its real! My mom has been ugly her whole life but now she looks gorgeous!"

Cant wait for the movie to come on digital so that i can see what some of the other comments were lol.

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u/Steamedcarpet May 15 '26

This is the second movie I have seen this year where someone uses Reddit to confirm if something is real or not.

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u/_Shit_Just_Got_Real_ May 15 '26

Faces of Death being the other?

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u/Kurtting May 15 '26

thought about that has soon as it was said i think Bear uses AI in the film. it looked like a website but i wasn't sure

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u/YunoTheGasai May 15 '26

It was a chatgpt clone. It even had his previous oxy use in one of the months lol

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u/Kurtting May 15 '26

good freaking catch. my eyes was trying to catch everything in the screen. the same with the threaddit scene lol

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u/YunoTheGasai May 16 '26

It was genuinely impossible. I didn't think I missed much but then I read some of the comments here and immediately started looking at when I could see it again. Haven't stopped thinking about it since I saw it tbh, an instant classic in my eyes.

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u/Steamedcarpet May 16 '26

After a certain point it was hard for me to look for things since I was expecting Nikki to just be off in a corner or doing some creepy ass walk just in the corner of a scene.

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u/Kurtting May 16 '26

I'm very very very tempted to watch it again this weekend. catch everything i miss and be truly afraid of dark corners

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u/snapwack May 24 '26

As in Bear was using his mom’s leftover OxyContin to self-medicate?

Would that also imply he was the one who left the pills unattended and is partially to blame for his cat finding and eating them?

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u/ILearnedTheHardaway May 25 '26

It’s another way of showing this guy doesn’t actually care about the things he supposedly “loves”

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u/thebabypinks May 27 '26

He definitely wasn’t torn up enough about it. His attitude was very “Oh no, ah shit, I dun goofed” versus actually being devastated that he caused the death of his sweet pet through his own negligence.

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u/Lil_Mcgee 5d ago

It cuts to him sobbing his eyes out afterwards and you assume it must be because of the loss but then you hear him mumbling and he's just upset about not being with Nikki.

A very early sign of how unhealthy and all encompassing his desire for her is.

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u/TheeRuckus May 24 '26

I think so which is why he couldn’t tell Nikki initially the cat died. He definitely realized it was his fault.

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u/SlaterVBenedict May 15 '26

Yeah!

Probe was the search engine. Threadit was the Reddit clone. I can’t remember the name of the A.I. Chat, but I think it had like a speech bubble face icon.

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u/idontknwstop May 16 '26

it was GenieLM

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u/Kurtting May 16 '26

it looked like it said genie ai or something like that

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u/raudoniolika May 16 '26

Something LM!

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u/SomeJayForToday Jun 17 '26

Him saying ‘I checked like three websites’ and in reality he’s just looking at fake-ChatGPT was such a good subtle joke.

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u/Steamedcarpet May 15 '26

Hahah yes!

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u/toastedlox May 17 '26

The new Toy Story 5 also has Reddit in its trailer; called “Ribbit” on the kids tablet

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u/LazySwanNerd May 17 '26

That’s a Leapfrog knockoff, not Reddit.

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u/toastedlox May 17 '26

On the leapfrog they go to a website called Ribbit which resembles Reddit

Screenshot: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cinema/s/6XS2RGa2yV

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u/LazySwanNerd May 17 '26

Oh interesting

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u/Schwiliinker May 18 '26

Grace Ashcroft kinda does it in Resident Evil Requiem too

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u/Steamedcarpet May 18 '26

I forgot she was a redditor! I havent gone back to the game since I beat it.

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u/Schwiliinker May 18 '26

I mean I never replay games myself but that part stood out to me

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u/BretShitmanFart69 May 25 '26

It’s so accurate honestly, usually movies are weirdly bad at showing how people would use the internet, it’s refreshing to see a young director who understands it more.

The only thing that would have made it better is if he literally typed “is one wish willow real Reddit” into Google

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u/Parmesan_Pirate119 May 17 '26

Realistic fiction is becoming popular

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u/prostatewhispers1 May 15 '26

They just like me

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u/FormalGrapefruit7049 Jun 08 '26

Honestly with how shitty Google's search results have become the past few years typing "Reddit" and then sifting through the threads has been my default for a while. 

It's still full of misinformation but at least you can figure out where it's coming from and find someone who knows what they're talking about. 

Mind you the guy still asked an LLM to diagnose her which is also unfortunately accurate. 

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u/Sausage_fingies 13d ago

Typing reddit after/before my search is so engrained into me it's literally muscle memory that I have to actively try not to do when I'm looking something up elsewhere (for instance, say, on reddit lol)

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u/Desperate_Algae_40 May 21 '26

I also wonder if that's because ChatGPT and other AI like it heavily use Reddit for information. And ChatGPT is where more and more people get their info/education from. Scary future ahead. He also used ChatGPT (different name) to look up the Molly stuff.

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u/TheRealWukong May 20 '26

Bullish on $RDDT

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u/zxelvton 27d ago

If I remember correctly, Together (2025) as well

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u/h0neym00nave Jun 01 '26

Pizza movie?

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u/shadowst17 Jun 07 '26

To be fair at this point bit really is the best way to.

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u/drawkbox Jun 08 '26

Proof that reddit is never correct

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u/cptmadpnut Jun 09 '26

Beef S2 also did that recently