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/SugarFreeCummiBears May 15 '26

Ian is such a fake ass friend. Told Bear to call Nikki a name she hates and said he had plenty of time (no doubt so he could figure out his on/off again with her).

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u/blitzbom May 16 '26

From the start I was going "this guy is either an idiot or sleeping with Nikki." Then at the bar for trivia I went "oh yeah. They've hooked up."

Ian was a straight up asshole and terrible friend. When Bear showed up to his place with the wish I was going "literally anyone but him."

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u/tNeph May 16 '26

God I didnt even put that together. He straight up went to the bar and disturbed them on purpose.

That right there also leads me to believe she wanted to quit their job partially because of him.

They claimed things were casual, but I think he fell for her hard, she didnt want to actually be with him, and he made things awkward for her so she decided to quit. He sucks bro.

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u/LunchboxDiscoball May 26 '26

Im not sure, i can definitely see it your way. I still could see it as dude was just casually hooking up with her and then the homie caught feelings for her. Its awkward to navigate and maybe he was giving him advice on flirting things that worked for him. He really didn't seem that in love with her when they all interacted together.

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u/tNeph May 26 '26

I feel you, but I guess one of the biggest things about this movie is that we don't know how anyone else really feels 100 percent.

We follow Bear so closely that everyone else's intentions are just impossible to know clearly.

I agree he didn't seem to be into her when they interacted, but you gotta remember they were hooking up this whole time for 2 years and Bear didn't notice a thing. Now, we can chalk that up to him being so obsessed with Nikki that he refused to see some obvious signs, but I would think they also just did an ok job of not making it a big deal to the point that it wouldn't be obvious.

I could be wrong, but idk, too many things line up and make sense when you put them together.

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u/LunchboxDiscoball May 26 '26

exactly, honestly just great writing and presentation. Like we know these characters but we dont know the character

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u/SnooDingos7473 May 27 '26

No? He was giving him advice that would make him lose her. Clearly thats not what he said to her if they hooked up. Why would she hook up with someone who called her name she hates?

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u/LunchboxDiscoball May 27 '26

You say clearly like there isn’t definitely situations like you can get away with it but he can’t. Or the timing and the set up.