It actually makes a ton of sense when you realize 80% of the movie is just Naomi Watts’ dream. One of the rare instances where that trick actually works in favor of the film.

My absolutely favorite part is when the Sheriff tells the Doc that if he was dying, he’d want to hear that he would be avenged. Then later as he is getting cut up, the Doc yells, “I’ll make sure you’re avenged!”

The sheer irony of him trying to comfort the Sheriff while simultaneously reminding him he’s about to die had me laughing so hard.

Personally I liked it at first, and hated it by the end. I expected a survival story with supernatural elements, like Lord of the Flies but with girls. Seemed like a cool premise.

Instead it’s basically a soap opera in the woods. It’s so unrealistic it ruined everything for me. The girls always find food exactly when they need it, they always have their hair and makeup done, they always have clean clothes, they focus on throwing a party instead of do anything to get rescued. No illness, no poison food, no bugs, no predators or wildlife until they need to kill something to eat, then animals just magically appear. There is no survival element to it at ALL. They act like bored girls at summer camp instead of plane crash survivors.

Even Lost made it feel like the characters actually had to survive while still balancing the supernatural elements.

If you don’t like it now, it only gets worse.

They’re all great, but Small Gods has stuck with me more than the others. I had to put it down so many times just from laughing or being in sheer awe.