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millenniumgroup — 16 years ago(September 19, 2009 11:51 AM)
The only "brain damage" in this thread is the ones who actually thought it was realistic or even possible for that cop to be alive at all. I just watched the movie (heard great things about it) and my god what a waste of my time.
Other than great special effects this movie is full of gigantic plot holes and very unrealistic events. Yes realism is possible in a horror flick. The more fleshed out charactes the more we cary, and the greater the horror really is.
Here's a few things that ruined the movie for me:
*Cop not calling for backup after hearing the gun shots
*Getting your nerves in your face torched makes you to pass out of chock (trust me on this one)
*The fat cop acting all stupid
*And finally the best part the so called cop who acted like a "zombie" that was so beep over the top and unrealistic it really shattered everything I had left for the movie.
My review 4.5 out of 10, nothign special at all except for great effects.
@DontAnswerThePhone
I respect your opinion on this movie, although I would love to know how you actually think this is a great movie but that's besides the point. How on earth can you even belive the cop is still alive and still functional? I realise this is a movie (fiction) but this is too much.
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JackAteSally — 16 years ago(September 19, 2009 02:39 PM)
I guess the simplest way for me to put it is that I realize that I don't really sit and pick movies apart like many people do. In the end, I'm able to realizing what I'm watch is a movie. You could pick apart any movie. I loved it, one of my favorite movies now. You didn't. That's probably as deep as it goes.
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millenniumgroup — 16 years ago(September 20, 2009 10:41 AM)
by DontAnswerThePhone
I guess the simplest way for me to put it is that I realize that I don't really sit and pick movies apart like many people do. In the end, I'm able to realizing what I'm watch is a movie. You could pick apart any movie. I loved it, one of my favorite movies now. You didn't. That's probably as deep as it goes.
Yes that's true I guess, but honestly it's not like over-analyzed this one. It's just that I presume if there's a police officer I expect the actor to you know act like a police?
Otherwise you're breaking the suspension and the belief of terror. It doesn't matter if the story is unrealistic, if you can't have the main characters act their roles/professions the movie will start loose it's tension, that's my opinion.
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englisher101 — 12 years ago(December 06, 2013 04:32 PM)
I think in spite of the lack of realism, the acting of the protagonist was superb enough to put this aside (for me anyway). We can find horror films with more realistic screenplays but I think it's the performance that ultimately sells it in the end.
I'm also wondering why realistic behavior is important to you in horror films, since most of them would totally fail in this regard. Most of the great horror writers would be considered very poor writers when we start questioning the behavior of the characters in such situations (though many have a bit more leeway considering that they're often dealing with supernatural elements). I really think far more important is directing, atmosphere, acting that makes a horror film truly horrific. -
ricky1319 — 15 years ago(January 31, 2011 07:22 PM)
Wait so its not possible to be alive after getting shot in the head? Tell that to the woman from Arizona that got shot in the head and is..omg ALIVE..She was even talking at the scene too. So to say its not possible to be alive is ridiculous.
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TheMuss1 — 16 years ago(September 25, 2009 08:24 PM)
I just finished watching the movie and I thought that it wasn't the police officer but rather the kid who got the scissors to the head. After she did that to him, he removed it and fell to the ground. I don't think he was dead but rather just brain damaged from it which would explain why he acted the way he did after turning the lights on. He most likely assumed she was the the other woman so he instinctively attacked her. Personally, I didn't really enjoy the scene as I thought it was just too far out in terms of realism but I understand why it was there.
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renjack81 — 12 years ago(March 19, 2014 03:15 AM)
Finally, someone who understood what happened. IT WASN'T THE COP, IT WAS THE KID!!!!!! Disoriented after scissors to the head, the last thing on his mind before getting stabbed was turning the electricity on. This is what's on his mind when he comes to. I think turning the lights on gives him a zap of some kind and gets the panda eyes as a result.
NO ZOMBIES.
She's the one that is confused, calling him "officer" once or twice.
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Yipyapyoup — 10 years ago(November 13, 2015 10:06 PM)
Lmao what? Dude watch the scene again, it's the cop. How did you confuse his face, his clothes, his haircut, the fact that he has a police baton on his belt AND the fact that his brain injury isn't centered and isn't a hole like a scissor would do?
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ncg001 — 15 years ago(April 01, 2011 03:17 PM)
WOW. good stuff. (D) was my favorite of your explanations and its personally exactly how i felt at the time. we thought at the moment Sarah was going to persevere. boy were we wrong.
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CaZSuede — 16 years ago(August 12, 2009 06:48 AM)
Was it the cop or the perp?
I thought it was the perp. After he is impaled, they linger on his face, leading me to believe he would come back.
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themirrorsofmymind — 10 years ago(May 13, 2015 07:00 PM)
WOW! The cop handcuffed the perp and also gave him a belt with a slot to hold a
nightstick
?
Right
Anyone who believes that must have
A. Only viewed this film
once
and in the chaos of all the unrelenting violent imagery, became horribly confused.
B. Seen the film multiple times but can't grasp what actually happened in that scene because they are either visually impaired or are suffering from a little brain damage themselves.
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CyberGhostface-1 — 16 years ago(August 12, 2009 08:52 PM)
He attacked Sarah because, in his state of mind, he thought she was La Femme.
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SeisCinemaSeis — 16 years ago(September 03, 2009 05:39 AM)
I really hate that scene. Until that moment the movie worked as a very good piece of gore with a "realistic" approach thanx to the inclusion of racial riots as a backdrop for the film. But then the "zombie" appears and everything becomes a mess.
Why a "zombie" scene was suddenly included? I have no idea. I just know that it doesn't works. That scene feels taken from a completely different movie.