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[Krieg]

I think that perhaps the worst thing is how it tries to continue to lead you on. The father has no reason at all to send the blind girl. He knows things are fake. Why do one of the other elders, who are all in on it, not go? The father cannot, since I'd assume he'd be recognized as the crazy billionaire. I get that. But why choose her? Did they go over that and I just blocked it out of my mind?[/i]

The other elders refused to go because of the oath they all swore. They pressured Edward Walker to hold true to his oath and not go which is why he bypassed it by sending his daughter.

It's only luck that she doesn't die horribly when she falls into the huge hole.

Now I'd thought near the end that the movie could have taken a really dark turn, that they never planned for her to come back at all so they could continue to keep the legend of the creatures alive.

They did use Noah's death as proof of the creatures existence.

 

[Pielorinho]

Yup, how foolish of them to hide a costume in a place you almost never use, and when it is used it contains one mentally challenged person.

A far worse place would be out in the open in an abandoned barn where you have told young boys not to go. They'd be off like a shot.

I'm not sure whether you're being sarcastic with the first sentence--I do consider that pretty foolish. After all, the way he's mentally challenged is that he's prone to fits of playful, sadistic violence. A monster suit is really the last thing he needs easy access to.

But yeah, the second point is good: labelling something "Forbidden Fruit" has never been the best way to keep young kids from checking it out. I hadn't even thought about that. They shoulda called it "The Barn of Character-Building Chores," forced kids to muck it out regularly, and hidden the suits under the nastiest hay or something.

Daniel

 

[BryonD]

A metagame (er, metamovie) error at the beginning, what with the false date on the gravestone that could fool nobody but the viewer.

Most of the population were not aware of the true date.

Of course there isn't any reason that the leaders could not have simply told them "It is 2004, time to milk the cow." But, then again, I think the ones that knew were trying to fool themselves more than they were trying to fool anyone else.

I didn't care for the idea that the simple-minded guy just happened to find the suit and then figured everything out and played along. Perhaps they just did not establish the nature of his issues well enough, but that seemed an overly easy plot device.

That aside, I thought it was fairly decent.

 

[Pielorinho]

Most of the population were not aware of the true date.

Of course there isn't any reason that the leaders could not have simply told them "It is 2004, time to milk the cow." But, then again, I think the ones that knew were trying to fool themselves more than they were trying to fool anyone else.

The first paragraph is kind of my point: if the tombstone had said, "John Doe, year 1 bajillion-1 bajillion and six," it wouldn't have suggested anything strange to the kids. So why bother lying about the dates? The idea that they're trying to fool themselves is intriguing.

I didn't care for the idea that the simple-minded guy just happened to find the suit and then figured everything out and played along. Perhaps they just did not establish the nature of his issues well enough, but that seemed an overly easy plot device.

That aside, I thought it was fairly decent.

Interesting--I actually didn't have any problem with crazyboy's motives. He didn't seem stupid to me so much as emotionally incompetent.

The adults, however....when the girl is told that the monsters are fake, she's all, "But dude, what about the freakin' skinned to death livestock?!" And dad is all, "Meh, chill out, it was probably just one of the elders, but whatever." Personally, if I've devoted my life to lying to my kids about how violent the world is in order to protect them, and one of my co-conspirators tortures Sparky to death while I'm square-dancing, I'm gonna take it seriously. Maybe that's just me.

Edit: Meant to add that, apart from these flaws, I thought it was a great movie. It's just that it's kinda like saying, "Man, except for the rotten egg, this a fantastic milkshake!"

Daniel

 

[Stone Angel]

I hated it the first time I had seen it not because of the movie but the experience. Some guy was laughing through the whole thing really loud and it was packed and others started laughing too. Really ruined my suspension of disbelief.

The second time I had a much better experience and enjoyed it.

The Seraph of Earth and Stone

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

I'm not sure whether you're being sarcastic with the first sentence--I do consider that pretty foolish. After all, the way he's mentally challenged is that he's prone to fits of playful, sadistic violence. A monster suit is really the last thing he needs easy access to.

I was being sarcastic. It's been a while, and I was thinking that he was a little less mentally competant than he evidently was. But anyways, I still think that it was a good hiding place. Better than the barn, anyways.