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AAAAAAAAAHHHHH, GET IN THE DAMN HELICOPTER!!!


RANT: I almost ripped my god damn pubes out watching this frustrating film just now. Why did they d*** around so damn much? Right, I understand why he went back for his girlfriend in the first place, but i gotta say even though i love my girlfriend as much as i do, after the third date would I have really went back for her? I dont think think so, but good on Harry he did the right thing, but if he loved the girl so much why did he treat the situation so casually? He wastes so much time on everything he does. He should have lifted his girl right away, ran to the car telling the old folks they could make up later, but instead harry lets them "go ahead" with the car and puts his girl into a shopping cart??? No harry you get in the damn car and drive to the building. Then when they get the pilot and he hears his girl call from around the corner, instead of running right back to the building they decide to investigate a car crash!!! They then stand there and watch two young people die for what seems like an agonizing period of time, then making a lucky escape as the cops take off. Now do they decided to run back to the building and hopefully catch the helicopter? No, harry decides to go use the telephone.... WHAT!!!! He thinks he sees the pilot across the street, then realizes it aint him and decides to watch some TV? After casually watching TV to find out what he already knows, he jumps on top of a van to watch the world turn to *beep* Then some guy for some odd reason freaks out at harry because he damages his car 5 minutes before the end of the world? I have no idea why the pilot came back for these annoying waste of spaces, because frankly neither of them deserved to live. The film was fantastic right up until Harry jumped out of the fan, its just a shame the writer didn't decide to make the cafe owner the main protagonist at that point. I think I'll just stick to post-apocalyptic films from now on. End Rant

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Appropriate rant. Great first third of the film, but the rest was not that good. Just frustrating to watch. 5 out of 10. Awesome music though.

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I agree with everything you said, especially making the phone call instead of getting to the helicopter immediately. However I never thought this was a good movie -- too much ridiculousness throughout. The one thing that was cool for me is that I live on Miracle Mile, so it was nice to see what the area used to look like.

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I was soooo frustrated too, I was yelling at the screen(something I never do) GET TO THE HELIPAD! GO, NO DON'T STOP! lololol I havn't been that engrossed in a movie ever! I can't believe it took me 23 years to and just now found it. Thank you netflix! :)

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I dk, maybe I'm the only one, but I felt like this film played out like a dream or nightmare. So it kind of made sense for these things to happen.

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I couldn't agree more. The girlfriend does not seem to have any redeeming qualities. She is not attractive, she is not smart, and she sure as hell does not have any idea how to act in a crisis. I can't conceive of anyone wanting to go back for her to begin with, but then when they do, not telling her what the situation is IMMEDIATELY - so she doesn't stop to think about getting breakfast with her parents or watch them make up - is completely mind-boggling. And I really just simply could not believe it when they went in to look at the car crash - that was just too goddamn much (I think this was the girl's idea too). It's like "oh, this city of 10 million people is about to be incinerated, but OH NO - two people might be hurt in this building over here; let's pay attention to them!" Seriously, that was just unimaginably stupid. And their idiocy also resulted in the death of the extraordinarily honorable and brave gay helicopter pilot, but the film completely forgets him in the last few minutes. It's a shame because the basic premise, and to an extent even some of the (other) characters, had real potential, and the movie as a whole naturally had a kind of tremendous suspense that made it very exciting to watch throughout most of it - but the whole thing was ruined when I started detesting the main characters for their idiocy. They could totally have devised other ways for them to not make it to the helicopter that would have been a lot more believable.
Also the scenes of people just attacking each other and destroying things were also absurd; yes people behave strangely when they're afraid they might die, but just abruptly turning into mayhem like that? I'm sure most of the people would have had the sense to at least try to get somewhere underground - and I'm surprised no one bothered even mentioning that as a possibility. Most american cities have fallout shelters in them - that should have at least been their plan b. Bad movie.

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This movie had potential, set right at the end of the cold war. It could of been so much better. First time i shook my head, was when the guy sprayed the cops with gasoline. I'm sorry, but he would of caught a bullet for that by the time the second time a cop realized what he was doing.

2nd... you leave a guy in a car... with the keys just after you personally car jacked him of his own car???

"...insert corny quote here"

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You summed it up perfectly, EXACTLY why I also hated this movie. Making phone calls, watching television, standing around, people chasing him into the sewer for no reason. It was just sloppy writing. It's a shame too, cuz like you said, the movie starts out great with the phone call and diner scene. The script needed a couple rewrites, and they should have gotten someone like John Carpenter to direct. They had a great premise, but really blew it.

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The script needed a couple rewrites, and they should have gotten someone like John Carpenter to direct.


I'm a JC fan and that never occurred to me. Awesome insight. Could have been something.

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"Could have been something."

Yeah, that's what is so frustrating. It could have been really great, you keep expecting it to be, but then it never delivers. Eventually you realize it is never going to. Very unsatisfying.

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Hehe as wonderful as this movie is, it is indeed frustrating! The part that always gets me shouting at the screen is when he's just wandering around the city (and inside the gym) with a gun in his hand, making no attempt to conceal it, even though he can hear police sirens approaching! HIDE THE MF GUN IN YOUR POCKET!!!!
But I always tell myself, hey, he knows a mushroom is on it's way, his brains are scrambled egg.


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they had to use every dumbness humanly possible to keep up the suspense, because they couldnt come up with a credible story. without the stupid mistakes of the main actors this movie would have been boring as hell

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just caught this movie, and figured someone already ranted about the longest 5 minutes in history

but I laughed at the guy still sitting in his car, honking his horn, and even though his car is smashed up in a 100-car pileup, he gets mad that Goose jumps on his roof, then tries to kill him.. that was hilarious

although I missed what happened to the uzi-wielding chicks (and the other guy on the roof, with black hair) seemed like they offed each other on the roof, looked like their bodies laying on the ground, and they weren't in the helicopter

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Helicopter guy was just stupid for coming back.

I don't know how the hell the guy with his sister wound up crashing the cop car.

Props to the first group for doing the right thing and getting the hell out of dodge.

"Cool will get ya dead." -Former NBA Power Forward, Karl Malone

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Helicopter guy was just stupid for coming back.


It's called giving your word to someone. Maybe someday you'll understand why this is important...at all times.

I don't know how the hell the guy with his sister wound up crashing the cop car.


Fear? Too much adrenaline? Never driven a high-performance automobile before? There's a ton of reasons...





People believe what they want to believe. One term for this is Faith. Another is Delusion.

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