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One plot error i always thought was funny...


first of all, i love this movie. it is over the top and cheesy, but i loved it as a kid and appreciate it even more now after seeing sam raimi blossom into an amazing director (he always was ahead of his time).

Anyway, so peyton westlakes masks disolve after 90 minutes. when he can finally get the masks to last that long, he goes to visit his girlfriend (who thinks he's dead). and he does that a few times before the carnival incident where his mask dissollved and he ran off into the woods.

if your old lady thought you were dead and you somehow came back into their life, isn't it sketchy to just hang out with them for like an hour and 25 minutes and bail? wouldn't she get suspiscious? i mean i feel like she'd want to spend more time with him. i don't know. lol

still, i love this flick

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He told her that he was required to go to therapy at the hospital. She brings it up during the carnival scene.

"So it goes" -Slaughterhouse Five

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Yeah, what he said, she brought it up at the carnival and she seemed frustrated with him, asking why she couldn't go with him and he said he didn't want her to see him that why. I think they had the converstation several times before, and she would let it go to enjoy their time together but when it got brought up it was emotional. I didn't take the scene to mean it was the first and only time it was brougt up.

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As the others have said, they do imply that Peyton keeps making excuses about needing therapy, like when he says that the hospital didn't let him see her because of his accident, just vague excuses.
In the carnival scene they really hammer it home with Peyton insisting that he leaves for his therapy session again, which is obviously beginning to aggravate Julie.

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The crazy part is that I finally realized.. why didn't he just go see her during the nighttime? It woulda made a lot more sense if you think about it in the grand scale of things. His mask wouldn't disolve out in the night (in part 2 it stays on fine,) so he would be in no hurry unless he is inside somewhere with a ton of light, and two his alibi would make more sense. People rehab a ton in the daytime at hospitals and he could say he's having serious therapy or something it would make much more sense than him running away after 1hr and 30 minutes at a time. The whole thing looks stupid in hindsight after you've seen the sequels.

I honestly don't know what Rami was thinking there.. granted the carnival scene might not have happened but I'm sure there woulda been a chance to reveal his true self to her eventually.

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Thats what i thought, just meet up in the night time so the mask would last, at least for the initial meet ups to get to know her again properly.

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