My biggest issue with this movie was definitely what this thread is discussing. There were many moments until the killer is revealed that make it seem as though he has supernatural powers.
I agree with all the points mentioned so far about the villain's non-human abilities, another one that stands out for me is how the Tina character showed back up in the lighting booth without the killer seeming to be there. The first time we see her after she has died, he seems to be manipulating her from behind like a puppet. That I can pretty much accept. I get that he could make the makes and dress up like people, it mostly makes sense when he does this with the teacher, but we're supposed to believe he can look like Tina and have her body type?? I don't understand.
It's unfortunate, to me this was overall a pretty decent, original movie, but the plot situations and ideas just don't add up right. Is it so hard to write a script that makes sense?
Apparently so.
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PseudoFilmCritic
9 years ago
Popcorn seemed to teeter between spoof, slasher film and serious horror. It doesn't all work out smoothly and you are right about the killer adopting Tina's body type - if the legend of the movie theater encompassed a strange force, something that could will people to commit murder and do so in a supernatural manner, that would have been acceptable.
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TMeyers1492
9 years ago
Popcorn was 100 percent spoof. It was too tame. It was seen as horror-lite upon its release in theaters. It did very poorly and was out for maybe a week. I like it anyway, but the movie only seems better now because Horror has sucked for a long time now. To point you look back on POPCORN longing
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PseudoFilmCritic
9 years ago
Well, I do look at the film with some longing now because it was ahead of time, not because horror movies are not what they once were, Conjuring excepted.
Fly, yes, Land, no!
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lgreatoreau
9 years ago
Also how did Toby have a copy of the guy's face (in the white suit) to use to kill him in the toilet, as he wouldn't have had the chance to make the copy of his face in the first place. As we saw earlier in the film he makes a copy of the professor's face after he has killed him but how did he get the other guy's face.
Oh, who cares. I enjoyed the film anyway.
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realmikewinstead
8 years ago
Early in the film they make a plaster of white haired guys face. It's during the cleaning up the theatre montage.
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