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who else wanted to see bridget fonda eaten?


i know her charcter was supposed to be annoying, but this was too much! i would love to have seen her killed by the crocodile... or even the bear (that got eaten by the crocodile)... or accidently shot or speared or decapitated somehow.

i wish there were additional features on the dvd that show a deleted scene where the cop and the other guys throw her into the lake and feed her to the crocodile.
or the alternative death, where she gets caught in one of those traps and is dangling from a tree and the crocodile just leaps out of the water bites her head off. that would also be cool. if that were on the dvd, i would race out and buy it!

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when she was caught underwater and the croc was attacking her, i was just going "eat her! eat her! eat her!"

i think that just about says it all. ;-)

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Oh come on! She was awesome! :P

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that'd be freakin rad! not if she died, because i was somewhat partial to ms. fonda, but the whole deleted scene idea for a horror movie, where they show characters that stay alive in the real movie actually dying..genius!

lake placid is one of my favorite creature movies, and i hear the sequel is coming out soon. anyone have word on that? the game is sick though on their website

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January 29th is the release date..already ordered it on amazon.com

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I'd like to see her eatan....by me....

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She's definately the one character I kind of hated.

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Gosh, that is SO mean...to the crocodile! You do know that it would have gotten horrible indigestion if it actually ate her character! That's cruel and inhumane dude! :o)

What I think would have been really funny would have been at the end, when she says, "Doesn't anyone make a move in Maine?," if the sheriff had said, "Uh, you have to be attracted to the person to want to make a move!" Or something like that. She did a great job playing an intensely irritating character!

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I think I counted four different times when she "accidentally fell" into the pathway of the Croc but somehow this creature failed to eat her.

The Croc probably just thought she was retarded, took pity, and let her live.


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She did a great job playing an intensely irritating character!

Did *you* miss the line from the warden "You don't have to tell people you are from New York."?

That was just one of MANY zingers in this movie.

As far as needing an attraction goes, didn't *she* make a move, sort of, on the warden, then rapidly back off of it? She made a comment "we need to go to bed" and the warden's eyes lit up, then she backed away, adding "to go to sleep", "in separate tents", and "to get some rest". Remember, her character had just been burned in a romance with her boss at the museum. The warden reluctantly left the tent, disappointed...



IMHO, she is a much better actress than the character/performance in this movie allowed.
Sometimes the *chemistry* of a cast and crew is just not quite right, and the final product is less than what it might have been...



Some of the most memorable movie moments were ad-libs by the actors.
EXAMPLES:
- The scene in PRETTY WOMAN when Richard Gere snaps the necklace case on Julia Roberts' fingers. He is well known as a practical joker, and that has not been well received by other actors in some of his other movies. That was just one of his practical jokes during filming that movie, and IMO, it changed the tone of the movie.
- The scene with Jodie Foster interviewing 'Hannibal Lecter' in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, and the Doctor answers "I ate his liver with Fava beans and a nice Chiante" and makes the terrifying slurping sounds that were so memorable. The slurping was a complete ad-lib by Anthony Hopkins. With that sound, you just *knew* he had to be kept strapped in his confinement, ALL the time.
a thoroughly dangerous man...

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When she smacked the cop once, it pissed me off. He didn't mean to drop the moose head (not moose head beer left over from the My Bloody Valentine shoot) on her foot. The second time she smacked him, I wanted to grab her by the neck an strangle her until she was at her last gasp, let he catch her breath, then, hold her head under water until she almost drowned. I'd then pull her head up, give her five minutes to catch her breath, then, grab a thick garbage back and wrap it around her head, suffocating her until she sucks the back down her throat at the brink of the last gasp, then, push my finger inside her mouth-hole and tear the bag, giving her a breath of that precious air I had been depriving her of for quite sometime.

After it was all said and done, I'd simply request that she keep her hands to herself. next time, bodily dismemberment would certainly be involved - as in, cutting her to bloody bits and using her as croc bait.

I just watched this again tonight and realized that this is a decent 'monster/nature gone awry' film, but it's certainly not one of the best in my personal opinion. The characters were ok, but there was hardly and development. Steve Miner is a hit or miss director. For the most part (recently, anyway), the guy has took a turn for the worst. The Day of the Dead remake was awful. I expected more from Steve Miner than that. I guess he had Universal execs over his shoulder a lot of the times, but it was just a bad movie. In simple terms, it was a remake of a remake - The recent Dawn of the Dead version. Stupid if you ask me.





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I was pretty much rooting for the croc eat all of them, but Fonda's character especially.
The only character I wanted to see make it was the Sheriff.

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Maybe the Sheriff should have shot her with his big gun!

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Only by ME.

"They sucked his brains out!"

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I did. She's such a spoiled (B)unt!

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At first, I thought the OP was irrational.

But then, I realized that the irrational desire to kill a character is actually a way of saying that the character is real, and apparently resembles someone the OP considers a witchy woman in real life.

So, it's actually a tribute to the writer.

Still, seems irrational. Her character was three dimensional, and credible. Now, I can understand wanting the annoying character (do I even have to say who that is?) to get whacked, but I liked the idea that the movie went along the anti cliché format, in this case much like X THE UNKNOWN, where the suicidal character backs away from certain suicide and gets away with it, while many who were wiser are killed.

Like X THE UNKNOWN, whether we agree with the premise or not, it has the motif of "Man does poorly playing God" and of "no respecter of persons". I only know of a very few films that go tis original route.




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