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....okay, did anyone else notice this HUGE plothole?


WHY DO THE VAMPIRES ALWAYS KILL THEIR VICTIMS?

Why are they such messy eaters? ffs, all they needed to do was make a small cut and drink from that, no need to start ripping their victims apart with their bare teeth and killing them. Sadie was all "WAAAH I HAVE TO KILL PEOPLE NOOO" but she didn't even seem to think of the possibility that maybe she could, hm, GO TO THE BLOOD BANK? Or just be a little more gentle with her food instead of ripping it apart?

I mean, the entire movie she was angsting about the killing aspect. WELL THEN, WHY ARE YOU KILLING THEM?

any explanations?

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It's probably like alcohol. You know, drink. When you high on blood you don't really care how you treat the package. But yes, I didn't like the way they looked like they were eating the flesh as well.

Nothing is more reliable than a man whose loyalties can be bought with hard cash.

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In Anne Rices books some of the older more experianced vampires only drink the blood without killing their victims. This is so that they can keep themselves a bit lower profile as a murder will draw alot more attention than an assault and also if there is a limited supply of victims then they wont run out. Also some are not the sadistic killers portrayed in the movies. They also gain more and more special abilities as they get older.cool stuff.

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I agree with original poster; I DIDNT feel any sorry for her, in fact, when she cools the poor college hitchiker guy, I just wanted her to frikin die.
Bad movie.

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Mm..I disagree: Ive seen plenty of vampire movies, from glamorous type (Bram Stocker Dracula, Interview with the Vampire, Queen of the Damned) to gruesome type (from Dusk Till Dawn, Life Force, etc.), cool-violent ones (Blade.) Ive liked a lot and not liked a few...
I enjoyed From Dusk till Dawn, were no romance or glamour watsoever was played.
I think this movie is simply bad: full of plootholes, weird dialoges, unsympathetic characters, etc.
IMHO, Just a bad movie, vampires or not...

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Yes but I didnt feel sorry for the main character, played by Lucy Lu, specially after killing an innocent hitchicker kid.
Neither for the kid who she left in the middle of the roard, crying in pain (and that scene was a bit long making him look as an idiot).
And the dialogues were silly.
And the decisions they usually made were absurd.
And the end was extremmely cliche, not to mention the "she was picked up and healed after her suicide attempt by poor mysterious people with a lot of knlowedge"...
So again, I found A LOT of bad things about the movie that make me consider it a bad one.
Chill man, there's not a lot of analsys on this. Is simply bad. If you enjoyed it, well, good for you. Ill stand with the majority on this one.

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That's the huge plot hole??? NO! The huge plot hole is the one where Sadies family goes to bury her and... NO BODY!!! Ding, ding, ding. There should have been a least a mention of her family not giving up hope. That's a plot hole. Angst over feeding? Inconsistent personal/emotional writing at best.

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Same thing with Tricia....I'd think the cop father would have NOTICED that his daughter's body was missing........maybe I'm just crazy.

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Not to mention after the ending the morgue will have to process 2 bodies that it had already processed in the past few weeks. I think they'd notice.

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The plothole I noticed what why in the heck a vampire was going to pee :)

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Since her body was brought into a morgue they had probably heard of her being dead and there is something called cenotaph.

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When Lions eat their prey, ever notice they don't care about table manners?

Ever seen a drunken David Hasslehoff eat a hamburger?

Now imagine a creature with an animal instinct that gets really drunk/high from blood... And there you have it.

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"Ever seen a drunken David Hasslehoff eat a hamburger?"

Genius.

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No, I haven't seen that. Was KITT willing to do the drive through?

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I think it was a stylistic choice rather than a plot hole. Vampires are straight-up monsters in this movie, even Sadie. It's part of the attempt at noir-i-ness. The exaggerated grossness when they feed is part of how they communicate that they're capital-B Bad. The huge mess of blood marks them as unclean, even damned. It's the mark of Cain, the mark of a murderer.

As an interesting side-note, it's also an indelible mark. It's subtle, but Sadie notices slight red staining on Tricia's chin when her father is hugging her, as if she hasn't quite cleaned all the blood off, and I thought it was a really nice bit of understated horror, y'know, detail work instead of splattered gore. Anyway, that's how she knows she's been drinking blood and is a vampire.

Well, that and the fact that she's known to be dead. :)

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these are not plotholes

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I just watched this.

As to this particular point, I agree with whoever it was above who said this was a stylistic choice by the writer/director. It made sense to me too, since I have a medical background. If I was a vampire and I was hungry, you cannot get much blood out of two tiny puncture marks. What they said about watching a lion eat was right on IMO. If you tear open a vien or artery like that, you will get all the blood you can drink (ugh!)

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It's just a huge plothole. It looks like they've put in vampires just to call it a vampire flick and get the attention, becouse this movie has got nothing to do with vampires at all. I mean if you would just say they were pedophiles or rapists, hackers or maniacs, it wouldn't have made any difference to the story.

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