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Could a medical student be that idiotic?

posted 18 years ago by gwalter2004
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I just can't get over what utter crap this film is. What's bugging me more than the cliché, non-sensical dialogue, the awful acting and the "special effects" is the fact that five medical students are portrayed as total morons. How on earth did Heather and what's-his-name not know that there's a cure for tuberculosis? Even if she was a ghost, her ghost self is still in med school, and her stupid ghost self would know TB is not "incurable" anymore.

The writers/directors should all be shot. No, better yet, they should be made to watch their movie. That's worse punishment.

[–] kmsucks68 18 years ago

Uhh if you watched the movie you would have seen it was incurable. Case closed.

[–] vfwcommrd2 18 years ago

In real life, the disease was Tuberculosis.

In the movie, they changed it to an incurable disease to make it sound more interesting/scary/haunting/whatever.

Although, that didn't work with most of the people who watched the film, now did it?

[–] asphycsia 17 years ago

How on earth did Heather and what's-his-name not know that there's a cure for tuberculosis?
I noticed that too, hahaha. Maybe she slept through the class where they talked about TB?
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[–] Verona 17 years ago

Oh I know! I foudn it way hard to believe that anyone in a medical school would act like they were in high school, which they all did!

[–] thotuknew 17 years ago

goes to show how interesting it was, i didnt even catch they were med students

[–] crh_2010 16 years ago

Did you notice most of these movies they have high school students who would seriously be murdered in like the first 5 seconds but somehow there idiotic slow-minded shallow asses live threw the whole movie and the smartest ones die...interesting

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[–] crowess_spawn 14 years ago

wow. I was really taken in by this movie too. the fact that they were med students totally went over my head.

and I agree with everyone who thinks those 2 were sick on TB day at (high)"school". >_<

[–] fashionvictim86 17 years ago

Geez I thought that they were in high school by the way they acted. I had no idea they were in med school until reading this thread.

[–] ryanxxx 12 years ago

After the scene of Heather sleeping in class, when she exits the building, text shows at the bottom that says Vangard School of Medicine. Don't know why so many seemed to have missed that. It was impossible not to see it unless you were looking away/stepped away from the movie during that scene.

[–] crowess_spawn 12 years ago

I blame missing the sign on one of the following:

1. I blinked
2. I was looking at something more interesting
3. I had to pee and was in the bathroom (why wait for commercials when you're not missing much even if you ARE watching it)
4. I fell asleep out of boredom
5. I was watching a kitten video on YouTube

those are my top 5 reasons as to why I missed that sign. :p

[–] iaintme 17 years ago

"The writers/directors should all be shot. No, better yet, they should be made to watch their movie. That's worse punishment."

Hell yeah! Maybe with some of that snot dripping down from the stupid hanging lanterns all over their empty heads.

[–] kozmic_goddess 14 years ago

That's what bugged me the most about it. I mean really I could maybe understand her not knowing since she kind of took over her dead relative's personality or whatever but he wasn't dead and clearly wasn't the crazy dead doctor. So he should have known that if he wanted to cure her he should have just taken her to a real hospital. One that was still operational. Instead of going back inside and saying something stupid like 'we'll find a cure together.' You don't need to you moron we already found one. Guess they both must of been out sick the day they discussed that in class or something.