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the stupidest broad in the world!

posted 14 years ago by Chops-4
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Miranda is the dumbest, most incompetant character ever depicted. She communicates poorly, never explains her experiences to others clearly, is totally inept in handling her situation. The rest of her family are bunglers too. It's exasperating to see a character function so stupidly. It's even worse when a large portion of the dialog is muddled by the English accents without captions for clarification.

I wrote the above before the end. At the end she suddenly becomes clever, although a bit late.

[–] kitteninparis 14 years ago

Yes, I totally agree with you. This is a bad lifetime movie in hyperdrive.

If it where me the movie would be 15 minutes long because I wouldn't have
had a one-night stand with him (even though he is a cutie)because you don't know
who has std or something! and he could be a killer of loney women (mr.goodbar).

'nuff said!

[–] illyrianX 14 years ago

I don't know where you're from but this film did not need captions. Being from the States, to me there is nothing "muddled" about the dialogue. English accents aren't hard to understand, they're not that different.

That said, I agree about the character of Miranda. Lamest protagonist ever. All she had to do was tell people what the hell was going on instead of just looking like a poor miserable victim the whole time, without ever really doing the most basic, intelligent things to help herself. It's never a good sign when you're rooting for the stalker (which I was start to finish).

[–] rosepitseleh 14 years ago

It's pretty terrible writing and pretty terrible characters. My Tennant-loving friend made me watch this DVD with her this weekend--it's the second time I've seen it, to be honest. Ugh. I drank my way through it this time. I felt like I was trying to outdrink the characters.

Only watch this if you're madly in love with Tennant. Otherwise, life is too short for crap like this.

[–] afireinside102075 14 years ago

"I drank my way through it this time. I felt like I was trying to outdrink the characters."

I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one who had to drink their way through this. I had already told someone I would watch it so I had resigned to finish it but in addition to my rum I had to take a time out between parts 1 and 2 to watch some stuff with competent women (aka the River Tam bar fight scene from Serenity and a Starbuck centered episode of BSG).

Now I like Tennant well enough and I think he's a fine actor but this...no. Just no.

[–] C.S.Wood 14 years ago

I just wanted this because I wanted to see the girl from Shaun of the Dead. I have this thing about stupid characters (mostly applies to horror movies) where I just can't relate to or care about characters that do very obviously stupid things.

The Miranda character was completely stupid throughout the entire thing and I had serious problems believing she could pull off her own death in the end. Once she agree to let the guy and her friend move in and DIDN'T opt to stay in a motel or with someone else, I lost it. Her attempts to unmask him as a psycho made her look stupid. Her inability to get the locks changed made her look stupid. Her habit of continually underestimating this guy who is clearly smart and vindictive made her look stupid.

Now, I could see if she had actually done the smart thing in most of those situations and he still managed to get the best of here, but her tactic throughout most of the movie was just to have that dumbfounded look on her face and not do anything. And the guy liked to brag so much I thought maybe she'd be smart enough to buy a tape recorder or a video recorder, but oh no.

If I were a woman I would seriously hate this movie for making practically all the women out to look like fools until the very end.

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[–] Tanithpanic 13 years ago

I can just imagine the plot... "foiled by the tape recorder inside her panties!" The actual novel is a little more subtle, but I have to say it's amazing how many seemingly intelligent people are conned by more devious ones in real life as well as films.

Jack the Ripper's Wife: Jack, how come you've got blood all over your hands, dear?
Jack: Some idiot pushed me against the wall as I was taking a short cut through the abbatoir.
Jack's Wife: Oh, okay then. It's steak tonight, your favourite.
Jack: (Aside.) This proves my wife doesn't know Jack!