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bad bad bad stupid main character cliches (spoliers)

posted 14 years ago by LovinMoviesMakinGames
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The movie wasn't that bad (other then the stupid music stings). But why? why are all these screen plays ridden with retarded cliches? Really, how many times do we need to see someone wound the killer, and then walk away without finishing the job, only to pay for it. How many times (we laughed and called it before it happened) do we get the famous grab the ankle scene? Wait... they aren't dead...

Why!?!?!?!? Is it that hard to write something better? Really... how about she stabs his leg, he hits her arm, the dagger flies off... and she bolts because she no longer has a weapon or element of surprise? Anything is better then this crap. OR she hits him with something, his isn't out cold, just stunned. The weapon was something that shattered (a vase) and she runs. Really... it isn't that hard to come up with something.

And the injuries... Are they kidding? Really... I'll cut into your Achilles tendon, or cause sever trauma by hanging you by it, and what... you walk afterwards?

I can't imagine the hours of work, money, and talent that goes into a half decent film, and then childish (or just lazy) scripts. I'd be livid if I was working on something like this, and had to have my work ruined by some douche bag writer. (Sorry, I work in the entertainment industry, and see a lot of bad decisions like this). This is the kind of crap that just takes a good experience, and turns it into a "oh geez, turn the movie off, not again".

[–] Clem_DeFontane 13 years ago

I agree with a lot of what you said. At first, I wrote off her failure to finish the Dad because she was a serious, serious Christian. It would have been really scary if the movie had her deal with an inner conflict between her instinct to survive and her Christian values which discourage one from killing other human beings.

But, then she unloads a whole damn handgun clip into the parents' dead bodies, obviously in cold blood. That was the movie taking a big, stinky dump on my first attempt to write off that typical protagonist negligence.