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Seriously, are you f---ing serious? SPOILERS

posted 15 years ago by HorribleDrBones
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I just saw this movie with my brother last night. Here is why I was flipping out every minute:

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- the first time I saw the "old woman" I was like "why does she look so messed up?" Then I saw her up close and said "that's a g-ddamn man." Finally when there's about 11 minutes left in the movie, the old bag reveals that she is indeed a man. (sarcastic) Woah...Holy sh-t. Where was the make-up crew on that "train wreck"? No pun intended. Dolph Lundgren with a wig would have been more convincing.

- the assistant conducter kept changing accents from American, Irish, and Russian. And halfway through the movie, I realized he had an accent.

- Why were guys ice fishing at 1:00 a.m.? And the luggage with the corpse inside didn't crash through the ice.

- All characters in the train besides the main characters were spies.

- Leelee Sobieski beheads and quarters a fresh corpse in three and a half minutes! There is only a little blood.

- Leelee Sobieski suffocated Steve Zahn but patching him into a luggage compartment with what looked like electrical tape.

- The box falls off the train and the train drives on for miles before stopping. Then it cuts to Danny Glover walking next to the stopped train and finds the box in the snow.

Entertaining movie but at what cost? A ridiculous factor of 9.

Leelee Sobieski kicked so much ass though. I would have hung out with her.

[–] aqua02beat 15 years ago

LOL i know right? I agree with everything, so ridiculous, yet entertaining nonetheless. I kept waiting for them to FINALLY reveal the "plot twist" that the old lady was a man. And how the heck did everyone on that train know that the original dead guy was going to be there with the box in the first place? They all boarded before him, so ridiculous. And lol at Leelee sobieski's character thinking she's all smart by saying "the old lady didn't know what she was doing, if you really wanted to kill someone you'd shoot them at a vital organ, like the head" well DUHHHH but i guess that's just something a med student would know lol. And she pronounced carotid wrong, i can't believe no one on the movie set caught that and corrected her.

[–] HorribleDrBones 15 years ago

Yeah, I noticed the carotid artery comment and was like "what?" I shrugged it off as maybe it could have two different ways of pronouning it like the word "harrassment." But I've never heard it spoken like she said it. She said "Care-Oh-Tid" or something.

I didn't even think about the other passengers (spies) being on the train beforehand. They all miraculously knew he was going on that train. The movie was funny because it was so bad at times that it probably made it more entertaining than if it was plausable.

What I thought was funny was when the assistant conductor thought there was gold in the box. Seriously, if gold fit in there, it would be word like I don't know $500, $1000, maybe a few thousand? Not that I know anything about the worth of gold, but gems and diamonds are believable but you need to steal a lot of gold to be rich.

[–] sftony 12 years ago

Gold is extremely heavy. It only takes a small nugget to weigh an ounce and at around a grand per ounce a box that size would be worth quite a bit more than a few thousand. Although now enough to do all that killing for.

[–] dayvit78 7 years ago

I have a small gold bar slightly over 1 ounce, which is about the size of 2 quarters, it's worth about $1500. So, certainly, there could have been quite a bit of value to the gold, but probably not over $1 million.

[–] hackerman6731 15 years ago

It wasn't electrical tape, it looked like a narrow version of gaffers tape, it had that matte black cloth look.

[–] smashsmack 15 years ago

Regardless of what the tape looked like, I'm sure the average man could have gotten out of there with a few good taps on the door, unless we're supposed to believe that the tape made it indestructible.

Anyone else notice when the box magically disappeared off the tracks? I thought it melted into the snow, but there it was sitting next to Danny Glover. It's a shame really, they could have done a lot better with the plot, but I only really watched it for Lee Lee anyway.

Because sponges never have bad days.

[–] useof1 15 years ago

No, it was a small roll of duct tape from 1949.
Originally invented by Richard Drew of Minnesota, people refer to the tape as "Duck Tape." The tape was made using cotton duck - similar to what was used in cloth medical tapes. Later the tape was used in the booming housing industry to connect heating and air conditioning duct work together and hence called Duct Tape.

[–] rrpostal 15 years ago

that "lady" needed a shave pretty badly. There was a real Monty Python aspect to it.

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[–] canad-ian 15 years ago

Agreed with most of it, except for that bit about the ice fishing thing. I have buddies that fish all day and night when they go on camping trips. Not all fish sleep at night, and people use lanterns when it's dark.

[–] jeremytijen 15 years ago

Yeah, ice-fishing at 1:00AM on Christmas morning is a great tradition at my house too.

[–] taylorje 14 years ago

I'd rather go ice-fishing at 1:00 a.m. than spend the holidays with my crazy family.

[–] astralic 10 years ago

It never crossed your mind all those things are intentionally done? For me those were pretty obvious choices done by production. And I had a good laugh throughout the movie. Why am I even writing this.

Seriously, are you f---ing serious? *SPOILERS*

Seriously, are you f---ing serious? SPOILERS