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To anyone who thinks this movie is even remotely realistic

posted 8 years ago by cnthomas-60154
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I've seen a lot of people on this board say this movie was realistic, or that it scared them, and even that it should be required watching for teenage girls (ridiculous and borderline abusive).

While there are girls in real life who act like Megan and the other girls in this film, they are by far the minority. Most girls who are thirteen are not doing drugs and having sex, and if they are, they aren't bragging about it to the extent that they do in this mess of a film. Here's a list of some of the things wrong with this movie.

1. Megan is said to be a very good student at school, yet we never see her doing homework, and there is no indication that she cares about grades or school at all.

2. Megan talks to a girl about giving a boy oral sex in exchange for "drugs" the other girl refers to the drugs as "stuff" we never learn what kind of drugs they are, even though teens having this conversation would at least use slang terms (crys, blow, pot, molly, etc.)

3. the girls go to a party with a mostly female presence, at the host's insistence. The party is in an abandoned house. this makes no sense, any guy who had a party with that many girls, especially at ages 13-15 would brag to every guy around about the party, but we see very few guys there. They also have a cover charge.

4. The video quality on a Motorola RAZR released in 2007 was nowhere near that good, I know because I had one. Also, teens weren't video chatting on them, they were texting. Again, i know this because I was a teen at the time.

5. This guy Josh has no means to video chat, fine, but the act that he wouldn't use at least a phone number to video chat with Megan should have been a huge red flag to someone as street smart as she was.

6. After Meghan goes missing and Amy gives information to the police, she continues to contact Josh, even though the police would have told her not to, and possibly would have told her parents to monitor her internet activity. Also, Amy continues to go to a secluded area in the woods even after Josh threatens to go after her. Again, the police would have told her to stay in her house, the kind of girl Amy was, she would have listened to the police.

7. saved the best for last. Josh, knowing that Amy had given his information to the police, would not have kept Amy for as long as he did, and he certainly wouldn't have fed her, he would ave killed her within hours of taking her. Keeping her made it more likely for the police to find him, and for Amy to possibly escape and give a detailed description to the police.

This movie is garbage. Don't watch it, don't make your kids watch it, and don't let any of the people involved in making this benefit anymore from it, it should be scrubbed from the face of the earth.

[–] brewpub420 7 years ago

It may seem unrealistic and I can't argue with the film being essentially garbage. That said the movie is based on a real story , so at least on that level it is "realistic"

[–] silver_snail14 7 years ago

I agree, the film is gratuitous, sensationalist trash with little redeeming value. But those last 22 minutes were some harrowing stuff. I watched it with two friends and I actually apologized to them afterwards for making them sit through such a pointless, disgusting movie.

You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn to serve me well.

[–] sunezno (225) a year ago

Christ, I wish I could take that time back, that was the lamest movie I've seen in years!

Another part that I found stupid (to add to your great list) is that "Josh" kidnaps Amy from the park area, uses her camera to film what he does to her, then presumably goes back to the abduction site to throw her camera in the trash can there? The fuck kind of sense does that make?
If he wanted the cops or her family to see that footage, why not just deliver it to them somehow, or put it online, etc.?
That whole bit made no sense at all.

The only horrifying thing about this movie is that it was even made in the first place. It could've been decent if done right, but instead, it was just a grueling waste of 85 minutes that I'll never get back.