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Love these types of films! But this one's a flop...


It's not the premise that sucked, I actually liked that, but there are too many inaccuracies and overlooked points for this film to work for me..

1. It's not hard to go 30 days without eating, in fact by that point you aren't hungry at all, and it doesn't hurt.

2. Nobody got thinner as the movie progressed.

3. Too many means of escape that nobody even tried..

a) Use bone/rock/metal to fashion climbing spikes
b) Stack the barrels and climb them
c) Fashion a hook out of bone/rock/metal to attach to the rope
d) Stand on each other's shoulders
e) Use rock/brick to smash hand/foot holds up the well
*) either option at the top feed the rope through the planks, pull to break, or just smash to *beep* with a brick

4. They honestly thought at after 30 days they'd be let free, but they cracked and turned cannibal on like day 25 lol!

5. Why wouldn't they use water/dirt to smear mud over the walls blocking any possible hidden camera's? They could make their tools in privacy.

6. Extreme bouts of immobility followed by rapid movement = impossible

7. Horrible and unrealistic portrayal of the progression of mental illness

8. Guys didn't grow beards..

Uhmmm... That's it off the top of my head, sure there's more so feel free to add 9, 10, 11....

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Well the construction guy was the first to die and he was sick a good part of those days.... Sorry but some of our young people today couldn't find their way out of a closet let alone make tools and weapons from rubbish....

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Moreover, my biggest issue with the movie is *HOW* they knew they were watched to begin with?


They constantly refered to the observer as "he". Not even "they".
They saw no sign of any cameras and just assumed everything, like she assumed he was wacthing (even in the dark) and would come to look at her message...

Heck, they even stopped guessing why they are there after 5 minutes.

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I'd have killed everyone else on Day 1, finished eating them all on Day 2, and used their bones to build a ladder and climb out of that place on Day 3.

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Creep would have been waiting for you at the top. I'd have killed the other dudes and spent the rest of my life boning those chicks

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I would have beat the creep to death with a femur.

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BOOM! Femur to the head.

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Hmm, while I noticed some flaws in the movie myself, I thought it was enjoyable overall, and I'm not seeing the logic in most of your thinking here.

1) While it's true that you eventually stop feeling hungry,the fact that they were given water would have made their hunger all the more noticeable. (As opposed to dying of thirst at the same time.) But I'll admit I don't know much about starvation, so I won't really touch on this one.

2) Er...so were they supposed to film this over a long period of time in order to get the actors to safely lose the weight? Also, if you really were to look as if you were starving to death, you would actually NEED to be starving to death, so...yeah. Don't see how that could have happened.

3) All these means of escape, unless I'm mistaken, are centered on exiting through the door at the top, which was locked. There'd be no way to get out, and even if, by some miracle, they had, the killer would have seen their efforts and been waiting.

4) Yeah, being thrown in a dark hole with people you don't know (and therefore probably don't care much about) could absolutely make somebody do something like that. You can say all you want that you'd "never eat people" or whatever, but others have done it in the past, when the situation was desperate. You have no idea how you'd behave in that situation, so you really can't say their actions were unbelievable. (Also, let's not forget the ones who cracked" first were the psychotic guy and the simpering woman who'd attached herself to him because she'd pegged him as her best chance of survival.)

5) They didn't know the cameras were there. That's why, when the lead woman is lying on the ground and staring directly into one, he's shocked and unnerved.

6) Won't argue that, except maybe adrenaline?

7) This is about the progression of mental illness, it's about how quickly people can stray from humanity when put in an extreme situation. This happens in real life all the time. When faced with something truly horrific, people often behave in ways they never otherwise would.

8) Yup, I agree. That was dumb.

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