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To those 'I KNEW WHO THE DEVIL WAS BEFORE IT STARTED' people....shut up.

posted 12 years ago by asouer8
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I find it stupid how people say they suspected the old lady.

Thinking that it was someone who already died is a possible and plausible thought. But even if you did reach the stage of believing that the Devil was actually a dead person:

Everyone "seems" to forget (roll of eyes here) that another person, VINCE, was dead first before the old woman. Why are there never any posts of people saying they suspected Vince? If people really had in mind that a character who was already killed off and deceased was the Devil, they would have been voting for Vince, the first victim to die, in more chance of the old woman, who was merely the 2nd character to be kicked off.

It's weird how there aren't any posts stating that people suspected Vince as the devil. But you know what? If he was really the Devil, I bet a lot of people would have been like, "I KNEW WHO THE DEVIL WAS BEFORE IT BEGAN, I TOTALLY SUSPECTED THE SALESMAN, HE WAS THE FIRST TO DIE".

So if you're one of those false people who said that they genuinely believed it was the old woman throughout the entire movie....just shut up.

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[–] VerucaPepper 12 years ago

Interesting how you attack everyone for their thoughts. I thought it was her, mainly because of the first Saw and the dead guy was really the mastermind in the room. When it was down to two people left 'alive' in the elevator I figured it was someone dead - because that would be the last thing you would think would happen.

[–] black_rose_extinction 12 years ago

I suspected her, but after she died I didn't think it was her anymore. When it came down to the last two I just felt like it couldn't be either of them, but then having remembered it was based off of And Then There Were None (maybe not based exactly, but something along those lines) I realized that the person must have been someone who had already died - as it was in the book/movie

[–] asouer8 12 years ago

I'm just saying that when people claim that they believed that a dead person was the devil, NO one claims that they thought it was Vince.

Perhaps not "no one". But the ratio of people saying they suspected the old woman to Vince is somewhere between 10:1, seriously. It's just obviously a fake and it's that flawed part of society where people are influenced to show pride in things that don't have any difference even if they get the wrong answer.

Sorry, but it's just annoying the number of people who claim to have suspected the old woman, when they obviously didn't. Hopefully people will become a bit smarter/more honest.

Overall, I really enjoyed the film and believed that one of the final two alive was the Devil. Two friends of mine on different occasions suspected Vince as the killer, going with the dead theory. The only friend of mine who suspected the old woman admitted to have seen it in Youtube comments.

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[–] icaptainchaos 11 years ago

It is a pure guess & pure luck that people got it right.

"Oooh a few people in an elevator - I reckon it's .... erm .... XXX"

(later)

"It WAS! I was RIGHT! I'll tell everyone I knew it all along!"

yawn

[–] mel2000 8 years ago

It is a pure guess & pure luck that people got it right.

Not only that, but most put multiple guesses in the hopper and conveniently forget the surplus ones.

[–] LaurieStrode1985 10 years ago

@ asouer8,

ITA with you 100% regarding your topic thread. I just want to puke when I hear people saying things like "Oh, I saw that from a mile away!", "That was so predictable!", "I knew that was going to happen!", etc., etc., etc., (feel free to insert other BS lines here). In my opinion, I don't think it's so much about honesty but the fact "no one" likes to 'admit' that they were "taken" in by the story/film. Hence comes in the line - "I knew IT was the old woman from the beginning of the movie". I have to ask, what made people 'think' that the devil had taken the form of a human female? Not that I'm saying the devil 'couldn't' be a woman. But holy! I couldn't believe that the devil WAS Van Montgomery's (from Reba) grandma-in-law!!!!

I thought the movie was good enough to buy on blu-ray. I'll admit that I'm a big fan of M. Night Shyamalan's projects.

P.S. For the record - I DID know that in the movie TITANIC before I SAW the movie, that that ship WAS going to hit an iceberg and sink!

"Why me?...I mean, why me?"

[–] TuesdayGirl 11 years ago

I suspected her from the get go. Not because she died, but because she was seemingly the most vulnerable being the tiny older lady in the room/in this case elevator. After she died I wasn't so sure anymore and wasn't expecting for one of the dead to rise. Though of course when they did was hardly a surprise - a straight rip off from the Saw.

[–] ZoneFighter 7 years ago

Actually its a tribute to Agatha Christie's "Ten Little Indians" aka "And Then There Were None" in which a group of people on an island all die one by one. Been made into several movies, unfortunately they all follow the sappy play ending instead of the book. The book everyone is killed and the murderer only revealed because the killer, who faked his death and then committed suicide after everyone else was dead, was vain enough to want people to know he did it and so left a note. The stupid play was changed to have a happy ending in which boy saves girl. In the book all the victims were responsible for other people dying, either directly or indirectly and the killer believed he was serving justice by executing them.

[–] Danimal_77 11 years ago

I actually did suspect the old lady from the beginning.

[–] DethMonkey 11 years ago

I actually never saw this movie, but I remember watching the trailers and guessing it was the old lady, just simply because it seemed the obvious choice.

[–] ScorpionTDC 11 years ago

I knew it was the old lady the minute I saw her. I couldn't tell you why, I thought it was just painfully obvious she was the devil the minute I laid eyes on her. Maybe because she's the "least likely."
Then when she started giving everyone creepy glares throughout the film and odd looks? I was positive. It did have me fooled when it killed her off though; I was surprised to see her go and figured I was wrong. Then the ending came and she revealed herself and it felt like a total anti-climax

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[–] psdhart 10 years ago

i think I suspected the old lady when she said something along the lines of "too crowded" when that elevator arrives when she is with the salesman

[–] Raging_Demon05 10 years ago

I narrowed it down to either of the two women, but I was always leaning towards Sarah (the younger woman). All the men just seemed to obvious. The scene where they were all about to board the elevator and the old woman refused to get on the first available one was a good clue. Then, when the detective asked them to reveal their IDs and the old woman's was mysteriously too blurry to read, was another subtle clue. I enjoyed this movie. It kept me on edge throughout.

She's turning me into a criminal and all I want to be is a petty thug.

[–] stijntje44 10 years ago

The weakest part of the movie is that it could've been anyone, or no one, really wouldn't matter. they could've kept the entire movie the same, but have the black dude or the sleaze ball get up.

This is not like the usual suspects, where knowing who it is is an actual revelation. You know who it is, it is the devil, there is no revelation here.

If we had had some time to get to know the characters we might have cared, because we could be attached to them, we could hear their stories and believe them and be suprised about who was lying. Now they were just empty shells and it doesn't matter.

I like the little hint about not wanting to go on the elevator, but that is the only hint.

[–] willow_wizard11 10 years ago

I thought it was her because her attitude created a lot of discord among the other characters.

For a while I thought that the Devil was an entity independent of the people, but it was no shock that it was her.

I didn't suspect the salesman, because it felt like the writers wanted him to be suspect. Blatant misleads are a giveaway. I would guess that most others feel the same.

[–] Geki_44 10 years ago

For a while I thought that the Devil was an entity independent of the people, but it was no shock that it was her.

But the devil was an independent entity the entire movie up until he possesses the old lady. You see the devil multiple times in his true form throughout the movie. He only possesses the old lady at the end to confront the drunk driver as he probably couldn't do it in his true form. You even see the blacked out eyes. It's straight from an episode of Supernatural.

The devil was in the elevator long before the old lady showed up its why the guy jumped out the window in the opening scene.

[–] mel2000 8 years ago

But the devil was an independent entity the entire movie up until he possesses the old lady.

So why didn't it leave the old lady's body behind when it was done with it?

Why was she the only one who never signed in?

[–] fostersforums 10 years ago

Good points, well thought out. Yeah, I really believe it didn't matter who the devil was revealed to be, any smartass can claim to have known it was them. People just want an easy way to pat themselves on the back.

If the cop had turned out to be the Devil, then of course, a whole slough of people would have said "I KNEW it was the cop!" while not even mentioning the Old Lady.

It could have been ANYBODY in the movie, and as long as the viewer had the SUSPICION it was even one of them, they claim to have figured it out. "I suspected it was all of them at one point, therefore I'm right no matter who it is!" Silliness.

Seems that people have equated a blanket thought with a specific, summary conclusion.

The other thing is - I didn't want to sit there and figure out who it was. I enjoy being surprised.

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[–] alligatoruk 10 years ago

If the cop had turned out to be the Devil, then of course, a whole slough of people would have said "I KNEW it was the cop!" while not even mentioning the Old Lady.

I just finished watching it and I actually thought it might be the cop for a while! It would have been more interesting if he had gathered all his 'suspects' for his families hit and run and then tried to get them to admit who had done it.

It was a good idea for a film but it was badly executed (pardon the pun) - I think if it'd been a bit slower paced and we'd have found out bits about each character before they all started dying, then it would've been better. As it happened, I can't say I really cared enough about any of them to bother if they all died in the end or not.

And just because he confessed and "confronted who he really was", the devil let him off? Really poor ending. Way, way below par compared to something like "Fallen" which actually made the devil storyline a bit more interesting.