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Once it went for the "Home Alone' booby trap angle...


Shark.

Jumped.

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But... the guy was a landscape architect. Those guys are known for their booby-trap skills.



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Of course! I forgot, how foolish of me- just last week I had my fishpond extended, and whilst inspecting it I was nearly decapitated by an enormous bamboo mousetrap.

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He was also an American, so he probably didn't know that in England you can dial 999 and a bunch of nice policemen will come round and save you from the bad guys without the need to build any booby traps.

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You mean the bobbies on the take from the bad guy coming to your house? Great idea!

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I was thinking "wtf is this, home alone for adults?" I was wishing that classic home alone music would start playing. They must have gotten paid a decent amount to be in this film. Even the leads who are talented did a bad job because of a bar script / directing.

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Yeah. Plus the nail gun. Franco's character should have used "ribbed nails". The guy would have never been able to walk away. All in all, a stupid film.

He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator.

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The whole ending was pretty silly. Still, all in all, a sort of fun/mindless movie, with a little bit of heart. Easily forgettable, however.

Love isn't what you say or how you feel, it's what you do. (The Last Kiss)

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For sure. Not an entirely original idea to begin with (ordinary people in the wrong place making a bad decision) concluding with an ill-fitting ending. A Simple Plan, Fargo, and others, did it much better.

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Yeah. Agreed. It was fairly good, or at least watchable, up to that point.

Then Fonzie went airborne.

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Hahhaah yeah, that was all a bit Home Alone now that you mention it!! [laughing!]

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