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Not Likely

posted 11 years ago by Lifeguardfan
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The no technology retreat was a good way to explain why none of the girls had cell phones with them, however, it's quite illogical to assume that the counselor wouldn't have brought one with her for emergency purposes. On the chance that there was no signal where they were located, I also find it hard to believe there was no radio on the boat, or at least a flare gun to signal other boats or even to use as a weapon if necessary.

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[–] scs0 11 years ago

I don't think there was a need for the counselor to use a cell phone.

I got the impression that the problem with the boat was so severe it needed to be taken in to the mechanic, so therefore there was no real need to call them. Maybe she did, and if so it wouldn't really have been an important enough of an event to show us.

She clearly didn't see the people with the other boat as being a legitimate threat to safety otherwise she would have moved camp that night or first thing in the morning. She wouldn't have abandoned the kids or accepted help from the killers. I think she saw them as people to be concerned about, but not a dire threat.

When the boat failed on its way to the mechanic there really wasn't much time between that and when the killers arrived, so it easily seemed believable that she would have tinkered around for a few minutes before calling for help.

If she had a cell phone it probably would have been locked into a compartment on the boat due to the reason the girls were there. These girls were so dimwitted that they didn't even so much as pick up a rock as a weapon (imagine being hit with stones thrown from 6 different directions), so it's doubtful these girls would have had the brains to look for a cellphone.

Civility is just a warm and fuzzy name for censorship.

[–] zxcvbnmasdfghjqwertyu 10 years ago

The dude had a shot gun. Plus he had his accomplice girl.

Rocks ain't got *beep* on those two.

[–] HumanTheONLyRace 10 years ago

The lady was basically an ignorant, irresponsible adult.

And the writers could've at least added one male, it just makes no sense at all for ditzy cellphone teenage girls to out alone w/ an ignorant woman.

Sort of ruined film from the start. Eh, I was doing something else, just another movie playing in the background.

[–] natalie_princess_of_OLTL 10 years ago

I liked the movie but I think that she wouldn't have brought the cell phones simply because the girls were really sneaky and she didn't want them to find a way to get to them.

The most illogical part to me was that she would leave the teenagers SHE was responsible for ALONE in the wilderness when the creepy couple had just left! YOU are the one who is legally responsible for those girls, NOT your teenage helper. Had she lived, she would have been facing one hell of a lawsuit.