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too much stuff happening

posted 9 years ago by givicencio
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This movie had ridiculously too much stuff happenning:
The anonymous shooter, the police son & friends, the "take your clothes" thing, the coyote rapist, the dudes that steal in a house, the "lets make them meet in jail" stupid unrealistic scene, and more.

Was the script written by a 8 year old kid?

When the amount of things happening went from weird to ridiculous, I thought I was watching a deadpan comedy. Like a Tim & Eric episode.

Also I hated that they portraited every immigrant in the movie as DUMB as a door, incapable of expressing a bit of intelligence. They were portraited like littles puppies that only have feelings and nothing more.

[–] ficoce 9 years ago

You might try something staring Schwarzenegger. In his movies each scene basically transitions into the next and follows a single storyline with very few subplots that you have to keep track of. Usually they don't even bother with character development in the form of flashback or anything - so you can stay focused on the single plot line.

I agree about the immigrants though. At least one of the characters should have been an in-shape college educated male who quit his job as a radiologist at a hospital in Mexico City and paid a coyote get him across the border to a better life picking apples in Washington state. That way, he can read a page and a half of intelligent dialog while standing in his underwear with a gun in his face. Who casts these movies anyway?

[–] cmcurrie2 9 years ago

You tried. How do people like the OP manage to get through each day?

[–] Seth_Rogue_One 8 years ago

I wouldn't say it necessarily had too much stuff happening, more that what was happening was underdeveloped (possibly due to alot of heavy editing), often people just went from point a to point b with no real explaining on how they got there and stuff

But yeah to me it seems like it was originally a +2 hour movie that they cut down to 95 minutes

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