Stupidest Captives Of All Time

Eh...yes. Plenty. But arguing that plenty of other movies have stupid people in them doesn't excuse this one having them when there HAVE been movies that feature INTELLIGENT people in situations like this.

That word doesn't mean what you think it means...

I'm not sure if I would cascasll anyone stupid not knowing how strong they are and they could be overpowered by there kidnapper.maybe they should have screamed hoping someone would come to the rescue or hope it weakens the kidnapper to get away

Dr. Fletcher was drugged. She couldn't speak when the Beast killed her.

That's exactly how I perceived it as well. As if these characters were realistically in this situation, not as if they were able to stand back and assess every move they make as a calm and collected viewer.

I know it's hard to imagine an accurate idea of how you'd act in that situation OPPO, but you wish you were that clear minded as a captive. You'd cry until he ate you.

That being said, I did have an issue with Casey being able to advise the other girl to pee herself so she wouldn't have to strip for the germaphobic Dennis. However once it was revealed that Casey had obviously endured sexual abuse in particular, it seemed justified.

I agree. However, on the other hand, this is the movie's most pronounced weakness. The writing was quite realistic, but not realistic enough. Somekind of an uncanny valley of scriptwriting.

Movies are poetic. They are not documentaries. It's not important what is really realistic, the only thing that matters is that it should look realistic. More often than not, over-dramatization is preferable.

I would expect faster pace of the kidnapping, because when something wrong happens and you are frozen like what Cassie did, things go really fast relative to the victim. So to make the point that she was frozen, the process of kinapping should be so quick. It's the reverse Quicksilver scenes from X-Men movies. When you move really fast, everything else slows down. When you are frozen, everything else happens really really quick.

And then I expect more crying and panicking. I mean real people maybe calm as them when kidnapped, maybe not, I don't know. But this is a movie, people should be crying, shouting, wailing, etc. Nobody really want to see scenes like this, so make it in succession of quick cuts. End with them sleep of exhaustion then wake up with imperfect hair and soggy eye-scortums.

Another thing I would like to see is Kevin really hurting them. Most movie watchers as with probably most modern people including myself may never experience being hurt physically. So we can't relate to these girls' fear of Kevin. Need to show some hair grabbing and a couple of hard hitting punches to the stomach that end with two of them puking just to make a point. The pissing-on-herself scene can be converged here too.

But the most frustrating one is that how come a 9-yo understands that kissing a girl creates pregnancy??

Yes, the doctor going - alone, without even telling anyone - to a potentially dangerous situation didn't make much sense I suppose you could say she thought she could "reach" her patient but still. And the scene where the girl stopped to watch videos instead of carrying on an escape also seemed a bit much...

In movie land she's stupid, in real life not so much.

I work in psychological circles and in real life patients like that are rarely dangerous, especially when they have no history of acting out in such a manner.

Her fatal flaw is something which she admitted, which is seeing her patients like family instead of maintaining professional objectivity as she should have done. It's much the same way as when adults don't realize they were abused by their parents or are actively being abused by their spouse. They can see someone else in nearly the exact same situation and think how horrible that must be, but are completely blind to the fact that they were or are in the same situation, because they don't perceive their circumstances as being the same. When you think of someone as family it can massively warp perception of reality as to who and what they are, until it's too late.

And yeah Casey was being stupid due to her own situation at home, where she is convinced that someone in charge can essentially do whatever they want and she's powerless to stop them (she tried once and failed). She accepts that the situation is hopeless regardless of the reality.

And unfortunately society programs females into thinking they should be submissive, particularly in response to aggressive males. So unless they have specific training otherwise (like 6 months of Kenpo) they would naturally be rather scatter brained and submissive in stressful situations.

I can also attest that I'm roughly the same size as James (Kevin) and there is no way in hell those girls could have psychically overcome me, at least not without me taking at least two of them out in the process.

And how do you know those passengers were aware that the plane was over taken and if so, at what point during their flight were they made aware?

yup except the government already killed those people before they crashed those planes into the towers. jet fuel doesn't burn at a high enough temp to melt steal beems.