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Good movie but one part was beyond stupid...

posted 7 years ago by jcdugger (288)
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I enjoyed "Get Out", it's a good low-budget thriller. But I can't get out of my mind how ridiculously idiotic one scene was...it literally almost ruins the movie for me.

And that was when the buddy went to the police station. The friend, Rod Williams, has PROOF (from a photo on his phone) that a guy who's been missing (Dre / Andre Hayworth) is still out there and alive...and this gets next to no reaction from the police?!?! All the friend had to do is Google the guy's name (Andre Hayworth) and the first links that appear is "What happened to Andre Hayworth" and about how he's missing and whatnot. So you have a recent picture of a guy who's been missing for 6+ months and that's not something that would interest the authorities?! How stupid. So, Rod's friend goes missing moments after that very same friend sends him a new photo of a guy who's been missing for over 6 months -- and this is something the police just laugh at?! Gimme a break. Completely idiotic.

It made the 2nd dumbest interaction in that scene seem almost tame in comparison. Rod says "My boy is missing" and the police officer gets an extremely interested look on her face, grabs her pen and says "Your son is missing?" -- then Rod says "Not my son, my friend" and she immediately gets sad that it's not a big case and puts her pen away. Um, sorry, that's just dumb as hell. Is a son missing more important than a friend missing in the eyes of law enforcement?! That friend is someone's son after all! There's no way a police officer would "care less" about a missing friend over a missing son, especially to the point of not even wanting to write it down! The whole scene is completely implausible.

Sure, the focus of Rod going into the station was to report his friend missing -- but he's got a new photo of a guy who's been missing for 6+ months and this doesn't concern anybody?! If you were Rod, wouldn't you kind of stress the fact that you have a new photo of a missing person?! Ridiculous.

JD

[–] SickSpazmoid (755) 7 years ago

She ignored him because he came with this dumb ass story about hypnosis and sex slaves - this was the unrealistic part. In his place I will come out with ton of crazy theories, but will keep them to myself when talking with the police. This is because I'm not a comic relief character.

[–] jcdugger (288) 7 years ago

Well I know all that really. I guess what upsets me is that any investigator - even the world's worst one - is going to catch the fact that you have a missing person's photo on your phone! There's a girl here in my area that mysteriously went missing about 6 months ago, her name is Danielle. They found her car with her purse and keys locked inside the car, parked at her apartment. So if I went into the local police station and said "My friend is missing. I have a theory that aliens, who look exactly like unicorns but they speak English, are abducting people for sex parties and that's where my buddy is right now -- oh and he sent me a picture that he took yesterday of that local missing girl Danielle -- and the aliens are probably penetrating him as we speak, so we need to do something to help my friend."...what do you think would happen? I'd have to think even the most inexperienced and uneducated investigator in the USA is going to say "Ok, I don't care about your theories...what about the missing girl?" and/or "Show me the photo of Danielle right now". I don't think any investigator would possibly say "Oh well, we've been looking for this girl for 6 months, but you know, he has some weird theory about aliens and unicorns, so there is no need to question him further on HOW IN THE HELL he has a picture of a missing girl, let's just get everybody in here so we can laugh at his story!" Nuh-uh, no way. The focus, regardless of how ridiculous your story was, would be on whether or not somebody is missing and whether or not you have a recent photo of a missing girl! The authorities would be quickly scrambling to find out where the photo was taken and where your buddy was at/is at...they wouldn't focus on your alien-abduction bit. Even if they thought you were crazy, the first question would be..."Can you show me the photo of the missing person please?" Anything less than that is laughable.

JD

[–] erin1979 (59) 7 years ago

Maybe people might think that this guy is a good look alike or that he just changed and does not want anything to do with his old life who knows

[–] jcdugger (288) 7 years ago

How dumb. They're still going to investigate it at least a little bit. The guy is officially listed as a missing person...they're gonna want to know what's going on with him. No cop in the world is going to say "You've got a recent picture of a missing person on your phone? Oh well, without even looking into it, I'm just going to immediately determine that it's not a big deal, maybe it's a look-alike." Nuh-uh, that's not how things work.

JD

[–] erin1979 (59) 7 years ago

With how rob or rod was sounding I wonder if they could of thought the picture was a fake if that could be another reason they acted the way they did or just use suspension of disbelief

[–] SickSpazmoid (755) 7 years ago

Honestly, I also expected the police to bite on the photo. It is not that the scene is unrealistic. The problem is that the movie creates a logical and rational expectation and then ruins it with comic relief and that makes people dwell on it because of the disappointment. Kinda lame. They could have done it other way.

It is not about realism. It is about psychology.

[–] CraigJamesReview (1514) 7 years ago

I didn't dwell on it like some others here but I can see how that might take people out of the film. I've been meaning to watch this movie again, primarily because of my problem with the ending.

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[–] SickSpazmoid (755) 7 years ago

I suggest to avoid in your reviews too much retelling of the plot line. First, this usually means that the reviewer has not much to say about the thing being reviewed and second, you may give out too many plot details without realizing. Like the sarcastic part in your review about the parents. The movie in the beginning catches viewer's curiosity by making him wonder like what the parents will be. After meeting them is sort of hard to make out their game and all looks weird and confusing. Same about giving out the violent ending. Anyway, you reveal much less than the stupid trailer.

Generally I agree with you. 7/10 indeed.

[–] CraigJamesReview (1514) 7 years ago

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[–] Apis (1624) 7 years ago

The police station scene was indeed stupid, but it was meant as a parody.

The really stupid thing in this movie was a surgeon starting a brain switch operation while one of the patients is still absent. That's a beginner's mistake.

[–] Sandoz (2021) 7 years ago

Wait--you think THAT was the most stupid thing that happened in this movie?!

How about the fact that that we're supposed to believe somehow the main character was able fill his ears with the chair's stuffing....WHILE HIS ARMS ARE STILL BOUND TO THE CHAIR!!!

[–] megameme (370) 7 years ago

You know it's possible he tilted his head down to his hands, still would be hard to do, but it's not impossible.

[–] Cornelia123 (784) 7 years ago

That's what I figured he did. Yep not impossible when desperate.

[–] Sandoz (2021) 7 years ago

Nope, not buying it. His hands were thoroughly restrained just above the wrists so the most he could manage would be a little bending of the wrists. It may not be TOTALLY impossible to stuff his ears (both ears, mind you) with cotton in a brief amount of time...but it's pretty unlikely.

This is something I'd have to see to believe, and we weren't shown it.

[–] megameme (370) 7 years ago

I think you need to watch the movie again because even though his hands were latched down there was a lot of flexibility there. If you pay attention you could see he was able to move his hands and lift them up a little.

[–] Maximus256 (62) 7 years ago

If you remember the scene, he was able to bend and use his teeth to grab at the wrist restraints, but he couldn't get them undone. So its feasible that he was also able to plug his ears with the stuffing.

[–] NoOneOnEarth (38) 7 years ago

Here's the deal. In real life, it can be extremely difficult to get police interested in a missing adult male. Especially a black or gay male. That's the sad reality. The fact is, it's not illegal to be missing, and a lot of the time cops don't have enough compelling reason to spend the money it takes to search for someone, or even follow up leads. And sometimes it's just plain bias or laziness.

[–] jcdugger (288) 7 years ago

No way. If you have a friend missing and you don't have any new evidence about the person, sure, it could be hard to get further attention from the authorities. BUT YOU HAVE A NEW, RECENT PICTURE of the person they printed "MISSING" posters for! Remember, he did a web search of the person and there were news articles about that particular person having gone mysteriously missing and there was a Missing-Persons poster on him. I promise you, if you walk into any police station in the USA and say about a missing person who's been in the news: "Hey, I've got a recent photo of a person who's missing...the local paper wrote that missing-persons article about the guy 6 months ago", no way are you not immediately swarmed with investigators.

Walk in to a police station and say "Hey, remember that Jerome guy who went missing a year ago...you got any new info on him?"...they will say "Take a seat, we'll get with you in a while" and probably ignore you. Walk into that same station and say "Hey, remember that Jerome guy who went missing a year ago...I just took a photo of him here on my phone" and then see what happens. Two totally different reactions I'm sure. I can't stress this enough...he had a friggin' recent picture on his phone of a guy who's actively missing that they wrote articles about him and printed a "Missing" poster for! No way that goes unnoticed by even the Keystone cops. Somebody is going to take a special interest in that.

If you want to convince me that scene was done for parody, fine, I can live with that. But don't expect to convince me that you can walk into a police station with a picture of a missing person on your phone and them not to take it seriously...even if you walk in talking about unicorns and aliens. First statement will always be..."Let me see the photo".

JD

[–] NoOneOnEarth (38) 7 years ago

Yeah that scene was mostly played for laughs. But everything I said still stands. If he has a picture of him, just hanging out at a party, great! Then the case is closed. There's nothing to follow up on. Like I said, it's not illegal to be missing. What could the police possibly do? I say this because missing people is a very interesting thing to me, and I read and listen to a lot of stuff about it. So I'm just basing this on real stories that have actually happened.

[–] jcdugger (288) 7 years ago

Wow...you are somewhat divorced from reality. If you have an active missing persons report, to the point where a "Missing" poster was made and articles by the NY Times were published about it, I'm sure you having a photo of that person is going to be taken seriously, if anything just to be able to close the case.

If I tell all my friends "See ya clowns" on the way out of town, then you show up at the police station with a picture of me saying "Nobody has seen my friend since he told all of us to screw off, now I got a picture of him", sure, they're not going to care. But an open case with an active missing person that nobody ever heard from since the day he went missing?! One that garnered enough media attention for newspapers to write about it?? His friends and family all feeling that he met with foul play, nobody knows what happened to him and nobody ever heard from him since, and now you have a recent picture of him?! That's gonna garner some serious attention at the police station, sorry.

JD

[–] NoOneOnEarth (38) 7 years ago

You're tone sucks. Sounds like you just want to bicker so I'm only going to say one last thing. Yes, if there was a bunch of media attention, obviously there would be even more media attention if he was found. I might have missed something, but I didn't think there was a media sensation surrounding his disappearance. Still, it wouldn't be a police matter if a guy turned up and he was fine.

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

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[–] Fairy_snuff (389) 7 years ago

The point is.. he's not missing. He's turned up, looks happy in the photo and in the cops mind, has just decided to live somewhere else.

[–] Camdog (14) 6 years ago

"Your son is missing?" -- then Rod says "Not my son, my friend" and she immediately gets sad that it's not a big case and puts her pen away. Um, sorry, that's just dumb as hell. Is a son missing more important than a friend missing in the eyes of law enforcement?!

Yes it is, assuming the son is a child - a child is a minor. I think the point of this scene is that she's rightly concerned over a missing boy, but when she realises it's his friend and not a kid, she assumes that he's probably not a missing person. She deduces that his friend is probably the same age as Rod and thus a fully grown man, and therefore low risk, she probably thinks he's gone to Vegas for a long weekend and not told his buddy when he's coming back. I don't think it was anything to do with her disappointment at not getting a high profile missing kid case, open to interpretation I guess.