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If there was a lunatic killing tons of people would you...

posted 13 years ago by britika
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Seriously, would you..

Go out and shoot off fireworks at a pier somewhere IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT when there has been some lunatic killing tons of people during the night, your best friend included?

Go out and collect bottles/cans for the medcu drive door to door just to look for a one eyed man or woman?

Go check out Reverend Lowe in THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT AND ALONE? Why not just wait until morning and take back-up?

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[–] greenhair77 13 years ago

You have a point.

Marty is a young teenager... they do dumb $hit that puts themselves in danger.

The other two you can chock up to neither Jane nor the sherriff taking the story they were told seriously until they find evidence to prove said story. If it's not credible then why take backup? But dumba$$ should have had a radio with him to call for backup when he needed it.

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[–] nutsberryfarm 13 years ago

i call upon some private justice!

We're not soldiers and he's not the enemy. He's a pizza man.

[–] TorontoJediMaster 12 years ago

In the book, Marty shoots the fireworks off in his backyard, just off the porch. IMO, that's clearly being more careful than going to a bridge far from his house.

As for Jane and the Sheriff, they didn't believe Marty's story so they didn't feel a need to be cautious. As well, Jane was going around in daylight. She likely figured that even if Marty's story was true, she'd be safe in daylight.

[–] nutsberryfarm 12 years ago

that makes more sense.

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[–] brand_name 12 years ago

he sneaks out, makes it to is strategically placed gas guzzling wheel chair. Then movie cuts to a scene of him ripping down the street in that loud arse chair. As if to say, course his parents didn't hear him start that thing up. I love this movie.

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[–] jt2002b 11 years ago

I've always kinda thought that too. More on the subject, if the loud wheelchair didn't cause enough ruckus to draw the werewolf's attention, then the fireworks sure did. Marty was just asking for death that night.

Nuff' said.

[–] MrAnonymous (153) 3 years ago

More specifically why did his uncle give him the fireworks and encourage him to go do that. Imagine being the uncle and trying to explain that to Marty's mom. I can imagine that being a very awkward conversation for the uncle.

[–] Kowalski (75537) 3 years ago

AS I ENJOY THE COMPANY OF LUNATICS...YES I WOULD.

[–] diezman (2099) 3 years ago

I'd just stay home and wait for news updates online or on TV or the radio. I'd be terrified to venture outside in this situation.

Then again, it's a movie. I can use my imagination and suspend disbelief in such situation. If it was "real life" than it would probably be boring as hell.

[–] lemonhead1 (424) a year ago

Once upon a time, there was no internet!

[–] StinkyPoopyPants (3114) 4 months ago

I'm having a werewolf movie night right now and just finished watching this again. That is one of the things that bothered me about this movie. It made ZERO sense that he would do such a thing. He was looking back at his friend Brady with fear and concern when Brady was still out when he left the park with Jane. As another poster said, in the book, he's outside his house when the werewolf approaches. I wish they had done that because it made perfect sense.

As for Jane going out and collecting cans, as another person said it was daytime and she felt safe to do so. It made sense. So did the sheriff going out to talk to the Reverend at night. He had absolutely no reason to believe the Reverend had anything to do with the murders let alone was a werewolf and had laughed it off earlier.

The look of the werewolf is another thing that bothered me but there's another thread for that 😄

[–] jlam888 (626) 2 months ago

And would the parents let the kids out to roam freely?