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They lied, broke the rules

posted 4 years ago by avortac4 (3742)
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The two door guards are supposed to be 100%.

One 'always lies', and one 'always tells the truth'.

But they BOTH say the same thing in the beginning, explaining the rules!

They BOTH agree that one always tells the truth and one always lies. If the other always lies, HE CAN NOT AGREE WITH THIS, he would LIE about it!

So he EITHER:

a) doesn't ALWAYS lie

or

b) the truth-speaking door LIES!

This scene makes no sense when they break their own rules IMMEDIATELY.

[–] aavfreak (3313) 4 years ago

Yes. It would have been better if the rules were explained by a third party or on a sign or something.

[–] elmacho (979) 4 years ago

they should have explained the rules and then said "but beware, when answering your question one of us will always tell the truth and the other will always lie."

[–] moviechatterer (15583) 2 years ago

that wouldnt help , which is what the OP was getting at

[–] Octo (216) 3 years ago

In the context of the game, their job. The characters themselves isn't necessarily bound to it those rules.

[–] hurricane (1959) 3 years ago

Slight flaw in the script, but not a huge deal.

The audience understood by context that the doors were either telling the truth/lying, with the exception being when they were explaining the rules.

If they were being fully accurate, Sarah would've found out about the riddle some other way before encountering the doors. But, as the audience understood what was happening, it doesn't really matter. It had honestly never occurred to me that it was an error until I saw it mentioned online.

[–] moviechatterer (15583) 3 years ago

yeah , that one of the drawbacks of "online"

[–] hurricane (1959) 3 years ago

The internet leads to this sort of thing happening.

It's a great tool for communication, but at the same time having anybody in the world be able to post their opinion on an international scale at the touch of a few buttons, it's lead some people to believe that their opinion is more important than it actually is.

A lot of people think that they're movie critics now. Finding some tiny inconsistency in a movie, blowing it out of proportion and making the whole film sound bad because of it. When this film came out in the 1980s, people would just enjoy fun films without spending the whole time looking for stuff to criticise. It doesn't happen now.

And the sad thing is, a lot of other people actually listen to it. I've heard people criticise a movie that they haven't seen, just because of it has a poor mark on Rotten Tomatoes.