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Few Plot Inaccuracies [SPOILERS!!]

posted 18 years ago by Rpb353
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Well first off, the scaring on his face at the end took away from his bad a$$ image, as it was poorly done.

When he kills those 2 cops near the end, one punches him and his face doesn't budge [*awesome*], but then the woman kicks him in the head on the balcony and he falls over. WTF? this happens near the end too, when Bruce Cambell is puching him as Maniac cop is driving.

Why does Cordell disappear after he stabs the handcuffed cop, only to start bashing the door down?

It's things like this that annoy mewith films, when directors can't be
bothered about small details.

Very well done and too bad this guy isn't a villain legend like Kruger and Myers.

Anways, I loved it. Childhood film that I couldn't remember anything about except something getting thrown out a window.

[–] dreamwithme 18 years ago

In spite of my great respect for all things *Bruce Campbell*, I must admit that the flaws you cited were rather obvious to me, also. Another one I thought could have been adressed was the fact that, apart from looking a little forlorn at the initial news of his wife's brutal murder, Forrest seems to have no regrets about the events leading up to her death. Honestly, if your wife's last image of you was one of utter betrayal, the guilt of it would just have to present itself, one way or another.

Aside from that, I thought this film was classic 80's cinema, and am greatly anticipating seeing the sequels :P

...that's riskier than tap-dancing through Cambodia...

[–] CharlesVariations 18 years ago

His face looked okay, however i think they showed it for too long when they revealed it.

And as for him disappearing after he stabs that cop, i have NO idea why. He could've just easily got that chick. But for some reason he just disappears back into the door after he kills the cop, and basically lets her get an advantage over him by letting her take like a minute to get into a door, and THEN goes after her. (Run along sentence)

I still wonder to this day why he does that. I guess Lustig figured nobody would notice that, and Cohen just didn't know how to write that part.

See you in the funnies.

[–] Kevin_Lockard 18 years ago

Yeah, I'm always puzzled at that as well.
Plus, why did he start to leave them at the end? He could have easily picked up that shotgun and kill both of them after putting Campbell down again.