Here you have the psychopathic, rapist, murder, animal murderer, lunatic Sebastian Caine; Then you have Linda and Matt, Linda who cheated on Sebastian for Matt & Matt who wasn't a saint himself. He thought he was better than Sebastian from day one even before Sebastian turned into a lunatic. So who were you rooting for?
You're the garbage man No I just take out the trash
There was no cheating. Why do people keep saying this? It was clear from the video call that they were no longer together. Sebastian knew his ex had a boyfriend in bed with her, he just didn't know who.
shareThe whole love affair added nothing to the film, it kind of distracts and takes away from the film
shareWrong. Their relationship made the already nuts Sebastian become insanely jealous, which is what tipped him over the edge into a full blown killer.
It also adds some more interesting dynamics so we’re not just watching a bunch of colleagues get slaughtered, a love triangle complicates things, and the stakes are higher when a loved one could get iced.
But it made us want them to die and Sebastian unintentionally sympathetic, what they say about screen or horror villains the less human the better and having protagonists to be invested in.
shareIt didn’t make ‘us want them to die’ at all. You might want people to die for being in a normal, healthy relationship but most people don’t agree with you because they’re not psychopaths.
shareThey're totally unlikeable characters, the women are mouthy bitches from the first time they're on screen up to their final scenes.
shareNo, only Sarah is a ‘mouthy bitch’. Linda’s fine and Matt is just a normal, decent guy. If you detest normal, decent people that’s a you problem, not the film’s problem.
shareIt's always better to make protagonists virtuous and the villain less human the better.
shareI was rooting for Sebastian the whole time
shareEspecially if it's Kevin Bacon in the role.
They didn't make Sebastian much of a threat like 2020 Invisible man being an abusive boyfriend as just a deprived pervert. Making the heroes fool mouths or cheating harpies didn't add anything to the film but take away.
If you want people to invest in your heroes you can't make them utter scumbags, assholes or bitches.
With villains the less human the better.
are you no familiar with paul verhoeven movie??!!
his film NEVER have likable character hahahahahaha. his main character always cold heart. watch his early dutch movie like spetters and see for self. he get much critic for this.
so that is why you confuse about linda and matt. paul verhoeven movies very cold and mean spirit, even heroes not very likeables.
The problem with this movie is that it did seem like for the first half hour or so, up until he goes invisible, and maybe even up until he rapes the neighbor, we *were* supposed to be rooting for Sebastian, what with the fact that Kevin Bacon is given top billing and how Sebastian does seem like the central character.
But then as he becomes more and more deranged and unhinged, the audience naturally loses sympathy for him and Linda and Matt become the people we presumably are supposed to root for, and they are so poorly developed that it is difficult to be invested in them.