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'Keep my (new) BMW' -- really???

posted 12 years ago by RTprod
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I liked The Possession enough and thought it was respectably made -- acting, screenplay, cinematography and score were adept -- atmosphere creepy.

However, a basketball coach who just bought a gorgeous new house and probably has to pay child support for two kids just giving up his new BMW (which he probably has years of payments left on)? No. It was easier to believe the demonic possession and Jewish exorcist than the car being gifted LOL.

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[–] SoccerChick7625 12 years ago

Hahahah! Well I guess it comes down to what matters more to ya. Your fancy car or your daughter/family/life. Decisions decisions.

[–] RTprod 12 years ago

Well it's not like the car was possessed LOL...

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[–] phillynickdollaz 12 years ago

lol speak fo urself OP, if that happened to me i would let him keep it too! i dont want that box or jewish guy comming near me ever again lol he's getting offers to be a D1 coach so im sure he can buy another

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[–] reporianproxy 12 years ago

It was strange because in real life, he would never give the car away. The only reason he gave it away in the film was so that he could say this line: "you keep it. I'm not going anywhere". That was the resolution to his particular arc, his confirmation that he was choosing family over the Coaching job.

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[–] bps3013 12 years ago

They could have just had him say "Take your time (returning the car), I'm not going anywhere."

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[–] wewatchedamovie1 12 years ago

I thought the same thing. I loved the movie but that was poor writing on that line. It was just meant to show that the dad and mom were back together without actually extending the running time of the movie, lol

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[–] Good-Evening-Clarice 12 years ago

if someone saved your daughter's life and you didnt have money to repay them, you wouldn't let them keep the car? i actually found that scene believable

[–] RTprod 12 years ago

Uh, no. You don't gift someone a BMW -- very false. And I didn't get that it was payment or because he didn't have money. It came out of nowhere.

Incidentally my first post was half joking, but now that others are seriously defending the action, I really think it's insane.

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[–] benshki 12 years ago

I thought it was a little homage/nod to Poltergeist 2.

[–] rabbyt1 12 years ago

Looked like payment for his daughter. And I didn't think it was a brand new BMW.

[–] fantom3993500 12 years ago

It was far from new, the 98-04 body style. I still thought that was cheesy as hell "You can keep it, I won't be going anywhere" C'mon man, you still need to go to work, and the grocery store etc.

The thing that made me laugh, and several people sitting around me was when I noted that all of this could have been avoided had he just gone to walmart instead of a yard sale when his daughter suggested that he needed new dishes.

[–] markedjuan 12 years ago

That was an old car. Probably 15 years old or more. It isn't worth much anymore.

[–] mikeyflatley 12 years ago

Cheap car anywayz. Hez prolly gonna upgrade 2 a porsche.

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[–] ib011f9545i 12 years ago

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The young jewish guy had just risked his life and soul to help someone who he did not know and was not jewish,so giving him the car was a good thing to do.

I don't know (being British)if a basketball coach could really afford a new house and a BMW in real life.
His wife was a bit of a pain was she not?

[–] cosmic_quest 12 years ago

I didn't think it was odd to give the car to the man who had just saved the life of your child. I too wondered about how he was able to afford the nice big house on top of child suppor (I don't really count the car since it looked like an older BMW) but I suppose houses are cheaper in the US compared to rip-off UK.

I hated that wife too. Aside from the fact that she should have know him better than to blindly believe he would suddenly hit the girl, she was a whiner. He was working hard for his family, what's wrong with that?

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[–] ib011f9545i 12 years ago

Houses might be cheaper in Britain but that was not really my point.
I assume he is a teacher as well as a basketball coach? he must teach other kids PE as well as the team?
High Schools can't afford someone just to coach a basketball team can they?
I thought he had a nice house considering his ex wife had only just gone back to work.

As for rip off Britain,cultures are different,higher taxes but you don't expect your employer to pay for your health care.

[–] dunbar7 12 years ago

He was a college basketball coach, not a high school coach. Those guys make some pretty decent coin.

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[–] Death163 12 years ago

I'm pretty sure he was college coach not a high school coach and colleges do regularly hire coach's just to run a certain sporting program example football,basketball,hockey,baseball etc.

Did you miss the scene where he walked into the very large college class room with the box to get the professor to tell him what the box was??? or the part where he said there was a private sports rehab room in the hospital that his players used????? i some how doubt that a high school is going to be able to send there players to a private hospital to use a rehab room not only then when's the last time you heard of a high school flying a teacher in from another state to interview for a job??????
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[–] Death163 12 years ago

Britain has UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE so everyone's paying for everyone elses healthcare though taxes seriously how uninformed of reality are you?????
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[–] Everybody_Chill 12 years ago

theres nowhere in the movie saying he had just bought the car

[–] alesisqs61 12 years ago

Yea, that car was OLD..... They already had her vehicle so the LEAST he could do is give him the BMW. Which in turn was the plot point to the typial end...which I won't bother to spoil.

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[–] MetalSLuGz999 12 years ago

are you people forgetting the fact that the jewish guy saved his daughter? he basically had his family back...i dont think he really cared about the car and was over whelmed with everything that had gone on and that was happening after(like everything back to normal)......i doubt he would have said 'thankyou so much for risking your life saving my daughter and oh yeah i want my car back,you can get the train'

[–] nick667 12 years ago

The car gift seemed very natural to me. The priest saved his daughter's life, he didnt pay him any money or anything, and he wanted to repay the priest somehow, and I doubt that at that point he cared for material possessions. So the car gift seemed very natural to me, nothing out of the extraordinary. Especially considering that it seemed to me that he got back with his wife and family.

[–] PopperTheKungFu-Dragon 10 years ago

^^^^^^^^^This.

[–] DaliParton 12 years ago

Besides, he would never take it anyway.
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