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The wife and kids - really?

posted 10 years ago by davemerino
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Amazing. People are dying and the brat wants "her blanky"!?!?

Considering the type of work he used to do - they have to have had "emergency contingency plans". 1) that wife wouldn't keep bothering him. 2) those brats wouldn't demand attention.

He's trying to save the world, but wife and kids keep bothering him. Really? This was a great chance to make a movie where they show how kids can be trained to become more than just American selfish coddled brats.

[–] alanajemison 9 years ago

agreed and it reminds me never to have any liabilities ie kids, visual birth control

[–] hauteCoSignr 9 years ago

Such brats. Made me turn to my SO and remind him if we were to have kids what they will NEVER act like ?

[–] hauteCoSignr 9 years ago

* ^ no question mark lol

[–] enfilmigult 9 years ago

LOL. You haven't spent a lot of time around young children in real life, I take it.

(And how was his wife bothering him, anyway? She tries to comfort/quiet the kid, leaving him free to drive. That's about all that happens there, and it's about the opposite of bothering him.)

[–] parknourie 9 years ago

Did you miss the part where she called him on the phone when he was in Korea to thwart the whole discreet mission and basically killed ten people?

Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down and a Wagging Finger of Shame

[–] enfilmigult 9 years ago

Oh, I thought the OP was just referring to the opening scene.

That phone call while he's in Korea is 100% his fault though. He's the one who knows when he has to be silent, not her, and he doesn't tell her not to call him as a rule or anything. He really should have silenced or turned it off whenever necessary.

[–] CynicalDremer 9 years ago

I thought he told her he would call her everyday. She's not new to this, she knows what he does so she needed to wait for a call.

Ultimately yes, he should have turned the phone off but she shouldn't have called. Both of their fault in my opinion.

[–] enfilmigult 9 years ago

Fair point I suppose. :)

[–] jeffjohnston-13327 9 years ago

I thought they were both dim-bulbs on the cellphone thing.

She knows he's in the middle of a dangerous mission and if he hasn't called he's either dead or WAY too busy with the mission. No point in calling if he's dead so she knows she'll be interrupting him while he's $hit-deep in his mission.

While he, the trained agent, knowing that absolute silence is EVERYTHING, and it's likely his dip$hit wife will be calling, leaves his ringer on full blast. Leaving your ringer on in a movie theatre can get you killed so how did this not him fragged?

[–] enfilmigult 9 years ago

I was surprised at what a blasé reaction it got from the other soldiers, ha ha. I wouldn't be making "please keep your cellphones off" jokes myself...more like grabbing the phone and tossing it as far as I could while glaring at the guy who left his ringer on.

Same response as for the other poster who said about the same thing: fair point about it being foolish of both of them. Although I still feel the urge to say it's less her fault; he works for the UN, not the CIA, so "if my phone rings I will be discovered and die" is not a situation she'd really be used to. Leaving a voicemail because he's too busy, sure.

[–] jeffjohnston-13327 9 years ago

True that he's not in the CIA, but she knows he's on a dangerous mission.

If you told your wife that you were going to call her as soon as you finished your sales meeting and she called you in the middle of the meeting, sure it was dumb to leave your cellphone on, but equally dumb of her to call. You'd still be ticked (WTF?) even if you should have turned the ringer off (in case your idiot wife calls you anyway). And that's just a sales meeting scenario.

Back to the zombie apocalypse...

If he's not calling her she should have the common sense to know that he can't. It doesn't matter if he used to be Larry the Cable Guy. Right now he's out on a dangerous, military mission in a world overrun with hyper-zombies.

He's either:

1. Dead - No point in calling him.
2. Too busy to call her - No point in calling him.
3. Away from cell/sat service - No point in calling him.
4. Being a jerk - No point in calling him.

[–] enfilmigult 9 years ago

Still going to say it's more his fault than hers, sorry.

[–] jeffjohnston-13327 9 years ago

Yah. I'd have to give him a dumb-ass rating of 10/10, while she's only a 9/10.

[–] enfilmigult 9 years ago

Pretty much, ha ha

[–] afnakfanfnskejfnsfsn 9 years ago

I can't believe how the production down played that scene with that silly joke. Not fun.

[–] Mudflap 9 years ago

I agree. The book was about the world as a whole and the movie was about a cliché.

The thing that really breaks my heart about this film is that they could have done something totally new, and instead they went with the same old "guy trying to save his family" thing that we have seen a million times before. It seemed to me that it all had absolutely nothing to do with the book other than the title and a few character's names were the same.

I wish there could be a mini-series or a trilogy that could do the book justice...

For example:

**Spoilers** the part in the book about the guy in the far north who was out of food and he & his wife smelling the food cooking next door... Then getting brow beaten by his wife to "be a man and support his family" and as a result going out and assaulting/killing the neighbour family to get their food to feed his own starving family; that was riveting, poignant and haunting. It's was not just some Brad Pitt character action hero finding a vaccine crap; it was realistic and it tore the character up inside to do it.

The book had some real depth to it, the movie was just pure pablum + as you mentioned the kids were annoying as hell too.

[–] BigMeanieHead 9 years ago

How about the realization when its revealed what the food WAS? Stayed with me for weeks..

[–] red_fox87 9 years ago

Actually he beats his wife and then goes and trades his daughter's radio for the "food"

[–] davidsfrench 9 years ago

Fair few people on this thread who obviously don't have kids.They are programmed to do annoying things,and they don't often keep to the script.

[–] spookyrat1 9 years ago

To state the obvious too, the wife and kids are relegated to the sideline well before the half way mark.🐭

[–] Mudflap 9 years ago

the wife and kids are relegated to the sideline well before the half way mark.

They were so annoying I would have relegated them to the zombies well before the half second mark. ;)

[–] loki242 9 years ago

This was a great chance to make a movie where they show how kids can be trained to become more than just American selfish coddled brats.

But then the smart people wopuld complain that it was unrealistic.

It wasn't because they are American fool. THEY ARE KIDS regardless of what a parent does, they protect their kids by keeping them sheltered rather than sharing stories of child rape in Africa with their children.

You hate Congress but every election you re-elect YOUR "guy" and wonder why things never change!

[–] sammyefields 9 years ago

Excuse me Loki, American coddled brats? It's an American movie that you're entertaining yourself with. Your more than free not to partake of anything American.

[–] be236 9 years ago

Totally agree with OP. Spoiled brats those kids.

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