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So many flaws(not talking about the magic parts)(spoiler)


Part 1

Money on a bank account counting up???? What is it? a memory check

A man got shot up in the ceiling and got stuck in the hole... in the cement? So if a man jumps from a skyscraper, he would not be squashed, but would be standing like a spear???

He actually, after knowing the power of the key, puts it on the table... wtf! that not only stupid, it's f...... unbelievable.

The guy with the ticket says it is dangerous to use the objects, but he still wants it back.

After his girl got lost in the room and he escapes into the room, the "bad" guys actually open the door, even though they know he wont be there(but thats OK, maybe it hadn't fully closed. But then he keeps staring after him in the rumble.

This is so silly!

Anyway I am a sucker for fantasy, so I start to watch part 2

Part 2

The ticket guy tells him a combination of to(or more) objects, may be able to bring his girl back. Why is it he doesn't try with the ticket??? he could just take it!

Then he comes to the lady with the nail thing and a radio, and takes the nail thing...wtf! what about the radio???

They know the object come from the room, but they are totally surprised the pen lays on the desk.

And with the pen on the desk, he let the "bad" guy in first... without his gun ind his hand. Then I got totally surprised the "bad" guy didn't take the pen, and killed him.

This was too much for me, at least for now. But i probably wont come back to this badly written mini series.

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You're tougher than I am; I couldn't make it past the first episode. The detective was undoubtedly one of the dumbest characters ever written. Leaving the key lying around, letting his young daughter play with it, letting prisoners escape, letting people do the same thing to him again (doesn't he learn anything the first time?). What bothered me most was that he was so slow to realize and react to what was going on, and so cavalier about the danger he was creating for his daughter. I don't like to be around stupid people in real life, so why would I want them around in my fiction?

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You guys mustn't have liked "BatMan Begins", or "The Dark Knight". Because they were so stoopid and pretend. C'mon! A BatMan and a BatMobile? Puh-leeze! And everyone lets themselves get beat-up by the B-man and The Joker. How phony is that? It doesn't even make sense. When they shoot at him,no one ever thinks to shoot him in the face or head,why? Those films make no sense at all because they're not real,they're phony. If it was real or was logical B-man and Joker would've been dead long ago!!! Oh,wait a minute. They were just films. Never mind. Liquor & Whores,Bitches

I Kill Kids!

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Money on a bank account counting up???? What is it? a memory check


Please tell me you're kidding. Thousands of shows and movies do this, its a minor visual effect that could easily be built into any banking site.

A man got shot up in the ceiling and got stuck in the hole... in the cement? So if a man jumps from a skyscraper, he would not be squashed, but would be standing like a spear???


You're applying logic to the physics of a man being microwaved the thrown by a magical pen that defies the laws of physics?

He actually, after knowing the power of the key, puts it on the table... wtf! that not only stupid, it's f...... unbelievable.


Oh yes, because we all know that kids and burglars always go after motel keys when you turn your back on them.

The guy with the ticket says it is dangerous to use the objects, but he still wants it back.


How much of the series did you actually watch? It was well established that objects exert a control on their owners. Numerous times in the series people with objects have said "its all I have". The objects make you not want to give them up.

After his girl got lost in the room and he escapes into the room, the "bad" guys actually open the door, even though they know he wont be there(but thats OK, maybe it hadn't fully closed. But then he keeps staring after him in the rumble.

This is so silly!

Anyway I am a sucker for fantasy, so I start to watch part 2


He stared for a few seconds. What do you expect him to do "Oh no! He's gone! I need to immediately turn around and face the other way for no reason!"?

The ticket guy tells him a combination of to(or more) objects, may be able to bring his girl back. Why is it he doesn't try with the ticket??? he could just take it!


He was asking Wally for advice. You don't rob someone you are trying to get help from and might need help from again. Wally was his best (and at that point only) possible source for information about the objects. Why would he destroy that?

Then he comes to the lady with the nail thing and a radio, and takes the nail thing...wtf! what about the radio???


The nail file would actually prove immediately useful. Plus it was the only object she had that he knew of which was any kind of threat. As you see later in that episode he does the smart thing, which ISN'T to randomly start grabbing every object he can get his hands on. He starts actually acting like a detective and gathering information from people who know about the objects to try to figure out what the object is he needs to get his daughter back.

Given the power he had seen from some of the objects (like the pen) it would have been stupid and dangerous to start randomly grabbing and combining objects without any kind of planning or research.

They know the object come from the room, but they are totally surprised the pen lays on the desk.


They were surprised the pen survived the reset since at that point NOTHING had been known to survive a reset of the room. And it was noteworthy that the pen moved to a different location than the one it was in before the reset.

And with the pen on the desk, he let the "bad" guy in first... without his gun ind his hand. Then I got totally surprised the "bad" guy didn't take the pen, and killed him.


Joe had already firmly established he was stronger and faster than the Weasel. I highly doubt the Weasel could have gotten to the pen and turned to use it before Joe either took him down or pulled out his gun and emptied it into his chest.

Plus as we saw shortly after in that episode Joe had the pen in his pocket, which means he probably went up and took it immediately.

Sounds to me most of your complaints weren't very well thought out at all

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hahaha, though I can't agree with anything you said (see Final_Megamen's comment for hilarious explanation) I found it very funny :D

This movie is on my top 20 list together with other classics, this is the kind of movie that you just can't get away from until the credits stop.

I gave it 9/10 for some minor weak moments in acting but otherwise it's a masterpiece.

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I've seen it 3 times. Plus I burned it and I always turn friends on to it at work. I wish they would make a second one. I want to know what K.K. did with all the Objects that he got from the room. And how J.M. is going to explain to Anna why he's not aging. And how life is being the "Prime Object". Plus,the room reset at the end. Someone will find the room and the Key and start things allover again. I want to see that.

Liquor & Whores,Bitches!

I Kill Kids!

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