I figured that when the "witch" said you'd be right back where you started, no better that the it would repeat all over again.
I don't know how he didn't get that.
that sucks.
LOL. if he keeps making the same wish over and over, it will be like a perpetual ground hogs day.
I would love to have my friends back but *beep* do you explain to people that they were dead last week?
he should've said "i wish this game never existed" and then nobody would have died.
shareWeird ending.
Here's what I would have wished, if I were him:
"I wish that a week ago, I had stayed with Tomas and Lisa as they were shopping, and thus never wandered into that shop, and never found the game."
How about: "I wish time to be reset a week ago, but I retain memories from the present, never play the game, and make sure the game never again sees the light of day."
shareI like this one. Always good to remember what happened before in cases like these.
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If he would've used his brain for one second, he could've just wished, "I wish my friends had never died." or something along those lines.
He should've known that wishing to go back to last week meant that he wouldn't know what he knew when he made that wish so he wouldn't be able to tell himself "Whoa there buddy, lets not go near the place with the game."
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But then the director couldn't use that super cool awesome twist ending of the SAME events happening over, and over, and over again for all eternity.
shareAs soon as he made the wish I knew he was creating a time loop. Just reversing time and having no idea what was going to happen was bound to cause them to just do the same things over and over. He would have been better off just losing and dying.
sharehe could have just made it simple and said "I wish my friends were alive." and then there would be no goin back in time.
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"he could have just made it simple and said "I wish my friends were alive." and then there would be no goin back in time."
With all due respect, I take it you've never read the story of "The Monkey's Paw"?
If he had phrased the wish that way, they'd probably come back as rotted, reanimated corpses.
I don't think the repetition is endless. I think the witch exploited a loophole of his wish, took him back to that earlier point without his memories -- put him in the same place, with the same mindset, same everything, so of course his actions unfolded the same way. I don't think that means total repetition -- I think random events -- the dice rolls and results, for example -- would be different, etc. Just his choices were the same as long as everything else was the same as before. And the witch used that to void his attempt to void the game's claiming his friends.
shareI'm thinking the same thing. That's why they reiterate that you're playing against the game, and anyone can win or lose--his actions/choices may have led to him getting the game (twice), but who wins or loses is all down to chance each time.
shareWow. Just about the coolest friends ever then!
sharethe guy was an idiot.
shareI agree. I thought that was what would happen with the detective and his family. He just seemed like an idiot and wouldn't think the wish through very well.
shareThis should of been the wish... simple..
I wish we went back a week ago and we never played the game.
or
I wish it was a week ago and we never found this game ever.
... but in the end, never mess with djinn or wish masters they will always twist your wish into something they want.
in that case....
I wish that Mala (or whatever the witches name was) lived a long and happy life as a regular human and they never created this evil game out of her body or anybody elses.
"I wish that Mala (or whatever the witches name was) lived a long and happy life as a regular human and they never created this evil game out of her body or anybody elses."
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I was thinking along those lines, but more like saying to the witch hag
- "I wish you never existed"
he madeo ne of the worst wishes ever.
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Yeah, if he had simply wished that the game was never created in the first place, it would fix everything just like that.
sharelol, yeah, I think he should have died and someone else with more sence should have got the wish. Personally I'd have just said something like "I wish I never came into possesion of this game so my friends and I could never play it!" If you wish the game never existed then it gets complicated since the game has to exist for you to have made the wish in the first place ;-P lol!
shareHow about he wishes for a better script or agent?
No matter how he wishes, it's twistsd. You wish you did not go into that shop then maybe one of the other characters does and they come with the game instead when time is reset. Wishing it never existed changes decades of history. What if someone who died from the game many years ago who now lives because the game never existed kills your mother before you are born.
Personally, I'd wish that my friends and I had vacationed in Myrtle Beach instead.
That would alter the course of history over 500 years and nobody alive would even be born because time and space would be different
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Who knows maybe one of these times he is gonna pull a matrix and be like deja vu? O snap Im an idiot, ive been here before.
But I agree the safest wish would be to prevent the witches torture and execution.
Saw that ending coming as soon as he made the wish the first time. Too obvious.
shareWas Erica the witch in human form? I found that curious at the end when they were starting to play the game (again) they paused when she said "everybody can win, and everybody can lose" with that sly little smile on her face. That was the impression I got considering she was the witch that granted him his wish.
shareBut what would Erika gain out of having the same group play the same game over and over again? I can see if she went on to get new victims, but this is just the same time loop with the same number of the same people.?
shareI don't think the same group plays over and over for all time--you can't control how the dice land, so in all probability they'll wind up with different results, and possibly a different winner in the end. Then it's on to the next group.
shareVery good! And thanks! Interesting turn of thought.
shareWhy would the dice roll differently? Everything was the same, that was the point.
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