Sorry, but robber picking the "right" house - after only his second attempt - was way too much of a stretch for me. (Needle in a haystack in the right barn kinda odds.) Even though the movie did have some clever moments, I have to chalk that part up to very sloppy writing.
shareIt is not sloppy writing. It is a time constraint. You can't have the robber going around a neighborhood for half an hour or more before ending up at the psycho's house because then the audience gets bored. It is a necessary part of writing for movies to keep the pace of the movie up, like how you never see people sleeping at night. It would be boring and could cause people to leave.
shareIt is a necessary part of writing for movies to keep the pace of the movie up, like how you never see people sleeping at night. It would be boring and could cause people to leave.
LOL!
Still, the OP has a good point.
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If Warwick sets up the criminals he comes across as a police detective, how could he possibly know this guy would end up at his home randomly? Just in time for a dinner party? And on the same day he committed the crime. Makes no sense!
The police station would have only had since that morning to work out what happened at the bank, etc. How could Warwick have set it up that he'd arrive on his doorstep that night?
I will be your Sherpa up the mountain of gayness.
It could be as simple as the dinner party happens every night (or almost every night), but the victims only come around occasionally.
Leaving that postcard in the mailbox probably helps get victims in as well.
I suppose. It seems a stretch to me. Do they always run from the law in his neighborhood? Checking mailboxes along the way?
It must be that he set up the others in more elaborate ways. I guess you could make the argument he knows how the criminal mind works, etc., and he could always count on getting them over to his place. The postcards might just be part of his psychosis, and are quite independent (ironically) from his staged murder scenes. I dunno. I'm stumped. I think it's a plot hole.
I will be your Sherpa up the mountain of gayness.
I think he has the dinner party every night and it was a coincidence that John showed up at his house. I assume that Warwick normally invites his victims over.
shareThis whole discussion is a logical fallacy that can be applied to ANY movie.
Lots of robbers break into lots of houses all over the world. You can't apply odds or statistics to this particular one, because this happens to be THE HOUSE THE MOVIE IS SHOT IN. If it were a movie about a robber breaking in to anyone else's house, nobody would care.
Now I'm relating real life to a movie.
The point is, you're doing the odds/stats thing wrong. The eye of the movie camera makes these numbers irrelevant. See?
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by - usedblink on Fri Aug 10 2012 04:51:19 I think he has the dinner party every night and it was a coincidence that John showed up at his house. I assume that Warwick normally invites his victims over.
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hes going to kill the detective to keep it from getting out you *beep* idiot, how is that not obvious.
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No kidding! Why the hell do I need to watch a pool cleaner for five minutes? Terrible!
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The reason he leaves the postcard in the mailbox is not to lure victims, it's just because he has mental issues, maybe schizophrenia. He writes these postcards because it is part of his life, that he has friends, one of which is Julie who is traveling the world. He puts it in his mailbox, then the next day probably goes to retrieve it and thinks it's really from his friend Julia. Then maybe a couple days later or even the next day puts a new postcard in there from the next place she "travels" to.
I also want to point out there was ONLY 1 OTHER VICTIM. If you watch the scene where he flips through the book, there was just that one guy in all the Polaroid pictures. The couple brief images you see of other people are just cutouts, as they are not Polaroids like the rest of his pics. He could have easily invited that victim over (SPOILER: like the detective at the end) or maybe it was a similar case like John's where the victim was guilty of a previous crime and couldn't really go to the cops since there's no real evidence that Warrick did anything to them.
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India-guy seems to be spot on. Thanks, you made me understand the movie better.
shareI agree with OP; it WAS a bit of a stretch/coincidence, especially if you take into account how large L.A. is.
what if john picks the neighbor hood and the house for a reason, like seclusion?
He goes to the neighbors house and then goes next door for the next best choice after all he was hiding. Maybe he picked the house cause it didn't have cameras. There could be many reasons why he chose this house. Who's to say if the old lady had let him in he wouldn't have killed her
I hardly think a schizophrenic could turn his split psyche on and off like that. No, Warrick was definitely a lunatic serial killer, but I don't think it's a stretch that John's arrival was...serendipitous! After all, what if the lady next door had let him in? It wasn't a stretch for me at all to think that this lamb came right into the lion's lair.
"...I have nipples, Greg. Could you milk me?"
It isn't like he was looking for a nutbar! That he stumbled across one is a terrific irony. It appears at first like he's near-miraculously found a surprise salvation via this last-ditch desperation move... BUT NO!
Nothing sloppy about it. That it's so unlikely he'd have such terrible, terrible luck is part of the fun.
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would you rather he tediously tried to make his way into 4 or 5 before arriving at Warwick's? you have to accept that it was something that happened by simple chance (however unlikely) from the beginning regardless, because in the grand scheme of things, the chances of that happening after 4 or 5 tries is one in a million. hell, even if he went door to door for a whole day, the chances of him running into that would still be extremely, extremely small. youre *beep* stupid.
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