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Did anybody else think that Tom's girlfriend

posted 12 years ago by eolloe
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SPOILERS

Did anyone else think that Tom's girlfriend, Sally, would turn out to be one of Simon's accomplices? I was constructing all these scenarios in which she was slipping drugs into their coffee (killing Margaret and making Tom hallucinate), messing up the wiring in the lab equipment, telling Simon what to expect from them, doing the anonymous phone calls, etc. Or if not her, maybe that other student in the class. (Or both!)

I was totally caught off guard by the ending.

[–] Roddenhyzer 12 years ago

Yeah, that's what I was expecting as well. The fact that she didn't turn out to work for Silver rendered her character a bit pointless, in my opinion.

[–] gottfrid 12 years ago

she wasnt pointless, because she was put there to mislead us all.

"It doesn't matter what Bram Stoker has told you... dead people don't come back from their graves"

[–] charliedog39 12 years ago

yes i agree,and it would have been a better film for it

[–] targa9 12 years ago

THAT would have been much better than the path the film actually took!

[–] shane1979 12 years ago

oh come on if that was the way it actually turned out youd be here saying "how cliche" it was. The movie was good in its own right.

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[–] Roddenhyzer 12 years ago

oh come on if that was the way it actually turned out youd be here saying "how cliche" it was.

My criticism of her *not* having worked for Silver was that it rendered her character irrelevant to the story. Cliche or not, had she been a spy, she would have been at least useful.

[–] kayla_lapointe 12 years ago

*Spoiler* She wasn't irrelevant, she's figured out how Silver was cheating.

[–] mystee_reyne 12 years ago

How could she be irrelevant when she figured out the truth about Silver?

[–] leebrown_1 12 years ago

That's what I was thinking too and I also thought she was very annoying.

[–] lemner 12 years ago

Although I was wondering if she might have been a plant by Silver, I don't believe her character was useless. For one thing, she was eye candy, which helps movies become popular, and for another, her scene with Buckley was interesting. He suggests that he has a personal reason for trying to debunk psychic healers, then later we find out he did not lose his mother. This seems then rather a point about protecting others, rather than revenge for a personal loss, but then later we find out the real reason for his interest. He also does some magic tricks and casually says, "I'm psychic."

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[–] gottfrid 12 years ago

I thought the same.

I guess it was intentional.

"It doesn't matter what Bram Stoker has told you... dead people don't come back from their graves"

[–] mystee_reyne 12 years ago

Yes. I thought she would turn out to be his daughter or something.