This one belongs to the top five most annoying movies ever!!!
I just can't believe that nobody consider that phone call as a prank call!! WTF!! I couldn't watch the entire movie because it annoyed me how dumb that people where playing.
shareAt least acknowledge the fact that the film didn't stray far from the real situation it portrays. If it were a pure work of fiction then it would be tempting to criticise it as unrealistic. That people were that ignorant in reality is breathtaking. To call that annoying is a huge understatement. it raises hugely serious questions about a culture in which this could actually happen. Sure, the real manager of a MacDonalds upon whom it was based, Donna Summers, was retarded even by American standards, but a sane person should realise that a national culture of unquestioning ignorance was a major contributory factor.
shareDon't Americans consider it unpatriotic to question authority?
shareNO!...Greenhorn
shareDon't Americans consider it unpatriotic to question authority?
No. Don't confuse our sense of national pride and disdain for people being extremly combative with authority as being totally subjugated by authority. share
Actually, are you familiar at all with the Milgram shocking experiment? It shows how far people are willing to go when it comes to obeying an authority figure. Even at their own discomfort and the extreme pain of someone else.
shareFinally. These people aren't stupid. If you were in that situation you would do the same thing. Even if you think you wouldn't.
shareNo, actually they just have no idea of their constitutional rights. Why? Because we don't teach people what their rights are. The only right people think they have in KY is to own a frigging gun.
I would have told the cop, "You want to arrest or detain the girl, come get her." When he came back to me, I'd have told him, "well come get me too. How do I even know you're even a cop. No cop would do this and if he did, a judge would pillory him unmercifully."
Otherwise I'm busy and I'm sure as hell not doing your frigging job.
Totally ridiculous and an indictment of the educational system.
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Actually, are you familiar at all with the Milgram shocking experiment? It shows how far people are willing to go when it comes to obeying an authority figure.
I could understand if an actual police officer walked in wearing his uniform and badge etc, those are all symbols of authority, but to be compliant to somebody down the phone who CLAIMS to be a police officer, without much proof....?
The prankster CLAIMS to have a victim with him but the manager never once asks to speak to the victim in question. She never asks how it is possible for Becky to steal money from a customer WHILE SERVING BEHIND THE COUNTER-where somebody would definitely have seen her. She never questions the logic of removing Becky's clothes and placing them in her car,so that he can come and collect them!!! Or how Becky found the time to steal money and hide them in her clothes in a convoluted manner.
She never looks at any surveillance footage. She never inquires that if this customer saw Becky steal money from her, why not announce it there and then? She AUTOMATICALLY assumes Becky is guilty without any proof. Did she ever think that if this is a serious matter the police would send someone to pick Becky up?
She spends something like 20 minutes on the phone with this guy, did she even contact her regional manager? She allowed this poor girl to sit in a store room wearing nothing but an apron, she even asks a MALE employee and her BOYFRIEND to supervise the naked young woman ALONE!!!! She didn't even have the decency to provide Becky with some clothes like a T shirt.
This surpasses obeying authority and strays into mentally challenged but even that is an insult to mentally challenged people. This woman is lacking in empathy and common sense.
Becky compliance makes no sense, she submits to being spanked and the oral sex, it never occurs to her to protest in anger or to alert the manager at what is happening. Its not like she was being held at gun point, she as a grown woman she must know that police officers do not ask people to do these things.
The staff employees are all complicit not just the manager because none of them do anything to help her. I do believe that Van her fiance took advantage of Becky, he knew what he was doing. The male employee and the delivery where the only 2 guys who told told the prankster to fvck off-because they where decent to that extent.
Mark Wahlberg-'Be a nice boy, pull your pants up and stop smoking weed you little b******d' share
Becky were afraid to loose her job and Sandra wasnt stupid, she just went along with the charade to hurt Becky, she was so jealous of Beckys young beauty.
The prankster even said at one time - I am at Beckys brothers apartment looking for drugs and i have a witness here next to me that says Becky stole here purse. Cmon a witness next to a cop out on a drug raid? no one is that stupid.
She didnt react when the prankster said this and she knew they hade cameras over the counter that she could of watched easily, but didnt, so she wasnt stupid, she just played along to hurt Becky as long as possible.
National culture of unquestioning ignorance?
Oh please.
As if this couldn't happen in Canada or Europe or Japan or anywhere else. People are dumb sheep everywhere.
This isn't just "American" stupidity, look at WWII or at any war, soldiers just kill because we are told by someone in authority that these are the enemy and even though we don't know these people we kill them.
In the present war in Iraq, we found out later that the Bush Administration, along with the UK Parliament, lied about the reasons we went to war yet we kept our soldiers there to kill. There are times where we fight an enemy (like the Nazis) but there are also those times where we just go to war for oil or money or whatever without any proof yet we go their just 'following orders'. How is that for stupidity.
Speaking of stupidity, why don't you learn a little bit of history before spouting the talking points of the left concerning the Iraq War? I don't disagree with anyone opposing that war, but here are a few of the people, organizations and countries that also believed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction: The United Nations, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, the United Kingdom, France, Australia, John Kerry, the Arab League, etc. etc. etc.
shareYeah speaking of stupidity, where do you get your history from?! Everyone now knows, people from what you call the so-called left AND the right, that Saddam Hussein DID'T have any weapons of mass destruction! The argument is that the Bush Administration KNEW that all along and they were the ones who made up the false evidence that they used as proof to go to war. What part of this don't you get, it has nothing to do with democrats or republicans, WE WERE LIED TO so this war would happen, those are the facts (I don't know where YOU get your facts from, FOX News?!)...
There is no debate about it, there was no weapons IN Iraq, we were there and we found none, THIS IS FACT. What the debate is (haven't you been around back 5yrs ago when this was debated all over the news, in Congress, etc...Didn't you hear how many people in the Bush administration GOT FIRED over this?! What the hell are you saying this is the so-called left making stuff up, these are facts and alot of people got fired over this bad evidence....People in the Bush Administration have come forward and admitted that the evidence that they had was bad intel and the debate was if they knew that all along and if they in fact created this false evidence, which obviously they say they didn't (this was the argument about who is too blame over this false evidence not if the evidence was true because everyone knows it wasn't).
Research these situations: The Valerie Plame Scandal (which btw she isn't labeled as a democrat or republican, she WORKED for the CIA), yellowcake uranium (which was discovered was what Hussein was trying to buy), and research all the people who got fired and all the released documents that are now public. Hans Blix, from the UK who stated that he found NO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION IN IRAQ. And most importantly, look up the Senate Intelligence Committee of 2008 (who found that the Bush administration "misrepresented the intelligence and the threat from Iraq".)
Read your history before you come out with this 'leftist' bullsh*t. It's a fact and everyone knows that THERE NEVER WAS ANY WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION IN IRAQ...idiot
One last thing: EVEN former president George W. Bush has stated that the biggest regret of his presidency was "the intelligence failure" in Iraq.
At least acknowledge the fact that the film didn't stray far from the real situation it portrays. If it were a pure work of fiction then it would be tempting to criticise it as unrealistic.
Correct.
I really don't fathom how people can dislike the FILM because of the nature and course of the situation depicted.
That would be like saying that SCHINDLER'S LIST is a bad film because it shows Nazis mercilessly killing Jews.
I don't mean to impose, but I am the Ocean. share
It should be a crime to be that stupid. The people who fell for this prank call and molested the girl should be punished by the law as well. Who in their right mind actually believes describing a girl's nipples is part of standard police procedure? Being a dumbo is no excuse.
He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither ~ B. Franklinshare
Were pretty sure nix was aware that what he was doing was wrong and that he went along with it cause he wanted to see a 17 year old girl naked and got oral sex (possibly more) out of it. He was hoping that when everything went down that he was gonna be able to play the "I'm an innocent idiot" card. Nix did get 5 years for this though he was punished per say.
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