What a preposterous movie. If the director was attempting to elicit an emotion of annoyance then he succeeded. Hung in there because I was expecting some kind of twist to explain their stupidity but it never came. Then read that this incident actually occurred. Can't believe that people can be that stupid. And please withhold any Hillary/Trump comments in response.
shareit is painful
shareIt's occurred more than once over the years. That's how stupid people are in the real world.
shareyou have an incredible lack of human understanding if you're thinking that this movie's premise is preposterous
I think it's preposterous for someone to watch a movie they think is preposterous, then find out it was based on true events, and then still make a thread claiming the movie was preposterous.
shareNo i agree with the OP, Just because it was actually based on some of the most gullible people in America doesn't make it film worthy.
I mean it is amusing and shocking that people really fell for this but i think you could have told this in a 15 minute segment of a Television show
Seeing it play out in real time was just ridiculous and i agree after a while i started to wonder if the film makers were actually trolling the viewer, i am not one to turn a film off before the end but once the fiance showed up and it was more of the same i started to fast forward through scenes
Lots of movie are based on stupid people making stupid decisions. That doesn't make them bad. You wanted a message at the end? Something that wrapped things up?
shareNo i don't think anyone needed anything wrapped up, it was pretty plain what was going on
It just became way too much that 5 or 6 people went along and not one person looked up and said
'hang on, how do we know this bloke who's asking if her vagina is shaved is really a cop?'
This is based on a case of extreme gullibility and for the majority of people who would just tell them to piss off it became an unwatchable film
Lots of movie are based on stupid people making stupid decisions. That doesn't make them bad
well it kinda does, to varying degrees
When taken to the extreme people are doing extremely stupid things purely to make the plot go a certain way , which is just bad writing
This is illustrated by doctor Evils' execution strategies in Austen Powers.
..and even commented on by his son.
It doesent really matter in a comedy - but the same thing happens in the James Bond "action movies" they are parodying
It's not bad writing when it's based on a true story.
shareOK and? I don't think movies about fast cars and heists are film worthy and think they have stories that could be told in a 15min news segment but the F&F franchise steamed ahead regardless of my opinion. Guess what I did? I didn't watch them, pretty simple solution.
shareBut the point is that they have to be Relatable to the audience or at least or at least have an ounce of plausibility.
This isn't going for the fast and furious audience though is it smart ass, this was entered at film festivals and was playing to a more serious crowd, and there is a reason people walked out and this film only has a 6.4 no?
What is your point if i don't like this film i shouldn't watch it? well i did and wanted to turn it off half way through and i shall not watch it again, there.
Just because it was 'Based on a true story' doesn't make it more interesting or any more relatable to normal people, it just made you want to punch the people involved
I could list 10 films where it's just two people talking in a room or set in one location that are far more interesting than this shite
What point are you trying to make? That the movie isn't plausible? Because it certainly is plausible being that it happened so to say otherwise is as dumb as the OP. Your point seems to have devolved into "I didn't like it" so I reiterate - OK and? WTF do you want me to do about it? I don't care if you didn't like it, that sounds very much like a you problem, not a me problem.
shareI'm not getting my knickers in a twist about it, this seems to be a majority problem with the movie going by the initial response and most of the posts on this thread.
The point is just because some fluky random highly improbable incident took place once, doesn't make it an interesting subject for for a plausible movie
My self and evidently plenty of other people got about 25 minutes into it and just thought to themselves 'As If'
That's not to say parts of it aren't good and it was well made, but the foundation is just to annoying to overlook
Just my opinion, if you liked it fair enough
But i have seen some films that i really didn't like but they have a seed of truth or make an interesting point so i respect it
Another point i have seen brought up which i agree with and may have made a difference was the actress playing the lead, she was too sexy and sassy that her just suddenly collapsing didn't feel right, maybe if she was mousy with low self esteem if would have made a greater impact, i don't know
One positive though was the fiance, his character was genuinely horrific and i liked how they made him slightly ambiguous as to weather he was victim or opportunist
But the no pushback or questioning this random bloke at all is unforgivable, even have him talk his way out of it but they all just took his word even when he was being creepy, As If
And they lied as well apprently the real life girl Did kick up a fuss and plead so they fudged that fact for the sake of the film, Bollocks
Bottom line is the filmakers are trying to make a point of 'Under the right circumstances this could happen to anyone'
But in reality it will happen to 3%
"The point is just because some fluky random highly improbable incident took place once"
Over 70 reported cases
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_phone_call_scam
The movie was boring, I'm not defending the movie for it's lack of entertainment.
shareSome notable incidents were:
On 30 November 2000, a female McDonald's manager in Leitchfield, Kentucky, undressed herself in the presence of a customer.
On 26 January 2003, an Applebee's assistant manager subjected a waitress to a 90-minute strip search
In February 2003, a call was made to a McDonald's in Hinesville, Georgia. The female manager (who believed she was speaking to a police officer who was with the director of operations for the restaurant's upper management) took a female employee into the women's bathroom and strip-searched her. She also brought in a male employee, who conducted a body cavity search of the woman to "uncover hidden drugs."
In 2005, John Francis Nangle, Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, granted summary judgment to McDonald's and denied, in part, a summary judgment to GWD Management.
In July 2003, a Winn-Dixie grocery store manager in Panama City, Florida, received a call instructing him to bring a female cashier (who matched a description provided by the caller) into an office where she was to be strip-searched.
Mount Washington police, after doing a simple word search on the Internet, quickly realized that this was only the latest in a long series of similar incidents that extended over a period of about 10 years. None of those incidents had continued as long, or with as many people involved, as the one in the Mount Washington McDonald's.
So over a 12 year period and 70 cases there are only 5 noteworthy 'Hits' and even 3 of those are basic strip searches no extra pervy stuff, so if thats the juicy stuff you can imagine the other 65, they probably initially took it all in and then stopped at the stripping and called the police but it's still listed as one of his works and lumped it in with the rest of them, so padded numbers there
So we are on about 3 other times something slightly similar to the events in the film actually happened out of over a thousands of calls made, i am not a mathematician but i think that is even lower than the 3% i guestimated earlier
I don't care, stop replying to me now please.
shareSo sick of idiots trying to move the goalposts when they've been proven utterly wrong. Get blocked, you're not entitled to my time or attention.
"Oh it only happened once"
"Oh it only happened a few times"
Fuck off.
You sound like a defeated man
you got yourself involved in somebody else's post that you didn't agree with, in your own words if you don't like Fast and Furious then don't watch it
This post is for people who watched film and came to the logical conclusion that is was shit and unrealistic, you then jumped on and tried to belittle people for having a different opinion.
I've read the link you sent and picked it apart for what it is, it didn't happen 70 times now did it? there were 70 incidents, only 5 of which involved a strip search, there is a difference. Hardly an Epidemic.
You have been beaten with your own facts
And Based on a true story is the oldest con for Suckers in the business
Pointless Film- Lets show a minute by minute account of some halfwit Mcdonalds plebs being talked into taking their clothes off over the Telephone, i seen it on Geraldo a few years back and it caused quite the storm in Omaha.