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One of the most infuriating movies to watch

posted 11 years ago by AGreenman19
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Watch out, huge rant incoming, but I think you guys will enjoy it.

Every single character was completely irrational. I started keeping notes about halfway through, so the irrationality might be a little thin for the first part. Anyway, I'll try to go in order:

MOM: What is wrong with this lady? Why is it that the first thought on her mind is that Sam has been drinking or doing drugs, when she looks like some sort of bubonic plague victim?

She seems to think her daughter is some horrible person, hell-bent on destroying her own life, despite the fact that Sam appears to have no idea what's going on, and is expressing shock at things like the water being too hot, yet Mom immediately jumps to those self-destruction conclusions and even walks out on her, even though Sam looks like a bubonic plague victim and just gave herself severe burns. Nice to see you care, Mom!

SAM: When things finally get bad, she's on her way to the doctor when her boss, George, calls. So what does she do? She goes to work, despite waking up in a pool of blood, both menstrual and vomit, losing her tooth, and bleeding out from underneath her fingernails. "Fine, I'll be there in a minute". Are you kidding me?!

GEORGE: Finally someone notices how bad she looks, and even says "Yeah, you should go [to the doctor]." So what does he do next? Sends her back to work! WHAT?!

RILEY: Wow, he seems to be the only sensible character and offers to take her to the doctor. Sam of course lashes out about some drama crap: "Stay away from me!" Uh, shouldn't you be worried about your health, before telling people to stay out of your personal life?

SAM: Finally at the doctor. Again. The doctor says, "Don't come into contact with anyone." So what's the first thing Sam does after hearing this? Right, she comes into contact with someone.

DOCTOR: Speaking of the doctor, what a *beep* doctor he is! How useless! "Yeah, it looks like something's wrong with you... looks like an STD." No *beep* Well, what kind of STD? "I don't know, but it's probably an STD." Has this guy ever seen a sickness in his life? I'm sure he's seen loads of STDS... was he not at all concerned that this doesn't look like a SINGLE KNOWN SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE???

ALICE: Notices Sam is all kinds of messed up, but is more concerned about going to the police and telling their story, despite the fact that Sam looks like a bubonic plague victim. Priorities.

SAM: When she blows up at Riley and Alice, accusing them of trying to manipulate her life when she is fscking DYING. She should be WAY more concerned with what's happening to her than petty relationships and other high school drama. If I was in her position, I would be thinking of absolutely NOTHING else other than my own malady, not playing the blame game with other people while my life hangs in the balance.

MOM: Here she appears with the psychiatrist guy, and immediately starts asking if she's been drinking, when Sam has these enormous blue veins coursing across her face and arms, looks like a DEAD BODY, has blue-grey lips, and teeth are rotting out of her head. How is it even possible that Mom is this oblivious?

PSYCHIATRIST: I liked this part. First I thought he was an actual medical doctor who had come to diagnose Sam (presumably Mom finally came to her senses), but it turns out he's just a psychiatrist! While Sam and Mom are bickering, you can see the change in the Psych's face, and you start to think that maybe he's the ONLY sensible person in this whole goddamn movie, because maybe he's noticing her teeth or the fact that she looks like a dead body, but then he blurts out, "Well then talk, Samantha, tell us what's wrong!"

ARRRRRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHH

SAM: Then she goes to the fscking plant place, holding her DEAD plant, looking like a dead fscking body... what the HELL is she thinking? However, at this point, I can accept that the illness is probably going to her head, making her do crazy stuff, so I will no longer comment on what Sam is doing.

RECEPTIONIST: Doesn't seem terribly concerned at the sores on her face and giant blue veins, as well as generally looking like a dead body. I would've called an ambulance right there on the spot.

NIKKI: COMPLETELY 100% concerned about how Sam "fscked a man", despite seeing that she looks like a FSCKING DEAD BODY. What the hell is wrong with people's priorities in this movie?!

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HOW IS NOBODY AT ALL CONCERNED THAT SHE LOOKS LIKE A CORPSE
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SAM: I know I said I wouldn't comment on Sam anymore, but I just couldn't get over her "I'm all alone now" line. JESUS FSCKING CHRIST. You're concerned about being all alone when you are DYING?????

ALICE: She KISSES Sam! I WOULD NEVER KISS SOMETHING THAT LOOKED LIKE THAT

I'm going to ignore the subsequent murderous rampage, because of all the crap that has happened in the movie, this actually makes the most sense. Interesting.

Holy *beep*

And what about that total red herring with BJ? What the hell? What was even the point of mentioning that the police was looking for him if there was not going to be any explanation why or any sort of resolution at all? So what if he was a child molester? That has absolutely no relevance on the story of this movie! What were the police going to do once they caught him? How would that further the story at all? What the hell was the point?

[–] whynotchris 10 years ago

I pretty well have to agree with this assessment 100%

That no one involved understands what's going on as long as they do - unacceptable.

Doctor...why so *beep*

I was entertained but I'm not going to watch it again.

[–] Skunky_Beaumont 10 years ago

Watch the movie Brotherhood (2010)...Then tell me this movie isn't second for most infuriating.

[–] Inh722 9 years ago

I must agree with the original post - worst doctor, worst mom, worst friend and worst boss! Im watching it on Netflix...I have 35 mins left to go. I do like this movie though.

[–] SmotheredMate 9 years ago

Your post perfectly captures the frustrations I had with the movie. I really tried to excuse this stuff for a long time. My line of thinking was that it was a metaphor for the horrors of date rape and its aftermath. I wanted Sam to go to the ER and I was annoyed with her for downplaying her symptoms, but isn't that what rape victims commonly do? Society also doesn't handle victims of date rape well either and I think the movie tries to make that point. But at a certain point the metaphor breaks down and the movie just made less and less sense. I was completely dissatisfied by the end.

[–] Dejay 9 years ago

Haha thanks for this rant. I was thinking about watching the movie because the second part came out but I absolutely hate idiotic character acting infuriating like this.

[–] FreewheelinVertigo 9 years ago

I was more furious about that goddamn guy who couldn't take a hint, then confronted her about "seeing her with a MAN". This isn't your business in the first place, you giant stalking twat.

I enjoyed this movie, actually, but the sequel was probably the worst thing I've seen in my LIFE.

[–] NorthstarX 9 years ago

I actually really liked it, but there was a LOT of stupidity in it. I'm surprised, though, that you said Riley "seems to be the only sensible character" given that he does one of the stupidest things in the movies. He has sex with her while she looks like a corpse, then freaks out when maggots come out of her. Dude, she already looked like she had maggots in her! Why were you wanting to screw her?!

[–] AlexiaLynn 9 years ago

I agree with every point on this, except with her mom. Now I could be wrong,but this is what I gathered. When Sam first went to the doctors he looked at her wrist, which had some pretty good scars. Also, when Sam was running her hand under the hot water, her mom said that she couldn't go though this again. She also kept asking about drugs and alcohol. So from what I noticed with the moms behavior and what she was saying, Sam was pretty bad into drugs. I'm guessing she spiraled pretty bad, got really depressed, and attempted suicide. So even though she was totally dumb for not realizing that her corpse like body was not the result of drugs, that may explain why she seemed like such a dip sh*t.