I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit .. - Oculus (2014) Discussion

[–] TheLionKingKong 10 years ago

The mirror would find a way to protect itself. When you're in orbit and you're about to drop the nuke, maybe the mirror will trick you into thinking you're aiming it at the right place, but it's really a different place that gets nuked. Like when Tim dropped the anchor, he thought he was aiming at the mirror, but he was really aiming at Kaylie.

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[–] clickbait 10 years ago

TheLionKingKong...lol did you even see the movie?? the mirror hadnt that much of a reach to be able to control or fool anyone that far away that is controlling a nuke...its not like they carry a nuke in the house and put in the room and stay outside the house....

~If the realistic details fails, the movie fails~

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[–] plutomani 10 years ago

Heh, I was hoping for Kaylie to say that when it became obvious the mirror had started messing with them. That would at least have put them outside its influence. A M82 should've been worth a try as well.

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[–] sooperklew 10 years ago

It was clearly a bad plan from the start. I think she misunderstood the mirror in two key ways.

1) Its smart or at least its not stupid, it adapts to your tactics.
2) It has no real powers, other than illusion.

I think she thought it was more like an object than a person, that it had real powers other than illusion but that it wouldn't adapt like a real person would.

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[–] plutomani 10 years ago

I think she was fully aware of its ability to adapt, at least to a degree. I believe one of her biggest mistakes was that she underestimated the range of its influence. She estimated it by the shriveling plants, but it was obviously able to extend that as well, seemingly putting them in danger no matter where they went in the house.

I'm also wondering exactly how those mindwarping powers worked - if they had to be within its "radiation field" or if it could simply "infect" them. It seemed to me the illusions got more severe the more confused they got, so it made me wonder if the powers intensified by their state of mind - that messing with them once made it easier to get under their skin and ultimately outsmart them.

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[–] sooperklew 10 years ago

I think she was almost entirely wrong about how it worked. She assumed that it started slowly because it lacked power when that was probably just its personal preference. I think the mirror liked to play with its food.

I think it could have killed one of them in the first minute they were in the house. It used all the time it had available, it came to a conclusion just as the police were arriving. The same thing happened when they were children. The mirror knew how much time it had, it heard them call the police.

About 15 minutes into the movie she talks about its range and how they'd be safe upstairs, but she's clearly wrong because he's already seeing illusions upstairs.
(the manacle and chain in her parents old bedroom)

Of course, if she had really understood the mirror there would be no movie because she would have left well enough alone.

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[–] moizmad 10 years ago

Fly the mirror over to North Korea and give it to Kim Jung Fat, hopefully they'll destroy each other.

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[–] kloender 10 years ago

Get away from her you BITCH!

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[–] raf-33 9 years ago

What do you mean they turned off the lights? They're freakin' animals, man!

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. -Isaac Asimov

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