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Wow, this didn't make a lick of sense!! (spoilers)


In its defense I will admit that it has some originality, but "original" does not necessarily equate to "good." There were so many inconsistencies of plot and character motivation that after a while it just became ridiculous. Just a sampling of my observations:
1) Why did Hugh find it necessary to chloroform Jay and tie her to the wheelchair?
2) Why is Jay so matter-of-fact about Hugh giving her what amounts to an STD? What's more, why are Jay's friends so matter-of-fact about it when they finally meet Hugh/Jeff. If Jay were my friend, I would have torn Jeff limb from limb for what he had done.
3) Up until the entity makes its physical presence known and removes all doubt of its existence, why do Jay's friends never question her sanity, think she might be doing drugs, etc?
4) Why was Hugh staying in the rathole? I understand that he didn't want Jay to know his true identity, and that he wanted to set up "alarms" for the entity... but he could have done all that from in his own home, and just not brought Jay around his house.
5) The film is constantly rewriting the rules about what the entity does or doesn't do, what can hurt/kill it, etc. Why does it attack Greg with such ferocity but only pull Jay's hair?
6) After Greg is killed, no mention of him is ever made again.
7) If Jay cares about Paul, why does she have sex with him.
And this is a perfect segue to the most absurd part of all...
6) Paul and Greg can't wait to get into Jay's pants -- despite the fact that doing so will basically destroy their lives and they know it. I've heard of being p-whipped, but this is ridiculous!

The hosannas showered upon this film from the critics are a mystery to me. Perhaps it has something to do with its literary pretentions, dropping as it does a little bit of Dostoevsky here, a little bit of T.S. Eliot there...

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The movie was a nightmare.
Nightmares never make sense

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Any man in their right mind would pawn "It" off to a prostitute as soon as they became aware of the situation

With prostitutes you get guaranteed sex quick and simple, and because their job is to have sex you can guarantee they will pass it on to someone else relatively quickly and lengthen the chain

It makes no sense that Hugh would create a fake identity just to take a random girl on a couple of dates and then assault her. Giving it to a college student who lives at home and doesn't even seem to own a car doesn't seem like a smart decision

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you are forgetting one pivotal point. If the person you pawn "It" off too dies from "It" it comes after you again. So you would want to choose someone who is a strong person and will fight and then inform them what is about to happen to them. If you pawn "It" off on some week prostitute who is most likely a junky. She will probably not have the will to survive.

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That's not a bad point. It's what they do at the end of the movie after all. Why didn't the guy at the beginning of the movie go that route?

Better than the things Felstein brought up, anyway.

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