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Good flick but two things I didn't like (SPOILERS)

posted 9 years ago by successor13326
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I enjoyed the movie and liked the fact that it was a small story instead of some huge blockbuster. I also liked how the kids had fun driving the car around the fields. Plus, it had some good suspense scenes, especially with the kids playing around with the guns (I was worried one of the kids would shoot the other). Kevin Bacon and the other guy did a great job playing the villains and the writing of the kids was well done.

However, the one thing I really didn't like was the reappearance of the Camryn Manheim character at the end. Is it just me or did that seem like a *huge* coincidence? Out of all the people in the world to come down the road during the final confrontation, it's her? Come on. If it had just been some random motorist, I think it would've been far more believable.

Also, one small thing. The kids go deaf when they fire the pistol. That's well done and realistic. But they're not left with permanent hearing damage afterwards and the loud noise of the second and third shots doesn't affect them? Hard to believe. Also, they don't put something in their ears to cover the noise. Rather foolish.

Despite these flaws, I still thought it was a good movie.

[–] handri_kewlboy 9 years ago

The kids didnt even know how to shoot a gun, how would they know the effect of how hard the sound's gonna be.

[–] successor13326 9 years ago

From watching movies with loud gunshot noises. Or possibly the internet, specifically Youtube videos.

[–] mnoe 8 years ago

From watching movies with loud gunshot noises. Or possibly the internet, specifically Youtube videos.

It's not like they went looking to have a gun adventure. Do you research bear attacks on your way to the mall?

I think it would be much more fake and "Hollywood" for some random kids on a random adventure to have a lot of expertise in everything they stumbled upon, especially at age ten.

And they certainly aren't going to get any realistic tips "from watching movies with loud gunshot noises."

Because of movies, there are lots of young people AND ADULTS who think you can stroll casually away from gigantic explosions with no problems worse than smudged clothing, and certainly not the death and jellied internal organs that people strolling near explosions actually incur.

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[–] mlchase-50691 9 years ago

Camryn Manheim character had come down that same road earlier to go to town and eat at the restaurant so it makes sense she would be coming back on the road to perhaps go home. It was quite isolated so she could easily have been the only other car on the road.

[–] camel-wides 8 years ago

personally, I assumed she went looking for them, to prove her story, cause the restaurant cops apparently didn't seem to believe her, due to all of the cop cars being accounted for (cause Kevin was lying about having his)