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I was rooting for Emelie were you? How it could been even better

posted 9 years ago by HelloLarry
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(Possible Spoilers Below)

I gave this movie an 8/10 because I really liked it but the ending or events leading up to the ending threw me off. They did a lot of new original stuff in this movie in an age where everything seems to have been done before in these thrillers. The concept of a crazy babysitter is not new but I really liked a lot of the things they did but I saw a movie that could've been even better.

I'm a horror movie fan so I usually root for the villains in most cases and this was one of those kinds of movies where I rooted for Emelie because she was such a bad ass and intimidating as *beep*. I love it when the horror villains are females too because they usually have an underdog vibe to them where you know they are still vulnerable at times.

The kids were awesome in this movie acting wise but annoying at the same time so that made want to root for Emelie really hard. That's why the events leading up to the end made me mad because I felt like they forced the ending.

It all started with how the parents survived the car accident, they shouldn't had recovered that quickly either they should've been sent to the hospital or died. I would've made them die in this case for sequel purposed which I'll go over in a second.

I didn't mind the battle with the two kids but at the end of the day she should've won that matchup but the kids themselves didn't need to die again for sequel purposes.

Emelie should've been able to grab the baby she wanted and the guy who was helping her get out of town setting up the sequel.

Now onto the sequel, Emelie still survived in this real version of the movie but in this case she would've had the happy ending for herself. Now fast forward like 5-10 years later the brother and sister are older now and they were foster kids since the parents died and they want to find their baby brother because they know he was kidnapped by Emelie and Emelie raises him. So in the sequel basically they will spend their time finding out where Emelie is and try to reconnect with their little brother and get him away from Emelie.

I'm not real sure how the ending would go because it could still not end happy for the brother and sister because I might have Emelie kill them both but either way it sets for another sequel and turns Emelie into a franchise.

If they were to do a sequel with how they did the movie they should have Emelie comeback and try to kill the entire family except for the baby. Either way Emelie should really come out on top in this. What do you guys think?

[–] basketcasebelial 9 years ago

I found the movie too soft. They should have went in a darker direction with a much more bleak outcome. Kinda felt like a lifetime tv movie to me.

[–] HelloLarry 9 years ago

Same here that was my problem with the movie they ended it like a Lifetime movie. Lifetime movies are setup to have happy endings because most of them don't have sequels to them.

I wanted them to go really dark in this movie and really separate itself from other movies. I wanted it to be that movie that doesn't mind killing kids off. Somebody had a good idea during the bathroom scene of having Emelie rape the older bathroom. That would've really made the movie right there and made it legendary.

They held back way too much and the outcome should've been different. All they had to do is setup for the sequel to get things sorted out.

[–] jocreative 9 years ago

That's a lame sequel making a thriller into a draggin drama :P

[–] JPLoureiro 9 years ago

Sorry (not really), but your alternative ending sounds like a cliché and so predictable like all the other trash bin movies out there.

I'm a horror buff as well and in all of them I just want to see the bad guy get wasted, and in this case, Jacob should just have shifted gears and run that bitch once again to finish her off (classic horror flaw #1).

Now, who's to say that Christopher isn't a nutcase like her momma bear after getting the taste of the loony side?

[–] cindershade 9 years ago

I think it's more cliché to have the villain get ran over 5 times by a car. And very unrealistic if Jacob did that considering he's an 11 year old who has never driven before.

It would have been less cliché to have the villain kill or at least knock out the kids. Something to should have happened to Jacob. Emelie should have got the best of him.

[–] cindershade 9 years ago

I really like your idea. It would have been better than the way they ended up going.

I love the idea of a sequel taking place 5-10 years later with Jacob and the sister looking for Christopher (the plot twist could have been Christopher acting like he wants to reunite and then turning on them and being loyal to Emelie).

But I agree Emelie should have won in this movie. Really, she couldn't knock out an 11 year old?

[–] ncsr11 9 years ago

What does HelloLarry come from?

[–] A-Zupreme 9 years ago

Emelie should've been able to grab the baby she wanted and the guy who was helping her get out of town setting up the sequel.

It's been done before, to be honest. In fact, I was thinking the movie would end this way because the movies that stick out in my mind where psychotic mothers who've lost babies and look to kidnap a replacement for the lost child always end this way, at least so far as recent horrors are concerned. Such examples include Mother's Day (2010) and the French horror Inside (2007)... those bad mommas won out in the end and frankly it's become a tired cliché ending at this point.

The ending to this was kinda weak sauce, though... but at least it wasn't as bad as I was expecting (which would've been the above scenario). Would've been nice to see the kid dispatch the evil babysitter for good, aka Emelie truly dying or at least being too injured to run away when the parents/police got there. Still, very few movies have the innocent kids themselves (especially very young kids, like the ones in this one) fighting back against an evil person so the movie on the whole managed to be a lot less cliché than expected.

[–] dasteelsta 8 years ago

They should've had the cops shoot the car the kid was driving, assuming it was the rogue babysitter making good her escape, resulting in a bleak child death(s) scenario. The film pulled it's punch with that lame ending :-(

[–] aupple 8 years ago

I love bad guys who are bad azz... I was rooting for her too!