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Too many glaring plotholes


I don't go into movies looking for problems, I want to lose myself and enjoy the ride, but this was just too lazily thought-out. The plotholes were just too glaring from the jump, the very beginning scene. Like, okay, sound is bad; and that's why we're letting our kids run - RUN - around an empty grocery store. And hey, let's go visit the river, to talk about the point that the constant loud sound there is a great cover... and then go back to our quiet house in the woods, instead of living in a goddamn place near something loud like a river or waterfall. And hey, we have an elaborate lighting rig around the house to change colors to warn each other - but not speakers set up all over the place outside, set to easily be able to provide distraction noises to actually draw them away from the house, should they ever get close, much less come inside. Which would be easy as fuck to set up. And yeah, while we're at it, let's pretend like the very best sound-proofing we can do, is to put a mattress over a hole. Wow, what the fuck. I know broke-ass musicians who do a way better job sound-proofing a room than this family, whose lives I'm supposed to believe absolutely depend on this simple concept.

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And that's without even getting into anything I consider nitpicking, which I could make a laundry list of. That's just some of the basic, lazy shit that jumped off the screen at me as I was watching it.

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Were they supposed to build a house by the waterfall? Dragging materials through the forest making all that noise?

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I'm looking for a plot hole in your post and see none.

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I guess its simply one of those movies with clever / dumb aspects all the way through it .... i am one of those people that yeah plot holes do annoy me , but if you can see that there is genuine originality in a movie , it does make it a little easier to just go with it and forgive the plot holes somewhat .... sometimes lol

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The movie had a lot of mistakes.
But they will fix it in the upcming sequel, or so I hear.

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