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| Re: agreed. also SPOILERS. (And yes, more spoilers) by FABIO 05/10/2003, 12:06pm PDT | ||||
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Rightbug wrote: You couldn't figure it out? Halfway through it, before they showed John Cusak tied up at the appeal hearing, we were thinking "wait a minute, multiple personalities, hallucinations, this all better not turn out to be all in the killer's head". Everyone having the same birthday as the killer sealed that theory. Also, maybe not reading or seeing Ten Little Indians would have kept me guessing instead of immediately knowing that the killer was someone who everyone thought was dead. That would narrow it down to the rainman father, the Vegas husband, or...the kid! And which was the only one that was unaccounted for at each of the murders? Why was the fact that the kid went into his mother's room all alone right before she died made in to such a big deal? "Jesus, please tell me the kid's not going to turn out to be the killer". Third "don't tell me" moment, when the young wife picked up the burial ground brochure at the beginning, "Jesus, don't tell me this Motel was built on an indian burial ground". Also also, if you're going to base a story off of a previous one, DON'T have the characters mention that this seems straight out of said story. Unless your movie isn't trying to be serious in the first place (Scream, Jason X), it kills suspension of disbelief. It's as if the writers sensed that we'd call them out on it and slipped in a line to say "Yeah we know it's just like Ten Little Indians....but WITH A TWISTTM!". As for the None Of It Was Real! "copout" I was glad that it wasn't happening in reality because there would have been way too many plot holes and rediculous coincidences if it was. Which is exactly why it's the ending chosen when one is unable to work out the loose ends of and conclude a story. What's your definition of copout? As for the final twist, it was poorly done but at least we didn't end up with a happy crappy ending with her working a citrus farm the rest of her days. Instead we were presented with a 6 year old kid that somehow was able to overpower and kill grown men who were not taken by surprise and rig up a car bomb. Oh wait, IT WAS ALL A DREAM! No explanation needed! |
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