There's a lot of chances along the way where he could have hopped on and get away from Christine, but he chose to run himself into a frigging deadend that's like 10 feets long.. WHAT AN IDIOT! I mean the car is haunted but it ain't no transformer.. I doubt it will transform itself and fly on top of a building LMAO
Love is Pain.
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So who knows what any of us would really do if a car and driver was chasing us and about to mow us down
Yes, especially if it is a driverless car.
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I think the point was fatty wasn't too bright or agile to begin with.
It's not like he was going to turn into a Ninja and jump up and run over the top of the car..
I always wondered the same thing- why didn't Moochie just jump up on the front hood of Christine and climb over her top then run down the back while she was jamming herself into that little space?! I guess he was not bright enough to think of that and maybe was also too porky to do any more jumping up...
shareThe thing to do would have been to climb up onto the concrete divider under the bridge. If she comes from one side, jump to the other. She can't bash through it over climb over it; she'd have to go down the street and around the end of the divider to come back and hit it from the other side, and by then you could have climbed back over it again, maybe buying enough time to run to something else solid.
I always get a sympathy twinge when Moochie climbs over the chain link fence and falls down the other side; that stuntman must have seriously twisted his ankle, at a minimum...
- HOW kin I be so brainless, when I is so smart?
Why didn't that fatass just get on top ...
typical in a Carpenter movie where the characters make dumb decisions, it's a cheap trick to create tension
same thing happens in Halloween
lazy film making is what it is
so many movies, so little time
As far as Buddy Repperton goes, the only available hiding place I saw for him was a tow truck in the gasoline station parking lot. He could have went inside of there in the cab and ducked down.
By the time Christine reversed out of the burning gasoline station engulfed in flames, he would already been inside and it would have not known where he went..
Buddy could have just ran to the left or to the right, i.e., off the road into a field. Even if the car followed him and didn't get stuck, avoiding it would be child's play. Cars are cumbersome, have a lot of momentum, and don't have a tight turning radius, and in a field, the car would have very slow acceleration because it wouldn't be able to get much traction on grass. People on foot can stop and turn on a dime.
shareI reckon Repperton had already impregnated some girl at High School, before he was killed by Christine. That family lineage went on to produce Peter Weyland and his daughter Meredith Vickers, and it was in her, on that faraway planet that the stupid running gene re-emerged.
Just run to the side!!!!
It's an old cliché. WHen people are chased at a highrise, they always run UP the stairs, cornering themselves on the roof!
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It's because movies make no sense. They make no sense because the writer (among everyone else) doesn't care about realism, because they rather want to just write a 'cool event' instead. That's why almost every single character in every single movie makes decisions SO stupid no mediocre bipedal entity would ever make decisions as stupid in similar situations.
The fatso could've also jumped ON the car when it was chasing it - it did move quite slowly and got crushed a bit, the fatso could basically have been able to use the car to walk on - the car was so stuck, it wouldn't have been able to chase him very soon, which means the fatso would probably have gotten away easily.
As I said, writers don't think, so movies make no sense and characters are stupid. The more intelligent someone is TOLD to be, the more likely it is they're going to make a really stupid decision.
It's like movies are not allowed to be intelligent OR to make sense.
This has always been one of the big criticisms of the movie. Maybe he was just too fat to jump over the car? Though, honestly I could imagine him trying to jump over the car, but Christine would catch his leg with a windshield wiper or something and drag him down.
Also, that John Travolta looking bully just ran in the middle of the road when being chased. That one was a bit more passable because he seemed scared and was unaware that he was about to be run over.