Doesn't make sense



So, they plan to LOBOTOMIZE the brain (how is that "undamaged"?), before letting the billionaire use the body.

HOW on Earth could anyone use a body that has its brain lobotomized?

What kind of sense does that make? Couldn't they just sedate him (from the start) and then do whatever they wanted to do?

And the device for lobotomizing looks so corny.. it's like they wanted to completely obliterate any suspension of disbelief that the viewer had been able to muster at that point.

I just had to stop at one point, when this overly-long, never-gettting-to-the-point, boring, stretched, thin-plotline, predictable B-movie just went on and on and I couldn't take it anymore. When I had watched what I thought was like two hours, I checked, and was shocked to find out there's still like 40 minutes left! Even plotwise it seemed like they were closing in on the ending of the film, but no. Fourty minutes MORE of this crap? NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

By the way, has Emilio Estevez EVER been in a good movie?

I kinda like his charm as an actor (though his brother and father have more powerful onscreen-charisma), but I don't think I have ever seen him in an actual GOOD movie. Charlie and Martin Sheen have both been in good and bad movies, but Emilio seems to be somehow cursed to only appear in the worst garbage the movie industry has ever tried to exploit the sheeple of the Earth with.

The most difficult line for him to say in this movie was probably: "You are so beautiful", when it's said to one of the most grotesque swamp monsters in the hollywood registry. What the heck makes moviemakers choose that awful, ugly hag in so many movies, and make men 'drool over her'?

I mean, if you look at Japanese teen idols and familiarize yourself with Korean women, and then check a good catalog of some chinese beauties - can you afterwards really stare at that bulldog-face and honestly say she's beautiful? Or even passable? Or even anything that vaguely resembles a humanoid, let alone a human being, let alone anything feminine?

So many mysteries on this planet.. the weird world of moviemaking sure boggles my mind a lot.

Why did we need so many "You are Alex Furlong, all right!"-scenes?

Why did the bad guys just stop searching for him immediately after he jumps from the bridge? Couldn't they just concentrate their searches on the river bank? It's not like he was a super-swimmer that can quickly escape by the river - he just slowly climbed to the first river bank he could, and then sat down, chitchatting some pointless and boring monologue about some 'eagle' symbolism (american nationalism again, groan) with some rat-eating hobo for a long period of time, and then is easily found by the ugly hag and her utility, I mean, man..

(yeah, men are again shown as just utility, just tools for women to use - if something is dangerous, that's where a man comes in, because men are expendable - that's the message of this misandristic movie again. Reverse the genders and this would never work.

A man having a 'daring plan' and then a woman saying "but that's dangerous!", and the man saying "that's where you come in", and the woman saying "yeah, thanks", and going along. Would it look 'equal'? Would it look compassionate towards women? Or would it look misogynistic?

Whatever it is genders reversed, that's what it is without genders reversed. Just against the other gender.)

A nun wielding a shotgun and swearing worse than a prisoner? Yep, that's realistic and fun. That's a 'cute twist' that no one saw coming. That's always needed in movie scripts, because that's what every rational human being wants to see. (sarcasm-mode off)

How much chance would that guy really have for survival, in the real world? I realize this is "just a movie", but come on. Those kind of odds are a bit hard to swallow. He just always escapes everything. Imagine what would happen in real life even in our present time.

Besides, if they could teleport him THROUGH TIME AND SPACE, how come they can't teleport him JUST THROUGH SPACE?

Honestly, this trash isn't worth even this much thought.. the writers obviously agreed.




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Forgot to mention..

- The mandatory 'clever one-liners', that are not even funny (like, "my mother told me never to pick up hitchhikers" (paraphrasing, because I can't be ársed to touch this piece of 'film art' again)).

- The name Alex Furlong. Why are there so many 'Alex'es in movies and TV shows? Because it has a masonic X in it? Because it comes from "A Lex", meaning "A Law", meaning 'We can create any 'legistlation' (acts+statutes) we want, instead of conforming to the actual law (which has nothing to do with acts or statutes))? And furlong? Long Fur? As in beast carnivores often have? As in, let's worship the beasts and carnivores, and become like that ourselves? (the so-called humanity is not far off at this point from being just carnivore beast apes, instead of civilized human beings)

Or does it refer to 'For Long'.. as in 'for how long can he stay alive', or more likely', 'for how long can we make the stupid audience watch this kind of tripe'?

Or does 'fur' refer to the german word, meaning 'for'? And what else could the "long" be referring to? I'll leave that for the imagination of the viewer, but I bet the writers thought they were clever.

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From Wiktionary, a furlong is "A unit of length equal to 220 yards or exactly 201.168 meters, now only used in measuring distances in horse racing."

Perhaps because he's a racer and he spends the whole movie on the run, that's why they chose the name?

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Goodpoint Lunchbox.

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