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So people don't look into things?

posted 14 years ago by jmalmsten
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So this is but a handful of my thoughts watching this film last night:

1. The prostitute apparently has no pimp or anything that would notice that she went missing? Going missing at the hotel room at which she arrived that very same night I might add.

2. The security guard answers a disturbance-call and goes missing. And no-one bothers to check with the people that actually rented the room he was supposed to check?!

3. In order to dispose of the bodies they go extreme-shopping for big suit-cases, hacksaws, cleaning-utensils and the wazzoo... And when people clearly was looking for the guard that went missing in p2, This doesn't come up?!!

4. The people that stayed in the hotel-room where two missing persons mysteriously went missing the same night that those very same renters came in and out with all of the stuff in p3, SUDDENLY goes *beep* and start to die off in a series of freak accidents in close successions. No reason to look into this, none whatsoever?

In conclusion, All I've seen on CSI seems to be bogus. Or Grissom was on holiday that week. Because I doubt that the authorities in the Las Vegas of this movie would detect the sun while standing in the Nevada dessert at High Noon.

Also, yelling atop each other doesn't make it funny, just loud. So I'm left with a movie that's based on stupidity with characters I don't care about doing illogical decisions in a world where noone sees the blindingly obvious. Yep, some very bad things, bad things indeed.

I like black comedy, but not when it's based only on stupidity from all of the characters involved. This writing though, has been an exercise in futility I fear as I realize that it's 4:20 in the morning here and IMDB-postings values little in the real world. Why do I even bother in this case? I have no idea. I guess I just want to rant my thoughts out to the interwebs.

[–] icem2829 14 years ago

1. That's very possible actually. Remember she knew Christian Slater and probably just went directly through him. She probably trusted him enough not to tell anyone. Pimps are glamorized by movies, most hookers do not have them.

2. They may have checked with one of the guys, and they probably just said they had no idea what happened to him.No evidence or reason to doubt them at that point. Security gaurds in Vegas hotels probably go to 20 rooms a night, so its hard to single anyone out.

3. Ok, this is the most suspicious. But Im sure they were as discreet as possible then brought that stuff in. Remember again, its Vegas. Glitter and bells and millions of things happening all at the same time. You probably wouldnt take notice of someone with a cleaning product in the hotel.

Yes in reality they probably would have been busted. Mainly because someone would have cracked and confessed.

[–] chrisrocknroll 14 years ago

That's why this movie can't be taken seriously and can only be treated as a comedy; it has no dramatic value because there are too many plot holes. I thought it failed as a comedy simply because I didn't laugh. At least I will give it credit for having an interesting sequence of events in the guilt inspired chain reaction, but then the writers got lazy at the end and just threw in a car crash so they could make sure everyone wound up miserable. Oh, but it's supposed to be funny because Moore is just aimlessly zooming around in his wheelchair and Cameron Diaz is crying in the street. I don't see the humor in that, but I guess the director and screenwriter found it hilarious.

[–] dolphins25412 14 years ago

There are many other plot holes too. #2 is the worst though. All hotel's have security cameras in the hallways. They would have seen him enter the room and never exit.

Either way, it doesn't matter much, the movie was intended to be a comedy..sort of.

[–] rogerscorpion 13 years ago

Even a black comedy needs some internal logic.
This film had none. No redeeming characters.
The ending was just idiotic.
Slater, who I'd loved, has never recovered.

Carpe Noctem!

[–] El_Perro_Insano 10 years ago

i think the same

there's no way they wouldnt be caught in real life.

[–] [email protected] 9 years ago

Yeah..they probably would have been caught..after all, they've got fiber optics,
they've got dna samples, they've got fbi scientists--the *beep* internet, goddamn it!

[–] bladou20 9 years ago

Good points. Though Lois's death would probably be the most awkward to cover up. She actually scratched Slater and probably left his DNA all over the room when they scuffled. Even if he tried to clean it up, it's unlikely he would have gotten it all. Especially under her fingernails.
Slater being dead in a stairwell is a close second.

[–] lunchboxattacks 9 years ago

I let the plot holes go, as the film was just so entertaining. Almost every film I've ever seen has some kind of plot hole that, if you hang on to it, ruins your experience, and comedies have them all over the place most of the time. It's easier to let go of plot holes if the film is overall good, as this one was, IMO. But I do have to say, killing the security guard was kind of an unnecessary plot element that unnecessarily introduced more holes than the plot needed. I think they could all have been perfectly wracked with guilt just from accidentally killing the hooker and burying the body. After all, these were all basically suburban guys without the psychological tools to deal with that.

[–] davedave11 9 years ago

Wow, you were entertained? I think it should be illegal to show this film in the institutions where they lock you folks up