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One Week?

posted 9 years ago by thephoenixxx
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One week to do that whole building was completely ridiculous. It was on my mind through the entire film. I actually felt stressed over their deadline, compounded by the fact we never saw them doing any actual work.

In my experience with contractors, a job like that would take them 6 months+, 3 weeks was unbelievable, let alone 2, one was outright ridiculous. When he said they'd get it done in a week I expected to see a team of 100 workers there the next day, not 5. I know this was not the point of the movie, but it's all I could think about through the whole thing. Not to mention the fact that the Gordon, sooo stressed for cash, murders his crew thus making the one week deadline impossible. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot, Gordo.

[–] wrath_of_jen 9 years ago

I didn't get the impression that it was the whole building, just select rooms. But considering the pressure they were supposedly under, they seemed to be shown goofing off, hanging around and eating quite a bit. Plus they went home at night. No one seemed to be that concerned with this supposed unrealistic deadline.

[–] northernlad 9 years ago

I think it was just specific areas of the building that needed the asbestos removed. But even at that one week was a ridiculous deadline for such a project. I watch the movie now and it almost gets on my nerves at how lazy they are. They should have been working their assess off, but we see them taking breaks and goofing around constantly.

I gotta go feed that thing in Room 33.

[–] Danimal_77 9 years ago

It's because Gordon is not "THERE" to supervise them. He's off in his own world. He's breaking down and his crew goofing around is an extension of that. It's all symbolic.

[–] Danimal_77 9 years ago

Gordon no longer cared about the cash after he did what he did to his wife and baby, so killing his crew wasn't something he cared about anymore. All that he loved and all that he was working for was gone anyway the day he got the job.