I didn't really get the whole "He collects people" bit. If he collects them, why does he kill them?
Why does he put them in boxes and then roll those boxes to new places? lol
I mean...I could get it if he put people in boxes, and then kept them at home...but why would he bring Larry to this new place?
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He only kills the ones he dosent plan on collecting. And he brings Larry along as "bait" since I think Larry himself said it. And he ends up killing Larry cause he wants Arkin more. Think of it like trading baseball cards, if you have a ton of one card, wouldnt you sacrifice it to get a rare card? Same concept...except with people.
shareNah... that doesn't work.
You can't be a collector of only 1 item!
The title should have been completely different then, like the "cager", or something like that.
And bait?
Bait for what?
For the owners to investigate and "get scared"?
The plot holes and contrivances are all across the board, which is a shame, because the movie had a brilliant premise and original protagonist (Arkin).
How does that not work? There are people that collect the same yellow Porsche 911, literally the same car over and over again. So yes, you CAN be a collector of only one item. Unless you mean only one unique item. Than you can actually be a collector of one item. How many comic book fans would trade their entire collection to have the first issue of Spider-Man? So I dont see your point either way.
And as for the bait thing, its used as a scare tactic but also a way to bring someone in closer. Most people would go towards the box if they hear someone asking for help. Not to mention if they think it might be a loved one thats trapped in there. Its just human nature to be curious and also want to help.
And what plot holes are you talking about? The only plot hole I could think of might be how fast the Collector was able to put up the traps after Arkin broke in.
i assumed he'd been setting the traps all evening!?
shareI believe the collector had set those traps well before Arkin showed up. Arkin just never enters the area of the house with the traps when he heads for the safe. Or he just had dumb luck and survived up to the safe. (it was only a couple rooms away).
shareDumb luck doesn't begin to count it...
He falls for a couple of traps early on (like the trapped window and the pin in the phone) and from then on he is super cautios about everything he does.
Except when he's not...
It's like he goes into a room, scans the room for traps, sees a wire, slowly bypass it then runs towards the next door. What makes him think there aren't more traps in the same room?
That bothered all the time.
Think of it like trading baseball cards, if you have a ton of one card, wouldnt you sacrifice it to get a rare card? Same concept...except with people.
he has one hide-out. He poses as an exterminator to gain accesses to your home. He then does a home-invasion. He only kills the ones he doesn't want. He takes who he likes. He always takes one. and only one from each 'hunt' if you will.
He then takes his 'collected' back to his horror house.
Okay, in the COLLECTOR (NOT the COLLECTION), we don't know any of that and neither did the director in 2009, when only THE COLLECTOR was out. You cannot make a sequel 3 years later and then act like it was already thought of in the original. The original was the original and what you saw is what you got. Nothing less and nothing more. The same applied to Hostel and it's sequel (which explained everything that the original didn't).
shareDude we knew most of that in the first one. When Arkin is talking to the police at the end of The Collector, they say that. The tag line for the film was "He always takes one" and the guy Arkin finds in the box in the first one and asks: "who is he? What does he want?" they explain that. "He only kills who he doesn't want." "He collects people..." . And they said he uses the ones he brings to new homes as 'bait'. Obviously the killer has to take them somewhere. After he's done collecting.
And Arkin even TALKED to The Collector in the very beginning. "There's a wasp nest near the greenhouse." because he was posing as an exterminator. And they said he uses the ones he brings to new homes as 'bait'.
The title is *beep* called THE COLLECTOR. You can figure this stuff out by paying attention to what the characters say.
Marcus Dunstan and the crew stared filming in 2010. a few months after the originals release in June of 2009. It took so long because of Re-shoots. And plus Josh Stewart had that heart problem and almost died.
In the sequel Arkin again talks to him face to face with his mask off. "In a 200 hundred mile radius from where we last saw each other, there's a list of 14 licensed Entomologists. You were number 12."