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More hole's that Swiss cheese

posted 12 years ago by krypter99
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Was the ATM itself.

This is an ATM station in the middle of nowhere, 24 hours open. If you so much as bounce a bouncy ball of those things, they light up like a christmas tree and yet smashing it with a bin didn't trigger any internal alarm. ATM's are also build like WW2 bunkers. Hitting it with a trash can isn't going to break the internal camera.

Now I don't know how things are in America. But outside ATM's here and 24 hour one's have more camera's than white house. You can't get within a hundred feet without being seen. They are constantly monitored and I've seen someone simply kick an ATM and trigger an internal alarm.

Not only that, the only way to damage an atm is with something that can create a massive amount of force.

I saw a few people on here saying out 'you just aren't intelligent enough to understand the movie."

Let's get real here.

1. They stop at an ATM in the middle of nowhere

2. The blond guy parks like a hundred feet away from the ATM, at 1 am, in a parking lot with like no lights whatsoever, in a strange neighbourhood. To what, punish his friend?

3. Drunk guy has his phone but leave's it in the car? He's not carrying a bag so why not just pop it into his pocket.

4. Then the blond guy get's out of the car instead of driving it to the atm, leaves the girl he like's in a car, in the middle of a dark parking lot, at 1 am, without locking the car, in a strange neighbourhood.

5. The blond girl decides to get out of the car, can't lock it with the buzzer and for some reason DOESNT USE THE KEY. So she leave's the car open, 100 feet from the ATM, in a dark parking lot, in a strange neighbourhood. A car which mind you isn't hers, leaves all the guys stuff in there, leaves her own purse in there, purse which holds her phone.

6. Let's watch this guy brain another guy and not run.

7. I'm not even going to continue. There is just so much wrong with this movie. Don't get me wrong, I didn't have it. I like the actors, thought they were pretty good. But you can't deny it was a very poor movie, storytelling wise which took massive liberties with how it explained details.

[–] Amygdalahaha 12 years ago

They stop at an ATM in the middle of nowhere

Correct. It's been known to happen. Hardly entirely unbelievable.

The blond guy parks like a hundred feet away from the ATM, at 1 am, in a parking lot with like no lights whatsoever, in a strange neighbourhood. To what, punish his friend?

Not really. He was obviously trying to maximise his alone time with the sexy chick to both apologise for all the hassle and get to speak to her without Pecko interrupting every five seconds. Again, not unheard of.

Drunk guy has his phone but leave's it in the car? He's not carrying a bag so why not just pop it into his pocket.

Did he not toss that phone back to the driver stating it was flat? If it wasn't his, it's clear he had no phone of his own on him. If it was the driver's, the battery was dead.

Then the blond guy get's out of the car instead of driving it to the atm, leaves the girl he like's in a car, in the middle of a dark parking lot, at 1 am, without locking the car, in a strange neighbourhood.

It's fifty feet away if that. You people are paranoid. Granted something odd happened in this case but really, do you go into car parks thinking you're going to be accosted?

The blond girl decides to get out of the car, can't lock it with the buzzer and for some reason DOESNT USE THE KEY. So she leave's the car open, 100 feet from the ATM, in a dark parking lot, in a strange neighbourhood. A car which mind you isn't hers, leaves all the guys stuff in there, leaves her own purse in there, purse which holds her phone.

Yeah, the 'clicky thing' didn't work. No one was around; the place was deserted. Why would you worry about locking your car when you're only spitting distance away from it?

Let's watch this guy brain another guy and not run.

Yeah, they call that shock. I've stared through a window at a person who wasn't expecting my face to be peering in at them and they stood there staring at me for AGES before finally crapping their pants and jumping in fright.

I'm not even going to continue.

Aww. That's a shame.

This movie wasn't half as bad as I've seen you lot make it out to be. In fact, I deliberately watched it because of how bad you people said it'd be hoping for some laughable shlock. I didn't get that. It's far from perfect but it's not a terrible way to waste 82 minutes or whatever the run time is.

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[–] FunnyCide1996 11 years ago

The movie was clearly ridiculous. Are you one of the writers? Ha

[–] seans_life 11 years ago

More hole's that Swiss cheese ....

When you said that you lost all credibility there.

Honestly this movie was at least creative with the plot and took on something nobody has done before. Who thought they could make a horror/scary movie out of an ATM area ?

The acting was wonderful. You get emotional responses both good and bad towards the 3 main characters in this movie that end up stuck in this ATM building.

The killing the murderer did was quick and scary but they did not show too much.

How about the moment when the guy with a similar jacket comes in and they think it is the villain outside and ends up they killed an innocent guy ? You say that is not creative ?

I can't believe the rating that that IMDB people gave this and even more funny is the Metacritic total score.

Way off base people. The movie did good in many areas and definitely was scary, had you feeling for the characters and was definitely a film one can easily watch and not want to shut off. It made sense all the way through.

... and now let us look at your criticisms ...

1. Stopped at an ATM in the middle of nowhere.

Uh they had been at a party and were drinking and the guy did say that he would have to go out of the way to get to the nearest ATM and when you have had some drinks maybe some things aren't so clear and maybe they went to one even further than they intended to get to.

2. I will say it was strange that they parked so far away but then again they all had been drinking.

3. Drunk guy leaves phone in the car etc etc etc

You made the point right there. He was drunk so yes he could have left his stupid cell phone in the car and who the heck really needs to bring their cell phone into the bank anyway ? The most important thing to bring in is called a wallet and it must have cards you can use to get money out of the machines. Do you follow ?

4. Leaving the girl in the car.

Again these people had been drinking and really if I left her in the car I would have left her with keys. Also why did they have reason to fear anything ? They were going to a bank machine. Yes I look around me when I go to mine in town but people do this all the time without a serial killer hunting them down. :P

5. Again what do you not understand about these people being drunk ?

6. Have you heard of being so shocked and afraid you just freeze up ? That can happen.

7. You are way off base about it being a very poor movie. It was definitely easy to watch. It had solid acting and violence was carried out like in the old Halloween movies where they didn't show much but it spooked you. It was something very different in horror and to create so much suspense in one location for so long ATM did an amazing job.

[–] skorkk 10 years ago

You can't just explain half the stuff away with "they were drunk". She didn't seem drunk at all, and clearly the guy driving the car wasn't drunk.

[–] ForTheNonce 11 years ago

1. I don't even think it is so much 'the middle of nowhere' as it was late, way below freezing, and around Xmastime.

2. Actually, yes. They address it. The Jerk literally says, "To punish me???"

3. He claims the battery is dead or something, but I think he's broke and his phone has been turned off due to him bumming literally everything from his friend (cash, a ride even when it is VERY inconvenient, his phone.)

4. The girl is still in the car and could've locked it if something happened (or so he thought, turns out she goes to the ATM...but it isn't like he knew she would.) But as it was an empty lot and this was something that should've taken like one minute, he didn't think anything would happen. He had a very obvious reason to not be thinking about that and wanting to get home.

5. Already addressed. This whole thing should've taken like one minute. No one else was in the lot. She was with a guy she was interested in and thinking about getting home.

6. At that point they all had hope. Silly or not, it is perfectly plausible that they would be in stunned shock. The girl had little hope of overpowering the man if he caught her; Blonde Guy wouldn't leave the girl or put her at risk (at least at that point.) Weasel Jerk was trying to save his own a@@ and wasn't strong enough to run if no one else was.

[–] astralxromance 10 years ago

Horrible movie and it was a shame because the plot seemed interesting enough. They could have executed it 100000 times better. This movie had so many plotholes I'm surprised they didn't rename the film "A Terrible Movie" to justify all the faults.

[–] PreachCaleb 9 years ago

Very few people actually know what a plot hole really is. Please, give me an example of a plothole in this movie.

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