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Watching now, confused by something about Brooder...

posted 9 years ago by nickerboy
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How was his hand chopped off? The tomahawk came from behind, but no troglodytes did. I rewatched the scene several times, and the way it played out makes no sense.

[–] DoodMcDoodertun 9 years ago

Why didn't Brooder check to see what he had shot the next morning? (when something trips the wire in their camp and he wakes up and shoots into the dark).

The film is inconsistent, and never really builds a believable world. I don't remember the part you are speaking of with such detail, but I'm pretty sure you were just paying more attention than the editors who made the movie ever did :)

[–] abark 9 years ago

Because it was obviously a dog/coyote by the whimpering as it died. And just because they didn't show it doesn't mean he didn't.

[–] DoodMcDoodertun 9 years ago

I dont remember there being any whimpering, but ill take your word for it.

[–] Pianohero4 8 years ago

The subtitles in that scene literally said something like "injured dog whimpering"

Please excuse any typos, this was typed on an iPad

[–] Number_One_Birdlawyer 8 years ago

Yeah I just watched it and I don't know how you could miss the sound of it whimpering

[–] Tolyngee 9 years ago

If it makes you fell any better, it took me a moment to even understand that his hand had even been cut off... I didn't realize it 'til I was asking myself "What is that object sitting there... is that a hand?" That's when I went back a moment and pieced it together.

After realizing how poorly edited that scene was, I didn't take any extra time trying to understand where the object that cut off his hand even came from, sorry to say... (I'm glad someone else didn't understand that either!)

[–] Tolyngee 9 years ago

Okay, I just re-watched that scene (for a different reason), and can explain the logic of what apparently happened.

Chicory shoots the trog. The weapon in the trog's hand FLIES way up in the air...

...and lands on Brooder's wrist, cutting off his hand.

YES, that's apparently what happens. It's just dumb luck that Brooder lost his hand.

Apparently it was supposed to be another moment of comedy, like the fact that Brooder got smacked in the face by a rock just a second earlier.

BOTH of these "comic relief" moments went right over my head. IMO they both go too fast to piece together in a single viewing (like seeing it in a theatre where you can't rewind)

[–] nickerboy 9 years ago

While I more or less enjoyed the movie, I don't remember anything I would consider comic relief, so it must have been very poorly done

[–] Tolyngee 9 years ago

Actually, it's kinda fitting for Brooder. The self-titled "Smart one" of the group is killed by dumb luck. (And it shows Brooder's true nature... he loses a hand, and isn't "smart" enough to want to live life anymore, all because he lost a hand)

It really is a fitting way for Brooder to go. BY HIS OWN HAND.

(get the irony now?)

Yeah, it wasn't too well done. It takes thinking about it to get it.

[–] Sidewindr 8 years ago

(And it shows Brooder's true nature... he loses a hand, and isn't "smart" enough to want to live life anymore, all because he lost a hand)

Did you actually watch the movie and listen to the dialogue? He said he was too VAIN to live life as a cripple, had nothing to do with being smart or not.. PAY ATTENTION PLEASE!!

It really is a fitting way for Brooder to go. BY HIS OWN HAND.

He died from a bone tomahawk to the head, the last trog he shot had already thrown the tomahawk at him before being shot. Again PAY ATTENTION!

[–] exaybachay84 9 years ago

While I more or less enjoyed the movie, I don't remember anything I would consider comic relief, so it must have been very poorly done

Or you simply have a different sense of humour (if any at all).

I cracked up at least two times, first was when the mayor's wife asked if it were Indians and in response she heard: "Troglodytes" and the look on her face was just hilarious.

Second time was when John Brooder said: "Smart men don't get married".

And the Richard Jenkins character was pretty funny, too.

[–] nickerboy 9 years ago

Forgot the "smart men don't get married" line, that did have me cracking up

[–] exaybachay84 8 years ago

See? :)

We'll buy some drugs and watch a band
Then jump in the river holding hands

[–] StaunchWoman 8 years ago

Re: Comedy

I loved the exchange near the beginning with the pianist.

We've met before, haven't we?

[–] dxben99 8 years ago

Whoa....I mean I know humour is subjective but are you being serious?

I wouldn't even call it comic relief but rather say the whole movie had these comedic elements throughout. Some scenes even came across as a parody on the Western genre. I would not go so far as to call it a Comedy per se, but it was pretty funny!

I mean, come on, all the dialogue between Kurt Russell and Richard Jenkins.....really? Nothing?

Well, to each their own. ;)

[–] KitchenKnives 8 years ago

May I recommend you try any movie starring Adam Sandler?

[–] nicolevabre 8 years ago

An Adam Sandler movie? Ouch. That's not nice. ;)

[–] StaunchWoman 8 years ago

That cut deep.... I'm staying on your good side.

We've met before, haven't we?