by Ice Cream Jonsey » Wed Sep 11, 2024 5:40 am
One thing M. Night is in love with is the comic book style "I may come back to this at any time!" escape artist Doombot shit that so many comics has. This allowed him to make that one movie where some of his other characters are all sitting in the same room, Bruce Willis from Unbreakable, that one guy that played young Professor X and so on. So I was pretty sure he wasn't going to kill "The Butcher" in this, although I will spoil his ending in a second.
Josh Harnett / The Butcher isn't really all that crafty. He's not that resourceful. He befriends a guy selling concert t-shirts ... just because. Just because the movie wants that to happen. I've bought plenty of crap from table vendors. I've befriended none of them. He later creates a distraction by having hot oil blow up in the face of some poor teenager working fries at the venue. He.... just is able to turn up the heat on the oil vat for the fries. I guess that does it. Odd that all fry stations let you set the dial to "explode." And then there is the end. I dunno if this is resourceful:
After the cops catch him, they take him to the SWAT van. His kids' bike has been turned over in the yard. The cops let him walk over to it, not shoot him, and straighten it back up, not shoot him, and then proceed to the van, not shooting him. A few moments later when we see him in the SWAT van in cuffs, he's laughing because, Vark:
The kids' bike is missing a spoke!!!!!!!!!
After the movie sits the camera on the bike wheel so we know how clever we are supposed to think the movie is, Josh uses the spoke from the tire to pick the lock, laughing like a maniac. Because what SWAT teams do is leave you alone in the truck on its way to jail, in the back. What they do is allow you to screw with things after they handcuff you. They certainly don't notice you stealing metal off a bike. They leave you alone in there, etc.
You know what would have been better, besides anything? The girl is going through security at the beginning of the movie, when they approach the venue, and hands all her metal items to the security people like the zillion hairpins girls and women have on them, and he just happens to have one at the end of the movie. That is a dumb, stock trope but a zillion times better than what M. Night put to the screen. It is important that I relate that this whole "they caught him, he does the perp walk to the bike, he screws with it, they show him in the van undoing the cuff" thing is all one scene after another. There was exactly no setup to any of this. It is the most amateur directing/writing shit imaginable.
But hey, setting something up also means that M. Night would have to have a working "PgUp" key when writing his script, to go back and add that at the beginning so it made sense, instead of the way he seems to write non-Sixth-Sense movies, which is any dumb shit he thinks of, filmed in order.
One thing M. Night is in love with is the comic book style "I may come back to this at any time!" escape artist Doombot shit that so many comics has. This allowed him to make that one movie where some of his other characters are all sitting in the same room, Bruce Willis from Unbreakable, that one guy that played young Professor X and so on. So I was pretty sure he wasn't going to kill "The Butcher" in this, although I will spoil his ending in a second.
Josh Harnett / The Butcher isn't really all that crafty. He's not that resourceful. He befriends a guy selling concert t-shirts ... just because. Just because the movie wants that to happen. I've bought plenty of crap from table vendors. I've befriended none of them. He later creates a distraction by having hot oil blow up in the face of some poor teenager working fries at the venue. He.... just is able to turn up the heat on the oil vat for the fries. I guess that does it. Odd that all fry stations let you set the dial to "explode." And then there is the end. I dunno if this is resourceful:
After the cops catch him, they take him to the SWAT van. His kids' bike has been turned over in the yard. The cops let him walk over to it, not shoot him, and straighten it back up, not shoot him, and then proceed to the van, not shooting him. A few moments later when we see him in the SWAT van in cuffs, he's laughing because, Vark:
[i]The kids' bike is missing a spoke!!!!!!!!![/i]
After the movie sits the camera on the bike wheel so we know how clever we are supposed to think the movie is, Josh uses the spoke from the tire to pick the lock, laughing like a maniac. Because what SWAT teams do is leave you alone in the truck on its way to jail, in the back. What they do is allow you to screw with things after they handcuff you. They certainly don't notice you stealing metal off a bike. They leave you alone in there, etc.
You know what would have been better, besides anything? The girl is going through security at the beginning of the movie, when they approach the venue, and hands all her metal items to the security people like the zillion hairpins girls and women have on them, and he just happens to have one at the end of the movie. That is a dumb, stock trope but a zillion times better than what M. Night put to the screen. It is important that I relate that this whole "they caught him, he does the perp walk to the bike, he screws with it, they show him in the van undoing the cuff" thing is all one scene after another. There was exactly no setup to any of this. It is the most amateur directing/writing shit imaginable.
But hey, setting something up also means that M. Night would have to have a working "PgUp" key when writing his script, to go back and add that at the beginning so it made sense, instead of the way he seems to write non-Sixth-Sense movies, which is any dumb shit he thinks of, filmed in order.