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She insists I much watch the movie this way so that we can MST and comment throughout. I've heard mixed reviews about the film, but my friend thinks I'd like it as I'm a huge fan of Godzilla and other crushy monster flicks. She suggests the Dramamine because of the shaking camera thing. When I saw United 93 in theatres I thought I had food poisoning I became so ill during the movie. 
Went back the next week to watch it again and the same thing. It was motion sickness. 
sig by chrisis1033Distracted wrote:Doesn't sound like my kind of movie. I need Dramamine for rollercoasters.
and have had to pause several times. But what a bunch of idiots. These have got to be the dumbest people of any horror/monster/sci-fi movie ever made. They would so not survive the Zombie Apocalypse. I'm rooting for the giant monster.
sig by chrisis1033Distracted wrote:^^Ummm... hate to break this to you, T'Poptarts, but the Heimlich is just for conscious choking victims. Once they're unconscious you do chest compressions followed by mouth inspection, finger sweeps, and attempted mouth-to-mouth until you clear the airway. Someone on the show at least did their homework about that. You're supposed to try to get a breath in after 5 chest compressions and if it doesn't go in you keep up the cycle until paramedics get there, with the theory that even if the airway is blocked, maybe some air might get in and it's better than just sitting there and watching them asphyxiate.
She practically WAITED for him to fall on the floor and play dead (she took her sweet time to even get up, not to mention walk to the "victim", not to mention actually DO something... of course because charging forward as if it's a REAL emergency would take away from the "cuteness" of the situation and the pukening perfection of the lead Mary Sue ), she didn't even check the vitals and the airways to see that he's breathing just fine and has pulse in which case even if he actually WERE unconscious it's just a case of the legs-up or roll him on his side, but like of course that doesn't actually count as "showing off her incredible CPR skills", blech it was like a "cute version" of CPR. Like who the frell cares that he's *supposedly* got something in his airways, who the frell cares if he swallows his tongue or whatever, putting fingers in someone's slimy mouth?? Hell no. 
All I can say is if it happened for real and I happened to be there instead of Ms. Wannabe Detective, assuming I'm the only one in the room who knows CPR and sitting relatively close to the victim like she did, and someone was yelling "my brother's choking, does anyone know CPR", hell I wouldn't wait for the commotion to die down and for the kid to fall on the floor unconscious to say "I know CPR" and THEN go help. What I'd do is run and Heimlich the kid BEFORE he falls down, then if anyone's still interested in my answer, I'd say I know CPR. Not quite as "cute" but like way more practical. And pumps/mouth to mouth, only if there's something wrong with his breathing and/or pulse. That's how I learned it anyway 
and that scene like totally pissed me off. No one gives ME CPR when I faint from like needles or whatever, like even though I'm unconscious why because I can breathe and I have pulse. I mean like not every "fall down go boom" is the same like seriously what would she do if he were having like an epileptic seizure or something. Give him the pumps?? Like first of all the whole Mary Sue thing, I mean like she's made to be so frelling pukingly perfect in absolutely everything, she's the best at EVERYTHING at her new school, she knows everything better than everyone else and has this frelling "know it all" attitude, like dude seriously when would writers learn that making their characters all perfect and the best in everything doesn't make the audience admire them, it just makes them cringe in disgust. 
and the Mary Sueishness is even worse with the contrast of how perfect Nancy Drew is made to be and how INCREDIBLY DUMB AND INCOMPETENT she actually is. I mean like seriously it took Nancy like half a movie to even come up with the idea that maybe that movie star was pregnant and had an illegitimate child or whatever, and even THAT only after she looked at screencaps, I got THAT from the line in the beginning about how "she disappeared for 5 months" (then came back and had a big party and got killed). But maybe that's just me again. But still, like the Chinese box?? I mean like she looks in the box and it's "empty", and like HELLO anyone?? Anyone's bothered at all by the fact that the 2' tall box is only like an inch and a half deep?? Like what's the rest of it, just a really thick bottom board?? Come ON seriously, it was so frelling EXAGGERATED that it was OUTSTANDINGLY OBVIOUS, and hell I'm no detective nor do I play one on TV, but even if the secret compartment weren't made to be so obvious (like after all what's it hiding, a PIECE OF PAPER for crying out loud ), I'd still look for one. I mean, there's gotta be a secret compartment!! And especially for a document important enough to kill for. And hell I'm not even a detective (or a wannabe detective like Miss Thang over there) and I would look for a secret compartment instinctively, and SHE doesn't even have a frelling clue. 
sig by chrisis1033Distracted wrote:Are they dumber than the guys who kept going back for the cat in Aliens?
As a native New Yorker, I'm embarrassed by these fictional characters. The best part about the movie though was the monster, who sounded just like Godzilla. It stole the movie, and that one scene in Central Park, money shot. It was worth the 
Distracted wrote:Nancy Drew was a parody. it wasn't meant to be taken seriously. It's fine if you didn't like it, but I thought it was cute.
And like I said it was so unrealistic that it HAD to be a parody, it just did a terrible job in that department too IMO. Sorry but just throwing together a bunch of exaggerated stereotypical character doesn't make something funny. A good parody is more than just exaggerated unrealistic characterization. It's a form of art and requires clever sophisticated writing. It requires knowing how to make even the most predictable details jump up and grab you when you're not ready. That's why it's so hard to do well. But simply throwing together a bunch of extreme stereotypes (especially when neither of them can act) is just lazy, unimaginative, uninventive, uninspired, and points to a big ZERO on the talent meter. Remember Darth Vader's "screenplay" thing I told you about? That kinda thing. Hell I don't have to tell you what a terrible writer I am and I STILL write better parodies than that. And I didn't think it was "cute" because like I said know it all Mary Sues make me wanna snipe them from the roof. Well just my $0.02 anyway. sig by chrisis1033
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