This still doesn't explain why they didn't consult the book at all. It's like it disappears from existance once they get into trouble. If they look for it and they can't find it, I'm willing to accept that as the witch screwing with them. However, we didn't see that.
This goes into the same category as the map - I was willing to accept that the map was disappeared by the witch, but not willing to accept that Mike would throw it away because he was frustrated. If you say that the witch made him confused enough to throw it away, that doesn't make sense either - because they still had the compass and would have gone around and around in circles anyway with or without the map (as per your supposition).
Throwing away the map is one of the many things that just wouldn't happen, haunted woods or not. It makes no sense. I'm sorry, but all of this supernatural stuff seems to me to be a convenient coverup for a film that has plot holes everywhere. You can explain anything you want through "supernatural" means - it's a cop out.
(shrug) It's just a movie, one way or the other, and even though I hated it I've gotten my money's worth talking about it with folks afterward. I just wish people wouldn't insult people who liked/disliked the movie, which is the main reason why I've posted stuff today.
There are plenty of people who hated BWP and don't fit into one of your neat categories.
I don't care if you're a mental defective, if you are lost in the woods and you have a book on survival with you, you look at the book. They had several days to remember that they had a book with them. Using the "woods were haunted and they were confused" excuse seems really cheesy to me. Maybe in the future every screenwriter will make their settings haunted to cover up the huge holes in the plot. And then we could all use our imaginations to fill in the blanks! Oh, what fun.
If you are cold, hungry, and scared shitless, you don't carry around cameras constantly. Even the stupidest filmmaker would figure this out after a couple of days.
I agree that scary movies don't need blood, gore, or CGI monsters. But BWP was supposed to be realistic, shot in the trenches by people who were there, and was presented as a documentary of sorts. It shouldn't have been so implausible. I usually don't have a problem with "suspension of disbelief", but this movie was simply asking too much. You shouldn't have to use your head to fill in the blanks because the filmmakers were sloppy.
I will refrain from taking cheap shots at BWP lovers.
You do not fly at night if you only have the three hours of required IFR training under your belt. To do so is to tempt fate, bigtime. A famous old air show pilot named Duane Cole, who flew at air shows all around the US for decades, says never fly VFR at night. Call me crazy but I'd take his word for it.
When you fly at night, water looks like sky. You have to be nuts to fly over large bodies of water at night unless you have a LOT of IFR training. And that's WITHOUT taking the hazy conditions into consideration. I know hindsight is 20/20, but JFK Jr. took a completely unacceptable risk and paid for it. There's a reason other, more experienced pilots in his situation scrubbed their flights.
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This still doesn't explain why they didn't consult the book at all. It's like it disappears from existance once they get into trouble. If they look for it and they can't find it, I'm willing to accept that as the witch screwing with them. However, we didn't see that.
This goes into the same category as the map - I was willing to accept that the map was disappeared by the witch, but not willing to accept that Mike would throw it away because he was frustrated. If you say that the witch made him confused enough to throw it away, that doesn't make sense either - because they still had the compass and would have gone around and around in circles anyway with or without the map (as per your supposition).
Throwing away the map is one of the many things that just wouldn't happen, haunted woods or not. It makes no sense. I'm sorry, but all of this supernatural stuff seems to me to be a convenient coverup for a film that has plot holes everywhere. You can explain anything you want through "supernatural" means - it's a cop out.
(shrug) It's just a movie, one way or the other, and even though I hated it I've gotten my money's worth talking about it with folks afterward. I just wish people wouldn't insult people who liked/disliked the movie, which is the main reason why I've posted stuff today.
There are plenty of people who hated BWP and don't fit into one of your neat categories.
I don't care if you're a mental defective, if you are lost in the woods and you have a book on survival with you, you look at the book. They had several days to remember that they had a book with them. Using the "woods were haunted and they were confused" excuse seems really cheesy to me. Maybe in the future every screenwriter will make their settings haunted to cover up the huge holes in the plot. And then we could all use our imaginations to fill in the blanks! Oh, what fun.
If you are cold, hungry, and scared shitless, you don't carry around cameras constantly. Even the stupidest filmmaker would figure this out after a couple of days.
I agree that scary movies don't need blood, gore, or CGI monsters. But BWP was supposed to be realistic, shot in the trenches by people who were there, and was presented as a documentary of sorts. It shouldn't have been so implausible. I usually don't have a problem with "suspension of disbelief", but this movie was simply asking too much. You shouldn't have to use your head to fill in the blanks because the filmmakers were sloppy.
I will refrain from taking cheap shots at BWP lovers.
Good day.
Hey, you amuse ME. It's just a movie, relax.
cheap shots 'r' us
Who are you to judge Betelgeuse's criticism?
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You do not fly at night if you only have the three hours of required IFR training under your belt. To do so is to tempt fate, bigtime. A famous old air show pilot named Duane Cole, who flew at air shows all around the US for decades, says never fly VFR at night. Call me crazy but I'd take his word for it.
When you fly at night, water looks like sky. You have to be nuts to fly over large bodies of water at night unless you have a LOT of IFR training. And that's WITHOUT taking the hazy conditions into consideration. I know hindsight is 20/20, but JFK Jr. took a completely unacceptable risk and paid for it. There's a reason other, more experienced pilots in his situation scrubbed their flights.