SPOILER ALERT: Panic Room (page 2)

waiting

Hi Pat,

1. When she left the panic room to get the medicine for her daughter, she should have taken the cell phone with her to call for help from the bedroom.

I'm giving the benefit of the doubt to the mother - she was trying to save her daughter, and her total concentration might have been getting out of that room, leaving her daughter alone, getting all the way to the fridge unseen, unheard, hoping that medicine was there, and getting back all within a minute or two. I think it would have been quite human to forget to take her cell phone.

2. When she did call 911, i have trouble believing they put her on hold.

Naaaaaaa, I buy that one.

I found it hard to believe that her husband would just come knocking at the door.....duh, she called him in a panic. As for the police - it did seem to take a long time.....and a very short time to get together a SWAT team, instruct them, & get them into position.

And if I were her talking to the police, I would have blinked. But that's just me.

Remember when the mom went around smashing all the camaras & the men were locked in the panic room watching her? One guy said "Why didn't we think of that?" My husband & I laughed because when she started doing that, he said to me "Why didn't they do that - then she couldn't identify them."

Guess it's human nature not to be able to think of everything.

waiting

bboyneko

The movie for me, sucked. I expected a thriller worthy of hitchock instead I get sesame street. It so amazingly predictable, the characters where charicatures and not people, especially the criminals.

They do such things as do a BIG CLOSEUP of the little girl's (who looks exactly like a boy) watch that moniters her glucose level or whatnot, then they have heavily charicatured vilans, the big lovable dopey black guy whos only there because of his kids, the fast talking brains of the operation and the nameless thug who is not to be trusted.

There was no good reason she couldn't have told the cops. The only real reason she didn't was because they wanted a big dramamtic ending. Same goes for not connecting the emergency line, it was soley for drama. Same goes for the girl being diabetic, soley for drama.

Oh yeah, then we are supposed to believe a guy who just had his hand smashed in the air-tight door and had several of his fingers severed and then gets knocked the $#% in the head with a sledgehammer and falls over 3 stories somehow manages to crawl back up the 3 flights of stairs very quickly and fight off a perfectly healthy jodie foster?

Also, I think that the panic room probably cost more than the $22 million that was in the safe. They really should have put a lot more money in the safe to make it beleivable the motive behind constructing that room.

patio34

Hey B-boy! Nice to "see" you again. The more i think about it, the more i'm inclined to your perspective. There were just too many non-credible things in it for such a hyped movie. The woman showed brilliance in some of her efforts and stupidity in others. It just didn't add up to a satisfying drama.

teejay

Just watching the previews made me wonder how anyone would want to sit for 2 hours and watch it. How many possibilities are there? She gets out or she don't get out.

Too, with all the hi-techness associated w/ the room, can anyone say cell phone or phone line wired in such a way that it's invulnerable to internal threat? If that's not a fixture of the movie, other aspects of the movie will sure to come along also. If there's anything I hate is a movie that insults my intelligence. I figured this one would.

waiting

o poo. There are few movies that succeed in all aspects. Few indeed.
I just spent two hours on the phone with Pat.....and we agree - there are flaws in the plot.

But I still liked it - and so did the vast majority of the people in the theater where I was. So there.

Btw - I watched "Conspiracy" (I think) last night on video - made by HBO. It was about the secret meeting of Hitler's top people when they decided to gas more than 6 million Jews. Really good - and the ethical etc., questions considered/not considered was good.

More to your liking?

waiting

LB

Well it's a thriller. Most thrillers don't offer much more than a few jumps. I felt this was much better than normal. I enjoyed the heck out of it, considering it's a thriller.

Never Squat With Yer Spurs On

plmkrzy

OK I'm on my way to see it Right now.
Can't wait!
I'll post what I think too later.

plmkrzy

Dang! I just got home from the Panic Room.
All the early shows were sold out. We saw the last show and there was probably 1 or 2 seats left.
I realy liked it. I wasn't expecting to laugh though. It was like a grown up version of "Home Alone"
I do have to agree with who ever said the 'stamina' of the one bad guy was a bit over the top. He could have taken on "Jason"

Over all though I enjoyed the movie. Audience participation helps to.
Everyone screamed or jumped or shsssssssss'd at the same time. That makes it more fun.

bboyneko

.. http://ter.air0day.com/panicroom.html

READ THAT if you have seen the movie, it's hilarious!

patio34

Hi B-boy, thanks for that link--it was so hilarious, i'm going to take a chance and post it here. I reckon everyone that wants to see it, has.

SPOILER ALERT! DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE

Here goes:

PANIC ROOM: THE ABRIDGED SCRIPT

By Rod Hilton

FADE IN:

INT. A LARGE, OVERLY SATURATED, GRITTY-LOOKING HOUSE

JODIE FOSTER walks around the house.

JODIE FOSTER
Well, I don't really like the house
or the location.

REAL ESTATE AGENT
You'll really like the panic room.
In case someone breaks in and tries
to murder you, you can lock
yourself in here. There is no food
or water supply, but you can
definitely sustain your own life
for the duration of a modern
Hitchcockian suspense thriller.

JODIE FOSTER
Wow, it's like my own personal jail
cell. I don't think I could want
this any less. Couldn't someone
get their hand caught in the door
as it slams shut?

REAL ESTATE AGENT
Of course not! Well, except later,
when one of the criminals has that
very thing happen to him.
(pause)
Anyway, make a choice. Buy it now
or never.

JODIE FOSTER
I'll take it inexplicably, without
even considering what the existence
of this room implies about this
part of town.

The movie calms down for a split second, so DIRECTOR
DAVID FINCHER takes the camera on a joyride through a
computer-generated model of the house.

DIRECTOR DAVID FINCHER
Think I can fit the camera through
the handle of this coffee pot?
Think I can? Huh? Huh?
(he does it)
FUCK YEAH I CAN! WHOO!

JODIE FOSTER
Ahem, so anyway.. I'm going to
sleep now. I love you, daughter...
(pause)
Daughter, right?

KRISTEN STEWART
Yeah. I'm female.

JODIE FOSTER
Right. Sleep well. I'll be
getting drunk now.

Everyone goes to sleep. After a while, FOREST WHITAKER,
JARED LETO, and DWIGHT YOAKAM break into the bottom
floor.

FOREST WHITAKER
There are people in this house. We
shouldn't do this - I'm a very
upright, moral fellow aside from
the breaking, entering, and
stealing. I have a family.

DWIGHT YOAKAM
I am your polar opposite. Our
starkly opposing viewpoints will
create much tension. All we need
now is a third party, middle-of-the
road mediator.

JARED LETO
Don't look at me, I'm a blundering
lunatic. Let's break stuff! YEAH!
PROJECT MAYHEM!!

JODIE FOSTER
Criminals! I will encase my
daughter and myself inside of the
panic room.

FOREST WHITAKER
Wow, I never could have possibly
expected that to happen. I guess
our only option now is to make them
come out. Let's fill the room with
propane.

JODIE FOSTER
I will ignite this propane,
allowing the fire to burn on the
ceiling and cleverly save my
daughter and myself.

KRISTEN STEWART
Actually, propane is heavier than
air. It would sink and burn us
into dark, overly saturated, gritty
looking corpses.

FOREST, JARED, and DWIGHT think of another idea to make
them come out. It doesn't work.

JODIE thinks of a way to call for help. It doesn't work.

FOREST, JARED, and DWIGHT think of a different idea to
make them come out. It doesn't work.

JODIE thinks of another way to call for help, involving
hooking the emergency phone into the regular line, which
is intact.

FOREST WHITAKER
Oh shit! How would we be so
horribly, ludicrously,
unbelievably, mind-blowingly
stupid?

They cut the line.

FOREST WHITAKER (CONT'D)
We have no idea at all who she
called, but we'll assume it wasn't
the police, even though we were
paranoid about the police showing
up earlier.

JODIE FOSTER
So it looks like you've run out of
ideas.

FOREST WHITAKER
Yeah.

JODIE FOSTER
Wanna switch places? You go in the
panic room and I walk around a bit?

FOREST WHITAKER
Oh, sure, whatever. I have a
family.

They switch.

JODIE FOSTER
Now the panic room, that which
protected me, has become the
impenetrable wall, keeping me away
from my daughter. How will I ever
manage to infiltrate that which
three addle headed, infantile
criminals could not?

FOREST WHITAKER
Actually, we found the money we
wanted in here. We just want to
leave.

JODIE FOSTER
I don't believe you! You want to
kill my daughter!

FOREST WHITAKER
Christ, we very clearly don't want
to hurt you. I saved your
daughters life while we were in
here. I'm Forest Fucking Whitaker,
haven't you seen me in anything
else? I don't play anyone except
the large, intimidating guy with a
heart of pure gold. Now get the
fuck out of my way so I can go
home, you paranoid psycho bitch. I
have a family!

JODIE FOSTER
You want to kill my daughter and
then you want to rape me! Aieee!

AUDIENCE
Oh wow, David Fincher is the master
of the surprise ending.. this is
going to be great.

DIRECTOR DAVID FINCHER
Hey, anyone wanna see if I can fit
the camera through Jodie's earring?
I bet I can..

THE CRIMINALS try to LEAVE, but FAIL, thanks to JODIE
FOSTER: WOMAN OF STEEL. FOREST WHITAKER is CAUGHT.
That's all. Nothing else happens.

FADE TO:

EXT. PARK

JODIE and KRISTEN sit on a bench.

JODIE FOSTER
Life is much better now that people
aren't trying to kill us.

The AUDIENCE attempts to derive the overall societal
criticism of the film and extract the message. They
FAIL.

AUDIENCE
Let's go watch Fight Club.

END

SPOILER ALERT: Panic Room

SPOILER ALERT! DO NOT READ FURTHER IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN THE MOVIE

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