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Post by OblivionGoon on Feb 5, 2009 8:42:54 GMT -5
There are a few things that bug me about P3. They are not really bad, but just some odd things.
1. The woman with all of the children.
How is it that she does not realize what is going on? She would have to know that there really was not some chemical leak.
2. The gas station attendant.
He also buys into the chemical leak story. How are these stragglers able to go unscathed, but our gang of heroes are constantly being hunted down no matter where they are?
3. Hotel clerk.
Again, the whole mass death thing.
All of this makes me think that perhaps The Tall Man leaves these people behind for a reason. He leaves them there to help explain what "happened" so that there is no questions. They might even be brainwashed (kind of like the Morticians in P2) so that they just tell the same thing over and over again. Any thoughts on this?
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Post by cryptkeeper2529 on Feb 5, 2009 16:46:01 GMT -5
As much as I love the Phantasm movies and would like to think that they're above a lot of other franchices storytelling wise, the fact of the matter is that they're low buget horror movies and as a result they fall victim to such steriotypes such as these forcing you to take everything litely and not read into such things, as annoying as it may be. Here are my answers:
1.) "The woman with all the children"
---I always found it far-fetched that he wipes out entire towns, and a single woman rasing so many children in a deserted town is a little bizarre, but despite this there are a few explanations. One being that the neighborhood did look nice so it's possible that this was beyond Holtsville, she did say they were all orphaned from there. It's possible she knows about the there was no chemical thing but then again she does lay on the outskirts of town; indeed something rather odd.
2.) "The gas station attendent"
---Theres nothing about the chemical story that makes sense, but from the sound of it Holtsville was a small town with smaller surroundings and it's probobly just an easier story to digest than a supernatural mortician turning towns into killer midgets.
3.) "Motel clerk"
---Again, same as number 2. I really wish more thought had been put into this aspect of the plot; as pretty much everyone know I adore Phantasm II but even with that movie I was dumbfounded at how obscurely far lengths this had been takem; entire towns? Yeah, no ones going to notice that... The original movie I got the impression that The Tall Man was always the Morningside mortition, but if they're gonna change it it would have made more sense for him to set up base in several towns and use the red planet to menuver between them all. Also, if he essencially just used corpses and didn't just kill people as presented in the first two movies, I find it hard to believe that towns could be wiped out 100% How Perigord even got to an active town to a ghosttown in one day I'm still trying to figure out.
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Post by OblivionGoon on Feb 6, 2009 13:11:00 GMT -5
I agree, these are all symptoms of the budget situations.
Holtsville being such a small town, I don't see how there could be an industry large enough to cause the mass death.
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